Malakhim – And In Our Hearts The Devil Sings

Artist: Malakhim Country: Sweden Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With two demos and ‘Theion’, their debut album, released in the timespan between 2017 and 2021, Malakhim from Sweden has been working hard to establish their…

White Baroness – War Chariots

Artist: White Baroness Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 What do you get when members of Morgal, Sigon and Devil Moon get together in the same room? No doubt a deranged Heavy…

Cursed Penetrator – Invocation

Artist: Cursed Penetrator Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Format: CD Year: 2025 After two demos, of which the first one was reissued as part of a split CD with Black Offal Messiah, ‘Invocation’ marks the band’s further deepening of the…

Krolok – Path To The Haunted Ruins

Artist: Krolok Country: Slovakia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 The anticipating buzz of the crowd, the rising sound of the timpani and horns: there is no doubt that ‘Path To The Haunted Ruins’ is not in…

Atonement – Ripping Death [Demo]

Artist: Atonement Country: Sweden Label: Dying Victims Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Two years ago the Swedish Black/Thrash Metal band Atonement surprised with their debut album ‘Sadistic Invaders’ released through Dying Victims Productions. Well, “surprised”, not so much with…

Arjen – Konce Iznad Mene đavo Drži [Compilation]

Artist: Arjen Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 While Izrod released a record and an EP fairly recently and new material by Obskuritatem and Sulphuric Night is supposed to be imminent, the last few years have…

Sexófago – Sexo, Drogas, Muertes

Artist: Sexófago Country: Australia Label: Sounds From The Gallows Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 Although the band got off to a flying start with no fewer than three demo tapes in their debut year, 2012, things then went completely quiet from there on. Into…

Savaging – Vignettes of Cruelty and Callousness

Artist: Savaging Country: USA Label: Into Extinction Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 Having formed in 2024, Savaging recently released their debut release, a full-length titled ‘Vignettes of Cruelty and Callousness’. Despite that I somehow expected Death Metal after reading the…

Necroaura – Necroaura [Demo]

Artist: Necroaura Country: Portugal / France Label: Asylum Tenebris Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Necroaura is a new international band (or project, if you will) sprung from the minds of Insalubris Infernalis (or I.I.) who is usually spending his time with Dryas,…

Veitsi – Fenno-Ugrilainen Yliherruus [Demo]

Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After the ‘Perikato’-full length album that was released on the second day of this year, one-man band Veitsi is back with a new recording in the form of a demo tape.…

Obeisance – Totaler Krieg Kurzester Krieg

Artist: Obeisance Country: USA Label: Wit Duivel Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Despite the band has been around for well over three decades and spawns out material on a very regular basis, Obeisance has never been featured on these pages before. And honestly, I…

Night’s Threshold – Nocturnal Obsession

Artist: Night’s Threshold Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 After two demos and three split releases, with Lament In Winter’s Night (Atrocity Altar, 2021), Efermus (Atrocity Altar, 2023) and Eerified Catacomb (Perverse Homage/His Wounds, 2023/2025) respectively, this…

Victimarum – Seitsemän Soihdun Valossa

Artist: Victimarum Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Iätön, Kratti, Moonstruck, Valonkantaja, Kerzenlicht, Dark Divination, Devil Moon. The contingent of Finnish Black Metal bands on Signal Rex is rapidly expanding. And that’s a good thing,…

Demigoat – Bestial Empire

Artist: Demigoat Country: Sri Lanka Label: Black Kvlt Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Ever since the birth of our beloved genre, Sri Lanka might not have been the ultimate hotbed of our metal. But despite the lack of a rich…

Kos – Crawling Noxious Spells [Demo]

Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although I tend to keep a close eye on the Elf Eggs label and I wrote a favourable review about Kos’ debut demo earlier this year, this new…

Evil Tree – Lepers Tongue [Demo]

Artist: Evil Tree Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Admittedly, I have missed this band’s first demo from 2022, but when I came across the cover of this new demo on Instagram, I had to find it.…

Nekromanteion – The Sinister Flame [Demo / Re-release]

Artist: Nekromanteion Country: Bolivia Format: 7″ EP Label: Wolfkult Religion Year: 2025 Not to be confused with Necromanteion from South Africa or Nekromantheon from Norway, what we’re dealing with here is Nekromanteion from Bolivia. Their most recent release ‘The Sinister…

Consummatio – Circulus

Artist: Consummatio Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 ‘Circulus’ is the follow-up recording of ‘Desaevio’, Consummatio’s debut album from 2022. If you happen to have heard that debut record, released on cassette tape and vinyl by Death…

Destruktor – Brutal Desecration [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Destruktor Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Like probably everyone else who has been around for a while, my introduction to Destruktor was through their “Brutal Desecration” 7″ EP, released by the sadly defunct Decius…

Occult Mountain – Cries Of The Forest Spirit [Demo]

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Occult Mountain’s first digital demo surfaced last June, although summer might be still fresh in our memories, ‘Cries Of The Forest Spirit’ is already this project’s fifth demo.…

Nyctophilia – Stargazer

Artist: Nyctophilia Country: Poland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 Ever since 2014, main man Grief has been pushing out releases for his project Nyctophilia. With ‘Stargazer’, we have arrived at the seventh full-length…

Oath of Malignancy – Sabbath Witchcraft

Artist: Oath Of Malignancy Country: Ecuador Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Cassette tape Year: 2025 The primitive sound of South America and Greece, if there would be a collective description of what unifies most of the recent releases on Wolfkult Religion…

Inritvm – Ex Nihilo Ad Nihilum

Artist: Inritvm Country: France Label: End All Life Productions / Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘Ex Nihilo Ad Nihilum’ is the debut album of French act Inritvm, released through End All Life Productions. Having only released…

Medieval Demon – All Powers Of Darkness

Artist: Medieval Demon Country: Greece Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although I already had seen the name of Medieval Demon mentioned here and there a few times before, I hadn’t actually heard them until a few years ago. I don’t…

Qrixkuor – The Womb of the World

Artist: Qrixkuor Country: United Kingdom Label: Dark Descent Records / Invictus Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 ‘The Womb of the World’ may only be the second album of Qrixkuor, but the band has taken immense…

Deathfuckingwound – Void MMXXV [Demo]

Artist: Deathfuckingwound Country: Finland Label: Iron Corpse Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Void MMXXV’ is the debut demo from a Finnish duo that got together somewhere earlier this year, but seemingly they didn’t need much time to wrap their first…

Valturn – Magical Shadows Of A Tragic Past [Demo]

Artist: Valturn Country: Puerto Rico Label: The Black Candles Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Whether or not Valturn was a product of the raging COVID pandemic or not, but this Puerto Rican Black Metal project was founded during these turbulent…

Atavistic Passage – Demonstration Two [Demo]

Artist: Atavistic Passage Country: United Kingdom Label: Manifest Of Hate Creations Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 About a year ago the first demo of Atavistic Passage appeared and captivated me with its raw and hypnotic power. I absolutely loved the…

Hate Forest – Against All Odds

Artist: Hate Forest Country: Ukraine Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With three EP’s and albums since Hate Forest’s return in 2020, we can safely say that Roman Saenko is not yet done with…

Effroi – Eerie Passage

Artist: Effroi Country: Belgium Label: Amor Fati Productions / Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 All right, time to get through that pile of records I still have lying around here and that are crying out to…

Affliction Vector – Contra Hominem

Artist: Affliction Vector Country: Italy Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘Contra Hominem’ is the follow-up of Affliction Vector’s ‘Death Comes Supreme’-EP, released through the Dutch Argento Records five years ago. My guess is that some…

Storming – Celestial Clear Moonlit

Artist: Storming Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Iron Bonehead Productions announced ‘Celestial Clear Moonlit’ as the “highly anticipated” second album of this one-man Black Metal band from the USA. To be honest, I…

Abominator – The Fire Brethren

Artist: Abominator Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After what seemed like taking forever, Abominator, one of the unsung heroes of Australian wild musical barbarism, is finally back. Again, the Aussies…

Desaster – Kill All Idols

Artist: Desaster Country: Germany Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Some bands need no introduction. And thank goodness, because what else is there to write about Desaster these days? The Germans are undoubtedly one of the…

Hulder – A Beacon From Darkened Skies [EP]

Artist: Hulder Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Hulder started out as a good, yet considerably predictable and rather unoriginal Black Metal band, but over the course of this band’s existence the music progressed and developed tremendously.…

Celestial Call – △ [EP]

Artist: Celestial Call Country: Unknown Label: Mercury Chalice Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Celestial Call is a completely anonymous act with absolutely zero information to work on, not even their origin is known at this point, but it did manage…

Serpere – Exsequiae [EP]

Artist: Serpere Country: Austria Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Somehow Serpere slipped under my radar. A shame, because the involvement of the members in amongst others Kringa, Hagzissa and Weathered Crest certainly would have drawn…

Sexlucifer – Satanic Lesbian Nuns [Demo]

Artist: Sexlucifer Country: Finland Label: Kymijoen Levyt Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Ah, yes. You can leave it up to the Finnish to come up with some utterly deranged shit. Take this new band called Sexlucifer for instance, the combination of…

Evilcult – Triumph Of Evil

Artist: Evilcult Country: Brazil Label: Awakening Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 After an EP and two full-length albums, Evilcult is slowly starting to be an established name in the Speed/Thrash/Black Metal scene. Maybe that is not too difficult, as that…

Valac – By Twin Forces Of Evil [Demo]

Artist: Valac Country: USA Label: Black Gangrene Productions Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 Although Valac has been around for quite some time now, being formed in 2019, none of its rather extensive back-catalogue has been featured on these pages yet. Time to…