Warslaughter – Autólisis Coprolitica (Demo Compilation)

Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: The Final Return Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of the band’s second album, the Black Noise Committee released ‘Autocombustión’, we are also presented with this tape release that compiles both…

Warslaughter – Autocombustión

Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Black Noise Committee / Headsplit Records / Ixiol Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 After two demos and a full-length album in about three years the band decided to throw in the towel…

Glutted Swarm – …Of Old

Artist: Glutted Swarm Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2024 Throughout the entire history of Heavy Metal as an overarching genre, it has been proven on several occasions that originality is not a must when it comes to producing…

Chapel Of Samhain – Black Onyx Cave

Artist: Chapel Of Samhain Country: Portugal Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Spawned from the minds of Black Onyx and Phoros, Chapel Of Samhain is one of the latest monsters to come from…

Deteriorot / Rotpit – We Rot [Split 7″ EP]

Artist: Deteriorot / Rotpit Country: USA / Germany/Sweden Label: Seven Inches Of Metal Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 With the aptly titled ‘We Rot’ Seven Metal Inches Records presents a new 7” that brings together the long-running Deteriorot…

Slovgh – Emetic Fluid Transaction [EP]

Artist: Slvogh Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 From the ever thriving Danish Death Metal/Grindcore scene comes this new entity called Slovgh. A band that was more or less conceived out of…

Demonic Torment – Blood Lust [Demo]

Artist: Demonic TormentCountry: FinlandLabel: Unpure RecordsFormat: Demo tapeYear: 2024 After playing together in Krusifoitu, Human Animal, Arcanos (here under the pseudonym of Black Nuclear Hellstorm) and Vomit Deprivator thought it was time to combine their powers in a different vessel…

Mortuary Ghoul – Norman

Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Not even a year after the band’s debut album, Death Metal one-piece Mortuary Ghoul returns with its follow-up. An album that is obviously based…

Necroracle – Arcane Impious Sorceries

Artist: NecroracleCountry: SpainLabel: Triangulum Ignis / Nuclear Winter RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 The Spanish Death/Black Metal scene might not be the most active, but when a band releases an album, you know it’s worth your attention. That certainly applies…

Clactonian – Dea Madre [Demo]

Artist: Clactonian Country: Finland / Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Forged out of the dark visions of a few like-minded folks from both Finland and Italy comes Clactonian. A band that took their name from an old…

Opositor – Opositor [EP]

Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Down With The Most High Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Prior this new EP Opositor already released about a handful of releases, including a full-length album, all varying greatly in sound quality, but if one…

Opositor – Primaeval Worships [Compilation]

Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Year: 2024 As the title might already suggest, ‘Primaeval Worships’ is a compilation tape of older Opositor tracks that were recorded during the first two years of the band’s existence. To…

Impiety – Despondent Ecstacies [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Impiety Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 While the Singaporean Impiety by far is more well-known than this one from the USA, their musical background is not all that different. Okay,…

Penis – Nuclear Fukk [EP]

Artist: Penis Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This is the day we have all been waiting for. The day that there would finally be a band that would call themselves Penis. Hallelujah! Well, okay, the band…

Siegehammer – Spectral Entities [EP]

Artist: Siegehammer Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Only formed last year, this Spanish Death Metal band had already released a demo tape in the waning days of December 2023 and now arrived to its second release:…

Sadistic Goatmessiah – Demo 2023 [Re-Release]

Artist: Sadistic Goatmessiah Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 As the title already suggests, this demo was actually the demo the band presented last year. That first version was recorded and released in October of 2023 and…

Rotten Tomb – The Relief Of Death

Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Death Division Rituals Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a couple of various short players Chilean Death Metal band Rotten Tomb struck us in 2022 with a great chunky piece of Death Metal…

Kiloton – Heart [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 ‘Heart’ is the third Kiloton EP that was released in a series of four that further expands the audial onslaught that was set in with last year’s trio of…

Kiloton – Gears [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Because ‘Gears’ is the second Kiloton EP in an impressively short time, I would almost suggest to read the review of the first EP ‘War’ too to at least…

Kiloton – War [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With no less than four EP’s in about two months, one-man force Kiloton, hailing from the Quebec-region of Canada, is following up its death march as started back in…

Heresiarch – Edifice

Artist: Heresiarch Country: New Zealand Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 From the very start, in the form of the first ‘Hammer Of Intransigence’ 12” EP from 2011 and its follow-up in the form of ‘Wælwulf’,…

Prehistoric War Cult – Barbaric Metal

Artist: Prehistoric War Cult Country: Germany Label: Fucking Kill Records / Iconoclasm Conquest / Kellerassel Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With a good couple of short players in the past few years the German Black/Death…

Abysmal Winds – Magna Pestilencia

Artist: Abysmal Winds Country: Sweden Label: I Hate Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man: the problem with much of today’s Death Metal is that it suffers from having too…

ACOD – Versets Noirs

Artist: ACODCountry: FranceLabel: Hammerheart RecordsFormats: LP / CD Year: 2024 A mix of Swedish melodic Death Metal with atmospheric Black Metal into something that could be described as a much heavier and more Black Metal version of more modern Dark Tranquillity, that’s how…

Primitive Warfare – Extinction Protocol

Artist: Primitive Warfare Country: USA Label: Godz Ov War Productions / Stygian Black Hand Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a demo and two splits (with Complot! and Bog Body) the duo that is behind Primitive Warfare thought it…

Profanation – Skull Crushing Violence [EP]

Artist: Profanation Country: France Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Profanation is a band that sprung from the minds of a number of French musicians who had previously earned their stripes in bands such…

Rotten Cavern – Profound [Demo]

Artist: Rotten Cavern Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Rotten Cavern is a new band from the Catalonia region of Spain, formed by a duo that is also found in the equally great Siegehammer. However, their…

Necrophagia – Moribundis Grim

Artist: Necrophagia Country: USA Label: Time To Kill Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With the passing of Killjoy back in 2018 the metal scene lost not only a musician who was widely loved and appreciated…

Necrogore – Ancestral Abhorrence [EP]

Artist: Necrogore Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Last year I stumbled upon Italy’s Necrogore, a band that isn’t offering anybody a life-changing experience. On the contrary, Necrogore is playing it quite safe with their mixture of…

Necromoon – War With Tyranny

Artist: Necromoon Country: Poland Label: Putrid Cult Formats: CD Year: 2024 From the Putrid Cult stables comes this new anonymous Polish act called Necromoon. With no other information available than this, we should just start focussing on the music of…

Adversarial – Solitude With The Eternal…

Artist: Adversarial Country: Canada Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Admittedly, after the band’s first few releases I kind of lost track of Adversarial. In the early 10’s I did pick up the…

Witchfukker – Tapestry of Unspeakable Horrors

Artist: WitchfukkerCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: De Pankraker Records / Destruktion RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tapeYear: 2024 Off the back of the excellent ‘Deathaemorrhage’ demo, Witchfukker returns with the first full-length of the band’s career. On ‘Tapestry of Unspeakable Horrors’, they look…

Vomit Messiah – Demo II

Artist: Vomit Messiah Country: Spain Label: In Pulverem Mortis Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Last autumn, Spain’s Vomit Messiah had already caught my attention with their self-titled demo tape that was brimming with unbridled savage barbarism. Deliciously unoriginal and…

Cryptal Echoes – Cryptal Echoes [Demo]

Artist: Cryptal Echoes Country: Austria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 When thinking about Austrian Death Metal, the majority of us reading this will think of bands like Pungent Stench, Disharmonic Orchestra, Disastrous Murmur or perhaps Miasma. But recently…

Purulency – Transcendent Unveiling Of Dimensions [EP]

Artist: Purulency Country: USA Label: Caligari Records / Pulverised Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 ‘Transcendent Unveiling Of Dimensions’ is the first feat of the Kingsport, Tennessee, USA-based Death Metal that was founded back…

Diocletian – Inexorable Nexus

Artist: Diocletian Country: New Zealand Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Diocletian’s ‘Gesundrian’ from 2014, released by the French Osmose Productions label, is commonly seen as one of the absolute cornerstones of…

Dismorfia – Eclosion Repugnante [Demo]

Artist: Dismorfia Country: Peru Label: Gurgling Gore Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although I must say that the times in which I fully immersed myself in the grimey world of Grindcore are half a lifetime behind me, I can still…

Yxxan – Misanthropic Impulse

Artist: Yxxan Country: Sweden Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 In 2019 and 2020 the world was treated to two demos of an obscure one-woman act from Sweden. Yxxan presented itself in a total savage…

Viscous – Morbid Arousal [7″ EP]

Artist: Viscous Country: Canada Label: Godz Ov War Productions / Anti-Human Productions / Unpure Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 In April last year we already got a small taste of what was to…

Coffins – Sinister Oath

Artist: Coffins Country: Japan Label: Relapse Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although ‘Sinister Oath’ is the band’s sixth full-length and I have picked up quite a few of their smaller releases over the years, it…

Sarcasm – Mourninghoul

Artist: Sarcasm Country: Sweden Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 While the musical transition from a more or less standard Swedish Death Metal in the band’s embryonical stages to the more Black Metal-infused sound after Sarcasm’s 2015…