VoidCeremony – Abditum

Artist: VoidCeremony Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 Although there is plenty of good Death Metal out there, it is difficult to argue that the genre is not suffering from a…
Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground

Artist: VoidCeremony Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 Although there is plenty of good Death Metal out there, it is difficult to argue that the genre is not suffering from a…

Artist: Chaos Insignia Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Earlier this year I stumbled upon Chaos Insignia’s debut EP (or demo, if you prefer). I was enamoured with this band’s take on the Bestial Black/Death genre, even…

Artist: Flesher Country: USA Label: Maggot Stomp Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Tales Of The Grotesque Demise’, Flesher’s debut album from 2023, was a surprisingly good Death Metal album and one of the genre’s…

Artist: Summoning Hellgates Country: Spain Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Spear Of Conquest’ is the debut EP of a Spanish duo that presents itself as Summoning Hellgates. While one of the…

Artist: Dismorfia Country: Peru Label: Gurgling Gore / Lycanthropic Chants Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 ‘Slow Disembowelment To Be Defecated Alive’ is yet another addition to the rapidly growing discography of Peru’s most active Death/Grind band. Although…

Artist: Carnal Savagery Country: Sweden Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Over the past few weeks, I have had a number of discussions about the current state of affairs in the world of Death Metal. I have…

Artist: Goathammered Country: Denmark Label: Blasphemic Siege Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 During my daily rounds through the deeper regions of the internet, searching for new demos to sink my teeth into, I found not one, but two new…

Artist: Schizophrenic Warfare Country: Denmark Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Just about everything about this first achievement by Schizophrenic Warfare exudes fresh finesse and thoughtful sophistication. Or not. Maybe not… True connoisseurs of the depraved art of the…

Artist: Depredation Netra Country: India Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Depredation Netra is a new band out of India. Given the insane size of the country’s population, there is hardly any metal scene to speak of, and for that reason…

Artist: Deranged Country: Sweden Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 This isn’t exactly the first time I’ve shared my surprise and delight at the current Brutal Death Metal re-release frenzy from Hells Headbangers Records. Although I don’t follow…

Artist: Tormentador / Goat Semen Country: Brazil / Peru Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 A split LP with one of Brazil’s heaviest and Peru’s foulest. This is one of those records where you don’t really…

Artist: Death Yell Country: Chile Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape CD Year: 2025 If you’re talking about old Latin American Extreme Metal, it is categorically impossible to skip Death Yell. For the majority of the people…

Artist: Perdition Temple Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Format: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Without being sure what the reason was behind Perdition Temple’s previous album, ‘Merciless Upheaval’, that only had the A-side filled with new…

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…

Artist: Spirit Of Impurity Country: USA Label: Death’s Radiance / Perverse Homage Formats: Demo CDR Year: 2025 ‘Occluding The Gates Of Heaven’ is the debut recording of a new band that goes by the name of Spirit Of Impurity. Other…

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…

Artist: Pillagery / Goatscrote Country: Canada Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With names like Pillagery and Goatscrote and a cover featuring goat heads and bullet belts, you don’t need to have an awful lot of imagination to…

Artist: Exploding Zombies Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 It is not quite the first time I have lauded Hells Headbangers Records for their recent series of Brutal Death Metal re-releases. In recent weeks,…

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…

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…

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…

Artist: Regurgitation Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 We usually focus our reviews on new releases and largely ignore the huge number of reissues that keep coming our way. And, as a whole, I try to…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Artist: Kingdom Country: Poland Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although for me the Polish Death Metal band Kingdom has largely passed by unnoticed, this seventh album got a little more traction because it is…

Artist: Goat Semen / Bestial Rites Country: Peru Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Two portions of Peruvian perversion, that is what we’re treated with on this split between Goat Semen and Bestial Rites. In one corner,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Artist: Opositor / Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Split Cassette / Split CD Year: 2025 Although originally intended as a split 7” EP, this split between two contemporary Spanish descendants of the greats from their homeland has now…

Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Iron Fortress Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 While ‘Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux’ is somehow marketed as a new Mortuary Ghoul album, it’s not. The title already suggests…

Artist: Infernaculum / Secret Tongues Country: Spain / Germany Label: Profaner Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 From the ever-prolific HQ’s of Profaner Records from Spain, comes this new split tape that unites the obscure Spanish Black/Death Metal band Infernaculum…

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…

Artist: Red Right Hand Of Plague / Warslaughter Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 After the release of the ‘Descent.Parasite.Abominator’ 7” EP that was released earlier this year and the ‘His Womb’-demo a few months…

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…

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…

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.…

Artist:Blasfemator / Sepulcral Country: Greece / Colombia Label: Murder Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I am never keeping a very close eye on Murder Records. There’s no particular reason, it’s just that this label’s releases aren’t usually my cup of tar. But,…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

Artist: Deceased Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 2CD Year: 2025 My guess is, since you are reading this, that Deceased is a band that has a special place for you as well. Deceased has never been a trendy…

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…

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…

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…

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…