Moon Oracle – Guardians Of The Lunar Spheres

Artist: Moon Oracle Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst Formats: CD Year: 2025 With only a few years behind them as a band, the trio that forms Moon Oracle is not only a seasoned company with precious experience in bands such…

Uhritulet – Pedon Ruumis/Liekin Takaa [Demo]

Artist: Uhritulet Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 Blame it on old age, or perhaps I simply prophetised this in my review of the Uhritulet debut album. But the observation that ‘Uhritulet’ didn’t manage to stand out…

Witchcraft – Belphegor [Demo / Re-release]

Arist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 Together with the rehearsal demo ‘Shaitan’, Wolfkult Religion re-released the Witchcraft rehearsal demo ‘Belphegor’ in June 2025. Also stemming from 2024, this rehearsal is a little different than…

Witchcraft – Shaitan [Demo / Re-release]

Arist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 ‘Shaitan’ is one of two rehearsal tapes of the Finnish maniacs of Witchcraft that were recently re-released by Wolfkult Religion. With both rehearsals originally appearing in 2024, this…

Azazel – Ave Dominus Luciferi

Artist: Azazel Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: CD Year: 2025 33 years and still going, Azazel returns with their latest full-length ‘Ave Dominus Luciferi’. Released on, how could it be any differently, the 6th day of the 6th month…

Azzagrat – Kaikuja Kuilusta

Artist: Azzagrat Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Again, completely out of the blue there’s another new Finnish Black Metal band. The duo behind Azzagrat for now remains anonymous, but felt confident enough to go straight for the…

Vrëdehexen – Omen of Evil [Demo]

Artist: Vrëdehexen Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 From Tampere, Finland hails the duo of Vrëdehexen who in April of this year, the band released their debut demo, ‘Omen of Evil’. And even though it clocks in…

Urn – Demon Steel

Artist: Urn Country: Finland Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 One of the bands relentlessly kept in the dark shadows of the Finnish Extreme Metal underground is definitely Urn. A combination of wrong choices,…

Warloghe – Logos of All-that-ends

Artist: Warloghe Country: Finland Label: Northern Heritage Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Despite its release in 2021, the preceding Warloghe album ‘Three Angled Void’ was originally written between 2003 and 2007. Much closer to the recordings of the band’s first…

Combat Shrine – Extermination Initiation [Demo]

Artist: Combat Shrine Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 The all-knowing Metal-Archives filed Combat Shrine under “Grindcore”. Although that is not entirely out of touch with reality, you’re doing this Finnish band short quite a bit. And…

Iätön – Portit Pohjolan

Artist: Iätön Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After two highly enjoyable demos released on Altare Productions and Korpituli Records respectively, it is now time for the debut of Finnish Black Metalers Iätön. For that…

Warmoon Lord – Sacrosanct Demonopathy

Artist: Warmoon Lord Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 While debut album ‘Burning Banners of the Funereal War’ certainly gained some traction in the underground, it was arguably their sophomore record ‘Battlespells’…

Matru-Zebu – Blood Cries with Sorrow [Demo]

Artist: Matru-zebu Country: Finland Label: Ancien Culte Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 Ancien Culte presents the debut demo tape of Matru-Zebu, what appears to be a new band from Finland. Spawned in the illustrious Elemental Cavern in Finland, the entities…

Rotten Moon – Wasteland Polarity

Artist: Rotten Moon Country: Finland Label: Jems Label Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 By no means Finland’s Rotten Moon has ever been a band that was an easy listen or close to a quick Black Metal fix. Instead Antti “Heinous…

The Chamberlain – Draconian Magick

Artist: The Chamberlain Country: Finland Label: Out of the Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Dominus Noctis’ was a pretty decent first release for Finnish Black Metal outfit The Chamberlain, taking their experience in other bands into a symphonic Black Metal…

Norrhem – Aurinko Ja Teräs

Artist: Norrhem Country: Finland Label: Out of the Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 Norrhem’s musical journey has taken them through quite a development, starting from rawer beginnings to a sound that became increasingly more epic in atmosphere. With ‘Aurinko Ja…

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,…

Kêres – Skryer of the Lighthouse

Artist: Kêres Country: Finland Label: Final Agony / Vermines Pestifera Formats: LP Year: 2025 Kêres fans rejoice! One year after the last sign of life, Atvar returns. ‘Skryer of the Lighthouse’ is the latest full-length, featuring ten songs spread over…

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…

Dark Divination – Unforgotten [EP]

Artist: Dark Divination Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 You just gotta love the thrill of finding new acts based on members of bands you like. Despite being formed in 2022, I was unaware of Dark…

Kerzenlicht – Demo I

Artist: Kerzenlicht Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 When Signal Rex teased images of ‘Demo I’ by the new Finnish act Kerzenlicht, I knew to pay attention. Lately, the label has been releasing excellent demos and…

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…

Morbific – Bloom Of The Abnormal Flesh

Artist: Morbific Country: Finland Label: Headsplit Records / Me Saco un Ojo Records / Memento Mori Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 If you happen to be a fan of Morbific you never have to really wait…

Veitsi – Perikato

Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: Breath Of Pestilence Formats: CD Year: 2025 After a good couple of demos, EP’s and a split tape with Geatkihaukr, early this year the Finnish one-man army of Veitsi returns with its first full-length album.…

Void of Hope – Proof of Existence 

Artist: Void of HopeCountry: FinlandLabel: Avantgarde MusicFormats: LP / CDYear: 2025 A band with members of Moonlight Sorcery and Ondfødt, Avantgarde Music sure knows how to grab my attention. Void of Hope is a new entity that was born during a…

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…

Hail Conjurer – Order Of Disgrace

Artist: Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst / Crypt Of The Wizard / Tour De Garde Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Almost simultaneously with the ‘Crude Magick’ double LP, a compilation of the earliest Hail…

Bronze Hall – Honor & Steel

Artist: Bronze Hall Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Introducing a new anonymous one-man army from Finland presenting its own debut album digitally via Bandcamp is not necessarily easy. What is there to say about such a project…

Sigon – Thunder of Iron

Artist: SigonCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-releasedFormats: DigitalYear: 2025 Part two of “Lord Warmoon conquers the world in 2025” is presented in the form of the debut album of Sigon. In this entity, Lord Warmoon, under the pseudonym Magister Salax D’volta in this…

Mutant Sex Demon – Cutting Through

Artist: Mutant Sex DemonCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-releasedFormats: DigitalYear: 2025 2025 has barely started and Lord Warmoon, also featuring in Devil Moon and Kirous and formerly of Morgal, already has two full-length releases under his belt. The first of the two is…

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…

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…

Xulux – Ex Favilla Nos Resurgemus [EP]

Artist: Xulux Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 A few months after the split with Kurjuus, Xulux returns with a new EP and further develops its brand of Finnish Black Metal. The band’s first EP was released…

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…

Barathrum – Überkill

Artist: Barathrum Country: Finland Label: Hammer Of Hate Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 There was a time in history where Barathrum was a band that was only looked down upon. Its primitive and unpolished character was something that…

Satanic Warmaster – Exultation of Cruelty

Artist: Satanic WarmasterCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 No announcements, no preview tracks, nothing: like a bolt from the blue, Werwolf just dropped the newest Satanic Warmaster full-length. Created in total isolation, ‘Exultation of Cruelty’ is meant as a return…

Rotten Moon – Seal Of Decay [Demo]

Artist: Rotten Moon Country: Finland Label: Ancien Culte Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 2022’s ‘The Endless Church’ demo by Finnish one-man Black Metal band intrigued me quite a bit, the Lo-Fi production and the rough-edged guitars matched perfectly with the…

Cursed Penetrator – Demo II 2023 [Re-Release]

Artist: Cursed Penetrator Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Early this year I reviewed Cursed Penetrator’s first digital demo, a solid and entertaining exercise of primal and rotten First Wave Black Metal, pretty much in the vein of early…

Order Of Nosferat – Towards The Nightrealm Of Orlok

Artist: Order Of Nosferat Country: Finland / Germany Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 In good Order Of Nosferat tradition, 2024 also brings us two full-length albums, albeit narrowly. ‘The Absence Of Grace’…

Hail Conjurer – Anti-Dualist Action [Compilation]

Artist: Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst Formats: CD Year: 2024 In between 2021’s ‘Sinister’ and ‘Earth Penetration’, released in 2022, the prolific one-man unit Hail Conjurer released two demo tapes with the titles ‘Anti-Dualist’ and ‘Lunar Action’. Both…

Vitriolic – Black Steel Vengeance

Artist: Vitriolic Country: Finland Label: Dying Victims Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Never judge a book by its cover. This wise statement is always good to keep in mind when browsing through the…