Dark Fog Eruption – Decline [Demo]

Artist: Dark Fog Eruption Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Dark Fog Eruption started sometime in the late 2010s and has been around for a while now, yet I haven’t really paid much attention to them. And…

Veitsi – Kalevanpoika Herää! [Demo]

Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As a fan of Veitsi’s take on the Black Metal genre, I never have to wait too long before there’s new material to wrap my ears around. ‘Fenno-Ugrilainen Yliherruus’, the band’s last…

Krucifixion Woods – Krucifixion Woods

Artist: Krucifixion Woods Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 While Veitsi has enough punk vibes going on, I think Krucifixion Woods, one of the other bands of M.K., has a way stronger punk connotation. Honestly,…

Hatenoir – Blasphemy Of The Souls

Artist: Hatenoir Country: Unknown Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 In the fall of 2025 Hatenoir debuted with ‘Candles Hold The Dark Light’, a demo that was released by Blackreach Productions on the most inferior format ever: a…

Oblivion – Sheol [Demo]

Artist: Oblivion Country: Chile Label: Fehexenheit Prod. Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As more or less my standard procedure when stumbling upon a label that I had never heard before: checking what else is or was going on. A couple…

Sataras Belzebulba – Demo

Artist: Sataras Belzebulba Country: Czechia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 You should do yourselves a favour and check out this band’s pictures before reading further or listening to this demo. Of course I am not sure whether we’re…

Ërhatiüurä – Vergletscherung [Demo]

Artist: Ërhatiüurä Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 When I ordered and reviewed the first demo tape of Ërhatiüurä there was little to no information available about this then-new project. Not that there is heaps of that…

Sonnenpfähler – Sonnenpfähler [Demo]

Artist: Sonnenpfähler Country: USA Label: Annulet Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 On the very first day of this year Sonnenpfähler digitally released its debut demo through the Annulet label/circle of which this one-woman project is an active participant of. And, fairly, not just…

Nosferatu – Satana In Fabula [Demo]

Artist: Nosferatu Country: Brazil Label: Hammer Of Damnation Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 The legendary figure of Nosferatu has been an inspiration for metal bands since the very start of the genre, it didn’t take long before bands started picking…

Kūka’ilimoku – Creation Chant

Artist: Kūkāʻilimoku Country: USA Label: Goatowarex Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 With two releases in 2023 and one in both 2024 and 2025, it is clear that Kūka’ilimoku is slowing down a bit after a rather prolific start…

Haavrun – Ensigns Of Evil [Demo]

Artist: Haavrun Country: Bulgaria Label: Hellvetic Carnage Productions Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 With Todorac you are always in for a surprise. One day he starts a project, the other day he disbands it again, or changes its name. Same…

Katalepsie – Initial Spasm [Demo]

Artist: Katalepsie Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 In today’s conversations about Lo-Fi Black Metal we usually refer to bands like Sanguine Relic, Mons Veneris, Black Cilice, Orgy Of Carion and the likes. Some 20 years ago…

Geatkihaukr – Varjaeger

Artist: Geatkihaukr Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 Although the band already released two demo tapes and a 7” EP through Out Of The Dungeon in 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively, I only ran into…

Repúdio – Silhouette Of Reins [Demo]

Artist: Repúdio Country: Portugal Label: Rasga Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the previously released demo tape and full-length album were both released through the revered Altare Productions label. This freshly released demo tape is was published under the supervision…

Eternal Ice – Demo 2025

Artist: Eternal Ice Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With six splits and short players in 2025, it is safe to say that this Japanese duo is not lacking enthusiasm and inspiration. Founded in 2024 the band released one demo tape in…

Zkywbrezdreb – Uatrevyktuor [Demo]

Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Let’s start off with saying that nothing the musician behind Zkywbrezdreb ever did was even slightly middle of the road, but this particular project is definitely a great example of something that is…

Torment Imagery – Torment Imagery [Demo]

Artist: Torment Imagery Country: Indonesia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Torment Imagery’s Bandcamp page shows me a photo of one person and states that the band is Indonesian. Beyond that, there is nothing else to be found about…

Chalice Of Eden – March Through Black Night [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Fallen Warrior is a musician that seems to have difficulties with using a compass. A musical one, that is. Or simply a person who is very indecisive…

Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré – Split Tape

Artist: Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré Country: USA Label: Cranial Blast Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With one name even harder to pronounce than the other, this is definitely a split tape for enthusiasts. Which enthusiasts, you may ask. But those who…

Par-Delà Le Miroir – Le Temps Fera Son Œuvre

Artist: Par-Delà Le Miroir Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After a 20-minute demo tape at the very end of last year called ‘Les adieux de l’âme’, this one-man Raw Black Metal project now returns with…

Chalice Of Eden – The Essence Of Imperial Blood [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 In no time at all, the musician behind Occult Mountain and Chalice Of Eden has released an impressive number of demos, sometimes with only a few days in between. That is generally…

Traum – Diminishment In Perpetuum [Demo]

Artist: Traum Country: USA Label: Torture Palace Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I missed this project’s first offering, ‘Demo 2024’, but I would like to make amends by spending a few words on this follow-up, which was recently released…

Hautaveri – Hänen Kylmän Myrskynsä Airut [Demo]

Artist: Hautaveri Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although it is yet unclear who’s behind this new solo-project, but it is highly unlikely that Hautaveri is this musician’s first attempt of making music. It might not be the…

Necrobaptism – Necrobaptism [Demo]

Artist: Necrobaptism Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 A few weeks ago I ran into this debut demo by a Greek duo that goes under the name of Necrobaptism. They apparently got together earlier this year and…

Astral Gauze – A Fire As Alien As Hostile…

Artist: Astral Gauze Country: USA Label: Wergild Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Astral Gauze is a new project consisting of two musicians with lavish résumés that include current and previous experience with such bands as Ebony Pendant, Iron…

Necroaura – Necroaura [Demo]

Artist: Necroaura Country: Portugal / France Label: Asylum Tenebris Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Necroaura is a new international band (or project, if you will) sprung from the minds of Insalubris Infernalis (or I.I.) who is usually spending his time with Dryas,…

Veitsi – Fenno-Ugrilainen Yliherruus [Demo]

Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After the ‘Perikato’-full length album that was released on the second day of this year, one-man band Veitsi is back with a new recording in the form of a demo tape.…

Night’s Threshold – Nocturnal Obsession

Artist: Night’s Threshold Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 After two demos and three split releases, with Lament In Winter’s Night (Atrocity Altar, 2021), Efermus (Atrocity Altar, 2023) and Eerified Catacomb (Perverse Homage/His Wounds, 2023/2025) respectively, this…

Kos – Crawling Noxious Spells [Demo]

Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although I tend to keep a close eye on the Elf Eggs label and I wrote a favourable review about Kos’ debut demo earlier this year, this new…

Evil Tree – Lepers Tongue [Demo]

Artist: Evil Tree Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Admittedly, I have missed this band’s first demo from 2022, but when I came across the cover of this new demo on Instagram, I had to find it.…

Consummatio – Circulus

Artist: Consummatio Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 ‘Circulus’ is the follow-up recording of ‘Desaevio’, Consummatio’s debut album from 2022. If you happen to have heard that debut record, released on cassette tape and vinyl by Death…

Occult Mountain – Cries Of The Forest Spirit [Demo]

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Occult Mountain’s first digital demo surfaced last June, although summer might be still fresh in our memories, ‘Cries Of The Forest Spirit’ is already this project’s fifth demo.…

Valturn – Magical Shadows Of A Tragic Past [Demo]

Artist: Valturn Country: Puerto Rico Label: The Black Candles Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Whether or not Valturn was a product of the raging COVID pandemic or not, but this Puerto Rican Black Metal project was founded during these turbulent…

Atavistic Passage – Demonstration Two [Demo]

Artist: Atavistic Passage Country: United Kingdom Label: Manifest Of Hate Creations Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 About a year ago the first demo of Atavistic Passage appeared and captivated me with its raw and hypnotic power. I absolutely loved the…

Storming – Celestial Clear Moonlit

Artist: Storming Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Iron Bonehead Productions announced ‘Celestial Clear Moonlit’ as the “highly anticipated” second album of this one-man Black Metal band from the USA. To be honest, I…

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…

Valac – By Twin Forces Of Evil [Demo]

Artist: Valac Country: USA Label: Black Gangrene Productions Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 Although Valac has been around for quite some time now, being formed in 2019, none of its rather extensive back-catalogue has been featured on these pages yet. Time to…

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…

Black Cum – Black.Cum.Noise [Compilation]

Artist: Black Cum Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Usually, when Unpure Records hits the market with a new release, you know you have to fasten your seatbelts. Not necessarily because of the speedy music of their…