Hemdale – Can You Smell The Stench??? [Compilation]

Artist: Hemdale Country: USA Label: F.O.A.D. Records / Mierdas Production Formats: LP Year: 2025 Aaargh, Hemdale. Where to start? This is definitely one of the finest examples of a versatile and extremely powerful Grindcore band from the second wave that’s…

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…

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…

Mephitic Corpse – Sickness Attracts Sickness

Artist: Mephitic Corpse Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records / 625 Thrash! Formats: Vinyl / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With the band’s debut, the ‘Immense Thickening Vomit’ demo tape from 2019, Mephitic Corpse managed to…

Caustic Phlegm – Purulent Apocalypse

Artist: Caustic Phlegm Country: United Kingdom Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Without any question, Caustic Phlegm’s 2022 debut demo was definitely one of the highlights of that year. Consequently, the three-song ‘Putrefying Flesh’ ended…

Naked Whipper – Chapel Defilement

Artist: Naked Whipper Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With the reissue of Naked Whipper’s cult back catalogue and its (unexpected) return on stage, appearing on the Never Surrender festival, it should come as…

Jehovah Lashing – Pulped Deity

Artist: Jehovah Lashing Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 With only 18 minutes, Jehovah Lashing’s debut album from 2023 was a rather short affair. However with 16 tracks and plenty of sonic violence, there was a lot…

Jehovah Lashing – Jehovah Lashing [Re-Release]

Artist: Jehovah Lashing Country: USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Originally released in 2023, the self-titled debut album by Jehovah Lashing first only had a digital version available, yet since a few days, more or less around…

Gotthammer – Nuclear Conquest [Compilation]

Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: CDYear: 2024 ‘Nuclear Conquest’ is the tale of Turbo Sodomizer, Hammer Commander and Sonic Reducer, who together as Gotthammer have set out to turn the world to ash with their downtuned savagery. This compilation is a…

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…

Gotthammer – Ancient Nature [EP]

Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Anti-Human Productions / WolfKult ReligionFormats: 7” EP / Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2024 The godslaying sonic barbarians of Gotthammer return to the stage with their first EP, following a couple of demos and a split with…

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…

Primitive Warfare – Extinction Protocol

Artist: Primitive Warfare Country: USA Label: Godz Ov War Productions / Stygian Black Hand Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a demo and two splits (with Complot! and Bog Body) the duo that is behind Primitive Warfare thought it…

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…

Dismorfia – Eclosion Repugnante [Demo]

Artist: Dismorfia Country: Peru Label: Gurgling Gore Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although I must say that the times in which I fully immersed myself in the grimey world of Grindcore are half a lifetime behind me, I can still…

Corpus Offal – Demo 2024

Artist: Corpus Offal Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Corpus Offal might be a new band at the Death Metal firmament, but its bandmembers for sure are no stranger to Extreme Metal in general and…

Dripping Decay – Ripping Remains [EP]

Artist: Dripping Decay Country: USA Label: Satanik Royalty Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Dripping Decay’s ‘Watching You Rot’-demo from 2021 was received well by fans who like their Death Metal dirty and old school, it had…

Dripping Decay – Festering Grotesqueries

Artist: Dripping Decay Country: USA Label: Satanik Royalty Records / Old Shadows Records Formats: LP / Cassette / CD Year: 2023 Those who are lurking deep enough in the Death Metal scene might already picked up the name of this…

Bloody Run – The Revenge [EP]

Artist: Bloody Run Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 Earlier this year the trio that is Bloody Run, hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, presented their third release. ‘The Revenge’ is an (extremely) short affair, clocking in at…

Dismorfia – Immortal Echoes From The Unknown [EP]

Artist: Dismorfia Country: Peru Label: Gurgling Gore Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 Barbarity from Peru, that’s not exactly new of course. It may not be the purveyor of extreme metal from South American countries, but the country has certainly made…

Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite

Artist: Cattle Decapitation Country: Terrasite Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Apart from maybe the very first outings (of which some were reissues on 2018’s ‘Medium Rarities’ compilation), Cattle Decapitation were never much of your regular…

Galvanizer / Morbific – Split Tape

Artist: Galvanizer / MorbificCountry: FinlandLabel: Iron CorpseFormats: Split cassette tapeYear: 2023 To add some lustre to their joint tour, these Finnish bands are releasing a split tape where, in a pretty pink and yellow cover, they want to show off…

Raw Vomit – Reh’23 [Demo]

Artist: Raw Vomit Country: Portugal Label: Enfermo Distro Formats: Demo  Tape Year: 2023 From the deepest pits and sewers from Portugal comes Raw Vomit, a band that has absolutely no sense for subtlety or melody. In fact, the soul or…

Misery Index – Complete Control

Artist: Misery Index Country: USA Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 It is no secret that Misery Index has named themselves after a track of the 1997 released album of one of the best Grindcore bands from…

Mortify – Buzzsaw Sickness [EP]

Artist: Mortify Country: Japan Label: Obliteration Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2022 The year 2022 saw Mortify’s ‘Grotesque Buzzsaw Defilement’ EP being reissued on various formats, but it was also the year that this (very) short new EP saw the…

Mortify – Grotesque Buzzsaw Defilement [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Mortify Country: Japan Label: Headsplit Records / Horror Pain Gore Death Productions / Obliteration Records / Psychocontrol Records / Red Truth Production / Septic Aroma Of Reeking Stench Formats: CD EP Year: 2022 Mortify’s ‘Grotesque Buzzsaw Defilement’, originally released…

Defy The Curse – Horrors Of Human Sacrifice

Artist: Defy The CurseCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Hammerheart RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2023 This Dutch band, Defy The Curse, is a new collective formed by a couple of scene veterans. With ‘Horrors Of Human Sacrifice’, released on all…

Sonic Poison – Eruption

Artist: Sonic Poison Country: Finland Label: Caligari Records / Me Saco un Ojo Records / Pulverised Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 When can argue that life is a bitch, life can be difficult, a struggle…

Lividity – Rejoice In Morbidity [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Lividity Country: USA Label: Grinder Cirujano Records / Sindrome Productions Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2022 ‘Rejoice In Morbidity’ was Lividity’s first EP, originally released on cassette tape back in 1996 on the short-lived Immortal Records (which,…

Festerdecay – Reality Rotten To The Core

Artist: FesterdecayCountry: JapanLabel: Everlasting Spew RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2023 The infamous ‘Gods Of Grind’ tour in 1992, featuring Confessor, Cathedral, Entombed and Carcass, turned out to be an event of great prophetic value. Not so much…

Lunatic Devote – Demonstration Of Lunatic Rituals [Demo]

Artist: Lunatic Devote Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2023 This Chicago, Illinois, USA based Death Metal outfit Lunatic Devote is presenting its first digital demo in the form of ‘Demonstration Of Lunatic Rituals’. Though it is very…

Masticated Cadaver – Necrotic Mutation [Demo]

Artist: Masticated Cadaver Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2023 When going through the preparation for the review for this first demo of Canadian based Death Metal act Masticated Cadaver I learned a few things. First of all…

Slug Gore – Extraterrestrial Gastropod Mollusc [EP]

Artist: Slug Gore Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape/ CD Demo Year: 2023 The slug-themed EP/demo ‘Extraterrestrial Gastropod Mollusc’ of Italian based Death Metal/Grindcore combo Slug Gore, is the band’s first outing. And apparently, with all their sluggishness, they…

Dehiscence – Colony [EP]

Artist: DehiscenceCountry: USALabel: Chaos Records / Pale Magus Productions / Seed of DoomFormats: Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2023 Dehiscence is a new band comprised of musicians who prefer to be left anonymous, but, if certain sources are to be…

Abraded – Unadulterated Perversity

Artist: AbradedCountry: USALabel: Aggressively Uninterested Formats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2023 American Death Metal/Grindcore combo Abraded returns with a new full-length album, after their eponymous debut from 2021. A debut that to me was a very welcome and refreshing listen,…

Fleshgrind – Destined For Defilement [Reissue]

Artist: Fleshgrind Country: USA Label: Burning Dogma Records / Corpse Gristle Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2022 After the release of the demos compilation CD and cassette tape, both Burning Dogma Records and Corpse Gristle Records teamed up…

Fleshgrind – Demo Days [Compilation]

Artist: Fleshgrind Country: USA Label: Burning Dogma Records / Corpse Gristle Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2021 Before Fleshgrind became an established name in the Death Metal/Grindcore scene, the band released two demo tapes, ‘Holy Pedophile’ (1993) and…

Impetigo – Giallo [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Impetigo Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP / CD EP Year: 2021 ‘Giallo’ is basically where it all started. Although ‘Giallo’ is not the first Impetigo recording, it was preceded by the 1987 release ‘All We Need…

Pharmacist – Carnal Pollution [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Pharmacist Country: Japan Label: Bizarre Leprous Production / Black Hole Productions / Grindfather Productions / Gurgling Gore / Sevared Records Formats: 10″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2022 Over the past two plus decades I have…

Blood / Incantation – Split 7″ EP

Artist: Blood / IncantationCountry: Germany / USALabel: Hells Headbangers RecordsFormats: Split 7″ EPYear: 2022 This is the sort of split EP that you knew was coming, I can imagine the chuckle the label and bands had when working out the…