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…

Deicide – Banished By Sin

Artist: Deicide Country: USA Label: Reigning Phoenix Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Most people of a certain age reading this will have a relationship with Deicide that is based on, at least, mixed feelings. To…

Unleashed – Before The Creation Of Time [Compilation]

Artist: Unleashed Country: Sweden Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Without going too much into the in itself somewhat sad history of Johnny Hedlund’s rather disgraceful tricking out of Nihilist by disbanding the band and…

Anatomia / Eternal Rot – Split

Artist: Anatomia / Eternal Rot Country: Japan / Germany/United Kingdom Label: Behind The Mountain / Gurgling Gore Formats: Split LP / Split Cassette / Split CD Year: 2024 While Anatomia might forever be regarded as Coffins’ little brother, they have…

Infamous Glory – Algor Mortis

Artist: Infamous Glory Country: Brazil Label: Black Hole Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Although Infamous Glory has been around already for quite a few years, in fact they are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, I wouldn’t be surprised if…

Baphorator – I.B.L.I.S.

Artist: Baphorator Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 After a self-released demo tape in 2023 this American duo returns with a half-hour debut LP through none other than Nuclear War Now! Productions. The label ever…

Uttertomb – Nebulas Of Self-Desecration

Artist: Uttertomb Country: Chile Label: Pulverised Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After being around for well over a decade and with several EP’s and splits under their belts it was about time these Chileans Death Metallers came up…

Aberration – Refracture

Artist: Aberration Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Aberration debuted in 2021 with a self-titled EP after which it remained quiet for a long time, not counting the Beherit cover that…

Necrophobic – In The Twilight Grey

Artist: Necrophobic Country: Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After the release of the ‘Death To All’-album in 2009 the future for Necrophobic never seemed brighter: a killer new record, a flawless back catalogue and a…

Diabolic Oath – Oracular Hexations

Artist: Diabolic Oath Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The trio that together makes up Diabolic Oath has just delivered us something new to chew on, not all too long after…

Therianthropophagus – Damnatio Ad Bestias [EP]

Artist: Therianthropophagus Country: Canada Label: Serpents Head Reprisal Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 This new Black/Death Metal band from Canada debuts with an EP that clocks just under 20 minutes, but musically leaves very little to the imagination. In the right Canadian…

Corpus Offal – Demo 2024

Artist: Corpus Offal Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Corpus Offal might be a new band at the Death Metal firmament, but its bandmembers for sure are no stranger to Extreme Metal in general and…

Abject Mentor – Bajo La Sombra Del Tormento [EP]

Artist: Abject Mentor Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 About a year ago I reviewed the debut album of Abject Mentor, a Mexican Death Metal band that was formed back in 2020 and previously released a handful…

Coffins / Gravavgrav – Tribute To Grave [Split EP]

Artist: Coffins / Gravavgrav Country: Japan Label: Lycanthropic Chants Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 For the revered Japenese Death Metal band Coffins is this split 7” EP the latest chapter in a long tradition of splitting EP’s, this time…

Ectospire – Afterlife Brutality [EP]

Artist: Ectospire Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Almost exactly a year ago I came across Ectospire’s debut demo, a tape that stuck with me a for a while because of a vital mix of both European…

Grave Alter – Demo II [Demo]

Artist: Grave Alter Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Last year I stumbled upon Grave Alter’s self-titled first demo, a 3-tracker that showed a certain appreciation of Mortician-styled gore-drenched Death Metal. Now, exactly one year later, also…

Puteraeon – Quindecennial Horror [EP]

Artist: Puteraeon Country: Sweden Label: Emanzipation Records Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Personally I have always categorized Puteraeon as one of the more interesting Swedish Death Metal bands that do no belong to the classics from the early 90’s. Don’t ask…

Fessus – Pilgrims Of Morbidity [Demo / Reissue]

Artist: Fessus Country: Austria Label: Self-Released / Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 / 2024 At the beginning of Autumn 2023, the rather fresh Austrian Death Metal outfit Fessus self-released their debut demo tape, ‘Pilgrims…

Övervåld – V​å​ldsbejakande Extremism [EP]

Artist: Övervåld Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 I am sure you recognize it. Sometimes it feels inevitable to use Google Translate to clear something, but when you see the outcome, it makes so much sense that you…

Nuclearhammer – Xaos Tenawas – Demo MMXXIII [Demo]

Artist: Nuclearhammer Country: Canada Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2023 Not counting the 90-minute compilation that was released in 2018 (and reissued in 2021 and 2022 on a double cassette release and double CD respectively), ‘Xaos…

Vincent Crowley – Anthology Of Horror

Artist: Vincent Crowley Country: USA Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 It feels rather pointless to write an introduction on the works of Vincent Crowley. Not only has the man a much discussed and rather notorious history…

Maul – Desecration And Enchantment [EP]

Artist: Maul Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 After having recorded a large amount of demos and (split) EP’s, the success of Maul’s debut album, ‘Seraphic Punishment’, didn’t come quite as a surprise. The bands…

Pyra – Those Who Dwell In The Fire

Artist: Pyra Country: Italy Label: Immortal Frost Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 In autumn 2022 the Italian Black Metal band Pyra introduced itself with their self-titled 5-track EP, which positioned the band in that smothering twilight zone between…

Dripping Decay – Ripping Remains [EP]

Artist: Dripping Decay Country: USA Label: Satanik Royalty Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Dripping Decay’s ‘Watching You Rot’-demo from 2021 was received well by fans who like their Death Metal dirty and old school, it had…

Drowned – Procul His

Artist: Drowned Country: Germany Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although the band has been formed all the way back in 1993, German Death Metal band Drowned has been different from all of their peers ever…

Witchcraft – Bestial Vociferation [Compilation]

Artist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2023 In the wake of bands like Blasphemy, Beherit, early Impaled Nazarene, Archgoat, Profanatica and the likes came a quite a loyal following of both fans and bands…

Command – Resver

Artist: CommandCountry: SwedenLabel: jawbreaker RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 When in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s the old school Death Metal scene was rejuvenated with fresh blood, bands from Sweden once again played their part. In…