Sadomortuary – Inflicting Litanies Of Torment

Artist: Sadomortuary Country: Italy Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 After a couple of demos (also available on a US-released compilation CD) and a split with Nameless Tomb, ‘Inflicting Litanies Of Torment’ is Sadomortuary’s first full-length album. In just…

Mergelland – De Lichtenberg Sessies 2020 [EP]

Artist: MergellandCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Merg & Been / Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 Before Wurgilnõ there was Mergelland. Consanguineus’ musical dedication to the region of Limburg started in 2020 and resulted in an EP and a single. Work started on…

Cantique Lépreux – Le Bannissement

Artist: Cantique Lépreux Country: Canada Label: Eisenwald Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Anyone who has been compelled by the grandeur of the Metal Noir Quebecois scene will most likely have stumbled upon the back catalogue of Cantique Lépreux. It might be a bit…

Gotthammer – Ancient Nature [EP]

Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Anti-Human Productions / WolfKult ReligionFormats: 7” EP / Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2024 The godslaying sonic barbarians of Gotthammer return to the stage with their first EP, following a couple of demos and a split with…

Kerkerengel – …From a Dishonoured Grave

Artist: KerkerengelCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 With Kerkerengel we witness the birth of another band led by Lord Vrăjitor, the mastermind behind the likes of Warmoon Lord, Old Sorcery and Argenthorns. But while epic and symphonic elements form parts…

Necromoon – War And Obedience [Compilation]

Artist: Necromoon Country: Poland Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Within the course of two month Polish Necromoon has released their debut album, an EP and a split. Whether they are going to keep up this insane work…

Witchtrap – Hungry As The Beast

Artist: Witchtrap Country: Colombia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The past few weeks I have featured quite a few Latin American bands, a continent that has a metal scene that is a…

Castrivenian – Eternal Fog’s Rebirth [Demo]

Artist: CastrivenianCountry: BrazilLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassete tapeYear: 2024 Castrivenian is a relatively new entity from Brazil that was formed earlier in 2024. The band released their first demo ‘S.H.T.I.’ earlier in April, but with fires of creativity burning brightly, immediately…

Taival – Journey to Beyond

Artist: TaivalCountry: FinlandLabel: Wolfspell RecordsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 ‘Journey to Beyond’ is the debut album of Taival, which saw its release in the early months of the year courtesy of the respected Wolfspell Records. The album is adorned…

Absolute Key & Hail Conjurer – Trident Vision Live

Artist: Absolute Key & Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 It is not the first time that the creative Finnish Black Metal extraordinaire Hail Conjurer and the mind-boggling dark noise metal scoundscapist Absolute Key join…

Necromoon – Obedience [EP]

Artist: Necromoon Country: Poland Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Following on from the recently released ‘War With Tyranny’ album, Canadian Anti-Human Productions not only releases a split tape with Tarokulith but also this new EP. Six new…

Tarokulith / Necromoon – Split

Artist: Tarokulith / Necromoon Country: Canada / Poland Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 As the title already suggests, this Anti-Human Productions release combines Tarokulith and Necromoon, two entities that like to thumb their noses at things like…

In Aphelion – Reaperdawn

Artist: In Aphelion Country: The Netherlands / Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With ‘Reaperdawn’ the Swedish/Dutch alliance of In Aphelion delivers their second full-length album, and while the band is regarded as a new band…

Torturium – Chamber

Artist: Torturium Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 The first half of the 00’s were definitely Arttu “War Torech” Pulkkinen’s most prolific years, not only did he record the guitars on an impressive part of Satanic Warmaster’s back…

Vulvacult – El Triunfo Del Caos [Compilation]

Artist: Vulvacult Country: Argentina Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 While the band already released a full-length album and a couple of (more recent) split releases, the band is now presenting a cassette tape with the title of…

Goatscrote – Parasite Plague

Artist: Goatscrote Country: Canada Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 With a name that in itself leaves little to the imagination, the “logo” and covers that Canadian Goatscrote serve themselves with make it even easier to imagine what this…

Pillagery – Pillagery [Demo]

Artist: Pillagery Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Pillagery, a new Canadian Black/Death Metal outfit, is presenting its first feat in the form of this 4-track demo tape that (almost) simultaneously saw the darkness of day with…

Knüth – Demo IX (MMXXIV)

Artist: Knüth Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2024 After 11 demos and splits in less than four years, Knüth, a Russian Black Metal duo, fell silent for a couple of years, only to revive the project in…

Warslaughter – Autólisis Coprolitica (Demo Compilation)

Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: The Final Return Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of the band’s second album, the Black Noise Committee released ‘Autocombustión’, we are also presented with this tape release that compiles both…

Warslaughter – Autocombustión

Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Black Noise Committee / Headsplit Records / Ixiol Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 After two demos and a full-length album in about three years the band decided to throw in the towel…

Acid Mass – Upon The Knife [EP]

Artist: Acid Mass Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Yes, I have said it before and I will probably mention it again in the future: the advantage of having a one-man band is that you can crank…

Nebiros – Rehearsal Demo 1991 [Re-Release]

Artist: Nebiros Country: Colombia Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Earlier this spring Nuclear War Now! Productions reissued Nebiros’ first full-length album from 1996, an album that although it was released much later than other classics from…

Aznaitin – Aznaitin [Demo]

Artist: Aznaitin Country: Aznaitin Label: Morken Tapes Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 Aznaitin, an anonymous Spanish entity from the Andalusian region, is a new act entering the Spanish Black Metal firmament. This self-titled demo tape is the band’s first feat,…

Mayhemic – Toba

Artist: Mayhemic Country: Chile Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The “Toba catastrophe theory” posits that the evolution of the human race was significantly influenced by an eruption of the Toba super volcano…

Cloaked – Vampyric Sorrow [Demo]

Artist: Cloaked Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 With very little info being available of this newly conceived Nashville, Tennessee-based Raw Black Metal band the music on this project’s debut demo should do the majority of the…

Liminal Shroud – Visions Of Collapse

Artist: Liminal Shroud Country: Canada Label: Willowtip Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Album number three for this Canadian three-piece and with 2022’s ‘All Virtues Ablaze’ they have set the bar high for its follow-up release. That sophomore album…

Smyrtonos – Ceremonial Blaze [Demo]

Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Despite once being declared dead, Smyrtonos, Todorac’s main musical project, is more vibrant than ever before. Apart from a compilation of older material, we already saw him release an…

Phantom – Transylvanian Nightmare [EP]

Artist: Phantom Country: Mexico Label: Doomentia Records / Headsplit Records / Inframetal Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Although the band had already released a couple of short players, Phantom from Mexicon only came…

Vrkolak – Carpathian Tyranny Returns

Artist: VrkolakCountry: Bosnia and HerzegovinaLabel: Black Gangrene ProductionsFormats: LPYear: 2024 At lot of attention has gone to the Black Metal scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for good reason. Band such as Sulphuric Night and Obskuritatem have garnered wide interest and acclaim and put their…

Demonic Torment – Blood Lust [Demo]

Artist: Demonic TormentCountry: FinlandLabel: Unpure RecordsFormat: Demo tapeYear: 2024 After playing together in Krusifoitu, Human Animal, Arcanos (here under the pseudonym of Black Nuclear Hellstorm) and Vomit Deprivator thought it was time to combine their powers in a different vessel…

Herculean Death – Glory Of Death’s Triumph

Artist: Herculean Death Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Some two years ago I reviewed Herculean Death’s first EP, ‘Lost Hierarchy Of Dark Twisted Arts’ and reading back that one while listening to that particular EP…

Necroracle – Arcane Impious Sorceries

Artist: NecroracleCountry: SpainLabel: Triangulum Ignis / Nuclear Winter RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 The Spanish Death/Black Metal scene might not be the most active, but when a band releases an album, you know it’s worth your attention. That certainly applies…

Clactonian – Dea Madre [Demo]

Artist: Clactonian Country: Finland / Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Forged out of the dark visions of a few like-minded folks from both Finland and Italy comes Clactonian. A band that took their name from an old…

Opositor – Opositor [EP]

Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Down With The Most High Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Prior this new EP Opositor already released about a handful of releases, including a full-length album, all varying greatly in sound quality, but if one…

Opositor – Primaeval Worships [Compilation]

Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Year: 2024 As the title might already suggest, ‘Primaeval Worships’ is a compilation tape of older Opositor tracks that were recorded during the first two years of the band’s existence. To…

Impiety – Despondent Ecstacies [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Impiety Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 While the Singaporean Impiety by far is more well-known than this one from the USA, their musical background is not all that different. Okay,…

Penis – Nuclear Fukk [EP]

Artist: Penis Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This is the day we have all been waiting for. The day that there would finally be a band that would call themselves Penis. Hallelujah! Well, okay, the band…

Chevallier Skrog – Dokud Nepomine Nebe I Zem [Demo]

Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 With his many bands and projects the ever restless and total workaholic MBN is presenting new music almost every week, and while, of course, not everything…

Smyrtonos – Cast Into Outer Darkness [EP]

Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of this project’s debut full-length, not even released a month ago, the ever restless Todorac returns with a new Smyrtonos recording. This time a new…

Black Fullmoon – Black Fullmoon [Demo]

Artist: Black Fullmoon Country: Puerto Rico Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 A haunting and sinister Dungeon Synth-like track sets the mood for the self-titled demo of this new and anonymous Black Metal entity from Puerto Rico. And their…

Ophidian – Descent Into The Labyrinth [EP]

Artist: Ophidian Country: Greece Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Like many others, I have an unquenchable thirst for Greek Black Metal, so not only the obvious bands of the past, but certainly also the newer acts…