Malignant – Beyond The Grave [Demo]

Artist: Malignant Country: Chile Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Malignant can more or less be seen as “the new band” from Occulterror, the former vocalist of Sepulchral Rites who teams up with her former band mate…

Grief – Dark Epiphanies Of Nihilism [Demo]

Artist: Grief Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Over the past few years, Chilean Black Metal is something that we have learned to reckon with. Yet, it certainly is not only Lord Valtgryftåke that is dictating the…

Vindalf – Undying Order Of The Black Flames

Artist: Vindalf Country: Chile Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although Lord Valtgryftåke, with several albums and other output per year, might be Chile’s most prolific Black Metal musician the award for most intriguing…

Valdivian Tower – Die Schattenfestung

Artist: Valdivian Tower Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne / Inferna Profundus Records Formats: CD / LP Year: 2024 Everyone remotely following the (underground) Black Metal scene or regularly read our pages knows that Lord Valtgryftåke is one of the most…

Wrathprayer – Enkoimeterion

Artist: Wrathprayer Country: Chile Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 If we’re not counting the split LP with fellow Chileans Force Of Evil from 2017 (also Nuclear War Now! Productions) ‘Enkoimeterion’ is…

Mánþiel – A Thousand Ornaments Of The Cosmos

Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne Formats: CD Year: 2024 After the ‘Vestiges Engraved In Frozen Mysticism’-album and the split with Wampyric Rites, both released in January 2023, it got a bit quiet around this project, run by the…

Rotten Tomb – Necropolis [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Rather shortly after the release of Rotten Tomb’s most recent full-length, the excellent ‘The Relief Of Death’, there is more to enjoy in…

Atomicide – Manifest Of Aversion

Artist: Atomicide Country: Chile Label: Death Divsion Rituals Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Chilean Atomicide are a band that are very active at times and then slow down for a while. The band started in 2003 and worked their…

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…

Rotten Tomb – The Relief Of Death

Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Death Division Rituals Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a couple of various short players Chilean Death Metal band Rotten Tomb struck us in 2022 with a great chunky piece of Death Metal…

Triumphal Vengeance- Crossing the Rubicon [EP]

Artist: Triumphal VengeanceCountry: Chile / GermanyLabel: Death RevelationsFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 With the coming of the band’s second EP, Triumphal Vengeance has turned quite a few things around. While the band, consisting of sole member Nebel, still plays Pagan Black…

Uttertomb – Nebulas Of Self-Desecration

Artist: Uttertomb Country: Chile Label: Pulverised Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After being around for well over a decade and with several EP’s and splits under their belts it was about time these Chileans Death Metallers came up…

Unaussprechlichen Kulten – Häxan Sabaoth

Artist: Unaussprechlichen Kulten Country: Chile Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Chile’s Unaussprechlichen Kulten has been formed all the way back into the late 90’s and have been releasing music with great regularity. That they have…

Sanctum Sathanas – Into The Eternal Satanic Damnation

Artist: Sanctum Sathanas Country: Chile Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2023 In recent years, an increasing proportion of today’s Black Metal scene has come from South American countries, with Chile being the main purveyor. From that country comes…

Deconsekrated – Ascension In The Altar Of Condemned

Artist: Deconsekrated Country: Chile Label: Iron, Blood And Death Corporation Formats: CD Year: 2024 After a 2-track demo in 2020, which also appeared as a part of split CD that appeared a year later, Chilean Death Metal band Deconsekrated only released…

Sadism – Obscurans

Artist: Sadism Country: Chile Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Being formed all the way back in 1988, Sadism definitely is one of the oldest and still running Death Metal bands from Latin America and with that…

Gryftigæn – Wurmwaldgaistoz

Artist: Gryftigæn Country: Chile Label: Inferna Profundus Productions / Pile Of Heads Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 Admitted, I am arriving a little late to the party with Gryftigæn’s ‘Wurmwaldgaistoz’, as it already saw the…

Vindalf – Legion Of Spectral Blood

Artist: Vindalf Country: Chile Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 Vindalf’s previous full-length album, ‘Ancient Spell Of Darkness’ was one of the best Black Metal albums from South America that I had heard in…

Vesthangarth – Ominous Path Of Spectral Knowledge

Artist: Vesthangarth Country: Chile Label: Consumed By The Flames Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2023 In the summer of 2022 I reviewed Vesthangarth’s demo, which was a surprisingly great affair of Scandinavian sounding Black Metal and I concluded that this band…

Übelkeit – Anachronism [EP]

Artist: ÜbelkeitCountry: ChileLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2023 A German word for a band name that translates to Nausea: you are forgiven if you didn’t guess that the entity behind the name Übelkeit hails from Chile and plays dissonant Black Metal. …

Sulphuric Death – Beyond the Void of Doom [EP]

Artist: Sulphuric DeathCountry: ChileLabel: Apocalyptic Productions / Burning Coffin RecordsFormats: Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2023 When the old school Death Metal corpse started crawling back from the underground grave in the late 2000’s, bands like Dead Congregation and Grave…

Diabolical Messiah – Satanic Alpha​-​Omega

Artist: Diabolical MessiahCountry: ChileLabel: Veins Full of Wrath ProductionsFormats: CDYear: 2023 Not counting a handful of split EPs, compilations and a demo, the Chileans of Diabolical Messiah present their third feat with ‘Satanic Alpha-Omega’. On the previous two long-players, the band had already shown they…

Putrifier – Pr​æ​cidistis Regeneratio [EP]

Artist: Putrifier Country: Chile Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 This EP, that clocks just under the 18 minute mark, is the debut for Chilean Black/Death Metal band Putrifier. The first thing I thought of when I…

Concilivm – A Monument In Darkness [Reissue]

Artist: ConcilivmCountry: ChileLabel: Iron Bonehead ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 With their ‘The Veiled Enigma’ EP, the duo that together form the Death Metal band Concilivm came up with their first achievement after their formation in 2017. However, it took…

Vindalf – Ancient Spell Of Darkness

Artist: VindalfCountry: ChileLabel: Signal RexFormats: CDYear: 2022 After having released a couple of singles/EP’s Vindalf released its debut album in 2021 and sees its return a year later with no less than two albums that saw the dark of night…

Ründgard – Ulvmonddomānen

Artist: Ründgard Country: Chile Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2023 Multi-instrumentalist and ultimate blackaholic Lord Valtgryftåke has released quite an impressing slew of releases over the last couple of months. Amongst his latest offerings we do find the…

Mánþiel – Vestiges Engraved In Frozen Mysticism

Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile / Germany Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2023 This new Mánþiel (or Mantiel, if you prefer an easier version of their band name) album is one that will only have a vinyl release, done…

Frozen Blood – Revenge [Demo]

Artist: Frozen Blood Country: Chile Label: Adirondack Black Mass / Dry Cough Records / Excarnation Records Formats: 12″ LP / Demo tape / Demo CD Year: 2023 It might have taken a bit more time than initially expected, as the…

Siniestral – Contemplando el Abismo [Demo]

Artist: SiniestralCountry: ChileLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital DemoYear: 2023 Siniestral is the brainchild of the Chilean multi-instrumentalist Victor L. Zamarca, who had previously released Thrash Metal recordings with his other bands Deathrone and Ectoplasma. With this entity he threads into new territories,…

Atomic Aggressor – Bloody Ceremonial [Reissue]

Artist: Atomic AggressorCountry: ChileLabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: 10″ EPYear: 2021 Long before the Chilean extreme metal scene would really explode into hundreds of more than interesting Black Metal, Death Metal and Thrash Metal bands, there were a few individuals paving the way for what would…

Sepulchral Rites – Death And Bloody Ritual [EP]

Artist: Sepulchral Rites Country: Chile Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2022 Last year the Chilean, all-female Sepulchral Rites released their debut EP ‘Death And Bloody Ritual’ through Germany’s Dunkelheit Produktionen, and with their regressive sort…

Grymmstalt – Endlichkeit [Demo]

Artist: Grymmstalt Country: Chile / Ecuador Label: Mahamvantara Arts Formats: Demo tape Year: 2022 Grymmstalt is yet another band of the ever-prolific Lord Valtgryftåke. This time the Chilean multi-instrumentalist teamed up with Ecuadorian vocalist Wampyric Strigoi, who also tends to…

Grymmstalt – Anthems Of Mournful Despondency

Artist: Grymmstalt Country: Chile / Ecuador Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 Not too longer after the release of the band’s single demo tape, they are presenting their first full-length album through Signal Rex.…

Old Castles – Sacrophagical Lament Of The Past

Artist: Old Castles Country: Chile Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 After no less than eight demos and a split release with Moon’s Veneris (yes, Moon’s Veneris, not Mons Veneris), and I am not even counting…

Apostasy – Death Return

Artist: ApostasyCountry: ChileLabel: Hammerheart Records / Sentient Ruin LaboratoriesFormats: LP, CDYear: 2022 First appeared in 2021 on both cassette tape and CD formats (by Cabalist Records and Fallen Temple respectively), this third album by Chilean cult thrashers got another run of releases in 2022 by…

Hellish – Dreamlike Fears/Goddess Of Death [EP]

Artist: Hellish Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2022 As an appetizer for their upcoming album, ‘The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents’ which is set for a release on December 16th of this year through Dying Victims Records,…

Triumphal Vengeance – Atavistic Darkness [EP]

Artist: Triumphal VengeanceCountry: Chile / GermanyLabel: Born For Burning Productions / Urtod VoidFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2022 This new one-man act, founded by an anonymous figure who goes under the name of Nebel, has its roots in Chile but now operates…