Jehovah Lashing – Pulped Deity

Artist: Jehovah Lashing Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 With only 18 minutes, Jehovah Lashing’s debut album from 2023 was a rather short affair. However with 16 tracks and plenty of sonic violence, there was a lot…

Jehovah Lashing – Jehovah Lashing [Re-Release]

Artist: Jehovah Lashing Country: USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Originally released in 2023, the self-titled debut album by Jehovah Lashing first only had a digital version available, yet since a few days, more or less around…

Conjuration – Sepulchral Incantations [Demo]

Artist: ConjurationCountry: GermanyLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormat: Demo tapeYear: 2024 It is no secret that most of the current Death Metal releases no longer tickle my fancy. That doesn’t mean that my love for the genre is entirely lost. The German duo…

Black Curse – Burning In Celestial Poison

Artist: Black Curse Country: USA Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Apart from those who saw the band live in its earliest stages and/or were able to obtain a copy of the advance…

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…

Abhorration – Demonolatry

Artist: Abhorration Country: Norway Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 That Norwegian’s are not exclusively tied to their trademarked Norwegian Black Metal is of course not exactly a secret, yet the non-Black Metal bands from the Scandinavian…

Carnal Savagery – Graveworms, Cadavers, Coffins And Bones

Artist: Carnal Savagery Country: Sweden Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Album #2 for Carnal Savage this year. A trick they have pulled before, as although 2023 passed without any new recordings, the band had also released their first two albums…

Mercyless – Those Who Reign Below

Artist: Mercyless Country: France Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassett Tape / CD Year: 2024 With the publication of ‘Those Who Reign Below’, Mercyless has now released exactly the same number of records after reuniting as they did when they…

Cryptic Brood – Necrotic Flesh Bacteria

Artist: Cryptic Brood Country: Germany Label: Lycanthropic Chants / Rotted Life Records / War Anthem Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 When I ordered the band’s ‘Morbid Rite’ demo tape in 2013, I though the Cryptic…

Necroferum – Visions From The Necrorealm [EP]

Artist: Necroferum Country: Costa Rica Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 While Nuclear Winter Records always stood for impeccable releases of outstanding Death Metal bands, the Greek label particularly seemed to…

Rotpit – Long Live The Rot

Artist: Rotpit Country: Germany / Sweden Label: War Anthem Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 ‘Long Live The Rot’ is Rotpit’s second full-length album and with a few short-players under their belts they can easily be considered a prolific…

Tenebro / Mortuary Ghoul – Dellamorte [Split]

Artist: Tenebro / Mortuary Ghoul Country: Italy / USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Split Cassette EP Year: 2024 This is one of those splits that you knew that was eventually going to happen. It is no surprise that Tenebro-chief…

Stenched – Purulence Gushing From The Coffin

Artist: Stenched Country: Mexico Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Me Saco Un Ojo Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 As a sign that something good was going on, ‘Gorging On Mephitic Rot’, Stenched’s demo from last…

Strychnos – Armageddon Patronage

Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Denmark’s thriving Death Metal scene has spawned many a great band, the majority of them following a rather similar path of (sometimes Grindcore-fuelled)…

Vengeance Horde – Surging Vengeance

Artist: Vengeance Horde Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Stygian Black Hand / Deathrash Armageddon Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After the short but convincing and self-titled debut EP, released on cassette tape and…

Warslaughter – Exacerbación [EP]

Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 On the band’s previously released two demos and full-length albums Warslaughter already showed what they were made of. The Spaniards follow much of the country’s tradition in unrelenting…

Bastard Priest – Doomed To Decay [EP]

Artist: Bastard Priest Country: Sweden Label: D-Takt & Råpunk Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 During the resurgence of Old School-styled Death Metal in the late 00’s, Bastard Priest was a breath of fresh air. Most bands based their sound…

Parasitario – Rehearsal Demo 2024

Artist: Parasitario Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2024 After the well-received F.D.A. Records and Obliteration Records released ‘Everything Belongs To Death’ debut album, the Japanese Death Metal trio returns with a new demo. It is scheduled for a…

Morbific – Promethean Mutilation [EP]

Artist: Morbific Country: Finland Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 After ‘Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm’ an album that seems to share a similar fate as Immolation’s ‘Failures For Gods’, Finland’s Morbific seems to be right back…

Chaotian / Deiquisitor – Split

Artist: Chaotian / Deiquisitor Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Night Shroud Formats: Split LP / Split Tape / Split CD Year: 2024 Anyone who has been keeping an eye on the ever-thriving and ever-lively Danish Death Metal scene…

Endless Loss – Traversing The Mephitic Artery

Artist: Endless Loss Country: Australia Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After a demo, a digitally available live set and an EP, the Australian Black/Death Metal band Endless Loss felt it was time to unleash…

Satanicristo – Bastardizing The Holiness [EP]

Artist: Satanicristo Country: Brazil Label: Sex Desire Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 It’s not exactly every day you see a new release from a new band featuring ex-members of acts like Sarcófago, Mutilator and Holocausto drop by. But that…

Excarnated Entity – Descended Immortality – Promo 2024

Artist: Excarnated Entity Country: USA Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 With ‘Descended Immortality – Promo 2024’ the Portland, Oregon based Death Metal band Excarnated Entity is giving us a 2-track sneak peak into what they have…

1349 – The Wolf & the King

Artist: 1349Country: NorwayLabel: Season of MistFormats: LP / Cassette / CDYear: 2024 You could say that 1349 came at the right place at the right time. Formed in 1997, the band wasn’t quite there when the Norwegian Black Metal creativity…

Carnal Tomb – Dismembered Flesh [EP]

Artist: Carnal Tomb Country: Germany Label: Seven Metal Inches Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 Of course, with a cover like this, it is not too difficult to imagine what awaits you on this new 7’ EP from Germany’s Carnal…

Morbid Invocation – Opus I

Artist: Morbid Inovcation Country: Germany Label: Sect Entropy Formats: Tape Year: 2024 Without having felt the urge to record some demos or other short players first, this hitherto unknown duo goes straight for the full-length. Although, it is not actually…

Immortal Death – Immortal Death [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Immortal Death Country: Japan Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Just as the name of this Japanese Death Metal band holds some contradiction, this re-release is also not devoid of surprises. Werewolf Records is not exactly…

Wrahha – Harbingers Of A Horrid Cleansing [Demo]

Artist: Wrahha Country: Germany Label: AbArt Corruption / Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 After the break-up of Lihhamon, singer/guitarist M. (here as BRSRKR) decided to try again with a different line-up. The exact reason for the predecessor’s…

Shaarimoth – Devildom

Artist: Shaarimoth Country: Norway Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 In many ways Norwegian Death Metallers Shaarimoth are a rare breed. Not only do they come from a massively Black Metal dominated country with little to no…

Abominablood – Darkness In Planetary Transmutation

Artist: Abominablood Country: Argentina Label: Anti-Human Productions / Putrid Cult Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After a whole string of demos, EP’s, splits, compilations and a full-length album, Argentina’s Abominablood have reached its second album. Although the band…

Bestialgoat – Infernal Goat Of Extermination

Artist: Bestialgoat Country: Brazil Label: Brasilis Produções / Unpure Records Formats: Cassette tape / CD Year: 2024 With a back catalogue consisting of releases with black/white/red tones on the cover and titles of which the words are separated.by.dots. it is…

Destruktor – Indomitable

Artist: Destruktor Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 While Destruktor is not exactly at the top of lists of the most obvious Australian bands out of the Extreme Metal spectrum, for…

Abysmal Desecration – Total Extinction Of Humanity [EP]

Artist: Abysmal Desecration Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With ‘Total Extinction Of Humanity’, this new Argentine band lays their first feat on the table. And if the band name combined with the black, white and red…

Coffin Rot – Dreams Of The Disturbed

Artist: Coffin Rot Country: USA Label: Maggot Stomp Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After one album and a whole series of demos, splits, compilation and whatnot American Death Metal band Coffin Rot finally arrived at their…

Deceased – Children Of The Morgue

Artist: Deceased Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Some bands still arouse a kind of youthful enthusiasm in me. But, honestly, there are fewer and fewer of them. That may have…

Ignobleth – Voidspawn Sacrifice [Demo]

Artist: Ignobleth Country: Italy Label: Masked Dead Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Despite these three blokes from the Northern region of Italy being said to be in their mid-teens, they know their craft damn well. Being formed somewhere in…

Gotthammer – Nuclear Conquest [Compilation]

Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: CDYear: 2024 ‘Nuclear Conquest’ is the tale of Turbo Sodomizer, Hammer Commander and Sonic Reducer, who together as Gotthammer have set out to turn the world to ash with their downtuned savagery. This compilation is a…

Kiloton – World War V [Compilation]

Artist: KilotonCountry: CanadaLabels: War Vellum / Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 Presented in chronological order, ‘World War V’ is a compilation of the demos and four EPs that Canadian act Kiloton amassed over the last year or so.…

Goat Semen – Fuck Christ [EP]

Artist: Goat Semen Country: Peru Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 When it comes to Latin American Extreme Metal there are obviously a lot of bands that laid down the foundations…

Skelethal – Within Corrosive Continuums

Artist: Skelethal Country: France Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Probably recognisable to most readers: there are those bands that keep falling off your radar time and again unintentionally and for no apparent…