Blodoffer – Hostis Mundi [Demo]

Artist: Blodoffer Country: Poland Label: Under The Sign Of Garazel Productions / Zombi Danz Records Formats: 12″ EP / Demo Tape Year: 2024 Even if you have no idea what to expect from a debut demo from an anonymous Polish…

Priester – Let The Blood Run Red [Demo]

Artist: Priester Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Priester, a new Heavy/Speed Metal band from Finland, was built upon the bits and pieces that were left after Borley Rectory was put on ice – or at least,…

Vidarr – Bäume Unter Dem Mond Demo

Artist: Vidarr Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 By the look at the grainy black/white artwork and this specific logo you might judge that this is yet another band of Ildjarn-worship. And, in a certain way you wouldn’t be…

Ingwald – Demo 1

Artist: Ingwald Country: Russia Label: Jems Label Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Ingwald is one of the musical vessels of Waldsarg, the person who is also behind Vidarr, with which he releases his debut demo, simply titled ‘Demo 1’, through the USA-based…

Carrion Liturgy – Demo I

Artist: Carrion Liturgy Country: USA Label: Venereal Veneration Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Without much information to go on, I can basically only mention that Carrion Liturgy is a new Black Metal project from USA, helmed by a duo whose identities are…

Ligament – Demo MMXXV

Artist: Ligament Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Yes, I can be a sour old guy for whom things are not easily good enough, but there are times when the young boy in me awakens. Just say “this…

Urukhai – Vernichtung [Demo]

Artist: Urukhai Country: Italy Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 A certain amount of mysticism naturally contributes to how you view and experience a band, not infrequently that includes anonymity. Although that concept has become somewhat hackneyed by now, it…

Remains of Ash – Demo II

Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Before I could finish the review of the first Remains of Ash demo, another demo already dropped. ‘Demo II’ was released just a few months after ‘Remains…

Remains of Ash – Remains of Ash [Demo]

Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Remains of Ash was formed in January 2025 by Dark Divinator, who is also active in Kerzenlicht, Dark Divination, Valonkantaja and Nekromanser. Like Dark Divination, Remains of…

Draugheimen – Draugheimen [Demo]

Artist: Draugheimen Country: Unknown Label: Bloodthorn Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 The so far mostly very mysterious Draugheimen, whose background and origins are currently shrouded in mists, unleashed a fine self-titled demo on humanity at the end of last year.…

Mephitic Corpse – Sickness Attracts Sickness

Artist: Mephitic Corpse Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records / 625 Thrash! Formats: Vinyl / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With the band’s debut, the ‘Immense Thickening Vomit’ demo tape from 2019, Mephitic Corpse managed to…

Morsun Diaboli – Dzień Triumfu [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Morsun Diaboli Country: Poland Label: Diabolical Vitriol / Pro Morte Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although ‘Dzień Triumfu’, Morsun Diaboli’s second demo from 1998, had already been reissued once in 2019 and a compilation of all surviving Morsun Diaboli tracks was released in…

Bode Maldito – Sodomizing Christ [Demo]

Artist: Bode Maldito Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Format: Demo tape Year: 2024 Although ‘Sodomizing Christ’ was already released digitally by the band itself around the summer of last year, it took a few more months before a physical version…

Abbashaitan – Sorceritual [Demo]

Artist: Abbashaitan Country: Finland Label: Worship Tapes Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the band has already been around for a respectable amount of time, Abbashaitan’s first two demos, from 2017 and 2020 respectively, have remained completely under the radar…

Salacious Gods – The Slumbering Silence [Demo/ Re-release]

Artist: Salacious GodsCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Demo TapeYear: 2025 After an extended period without releases, Salacious Gods has turned the tide completely. There was the long-awaited full-length ‘Oaelevluuk’ and the band returned to the stages in 2023. Last year…

Bluthammer – Iron Eagle Division [Demo]

Artist: Bluthammer Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 “Fuck Religion, Fuck Politics, Fuck Humanity”. It can only be clear. Bluthammer does not mince words: this is merely about sonic violence and unhinged total hatred. And, of course,…

Death Pulsation – Demo 2025

Artist: Death Pulsation Country: Sweden Label: Caligari Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although Death Pulsation is a new band, debuting with this 3-track demo, in its ranks we do recognize musicians who has earned their stripes in the underground…

Vainot – Hasatur [Demo]

Artist: Vainot Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Honestly, I was planning to review ‘Rituaalikooma’, the first demo the Finnish Black Metal band Vainot. It came out in October last year, but even before I could blink…

Heathendom – The Nightspirit Symphony [Demo]

Artist: Heathendom Country: USA Label: Sonorous Night Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 ‘The Nightspirit Symphony’ is the debut 2-track demo tape from an anonymous duo from the United States. With a title like this, it might not surprise that the…

Goreaphobia – Morbidious Pathology [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Goreaphobia Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Along with bands like Incantation, Rottrevore, Deceased and Immolation, Goreaphobia is a band that is frequently credited for being one of the most influential bands in USA’s underground…

Dryas – Gates To The Realm Of Silence And Rot [Demo]

Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Primitive Blood Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Demo #2 for Dryas from a series of three rapidly successive demo releases – not in the “right” sequence, though. The Portuguese Black Metal band, which sometimes operates…

Dryas – The Land Of Wolves And The Black Frost [Demo]

Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Asylum Tenebris Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 When I reviewed Dryas’ ‘Monumentos à Eternidade’-demo tape a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t know that was actually their third demo. At the time of writing there…

Frozen Graves – Seeding Will [Demo / Re-release]

Artist: Frozen GravesCountry: FinlandLabel: His WoundsFormats: LPYear: 2024 ’Seeding Will’ was the very first release by Frozen Graves, originally stemming from 2015. At that time, the band was still a strictly Finnish affair, consisting of Cosmic Church mastermind Luxixul Sumering…

Alesya – Hex De Tristesse Et Peste [Demo]

Artist: Alesya Country: Mexico Label: Svart Hat Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Mexican Alesya was born from the minds of two lads each with some experience within the underground Black Metal scene, but in this formation, ‘Hex De Tristesse…

Archaic Behest – Lore [Demo]

Artist: Archaic Behest Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although Archaic Behest is a new band, debuting with ‘Lore’ through Iron Bonehead Productions, the musicians behind the band are far from rookies. With an accumulated…

Moonlight Malefice – Arbor Flame [Demo]

Artist: Moonlight Malefice Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Only a week after the release of ‘Demo 2024’ there is this other short demo, also clocking under seven minutes with basically only one song as…

Moonlight Malefice – Demo 2024

Artist: Moonlight Malefice Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 In the span of just a week, American Moonlight Malefice has delivered two digital demos. Although both demos last only a little over 6 minutes, that…

Malignant – Beyond The Grave [Demo]

Artist: Malignant Country: Chile Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Malignant can more or less be seen as “the new band” from Occulterror, the former vocalist of Sepulchral Rites who teams up with her former band mate…

Angelcorpse – Goats To Azazael [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Angelcorpse Country: USA Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2024 Angelcorpse’s ‘Goats to Azazael’ is a nothing short of a milestone in the wild and furious brand of Black/Death Metal. Not only did this mark the beginning of…

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…

Grief – Dark Epiphanies Of Nihilism [Demo]

Artist: Grief Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Over the past few years, Chilean Black Metal is something that we have learned to reckon with. Yet, it certainly is not only Lord Valtgryftåke that is dictating the…

Wolves Of Desor – The Witch Of November [Demo]

Artist: Wolves Of Desor Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 At the last days of December 2023 I stumbled upon the debut demo by Wolves Of Desor, a then new one-man project by M. who had otherwise…

Behexen – Beyond the Four Gates [Compilation]

Artist: BehexenCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2025 2016. It’s nearly nine years ago that Behexen released the sledgehammer called ‘The Poisonous Path’, the last release of the band. Never the most productive band, it is by far the longest period…

Bloodthorn – Natteskyggen [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: BloodthornCountry: NorwayLabel: GoatowaRexFormats: 12” DemoYear: 2024 While the current Black Metal scene from Trondheim is still drawing firm attention, the Norwegian city has an equally interesting and to some extent influential past. To commemorate that contribution to second wave…

Armoured Angel – Baptism In Blood [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Armoured Angel Country: Australia Label: Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 Before the band would go on and gain some cult status as one of Australia’s first Extreme Metal bands with quite some demos that influenced the first generation of…

Wiatyk – Tron Wlen [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Wiatyk Country: Poland Label: Diabolical Vitriol / Pro Morte Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 This second demo tape from Wiatyk, originally released in 1996, was simultaneously reissued with the band’s first effort. And while ‘Mysticism’, from 1995, showed a band in a blueprint…

Wiatyk – Mysticism [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: WiatykCountry: PolandLabel: Diabolical Vitriol / Pro MorteFormats: Demo TapeYear: 2024 I won’t pretend I knew Wiatyk before I laid eyes on the recent reissues of the band’s only two demo tapes (by Diabolical Vitriol and Pro Morte). In my defense, the two…

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…

Veitsi – Sotaa & Tuhkaa [Demo]

Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Veitsi, one of the bands from the River Valley Cult collective, is going through a development quite contrary to what is commonly seen within metal’s confinements. If…

Falsum – Privation [Demo]

Artist: Falsum Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 If I am well informed, this new one-man band is helmed by the drummer of Black Hurst, a band that I have been following because of their original and…

Atavistic Passage – Demonstration One [Demo]

Artist: Atavistic Passage Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Introducing a new band with zero info is not the easiest task. Other than that this anonymous entity hails from somewhere in the North West of England…

Dryas – Monumentos à Eternidade [Demo]

Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although Dryad could have several meanings, based on the song titles and mainly the wintry music, it seems to be derived from the term that divides the last…

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…