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…

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…

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…

Ritualhammer – Grand Pestilential Flame

Artist: Ritualhammer Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Ritualhammer is the result of a musical collision coming from a couple of Finnish musicians with past and present experience in such bands as Wömit Angel, Nachtgnawer,…

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…

Blood Offer – All That Dies… Is Forsaken

Artist: Blood Offer Country: Italy Label: Iron Fortress Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After a decent but kind of messy start in the form of their ‘Into Evil Rites’ demo tape (or EP), this company of youngsters…

Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence

Artist: Cryptopsy Country: Canada Label: Season of Mist / Tuneforce Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 It is more than safe to say that ‘As Gomorrah Burns’ won me back as a Cryptopsy fan. And we…

Desecration – Gore And Perversion [Re-Release]

Artist: Desecration Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Honestly, when I first ran into Desecration, I wasn’t all too impressed with the band from Newport, Wales. Perhaps it was my mindset at the time, the setting in which they…

Last Retch – Abject Cruelty

Artist: Last Retch Country: USA Label: Time To Kill Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although I do understand that bands try to take a step up with each of their new releases and Last Retch was on…

Cruentation – Damned Fallen Angels

Artist: Cruentation Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 It is no real secret that I am only marginally entertained by what today’s Death Metal scene has to offer. This topic regularly comes up in conversations with…

Burial – Enlightened With Pain [Re-Release]

Artist: Burial Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In its quest for unearthing some unsung genre highlights of late 90’s and early 00’s Brutal Death Metal, Hells Headbangers Records already crossed paths with a few undeniable…

Ancient Death – Ego Dissolution

Artist: Ancient Death Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Sacred Vessel’, Ancient Death’s debut EP, there were lots of plans. This rather young American Death Metal band had its hopes…

Hyperdontia – Dormant Scourge [7″ EP]

Artist: Hyperdontia Country: Denmark Label: Desiccated Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although I followed the Danish Death Metal scene rather religiously when things started booming there around the 2010’s, over the years it brought us an…

Unleashed – Fire Upon Your Lands

Artist: Unleashed Country: Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In some of my previous reviews I already touched upon it, the way how you perceive an album (or a band as a whole) has not only…

Cerebral Curse – Promo ’25

Artist: Cerebral Curse Country: Spain Label: Rotted Life Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Promo ‘25’ is the first feat of this Spanish duo, who have already been featured on these pages before in their other bands like Rotten Cavern, Siegehammer and Blight Psalm.…

Temora – Temora [Demo]

Artist: Temora Country: Czechia Label: Filth Junkies Records Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 With this self-titled debut demo, this young Czech band presents itself to the world. Although the Filth Junkies Records label is involved, a physical release seems not…

Abominablood – Subterranean Prophecy [EP]

Artist: Abominablood Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 With quite an extensive discography, existing out of several demos, EP’s, split releases and three full-length albums, Argentinian Abominablood has increasingly perfected its take on the Black/Death Metal genre.…

Grand Bewitchment – Sigils Of Steel [EP]

Artist: Grand Bewitchment Country: USA Label: Damnation’s Edge Productions Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 After having put out a demo tape and a split tape in 2021 and 2023 respectively, both released through the band’s own Damnation’s…

Sewer Haul – Torso Mangled Beyond Repair [EP]

Artist: Sewer Haul Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 After the release of Slovgh’s ‘Emetic Fluid Transaction’-EP on cassette, released in the summer of 2024, both the band and their label thought it would be…

Nihilvm – Ancient Cosmic Emanation

Artist: Nihilvm Country: Poland Label: Malignant Voices / Terratur Possessions Formats: CD Year: 2025 The first release of the Polish Nihilvm was not what I expected. Released on the respected Black Metal label Malignant Voices, the pulverising formula of  their…

Benediction – Ravage Of Empires

Artist: Benediction Country: United Kingdom Label: Nuclear Blast Records Format: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Death Metal hall-of-famers Benediction lost their grinding edges from the first two albums and along the way got increasingly groove-based, overall, they haven’t changed a whole lot. The…

Devil Pig – Demo 2025

Artist: Devil Pig Country: South Korea Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although for a few seconds I thought I was dealing with a solo project by the singer of Embrace Of Thorns who uses this same pseudonym, this…

Profanatorium – Baphomet´s Slaves [Demo]

Artist: Profanatorium Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Profanatorium, a new and rather obscure entity from Spain. Well, Spain… I am aware of the fact that people from Gran Canaria usually do not want to be called…

Abhorrent Execration – Atavistic Voracity [EP]

Artist: Abhorrent Execration Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 After two demos and an EP, the French duo that is Abhorrent Execration returns with yet another EP that, for now, is only digitally available through the band’s…

Re-Buried – Flesh Mourning

Artist: Re-Buried Country: USA Label: Translation Loss Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Two years and a half after the release of the band’s debut album, ‘Repulsive Nature’, Re-Buried returns to the front with a new…

Caustic Phlegm – Demo 2025

Artist: Caustic Phlegm Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With a great demo and a successful full-length album on Hells Headbangers Records, released earlier this year, it is fair to say that one-man army Caustic Phlegm…

Witchcraft – Belphegor [Demo / Re-release]

Arist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 Together with the rehearsal demo ‘Shaitan’, Wolfkult Religion re-released the Witchcraft rehearsal demo ‘Belphegor’ in June 2025. Also stemming from 2024, this rehearsal is a little different than…

Witchcraft – Shaitan [Demo / Re-release]

Arist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 ‘Shaitan’ is one of two rehearsal tapes of the Finnish maniacs of Witchcraft that were recently re-released by Wolfkult Religion. With both rehearsals originally appearing in 2024, this…

Invoketh – Sabbatikal Obsession [Demo]

Artist: Invoketh Country: France Label: Messe Noire Productions / Obscurity Of Error Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Invoketh is a new entity arising from the Extreme Metal scene from France. A new band maybe, but the three members are far from rookies. On…

Iron Division – Blood Tactics [Demo]

Artist: Iron Division Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / IYY Blitzkrieg Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the Danish Extreme Metal scene and the Danish Extremely Rotten Productions label are mostly known for their Autopsy and Incantation-influenced Death Metal…

Thromvosis – Black Signs Of Bestiality

Artist: Thromvosis Country: Greece Label: Death’s Ovasions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 ‘Black Signs Of Bestiality’ is the follow-up recording to 2023’s ‘Proclamation Of The Smegmatic Warcult’, a record that I have reviewed and spent only a few hands full…

Tenebro – Inferno Contaminato [EP]

Artist: Tenebro Country: Italy Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 ‘Inferno Contaminato’ is yet another 2-track EP by the Italian masters of musical gore. And again, Tenebro pays homage to a horror movie, this time it is…

Pandemia – Darkened Devotion

Artist: Pandemia Country: Czechia Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 During the late 90’s and first years of the 00’s eastern Europe had a rather vibrant Death Metal scene, a scene that went very well with the region’s ever-thriving Grindcore tradition. It…