Fulgorious – Total Black Metal Cult [Demo]

Artist: Fulgorious Country: Ecuador Label: Nebulavaho Records Formats: 7″ EP / Demo Tape Year: 2025 Spawned from the mind of S.S comes Fulgorious, a new Black Metal band from the fertile Ecuadorian Black Metal grounds. While the country has a couple of well-known…

Chalice Of Eden – The Black Serpents Lament [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘The Black Serpents Lament’ is the first demo of a new entity roaming the North American Raw Black Metal realms. Within its ranks we find Fallen Warrior, who already left a certain…

Knüth – Demo X (MMXXV)

Artist: Knüth Country: Russia Label: Unholy Wormhole Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 Ever since the band’s foundation back in 2018, this duo has been spawning demos, at least one per year. With this latest one they arrived at their tenth…

Fienden – Till Er (Demo 2025)

Artist: Fienden Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Everyone willing to dig just a little deeper than your average Black Metal band gaining their five minutes of fame through Black Metal Promotion, will know that there’s still…

Occult Mountain – Demo ll Walking The Snow Covered Path

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Hot on the heals of this project’s debut demo, Occult Mountain is already back with another. ‘Winter Invocations’ was a particularly charming demo that showcased a great balancing…

Eerified Catacomb – Pallid Blue Memory [Demo]

Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Simultaneously released with the ‘Liquidation Of Souls’-demo tape, Eerified Catacomb treats you on yet another sinister demo recording. While both demos have a similar cover art and…

Devil Pig – Demo 2025

Artist: Devil Pig Country: South Korea Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although for a few seconds I thought I was dealing with a solo project by the singer of Embrace Of Thorns who uses this same pseudonym, this…

Profanatorium – Baphomet´s Slaves [Demo]

Artist: Profanatorium Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Profanatorium, a new and rather obscure entity from Spain. Well, Spain… I am aware of the fact that people from Gran Canaria usually do not want to be called…

Reich Der Geister – Bloody Reliquary [Demo]

Artist: Reich Der Geister Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although this French one-man operation already released two demos and a split tape before this latest offering, it never popped up on my radar. But now…

Eerified Catacomb – Liquidation Of Souls [Demo]

Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Sordid Realm Of Apparition’ and the split tape with Gnawed Chrisom, Eerified Catacomb returns with two new demo tapes. ‘Liquidation Of Souls’ is…

Caustic Phlegm – Demo 2025

Artist: Caustic Phlegm Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With a great demo and a successful full-length album on Hells Headbangers Records, released earlier this year, it is fair to say that one-man army Caustic Phlegm…

Galghe – Bloed Eed [Demo]

Artist: Galghe Country: Belgium/The Netherlands Label: Merg&Been Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 Galghe is a rather new spiritual vessel in which J. and P., both also members of Vergankelijk, once again join forces. These members have vast experience in the…

Invoketh – Sabbatikal Obsession [Demo]

Artist: Invoketh Country: France Label: Messe Noire Productions / Obscurity Of Error Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Invoketh is a new entity arising from the Extreme Metal scene from France. A new band maybe, but the three members are far from rookies. On…

Charogne – Rance Moelle / Accoutumanc [Demo]

Artist: Charogne Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Rance Moelle / Accoutumanc’ is the one-track follow-up demo of ‘Bourbe’ and ‘Liturgia Horarum’, two demos that saw the light of day at the end of 2024 and very…

Occult Mountain – Winter Invocations [Demo]

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It could be a very good slogan to sell more copies of your demo: “so good, it’s not allowed on Metal-Archives”. While many of the unfathomable choices of…

Iron Division – Blood Tactics [Demo]

Artist: Iron Division Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / IYY Blitzkrieg Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the Danish Extreme Metal scene and the Danish Extremely Rotten Productions label are mostly known for their Autopsy and Incantation-influenced Death Metal…

Living Evil – Curse The Cross [Demo]

Artist: Living Evil Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Living Evil is a new band formed by the duo that together also appear as the Traditional Doom Metal outfit Kathryn Danielle, whose debut finished high in my…

Evil Deceiver – Hymns To Death [Demo]

Artist: Evil Deceiver Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Rather hot on the heels of the band’s self-titled demo that was released in the very waning days of 2024, Evil Deceiver returns with yet another demo. In…

Konfus – Rabenlieder [EP]

Artist: Konfus Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Besides a one-track demo that was digitally released about a year ago, ‘Rabenlieder’ is the first offering from this relatively new German one-man band called Konfus. That one song that was previously released…

Funeral Fire – Demo [Re-Release]

Artist: Funeral Fire Country: Japan Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Originally ‘Demo’ was first available in summer last year as a self-released demo tape, but early 2025 it saw its reissue through Germany’s Menschenfeind Propaganda. A collaboration that is not too surprising,…

Vengeance Sorcery – Demo MMXXIV

Artist: Vengeance Sorcery Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although ‘Demo MMXXIV’ has been released under the Vengeance Sorcery banner, it is the sole product of Deathwalker (also Nihil Invocation). On this recording he is responsible for…

Hammer – Ancient Metal [Demo]

Artist: Hammer Country: Brazil Label: Poserkiller Records Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sprung out of the mind of ‘Kadu Necro Defunto’, Hammer is just one of the many projects of this ever-restless man from Brazil. And while with most of…

Finngálkn – Hroki & Fyrirlitning [Demo]

Artist: Finngálkn Country: Iceland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Just a few years before Icelandic Black Metal exploded into the international scene with Misþyrming, Sinmara and Svartidauði as most prominent exponents, the Icelandic Black Metal scene was largely…

Bitter Loss – Demo XXV

Artist: Bitter Loss Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 After two successful EP’s released in 2021 and 2022, both issued by several labels with the second EP even being issued on vinyl by Headsplit Records, the Russian…

Ërhatiüurä – Weltnacht [Demo]

Artist: Ërhatiüurä Country: France Label: Realm And Ritual Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Weltnacht’ is the first feat of Ërhatiüurä, a new and anonymous band from France, that will see its physical release on May 30th through the always interesting…

Hydin – First Slash [Demo]

Artist: Hydin Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 Sometimes things don’t need to be perfect to strike a certain charm Or maybe it’s even that imperfect things tend to me more charming. In all sorts of music…

Wulfgraf – Spirit Of The Moon [Demo]

Artist: Wulfgraf Country: USA Label: Temple Fan Wolven Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Wulfgraf’s name is one of those that I had written down quite a few times on many of those little papers laying here next to my laptop.…

Kos – Demo MMXXV

Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Kos is yet another concoction of the person behind such bands as Red Right Hand Of Plague, Great Tribulation and Thirsting Ampoule and the one running the Elf…

Vrëdehexen – Omen of Evil [Demo]

Artist: Vrëdehexen Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 From Tampere, Finland hails the duo of Vrëdehexen who in April of this year, the band released their debut demo, ‘Omen of Evil’. And even though it clocks in…

Woundead – Lunacy Blasphemy And Gore [Demo]

Artist: Woundead Country: Italy Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Just about five months after ‘Breeding Depravity’, the band’s second demo, Death Metal band Woundead already returns with a new demo tape. With three demos in less than a year, these…

Clactonian – Everlasting Paleolithic [Demo]

Artist: Clactonian Country: Italy Label: Prehistoric Sounds Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Dea Madre’ was the short debut demo of this Italian Black/Death Metal band and displayed the steps of a decent, yet not completely convincing band. Their aim was…

Tumba – Armagedón [Demo]

Artist: Tumba Country: Colombia Label: Destruktion Records / Hell Force Records / Inframetal Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Just a few months prior to the release of the band’s debut album ‘Blasfémico Resplandor’, Tumba also released a 4-track demo…

Satanic Black Blood – Sulphuric Demonomancy [Demo]

Artist: Satanic Black Blood Country: Germany Label: De Pankraker Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 From the German virtuous society of punks-gone-metal, this new band arises. Satanic Black Blood are a duo that’s also active in bands such as Secret…

Combat Shrine – Extermination Initiation [Demo]

Artist: Combat Shrine Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 The all-knowing Metal-Archives filed Combat Shrine under “Grindcore”. Although that is not entirely out of touch with reality, you’re doing this Finnish band short quite a bit. And…

Abysmal Decay – Abysmal Decay [Demo]

Artist: Abysmal Decay Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 ‘Abysmal Decay’ is the first feat for these four lads from Glasgow, Scotland. But although this is a short 2-track debut demo, these guys certainly are no…

Spektrum – Demo I

Artist: Spektrum Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Out of one of the world’s major hotbeds for Extreme Metal, the Chilean Death Metal underground scene, comes Spektrum. A relative new band that was initially founded under the…

Sectarium – God’s Wrath [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Sectarium Country: Cuba Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Extreme Metal might have been the most popular in some European, North and South American countries, but the long arms of the genre stretched to the most unlikely…

Crepuscule – Hybrid Cancer [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Crepuscule Country: Italy Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Among the set of demo tapes recently re-released by La Caverna Records is also this single demo from Crepuscule. This Italian band was formed by the duo Raff…

Worm Altar – Promo 2025

Artist: Worm Altar Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After the release of the band’s ‘Astral Scourge’-EP from Summer 2023, it was rather quiet around Worm Altar. Usually one-man bands tend to release one demo or EP…

Corrosives – Wasteland [Demo]

Artist: Corrosives Country: Canada/USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 How this trio came together is something that you should ask them, but regardless of how their individual paths crossed, this Canadian/American collective surely knows how to make some…