Nocuous Lust – Demo

Artist: Nocuous Lust Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sometimes very little words are needed, or they can even take some of the magic away. That must have been the way of thinking of this newly found…

Masacre – Ola De Violencia [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Masacre Country: Colombia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In many ways the term “cult” applies to the early work of Masacre, and basically the band still very much fit to…

Naked Whipper – Chapel Defilement

Artist: Naked Whipper Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With the reissue of Naked Whipper’s cult back catalogue and its (unexpected) return on stage, appearing on the Never Surrender festival, it should come as…

Vider – Strike With Putrefaction

Artist: Vider Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 On a miserable, rainy, grey and stormy January day, nothing really fits better than an all-consuming darkness in musical form. For that joyous occasion today, I threw in the debut…

Mercenario – Tormented Souls [EP]

Artist: Mercenario Country: USA Label: Atolinga Records / Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 In a conversation about the recent split up of Morbosidad, my interlocutor reported that Tomas Stench of that band had already got…

Rotting – Crushed [Re-Release]

Artist: Rotting Country: Canada Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 While Hells Headbangers is primarily known for its releases out of the Black/Death/Thrash Metal pond (preferably a mixture of all that), the people behind the label do have…

Degraved – Premonition Of Blasphemy [Demo]

Artist: Degraved Country: USA Label: Grip Of Darkness Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Admittedly, I wasn’t overly impressed with Degraved’s first two outings, the ‘Exhumed Remnants’-demo from 2020 and the ‘Whispered Morbidity’ EP from 2023. Although both saw releases through…

Unblessing – Chalice Of Abomination [Demo]

Artist: Unblessing Country: USA Label: Hooded Demon Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With three demos under its belt from 2017, 2020 and 2022, of which all three saw a reissue via Poland’s Unpure Records, it took Unblessing a few…

Shadowdances – Burning Shadows [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Shadowdances Country: Lithuania Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Life can hit you right in the face in the most wonderful ways at unexpected moments. For me, in these times of war and general polarization, or just…

Crucifixation – Blaspheme Unto Death

Artist: Crucifixation Country: USA Label: Down With The Most High Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 The mind of the ever-prolific Tom, who goes under various pseudonyms, spawned this old style Black/Death Metal project called Crucifixation that debuted with…

Annihilation Cult – Annihilation Cult

Artist: Annihilation Cult Country: USA Label: Profaner Records / Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 At the end of 2023 Annihilation Cult came up with a digital demo of just over 15 minutes of merciless Black/Death Metal…

Evokthum – Majesty Blood Vomiter [Demo]

Artist: Evokthum Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Someone even half-versed in the wonderful world of the Bestial Black/Death Metal scene will have no difficulty in already getting some idea of where this is going to, simply…

Evil Deceiver – Evil Deceiver [Demo]

Artist: Evil Deceiver Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Released in just 15 copies and only distributed to people within the close circles around the band… You can definitely say that this self-titled debut demo of Evil…

Perfidious – Ceremonial Oath [7″ EP]

Artist: Perfidious Country: Malaysia Label: Zombi Danz Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 The cover artwork alone of this 45RPM 7’ EP released by Zombi Danz Records is already worth a look for those who like Southeast Asian Black/Death Metal.…

Necromaniac – Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable

Artist: Necromaniac Country: United Kingdom Label: Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With the band’s 2015-released ‘Morbid Metal’ demo tape and the ‘Subterranean Death Rising’ 7” EP from 2018 Necromaniac already released some snippets…

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…