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…

Blight Psalm – Veneration Of Filthbone Grace [EP]

Artist: Blight Psalm Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Blight Psalm seems to be the result of the involved musicians’ desire to do something different from Death Metal-oriented music. These Spaniards are also active in bands…

Gam – Valravnen [EP]

Artist: Gam Country: Denmark Label: Résilience Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 After Gam’s amazing 2022 ‘Hvisken Fra Skyggernes Vrå’-demo and the following full-length album, ‘Alt Hans Væsen’, from 2023, that for me came out of left field, I was eagerly awaiting some new sign of…

Mystic Blood – Mystic Blood [EP]

Artist: Mystic Blood Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 Dark Divinator and Haarniska seem overflowing with ideas. Mystic Blood is their latest cooperation, after also featuring together in the excellent Kerzenlicht alongside their other…

Abominablood – Subterranean Prophecy [EP]

Artist: Abominablood Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 With quite an extensive discography, existing out of several demos, EP’s, split releases and three full-length albums, Argentinian Abominablood has increasingly perfected its take on the Black/Death Metal genre.…

Efermus – Reino De Todos Os Monstros [EP]

Artist: Efermus Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Format: CDR EP Year: 2025 With a considerable output over the past four-and-a-bit years, it might not be surprising that Portuguese Efermus was featured on these pages before. In fact, the last year,…

Grand Bewitchment – Sigils Of Steel [EP]

Artist: Grand Bewitchment Country: USA Label: Damnation’s Edge Productions Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 After having put out a demo tape and a split tape in 2021 and 2023 respectively, both released through the band’s own Damnation’s…

Drowning The Light – Viscera Of The Gods [EP]

Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 After the monumental achievement of releasing no less than five full-length albums at once, Azghor again found some spare time to record a new EP, entitled ‘Viscera Of The…

Sewer Haul – Torso Mangled Beyond Repair [EP]

Artist: Sewer Haul Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 After the release of Slovgh’s ‘Emetic Fluid Transaction’-EP on cassette, released in the summer of 2024, both the band and their label thought it would be…

Auriel’s Bow – Tamrielic Surrealism [EP]

Artist: Auriel’s Bow Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Not something I like to admit, but when I started the reviewing in the first years of the 00’s I used to be the youngest in every crew, now I am…

Mania / Natürgeist – Split 7″ EP

Artist:Mania / Natürgeist Country: USA Label: Electric Assault Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Honestly, I was never impressed by any of Mania’s previous output and Natürgeist’s sole demo, also reissued on a 7” EP, was more hype than anything else. Without wanting…

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…

Abhorrent Execration – Atavistic Voracity [EP]

Artist: Abhorrent Execration Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 After two demos and an EP, the French duo that is Abhorrent Execration returns with yet another EP that, for now, is only digitally available through the band’s…

Sanguine Relic / Gates of Dawn – Split 7″ EP

Artist: Sanguine Relic / Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 This little piece of vinyl brings together two of the USA’s most popular Raw Black Metal bands, with Sanguine Relic being an…

Empalamento – Ordem Da Estaca [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Empalamento Country: Portugal Label: Self-released / Haloran Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 / 2025 Even though I consider myself rather well-versed in the underground Extreme Metal scene, I sometimes tend to miss out on rather…

Desekryptor – Sarcophagal Corridors [EP]

Artist: Desekryptor Country: USA Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 After Nuclear Winter Records’ reissue of Desekryptor’s ‘Curse Of The Execrated’ EP, both band and label decided to further strengthen their partnership with the…

Bestial Possession – Metal Chakal [EP]

Artist: Bestial Possession Country: Peru Label: Aberration Records / Black Legion Records / Tyrants Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Although Bestial Possession has been around for quite a few years, over two decades…

Tyrannosatan – Babylons Skräck [EP]

Artist: Tyrannosatan Country: Sweden Label: Jawbreaker Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Admittedly, I too initially ignored this band because of the somewhat cheesy band name. Tyrannosatan is not the most attractive name, and the album did not come with…

Armory – Black Star [7″ EP]

Artist: Armory Country: Sweden Label: Dying Victims Productions / Jawbreaker Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 ‘Mercurion’, Armory’s last full-length album, dated back to 2022, so it’s no luxury that we get a new sign of life from these Swedish…

Nithe – Funeral Death [EP]

Artist: Nithe Country: Norway Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 After a digitally released demo in 2021 the Norwegian Black/Death Metal band released a very strong EP in the form of ‘Night Of The Ghoul’, of which I…

Imprecation – Vomitum Tempestas [EP]

Artist: Imprecation Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In my recent musings on Teitanblood’s latest album, I already addressed the fact that there are levels in everything. There might be hundreds…

Thlipsis (Θλίψις) – Servants Of Apathy [EP]

Artist: Thlipsis (Θλίψις) Country: Greece Label: Fucking Your Creation Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 Θλίψις’s previous outing, ‘Dawn Of Defiance’, from 2023 was quite an interesting record that combined some classic Black Metal with the more typical Greek Black…

Daedric Chamber – Aurbis Unending [EP]

Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Over the past few years, I have learned a thing or two about video games that I have never even seen in my entire life. There is a…

Chaos Insignia – Mechatronic Carnation [EP]

Artist: Chaos Insignia Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Probably prompted by the current popularity of the virtuous Antichrist Siege Machine, who have a song titled Chaos Insignia, these Romanians enter the field of chaotic Black/Death Metal…

Haemorrhage – Opera Medica [EP]

Artist: Haemorrhage Country: Spain Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Haemorrhage’s roots go as deep as to 1990 and have ever since been a band that’s been amongst the leading acts when it comes…

Septicflesh – Amphibians [EP]

Artist: Septicflesh Country: Greece Label: Nuclear Blast Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2025 In the running up to Septicflesh’s new album, that should appear somewhere in the next couple of months, the Greek masters of bombastic metal presents us with an…

Trench Foot – Cavernous Necrophagy [EP]

Artist: Trench Foot Country: United Kingdom Label: Cavernous Records / Iron Fortress Records / Macho Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 It hasn’t been since 2022, with the release of the ‘Moral Obscenity’ EP since we last…

Profanatica – Wreathed In Dead Angels [EP]

Artist: Profanatica Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Phrases like “band X requires no further introduction” are used all the time. In most cases that is highly debatable, at least in terms…

Galgeberg – Cerberus [EP]

Artist: Galgeberg Country: Norway Label: Aftermath Music / Our Ancient Future Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 To start off with a confession, I always approach this sort of bands with extreme precaution and an unhealthy dose of scepticism. New…