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…

Evil Deceiver – Hymns To Death [Demo]

Artist: Evil Deceiver Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Rather hot on the heels of the band’s self-titled demo that was released in the very waning days of 2024, Evil Deceiver returns with yet another demo. In…

Torturer – Oppressed By The Force [Re-Release]

Artist: Torturer Country: Chile Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 Originally released sometime in mid-1992 on a cassette tape, ‘Oppressed By The Force’ garnered quite a following in the Chilean underground. So much that the album was…

Hemdale – Can You Smell The Stench??? [Compilation]

Artist: Hemdale Country: USA Label: F.O.A.D. Records / Mierdas Production Formats: LP Year: 2025 Aaargh, Hemdale. Where to start? This is definitely one of the finest examples of a versatile and extremely powerful Grindcore band from the second wave that’s…

Desekryptor – Sarcophagal Corridors [EP]

Artist: Desekryptor Country: USA Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 After Nuclear Winter Records’ reissue of Desekryptor’s ‘Curse Of The Execrated’ EP, both band and label decided to further strengthen their partnership with the…

Malignancy – Intrauterine Cannibalism [Re-Release]

Artist: Malignancy Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Next chapter of Hells Headbangers Records’ quest to reinstate some of Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore classics is Malignancy’s ‘Intrauterine Cannibalism’. A record that indeed fits just perfectly with more…

Bitter Loss – Demo XXV

Artist: Bitter Loss Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 After two successful EP’s released in 2021 and 2022, both issued by several labels with the second EP even being issued on vinyl by Headsplit Records, the Russian…

Antropomorphia – Devoid Of Light

Artist: Antropomorphia Country: The Netherlands Label: Testimony Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 For me, Dutch Death Metal veterans Antropomorphia are a textbook example of one of the most underrated bands, not only on the international stage but maybe…

Nithe – Funeral Death [EP]

Artist: Nithe Country: Norway Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 After a digitally released demo in 2021 the Norwegian Black/Death Metal band released a very strong EP in the form of ‘Night Of The Ghoul’, of which I…

The Satan’s Scourge – Abhorrent Spear Of Vengeance

Artist: The Satan’s Scourge Country: Colombia Label: Triumvirate Of Evil Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although The Satan’s Scourge, hailing from Bogota, Colombia, has already been around for over two decades, ‘Abhorrent Spear Of Vengeance’ is only the band’s second…

Imprecation – Vomitum Tempestas [EP]

Artist: Imprecation Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In my recent musings on Teitanblood’s latest album, I already addressed the fact that there are levels in everything. There might be hundreds…

Woundead – Lunacy Blasphemy And Gore [Demo]

Artist: Woundead Country: Italy Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Just about five months after ‘Breeding Depravity’, the band’s second demo, Death Metal band Woundead already returns with a new demo tape. With three demos in less than a year, these…

Crucifire – Dark Souls Abyss [Compilation]

Artist: Crucifire Country: Australia Label: Trauma Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Dark Souls Abyss’ is a compilation of the majority of Crucifire’s work, recorded back in the 00’s. Yet, you don’t have to feel ashamed of not having heard any of the material…

Clactonian – Everlasting Paleolithic [Demo]

Artist: Clactonian Country: Italy Label: Prehistoric Sounds Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Dea Madre’ was the short debut demo of this Italian Black/Death Metal band and displayed the steps of a decent, yet not completely convincing band. Their aim was…

Leper Colony – Those Of The Morbid

Artist: Leper Colony Country: Germany / Sweden Label: Testimony Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In hindsight I might have been a bit too positive on Leper Colony’s self-titled debut album from 2023. Since the few spins around the…