Ruttokosmos – Apoteoosi

Artist: Ruttokosmos Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Ruttokosmos might well be one of the most obscure acts from the deepest forests of the Finnish Black Metal scene. Although never officially disbanded, after only having…

Aethyrick – Death is Absent

Artist: AethyrickCountry: FinlandLabel: End All Life ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 After a collaboration giving rise to four full-length albums, a compilation and two EPs, the union of Aethyrick and The Sinister Flame is no more. As the fire of…

Deimhal – The Diabolical Liberation [EP]

Artist: DeimhalCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Last year we saw the appearance of Deimhal on the symphonic Black Metal stage, launching into the scene with their EP ‘The Grand Gathering’. Featuring multiple members of the band Catamenia, the first…

Horna – Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle

Artist: HornaCountry: FinlandLabel: W.T.C. ProductionsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 At the end of the 18th century, the German romantic poet Novalis (born Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg) finished his poem ‘Hymnen an Die Nacht’. Inspired by the…

Sokeus – Ekpyrosis

Artist: Sokeus Country: Finland Label: Breath Of Pestilence Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With the previous demo ‘Immortal Wisdom’, this Finnish band already showed some fascination for ancient beliefs, philosophy and sages. Those themes are embodied again on ‘Ekpyrosis’,…

Cachot d’Effroi / Wolftower – Split MMXXIV

Artist: Cachot d’Effroi / Wolftower Country: France / Finland Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2024 On this Narbentage Produktionen released split tape two of the most interesting bands out of today’s European Black Metal scene team up…

Concrete Winds – Concrete Winds

Artist: Concrete Winds Country: Finland Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After Vorum was laid to rest in 2018, drummer Mikko Josefsson and guitarist/vocalist Jonatan Johansson must have looked at each other and…

Kerkerengel – …From a Dishonoured Grave

Artist: KerkerengelCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 With Kerkerengel we witness the birth of another band led by Lord Vrăjitor, the mastermind behind the likes of Warmoon Lord, Old Sorcery and Argenthorns. But while epic and symphonic elements form parts…

Taival – Journey to Beyond

Artist: TaivalCountry: FinlandLabel: Wolfspell RecordsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 ‘Journey to Beyond’ is the debut album of Taival, which saw its release in the early months of the year courtesy of the respected Wolfspell Records. The album is adorned…

Absolute Key & Hail Conjurer – Trident Vision Live

Artist: Absolute Key & Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 It is not the first time that the creative Finnish Black Metal extraordinaire Hail Conjurer and the mind-boggling dark noise metal scoundscapist Absolute Key join…

Torturium – Chamber

Artist: Torturium Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 The first half of the 00’s were definitely Arttu “War Torech” Pulkkinen’s most prolific years, not only did he record the guitars on an impressive part of Satanic Warmaster’s back…

Demonic Torment – Blood Lust [Demo]

Artist: Demonic TormentCountry: FinlandLabel: Unpure RecordsFormat: Demo tapeYear: 2024 After playing together in Krusifoitu, Human Animal, Arcanos (here under the pseudonym of Black Nuclear Hellstorm) and Vomit Deprivator thought it was time to combine their powers in a different vessel…

Clactonian – Dea Madre [Demo]

Artist: Clactonian Country: Finland / Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Forged out of the dark visions of a few like-minded folks from both Finland and Italy comes Clactonian. A band that took their name from an old…

Moonstruck – Kingdom of the Dark Majesty [Demo]

Artist: MoonstruckCountry: FinlandLabel: Signal RexFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2024 As if delivering one of the best Finnish Black Metal records of 2024 wasn’t enough, Kratti vocalist Haarniska returns once more in the entity Moonstruck. A different band in which the stage…

Elemental – Nightburn

Artist: ElementalCountry: FinlandLabel: Final Agony RecordsFormats: 12″ LPYear: 2024 If you though that Kêres plays bareboned and primitive Black Metal, let me introduce Elemental to you. Atvar, the main man behind not only Kêres but also Circle of Ouroborus, Rahu…

Alkemisti – Ajan Ja Tilan Rajamailla [Demo]

Artist: Alkemisti Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 ‘Ajan Ja Tilan Rajamailla’ is the debut recording for a this new Finnish Black Metal band. Loosely translated, the title in Finnish means something like “At The Frontiers Of…

Nightside – Death from the North

Artist: NightsideCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Last year Nightside returned with the demo ‘Lions’, their first release in 22 years. A glorious return, as the Finnish Black Metal outfit combined an excellent sense of fast-paced Swedish…

Iätön – Korpimaille [Demo]

Artist: IätönCountry: FinlandLabel: Korpituli ProductionsFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2024 Following the release of their first demo ‘Loitsutulet’ I lauded the Finns in Iätön for delivering harsh and haunting Black Metal in the vein of Barathrum and Korgonthurus mixed with a dash of…

Witchflame – Omen

Artist: Witchflame Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: CD Year: 2023 Being released on the 12th of December of 2023, ‘Omen’, the debut album of Finnish Black Metal band Witchflame is not quite the latest of releases from the Werewolf…

Night Shall Drape Us – Lunatic Choir

Artist: Night Shall Drape UsCountry: FinlandLabel: Season of Mist Underground ActivistsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Night Shall Drape Us certainly managed to garner some interest as soon as the project was announced. Combining artists known for their work in Horna,…

Draugnim – Verum Malum

Artist: Draugnim Country: Finland Label: Naturmacht Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 It was a long wait. Draugnim needed no less than eight years to come up with this fourth full-length album and follow-up of the…

Xulux / Kurjuus – Split

Artist: Xulux / Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Split Cassette Tape / Split CD Year: 2024 Not only do both bands on this split hail from the same Finnish town of Jyväskylä, they are also both one-man bands venturing…

Regere Sinister – Inside The Eye Of Horned Winds

Artist: Regere Sinister Country: Finland Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Regere Sinister, a band comprised of a duo who are also together in Ride For Revenge and Horse Latitudes and further have experience in such bands…

Bythos – Chthonic Gates Unveiled

Artist: BythosCountry: FinlandLabel: Terratur PossessionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 The debut album of Bythos stood out for several reasons. For one, the seasoned veterans from the Finnish Black Metal scene that comprise the act had chosen a sound far away…

Kratti – Matka Kohti Kosmista

Artist: KrattiCountry: FinlandLabel: Signal RexFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 After releasing one of the best demos of 2023, the Finns in Kratti will return with their first full-length of the band’s carreer. To be released by Signal…

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…

Order Of Nosferat – The Absence Of Grace

Artist: Order Of Nosferat Country: Finland / Germany Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 As enchanting and confusing the shapeshifting entity of a vampire can be, the same can be said about this…

Kalmankantaja / Somber Winds – Split CD

Artist: Kalmankantaja / Somber WindsCountry: FinlandLabel: Misantropia RecordsFormats: Split CDYear: 2024 Shortly after the release of reimagined tracks from the 2014-2016 period, Kalmankantaja returns to the release front with the first new material of 2024 (although technically it was already…

Korpituli – Pohjola

Artist: Korpituli Country: Finland Label: Korpituli Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 ‘Pohjola’ is the third full-length album for the Finnish Black Metal band Korpituli, but honestly, if you have heard the bands previously released material,…

Kalmankantaja – Varjosielu

Artist: KalmankantajaCountry: FinlandLabel: Wolfspell RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 It has taken a couple of months, but with the release of ‘Varjosielu’ the first recording of Kalmankantaja of 2024 is finally here. This time around we aren’t presented with a new album,…

Vuosisata – Kuilu [Demo]

Artist: Vuosista Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 ‘Kuilu’ might seem the first ever release for this Finnish Atmospheric Black Metal band, it is actually its second outing. Before switching to the name of ‘Vuosisasta’ the band…

Uhripuu – J​ä​ä​stä Revitty Maa [Demo]

Artist; UhripuuCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital demoYear: 2024 For the ancient inhabitants of Western and Eastern Finland, the Uhripuu was a sacrificial tree where they made sacrifices to either their ancestors or the earth elves and gods who maintain the vitality of…

Kêres – Eidolon Abraxas

Artist: KêresCountry: FinlandLabel: His WoundsFormats: LP / DigitalYear: 2024 Just a few months after the simultaneous release of a new Kêres EP and full-length we find ourselves with yet another album. This time presented under the banner of His Wounds,…

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…

White Death – Iconoclasm

Artist: White DeathCountry: Finland / UruguayLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2023 When White Death released their eponymous debut album in 2017, the collective consisting of renowned musicians from the Finnish Black Metal scene had already shown to take their time to…

Witchcraft – Bestial Vociferation [Compilation]

Artist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2023 In the wake of bands like Blasphemy, Beherit, early Impaled Nazarene, Archgoat, Profanatica and the likes came a quite a loyal following of both fans and bands…

Ignis Mortis – Hæresis Maleficarum [EP]

Artist: Ignis MortisCountry: FinlandLabel: Hammer of Hate RecordsFormats: MCDYear: 2024 The origins of Ignis Mortis lie in Evil Might, a Helsinki based band formed in 2019. While it is unclear what the current status of the band is, the departure…

Warorath – Verikirous

Artist: Warorath Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 After having been formed in 2019, it took this Finnish Black Metal band a few years to come up with their first recordings. Yet, in 2023 the band came out…

Malicious – Merciless Storm [EP]

Artist: Malicious Country: Finland Label: Invictus Productions Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2023 Invictus Productions always had a nose for some top notch bands operating on that wavery tipping point between Black Metal and Death Metal. In the past they have…

Kirous – VII [Demo]

Artist: Kirous Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2023 Literally on the very edge of 2023, on December 30th, hard working Finnish one-man force Kirous releases yet another short but sweet digital demo. Like the title already suggests,…

Wolftower – Throne Of Nightfall’s Wrath

Artist: Wolftower Country: Finland Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2023 In the very waning weeks of 2023 Finland’s Wolftower treats us with yet another new release, the twelfth in total but after a lot of…

Hail Conjurer – Satanic Phenomenology

Artist: Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 One of the most intriguing Finnish Black Metal bands definitely is Hail Conjurer, the band’s otherworldly take on Black Metal has already resulted in a…

Wolftower – The Unholy Embrace Of Vampire [EP]

Artist: Wolftower Country: Finland Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 Ever since the early 20’s Finnish one-man band Wolftower have been firing away one release after the other, yet none of them ever featured on these pages. Strange…