Sathanas / Nunslaughter – Torn Apart [Split 7″ EP]

Artist: Sathanas / Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Considering they both have existed since the 80’s, they have expansive discographies and the sheer number of splits released by both bands, it’s nothing short…

Acheron – Alla Xul [7″EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Acheron Country: USA Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: 7” EP Year: 2025 Acheron and its main member Vincent Crowley really shouldn’t require any introduction, and therefore I will blatantly assume you went straight for the juicy info on this release.…

Blisterous – Grotesque Prosection [EP]

Artist: Blisterous Country: Finland Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Grotesque Prosection’ is the debut EP from a new Finnish band that was released on cassette tape, CD and as a nice…

Purulent Remains – Abhorrent Putrefication [7″ EP]

Artist: Purulent Remains Country: Spain Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Although the band had already released two demo tapes (or cassette EP’s) in 2022 and 2023 and both were featured on the Bringer Of Gore-released ‘Worm-Eaten Corpse’…

Death Yell – Asmodeus’ Disciples [Demo / 7″ EP]

Artist: Death Yell Country: Chile Label: Seven Metal Inches Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Those who thought they were in for a treat, having been presented with a new full-length album (freshly released by Hells Headbangers Records) as well…

Strychnos – Sig Nærmer Døden [7″ EP]

Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Strychnos has always been a band that intrigued me. Admittedly, I wasn’t an instant fan. But over the years I have for sure started to really appreciate…

Strychnos – Uendelig Begravelsesmarch [7″ EP]

Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 This 7” EP is the twin of ‘Sig Nærmer Døden’, the other EP that was simultaneously released by Dark Descent Records. Both EP’s are a natural continuation…

Mortify – Drowned In Muck [7″ EP]

Artist: Mortify Country: Japan Label: Sewer Stench Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 With titles like ‘Grotesque Buzzsaw Defilement’ and ‘Buzzsaw Sickness’ in their back catalogue, you might already have a clue where this is heading. And you are quite…

Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid – Split 7″ EP

Artist: Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid Country: Finland / USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Split 7” EP’s are basically seen in every style of extreme music, but with their roots in Punk and Hardcore it…

Lord Gore – Dark Lords Of The Cyst [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Lord Gore Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 It’s not exactly the first time I’ve said that I’m not really interested in contemporary Grindcore, Death/Grind or related genres, but I do have a soft spot…

Funeral Vomit – Upheaval Of Necromancy

Artist: Funeral Vomit Country: Colombia Label: Xtreem Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With an album and the re-release of an earlier EP, Funeral Vomit has already proven itself to be by far the most interesting…

Kamra – Unending Confluence

Artist: Kamra Country: Slovenia Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Kamra’s previous effort, ‘Cerebral Alchemy’ from 2022, was quite a stunning debut album. While all of the involved musicians have other or previous experience, none of these…

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…

Chaos Insignia – Precode Rituals (Demo Rehearsal 2025)

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…

Flesher – Gore On Gore [EP]

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…

Summoning Hellgates – Spear Of Conquest [EP]

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…

Dismorfia – Slow Disembowelment To Be Defecated Alive [EP]

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…

Carnal Savagery – Crypt Of Decay

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…

Goathammered – Warghost Worship [Demo]

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…

Schizophrenic Warfare – Sperma [Demo]

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…

Depredation Netra – Third Eye Predation [Demo]

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…

Deranged – Cut Carve Rip Serve [Re-Release]

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…

Death Yell – Demons Of Lust

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…

Perdition Temple – Malign Apotheosis

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…

Sexófago – Sexo, Drogas, Muertes

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…

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…