Bloodaxe Holocaust – Bloodaxe Holocaust [Demo]

Artist: Bloodaxe Holocaust Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Bloodaxe Holocaust is the brainchild of Jake Davids and is at the helm all by himself. Whether this means the end of Sorrow’s Maw, that debuted with…

Fegefeuer – Plageteufel [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Fegefeuer Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: LP Year: 2026 Narbentage Produktionen, the label behind this vinyl reissue of the only recording Fegefeuer ever made, is based in the village of Ralingen, a town situated right on the Luxembourg…

Nathrath – Demo 1

Artist: Nathrath Country: Spain Label: Narbentage Produktionen Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 For an old soul like me, it’s still nice to actually hear a demo on cassette tape, especially a first one. In fact, I have nothing against demos being made available digitally,…

Pus Excretor – Malignant Pustule [Demo]

Artist: Pus Excretor Country: Mexico Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Me Saco Un Ojo / Templum Obscenum Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Pus Excretor is a Mexican one-man Death Metal/Grindcore band that released…

Dødmoon – Demø MMXXV [Demo]

Artist: Dødmoon Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: Demo tape / Demo CD Year: 2026 With pulsating pace and rasping vocals Dødmoon kicks off its first release ‘Demø MMXXV’. These Finns mean business with Black Metal in the Scandinavian style.…

Lokabrenna – Acephalic Apocrypha [Demo]

Artist: Lokabrenna Country: Iceland Label: Sect Entropy Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 After the release of ‘Flesh Cathedral’ in 2012, a real underground hype arose around Svartidauði, which marked the start of the Icelandic Black Metal “boom” and the hipsster…

Akhoth – Storm Of Pagan Fury [Demo]

Artist: Akhoth Country: Australia Label: Sorcery Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Storm Of Pagan Fury’, the latest demo from Australian band Akhoth, sounds as if time has stood still. In fact, everything here exudes nostalgia. Not just the music,…

Abysmal Decay – Boneache [Single/Demo]

Artist: Abysmal Decay Country: United Kingdom Label: Goreture Rex / Old Skull Productions Formats: 7″ / Demo tape Year: 2025 After the solid self-titled demo tape that was issued earlier in 2025, UK Death Metal band Abysmal Decay released a…

Funeral Fire – Demo 3 [Re-Release]

Artist: Funeral Fire Country: Japan Label: Rat Covenant Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 In the summer of last year, Funeral Fire’s debut demo was reissued through the German label Menscheinfeind Propaganda and in the waning moments of 2025 the same honour befell the band’s last…

Terrorshroud – Order Of Absolute Terror [Demo]

Artist: Terrorshroud Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Terrorshroud is a new Black/Death Metal band rising from the ever-fertile Greek underground scene. But while the individual band members only go by their initials and with blurred-out photos, it is at least known…

Forbidden Temple – Draculhearsals [Demo]

Artist: Forbidden Temple Country: Belgium Label: Gramschap Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Just as I was late reviewing ‘In The Rotting Grave’, I am also a little late covering this rehearsal tape that followed it. But although I would prefer…

Verwándlung – Imperialist Regimes Must Fall [Demo]

Artist: Verwándlung Country: Australia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although a physical cassette tape version has been announced, this debut demo by Australian band Verwándlung, recorded in separate sessions between 2024 and mid-2025, is only available digitally via…

Warfare Noise – Satanic Blood Ecstasy [Demo]

Artist: Warfare Noise Country: Paraguay Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Even though Warfare Noise has been around for almost fifteen years already and has a considerable discography, they never landed on these pages before. Not even with the…

Lugubrious Garment – Demo MMXXV

Artist: Lugubrious Garment Country: Italy Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: Demo Tape / CD Demo Year: 2025 Honestly, if this demo tape wasn’t released on Nuclear Winter Records, I am pretty sure I would’ve never heard it. Maybe it’s short-sighted…

Flesh Hierarchy – Demo 1

Artist: Flesh Hierarchy Country: USA Label: Grotesque Devotion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Flesh Hierarchy is the brainchild of a person named JN, and if we were to believe the internet sources, this one-man project is the first step into…

Abhorration – Abhorrent Entities [Compilation]

Artist: Abhorration Country: Norway Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 With the release of ‘Demonolatry’ at the end of 2024, Abhorration’s name buzzed through the underground. And not without reason: the album was a highlight in Extreme Metal in…

Final Ritual – Ulterior Spiritual Resonances [Demo]

Artist: Final Ritual Country: Chile Label: Oratorivm Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Ulterior Spiritual Resonances’ is the debut demo of a new band from Chile, and although that is basically it as far as the available information goes, that…

Dark Fog Eruption – Decline [Demo]

Artist: Dark Fog Eruption Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Dark Fog Eruption started sometime in the late 2010s and has been around for a while now, yet I haven’t really paid much attention to them. And…

Sepulchral Witchcraft – Culto A La Muerte [Demo]

Artist: Sepulchral Witchcraft Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Although Sepulchral Witchcraft is a (new) band from Russia, there’s musically nothing that seems to tie the band to their native scene – or at least what we usually associate with Russian Black…

Sulphuric Deity – Demonstration MMXXVI [Demo]

Artist: Sulphuric Deity Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although this demo seems to have been in the works for quite some time, this is still a new band for most people. Only those who regularly visit Reddit or Instagram may…

Caprice Steel – Demo I

Artist: Caprice Steel Country: Chile Label: Eseocho Label Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 When we talk about Chile as a country that provides metal enthusiasts with new music, we are almost always referring to Death Metal or Black Metal, and…

Bestial Warlust – Demo 1995 [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Bestial Warlust Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette / CD Year: 2026 Although bands like Impaled Nazarene, Blasphemy and Beherit were already blending the ferocity and darkness of Black Metal with the blunt brutality of…

Anima – Elämän Viha/Kuoleman Idoli [Demo]

Artist: Anima Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 I was first drawn to Anima through the release of their debut ‘Yllä Kaikkitietävän Tyhjyyden’, so for the right context I would recommend reading that review first. It was…

Veitsi – Kalevanpoika Herää! [Demo]

Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As a fan of Veitsi’s take on the Black Metal genre, I never have to wait too long before there’s new material to wrap my ears around. ‘Fenno-Ugrilainen Yliherruus’, the band’s last…

Oblivion – Sheol [Demo]

Artist: Oblivion Country: Chile Label: Fehexenheit Prod. Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As more or less my standard procedure when stumbling upon a label that I had never heard before: checking what else is or was going on. A couple…

Archont – Macht:Demonstration [Demo]

Artist: Archont Country: Austria Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although there is very little known about this band, it is most likely that Archont is from Austria as they are claimed to be part of the Symbolismus…

Sataras Belzebulba – Demo

Artist: Sataras Belzebulba Country: Czechia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 You should do yourselves a favour and check out this band’s pictures before reading further or listening to this demo. Of course I am not sure whether we’re…

Ërhatiüurä – Vergletscherung [Demo]

Artist: Ërhatiüurä Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 When I ordered and reviewed the first demo tape of Ërhatiüurä there was little to no information available about this then-new project. Not that there is heaps of that…

Sonnenpfähler – Sonnenpfähler [Demo]

Artist: Sonnenpfähler Country: USA Label: Annulet Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 On the very first day of this year Sonnenpfähler digitally released its debut demo through the Annulet label/circle of which this one-woman project is an active participant of. And, fairly, not just…

Nosferatu – Satana In Fabula [Demo]

Artist: Nosferatu Country: Brazil Label: Hammer Of Damnation Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 The legendary figure of Nosferatu has been an inspiration for metal bands since the very start of the genre, it didn’t take long before bands started picking…

Morbius – Malicious Rites [Demo]

Artist: Morbius Country: Indonesia Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Malicious Rites’ is the debut demo of a new band called Morbius. With about a dozen other bands with the same name, Morbius isn’t quite the most…

Zweihander – Disciplines Of Gro-Goroth [Demo]

Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Abbatoir Prods. / Fehexenheit Prod. Formats: Demo CDr Year: 2025 Besides the black/white/red artwork that reveals just about everything of what to expect musically, it was this band’s name that attracted my attention. A German…

Seraphic Castration – Demon(stration) [Demo]

Artist: Seraphic Castration Country: Canada Label: Spiritual Warfare / War Vellum Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From the ashes of Gotthammer and the extremely fertile Canadian underground, not only did the recently resurfaced Melth rise again, but now Seraphic Castration…

Haavrun – Ensigns Of Evil [Demo]

Artist: Haavrun Country: Bulgaria Label: Hellvetic Carnage Productions Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 With Todorac you are always in for a surprise. One day he starts a project, the other day he disbands it again, or changes its name. Same…

Melth – Fatal Suffusion Of Tissues [Demo]

Artist: Melth Country: Canada Label: Berserk Ritual Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Emerging from the equally inventive and unpredictable group of musicians who previously brought us acts such as Gotthammer, Complot!, Moulin Banal, Adversaire, Shezmu, Pénombre and Kiloton. The exact…

Katalepsie – Initial Spasm [Demo]

Artist: Katalepsie Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 In today’s conversations about Lo-Fi Black Metal we usually refer to bands like Sanguine Relic, Mons Veneris, Black Cilice, Orgy Of Carion and the likes. Some 20 years ago…

Death Invoker – Reh. Damnations 2025

Artist: Death Invoker Country: Peru Label: Primitive Devil Worship Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Death Invoker was founded two decades ago and although the band has never released a full-length, it is highly unlikely you’ve never heard of the band…

Repúdio – Silhouette Of Reins [Demo]

Artist: Repúdio Country: Portugal Label: Rasga Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the previously released demo tape and full-length album were both released through the revered Altare Productions label. This freshly released demo tape is was published under the supervision…

Eternal Ice – Demo 2025

Artist: Eternal Ice Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With six splits and short players in 2025, it is safe to say that this Japanese duo is not lacking enthusiasm and inspiration. Founded in 2024 the band released one demo tape in…