Necromoon – Obedience [EP]

Artist: Necromoon Country: Poland Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Following on from the recently released ‘War With Tyranny’ album, Canadian Anti-Human Productions not only releases a split tape with Tarokulith but also this new EP. Six new…

Rotten Tomb – Necropolis [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Rather shortly after the release of Rotten Tomb’s most recent full-length, the excellent ‘The Relief Of Death’, there is more to enjoy in…

Sequestrum / Sněť – Split EP

Artist: Sequestrum / Sněť Country: Denmark / Czechia Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Noxious Ruin Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Arriving late to a party might be fashionable, it has its downsides too. Like arriving late to the party that the…

Acid Mass – Upon The Knife [EP]

Artist: Acid Mass Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Yes, I have said it before and I will probably mention it again in the future: the advantage of having a one-man band is that you can crank…

Deteriorot / Rotpit – We Rot [Split 7″ EP]

Artist: Deteriorot / Rotpit Country: USA / Germany/Sweden Label: Seven Inches Of Metal Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 With the aptly titled ‘We Rot’ Seven Metal Inches Records presents a new 7” that brings together the long-running Deteriorot…

Slovgh – Emetic Fluid Transaction [EP]

Artist: Slvogh Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 From the ever thriving Danish Death Metal/Grindcore scene comes this new entity called Slovgh. A band that was more or less conceived out of…

Opositor – Opositor [EP]

Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Down With The Most High Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Prior this new EP Opositor already released about a handful of releases, including a full-length album, all varying greatly in sound quality, but if one…

Impiety – Despondent Ecstacies [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Impiety Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 While the Singaporean Impiety by far is more well-known than this one from the USA, their musical background is not all that different. Okay,…

Penis – Nuclear Fukk [EP]

Artist: Penis Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This is the day we have all been waiting for. The day that there would finally be a band that would call themselves Penis. Hallelujah! Well, okay, the band…

Smyrtonos – Cast Into Outer Darkness [EP]

Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of this project’s debut full-length, not even released a month ago, the ever restless Todorac returns with a new Smyrtonos recording. This time a new…

Ophidian – Descent Into The Labyrinth [EP]

Artist: Ophidian Country: Greece Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Like many others, I have an unquenchable thirst for Greek Black Metal, so not only the obvious bands of the past, but certainly also the newer acts…

Siegehammer – Spectral Entities [EP]

Artist: Siegehammer Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Only formed last year, this Spanish Death Metal band had already released a demo tape in the waning days of December 2023 and now arrived to its second release:…

Kiloton – C4H8Cl2S [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With this fourth EP in a short series of short-players released by the ever-restless and prolific T.S., a Canadian musician who has been torturing our senses with several other…

Kiloton – Heart [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 ‘Heart’ is the third Kiloton EP that was released in a series of four that further expands the audial onslaught that was set in with last year’s trio of…

Kiloton – Gears [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Because ‘Gears’ is the second Kiloton EP in an impressively short time, I would almost suggest to read the review of the first EP ‘War’ too to at least…

Kiloton – War [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With no less than four EP’s in about two months, one-man force Kiloton, hailing from the Quebec-region of Canada, is following up its death march as started back in…

Nocturnal Deviancy – Eternity’s Cold Embrace [EP]

Artist: Nocturnal Deviancy Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 Together with a digital split with Chasmic Filth that appeared just a month prior this Dark Adversary Productions released EP, these are the first recordings from…

Vömitt – Impale The Sultan [EP]

Artist: Vömitt Country: Romania Label: Self-Releasaed Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Sometimes not much words are needed to get to the core of something. This new EP from Romanian Vömitt for instance, the band name, logo and EP title do…

Hate Forest – Justice [EP]

Artist: Hate Forest Country: Ukraine Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 As a youngster getting into Black Metal around the turn of the millennium I was extremely impressed by Hate Forest’s debut album, ‘The Most…

Ancient Guard – Nightfall Enthroned [EP]

Artist: Ancient Guard Country: Australia Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 While ‘Nightfall Enthroned’ might be the debut EP by a new band, the sole member behind Ancient Guard is everything but a rookie.…

Profanation – Skull Crushing Violence [EP]

Artist: Profanation Country: France Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Profanation is a band that sprung from the minds of a number of French musicians who had previously earned their stripes in bands such…

Necrogore – Ancestral Abhorrence [EP]

Artist: Necrogore Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Last year I stumbled upon Italy’s Necrogore, a band that isn’t offering anybody a life-changing experience. On the contrary, Necrogore is playing it quite safe with their mixture of…

Black Cilice – Atavistic Possessions [EP]

Artist: Black Cilice Country: Portugal Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Founded back somewhere at the end of the 00’s, Black Cilice’s rise to fame (for Black Metal standard at least) came after the…

Nachtheem – Nacht, Zij met Ons… [EP]

Artist: NachtheemCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Nachtheem is a mysterious new entity hailing from The Netherlands that released their debut EP ‘Nacht, Zij met Ons…’ at the dawn of 2024. While that release initially passed me by unnoticed,…

Purulency – Transcendent Unveiling Of Dimensions [EP]

Artist: Purulency Country: USA Label: Caligari Records / Pulverised Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 ‘Transcendent Unveiling Of Dimensions’ is the first feat of the Kingsport, Tennessee, USA-based Death Metal that was founded back…

Svrm – Прощання [EP]

Artist: Svrm Country: Ukraine Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Almost immediately after the band’s conception back in the early 00’s Drudkh has gained a big following. Not only in people who found something new in the sort of…

Viscous – Morbid Arousal [7″ EP]

Artist: Viscous Country: Canada Label: Godz Ov War Productions / Anti-Human Productions / Unpure Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 In April last year we already got a small taste of what was to…

Last Retch – Ergotism [EP]

Artist: Last Retch Country: Canada Label: CDN Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 After having released an outstanding demo and an equally great debut album in 2021 and 2022 respectively, the Canadian Death Metal band Last Retch treats us with…

Ondfødt – Oldfodt [EP]

Artist: Ondfødt Country: Finland Label: Black Lion Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 With all due respect to both band and label, sometimes the logic eludes me a bit of what gets thrown on the market. One…

Arzhaabat – The Glory Of Wogastisburg [EP]

Artist: Arzhaabat Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 After a demo tape, a single released on cassette and a full-length album, the prolific MBN returns with another Arzhaabat recording. This time an almost 24-minute EP that fits, at…

Therianthropophagus – Damnatio Ad Bestias [EP]

Artist: Therianthropophagus Country: Canada Label: Serpents Head Reprisal Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 This new Black/Death Metal band from Canada debuts with an EP that clocks just under 20 minutes, but musically leaves very little to the imagination. In the right Canadian…

Adversaire – Adversaire [EP]

Artist: Adversaire Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This new 20-minute EP follows quickly after the release of this Canadian’s previous ‘Froid’-EP. With less than two weeks between them, I assume that all tracks on both releases were written and recorded…

Daedric Chamber – Nekromantik [EP]

Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Daedric Chamber’s ‘Black Marsh Eternal’, the band’s fourth full-length album, felt like a prime example of the ‘new generation’ of contemporary (American) Black Metal. It portrayed the band,…

Amorphous Dominion – A Blaze In The Eastern Sky [EP]

Artist: Amorphous Dominion Country: Thailand Label: Self-released Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 After having released a debut demo tape in 2022, the Thai Black Metal band Amorphous Dominion returns with its follow-up in the form of this self-released EP. That…

Drakorathos – Ode To The Majesty Of The Nightside [EP]

Artist: Drakorathos Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 The number of Romanian Black Metal bands is rather sparse, although most people don’t get much further than the (magnificent!) Negură Bunget we haven’t had a whole lot more…

Drape – The Choir Above And The Symphony Below [EP]

Artist: Drape Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Only a couple of days after Drape’s debut demo ‘Under The Majestic Black Mist’ the American one-man act returns with its follow-up; the twenty minute clocking and the evocatively…

Coffins / Gravavgrav – Tribute To Grave [Split EP]

Artist: Coffins / Gravavgrav Country: Japan Label: Lycanthropic Chants Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 For the revered Japenese Death Metal band Coffins is this split 7” EP the latest chapter in a long tradition of splitting EP’s, this time…

Front Beast – Passage To The Centuries Of Old [EP]

Artist: Front Beast Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 Anyone who has been following the underground Black Metal scene in the last quarter of a century must at least once have stumbled upon Germany’s Front Beast,…

Ectospire – Afterlife Brutality [EP]

Artist: Ectospire Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Almost exactly a year ago I came across Ectospire’s debut demo, a tape that stuck with me a for a while because of a vital mix of both European…

Black Hurst – Blinding Pitch Of Victory [EP]

Artist: Black Hurst Country: USA Label: Ixiol Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 In my review of the band’s 2023 demo tape I compared Black Hurst mainly with the occult sort of Black Metal of the likes of Varathron and…

Puteraeon – Quindecennial Horror [EP]

Artist: Puteraeon Country: Sweden Label: Emanzipation Records Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Personally I have always categorized Puteraeon as one of the more interesting Swedish Death Metal bands that do no belong to the classics from the early 90’s. Don’t ask…

Viharukous – Viimeisiä Houreita [EP]

Artist: Viharukous Country: Finland Label: Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 After four demos, recorded in the timeframe between 2018 and 2021, this Finnish duo finally breaks a rather long silence with this latest offering, a 4-track EP (including…

Övervåld – V​å​ldsbejakande Extremism [EP]

Artist: Övervåld Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 I am sure you recognize it. Sometimes it feels inevitable to use Google Translate to clear something, but when you see the outcome, it makes so much sense that you…