Remina – Crypts Of Spectral Cries And Astral Dreams [EP]

Artist: Remina Country: Greece / Japan Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Rather hot on the heels of the band’s debut EP, the duo returns with their second EP. With a duration of half an hour, ‘Νεκροταφείο Αγγέλων’…

Remina – Νεκροταφείο Αγγέλων [EP]

Artist: Remina Country: Greece / Japan Label: Metal Throne Productions / Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In spring 2025 Menschenfeind Propaganda released a split tape between Eternal Ice from Japan and Yūrei, that, even though…

Tünböri – Kurt Başlı Sancak [EP]

Artist: Tünböri Country: Türkiye Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 If we have to rely on the numbers provided by Metal Archives, Tünböri are one of just 799 Metal bands that hail from Türkiye, a number that drops…

Obseqk – Funereal Pillar [EP]

Artist: Obseqk Country: Canada Label: 7S7W7 Formats: Digial EP Year: 2026 It is highly unlikely that anybody would claim that Olivier B. Emond is a one-sided musician. With his current and past work in acts such as Gotthammer (now Seraphic Castration), Kiloton, Melth, Pénombre,…

Trance Of The Undead – Dawn Of Resurrection [EP]

Artist: Trance Of The Undead Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Now that Cursed Excruciation seems to have entered a somewhat quieter period, the sole musician behind this band has turned his attention…

Malicious Torment – Realms Of The Occult [EP]

Artist: Malicious Torment Country: USA / Greece Label: Ancient Spirit Terror / Spreading The Pest Productions Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Malicious Torment is a relatively new band that sprung out of the minds of KK and…

Execrated – Mortal Crucifixion [EP]

Artist: Execrated Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 When I stumbled upon Occultor a couple of days ago, I also found out that three of them were also in a Death Metal band called Execrated and were…

Krvna Majka – Krvna Majka [EP]

Artist: Krvna Majka Country: USA Label: Prism of Deceit Recordings Formats: Digital Year: 2025 While the roots of the members are unknown, the Slavic band name Krvna Majka, or Blood Mother, may imply a European band is behind this eponymous…

Sathanas / Nunslaughter – Torn Apart [Split 7″ EP]

Artist: Sathanas / Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Considering they both have existed since the 80’s, they have expansive discographies and the sheer number of splits released by both bands, it’s nothing short…

Acheron – Alla Xul [7″EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Acheron Country: USA Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: 7” EP Year: 2025 Acheron and its main member Vincent Crowley really shouldn’t require any introduction, and therefore I will blatantly assume you went straight for the juicy info on this release.…

Blisterous – Grotesque Prosection [EP]

Artist: Blisterous Country: Finland Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Grotesque Prosection’ is the debut EP from a new Finnish band that was released on cassette tape, CD and as a nice…

Purulent Remains – Abhorrent Putrefication [7″ EP]

Artist: Purulent Remains Country: Spain Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Although the band had already released two demo tapes (or cassette EP’s) in 2022 and 2023 and both were featured on the Bringer Of Gore-released ‘Worm-Eaten Corpse’…

Death Yell – Asmodeus’ Disciples [Demo / 7″ EP]

Artist: Death Yell Country: Chile Label: Seven Metal Inches Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Those who thought they were in for a treat, having been presented with a new full-length album (freshly released by Hells Headbangers Records) as well…

Strychnos – Sig Nærmer Døden [7″ EP]

Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Strychnos has always been a band that intrigued me. Admittedly, I wasn’t an instant fan. But over the years I have for sure started to really appreciate…

Strychnos – Uendelig Begravelsesmarch [7″ EP]

Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 This 7” EP is the twin of ‘Sig Nærmer Døden’, the other EP that was simultaneously released by Dark Descent Records. Both EP’s are a natural continuation…

Mortify – Drowned In Muck [7″ EP]

Artist: Mortify Country: Japan Label: Sewer Stench Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 With titles like ‘Grotesque Buzzsaw Defilement’ and ‘Buzzsaw Sickness’ in their back catalogue, you might already have a clue where this is heading. And you are quite…

Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid – Split 7″ EP

Artist: Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid Country: Finland / USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Split 7” EP’s are basically seen in every style of extreme music, but with their roots in Punk and Hardcore it…

Lord Gore – Dark Lords Of The Cyst [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Lord Gore Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 It’s not exactly the first time I’ve said that I’m not really interested in contemporary Grindcore, Death/Grind or related genres, but I do have a soft spot…

Godkiller – The End Of The World [7″ EP]

Artist: Godkiller Country: Monaco Label: Debemur Morti Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Probably prompted because the band’s 1998-released debut album was amongst the first Black Metal albums I’ve heard, Godkiller always remained a special band to me. Surrounded by…

Flesher – Gore On Gore [EP]

Artist: Flesher Country: USA Label: Maggot Stomp Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Tales Of The Grotesque Demise’, Flesher’s debut album from 2023, was a surprisingly good Death Metal album and one of the genre’s…

Summoning Hellgates – Spear Of Conquest [EP]

Artist: Summoning Hellgates Country: Spain Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Spear Of Conquest’ is the debut EP of a Spanish duo that presents itself as Summoning Hellgates. While one of the…

Dismorfia – Slow Disembowelment To Be Defecated Alive [EP]

Artist: Dismorfia Country: Peru Label: Gurgling Gore / Lycanthropic Chants Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 ‘Slow Disembowelment To Be Defecated Alive’ is yet another addition to the rapidly growing discography of Peru’s most active Death/Grind band. Although…

Infernal Presence – Fiery Paths [EP]

Artist: Infernal Presence Country: Germany Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD Year: 2025 Infernal Presence is a new Black Metal band from Germany that were picked right up by Darkness Shall Rise Productions. The duo have…

Blood Curse – Unholy Trinity [EP]

Artist: Blood Curse Country: Unholy Trinity Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Blood Curse is a trio that has been around for about a decade and released a good few of short players as well as a full-length album in 2018 (released through Stormspell…

Speedslut – Ferocity Of Steel [EP]

Artist: Speedslut Country: Denmark Label: Beer Drinkers & Hellraisers Inc. Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although the band’s name might suggest that this is a Speed Metal outfit that should not be taken too seriously, the music on this debut cassette EP is…

Malhkebre – To Those Who Forged Us [7″ EP]

Artist: Malhkebre Country: France Label: Battlesk’rs Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 French Black Metal has always been something that intrigued me. While there’s obviously also been some stuff that was fairly easy to digest like Anorexia Nervosa or the…

Destruktor – Brutal Desecration [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Destruktor Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Like probably everyone else who has been around for a while, my introduction to Destruktor was through their “Brutal Desecration” 7″ EP, released by the sadly defunct Decius…

Hulder – A Beacon From Darkened Skies [EP]

Artist: Hulder Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Hulder started out as a good, yet considerably predictable and rather unoriginal Black Metal band, but over the course of this band’s existence the music progressed and developed tremendously.…

Celestial Call – △ [EP]

Artist: Celestial Call Country: Unknown Label: Mercury Chalice Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Celestial Call is a completely anonymous act with absolutely zero information to work on, not even their origin is known at this point, but it did manage…

Serpere – Exsequiae [EP]

Artist: Serpere Country: Austria Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Somehow Serpere slipped under my radar. A shame, because the involvement of the members in amongst others Kringa, Hagzissa and Weathered Crest certainly would have drawn…

Black Discharge – EP 1 MMXXV

Artist: Black Discharge Country: USA Label: Death’s Radiance Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Under the banner of Death’s Radiance, an obscure label that already brought us such great acts as Firmament and especially Kudlaakh, comes the debut of Black Discharge. Apart…

Spectrum Mortis – Clavis Magica [EP]

Artist: Spectrum Mortis Country: Spain Label: Bloody Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 When, out of the blue, Spectrum Mortis debuted with their ‘Blasphemare Nomen Eius’ 12” EP in 2016, I was pretty impressed with what these Spaniards were able…

Odenwald – Felsenmeer [EP]

Artist: Odenwald Country: Germany Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 With having exactly zero information to work with, I can’t say anything else then that ‘Felsenmeer’ is the debut EP (or demo, if you prefer) from this German…

Gvozdena Nychta – Grimoire Des Sourires [EP]

Artist: Gvozdena Nychta Country: Serbia Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Gvozdena Nychta (“Iron Night” in English) is the new brainchild of Vinka Mrtvaluć, who recently put his previous project Dreg K to rest. The exact reasons for…

Winterstorm – Australes Bosques Misantropicos [EP]

Artist: Winterstorm Country: Ecuador Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 With ‘Australes Bosques Misantropicos’ Winterstorm presents a new EP or single, with two new tracks that are set to whet our appetites. This is not a real EP that…

Nuctemeron – Rape From The Grave [7″ EP]

Artist: Nuctemeron Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 In recent years, German Black/Speed Metal band Nuctemeron has worked hard to build a solid reputation, and it’s almost impossible not to have come across their name somewhere…

Hyperdontia – Dormant Scourge [7″ EP]

Artist: Hyperdontia Country: Denmark Label: Desiccated Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although I followed the Danish Death Metal scene rather religiously when things started booming there around the 2010’s, over the years it brought us an…