Chalice Of Eden – The Black Serpents Lament [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘The Black Serpents Lament’ is the first demo of a new entity roaming the North American Raw Black Metal realms. Within its ranks we find Fallen Warrior, who already left a certain…

Knüth – Demo X (MMXXV)

Artist: Knüth Country: Russia Label: Unholy Wormhole Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 Ever since the band’s foundation back in 2018, this duo has been spawning demos, at least one per year. With this latest one they arrived at their tenth…

Carved Cross / Native Glow – Split Tape

Artist: Carved Cross / Native Glow Country: Australia Label: Solar Wind Productions Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2025 The otherwise prolific output of Carved Cross suddenly and unexpectedly came to a halt in 2023. Whereas we had previously struggled to…

Occult Mountain – Demo ll Walking The Snow Covered Path

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Hot on the heals of this project’s debut demo, Occult Mountain is already back with another. ‘Winter Invocations’ was a particularly charming demo that showcased a great balancing…

Eerified Catacomb – Pallid Blue Memory [Demo]

Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Simultaneously released with the ‘Liquidation Of Souls’-demo tape, Eerified Catacomb treats you on yet another sinister demo recording. While both demos have a similar cover art and…

Reich Der Geister – Bloody Reliquary [Demo]

Artist: Reich Der Geister Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although this French one-man operation already released two demos and a split tape before this latest offering, it never popped up on my radar. But now…

Eerified Catacomb – Liquidation Of Souls [Demo]

Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Sordid Realm Of Apparition’ and the split tape with Gnawed Chrisom, Eerified Catacomb returns with two new demo tapes. ‘Liquidation Of Souls’ is…

Sanguine Relic / Gates of Dawn – Split 7″ EP

Artist: Sanguine Relic / Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 This little piece of vinyl brings together two of the USA’s most popular Raw Black Metal bands, with Sanguine Relic being an…

Charogne – Rance Moelle / Accoutumanc [Demo]

Artist: Charogne Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Rance Moelle / Accoutumanc’ is the one-track follow-up demo of ‘Bourbe’ and ‘Liturgia Horarum’, two demos that saw the light of day at the end of 2024 and very…

Occult Mountain – Winter Invocations [Demo]

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It could be a very good slogan to sell more copies of your demo: “so good, it’s not allowed on Metal-Archives”. While many of the unfathomable choices of…

Eerified Catacomb / Gnawed Chrisom – Split Tape

Artist: Eerified Catacomb / Gnawed Chrisom Country: Canada / Andorra Label: Under The Dark Soil Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Although I’ve seen the name of Gnawed Chrisom before, I never had the opportunity to check this project out musically.…

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…

Hexenshade – The Revelation Of Doom……

Artist: Hexenshade Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Hexenshade from Argentina, formed in May 2024, is a relatively new one-man band. Yet, with ‘The Revelation Of Doom……’ the project is already delivering its second full-length album, in addition…

Wulfgraf – Spirit Of The Moon [Demo]

Artist: Wulfgraf Country: USA Label: Temple Fan Wolven Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Wulfgraf’s name is one of those that I had written down quite a few times on many of those little papers laying here next to my laptop.…

Draugaskógur – Fullmoon Hypnotic Ritual

Artist: Draugaskógur Country: Serbia Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 From the Inferna Profundus Records stables comes this new Serbian one-man project called Draugaskógur and with ‘Fullmoon Hypnotic Ritual’ it goes right for the full-length album, skipping…

Kos – Demo MMXXV

Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Kos is yet another concoction of the person behind such bands as Red Right Hand Of Plague, Great Tribulation and Thirsting Ampoule and the one running the Elf…

Skoj – More Krvi I: Zora Sivog Sokola [EP]

Artist: Skoj Country: International Label: Self-released Formats: Cassette EP / Digital EP Year: 2025 Skoj is a new entity of international origin, and the band name is short for “Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije”, which translates to “League of Communist Youth of…

Chevallier Skrog / Åndutsyn – Split

Artist: Chevallier Skrog / Åndutsyn Country: Czechia / USA Label: Nithstang Productions Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Here we have another split release from the ever-prolific MBN (also in Arzhaabat, Ärschlings, Blau Blut, CEP and a handful more) with his…

Befouled By Flies / Drekavac – Split LP

Artist: Befouled By Flies / Drekavac Country: USA Label: Ixiol Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 Befouled By Flies might be a name that only rings a bell with real fanatics of Raw Black Metal and Black So, if you,…

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…

Chevallier Skrog – Invisible, Immortal

Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Who has been reading these pages regularly might have seen the name of Chevallier Skrog pass by more than once. MBN, who is also known for projects…

Daedric Chamber – Aurbis Unending [EP]

Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Over the past few years, I have learned a thing or two about video games that I have never even seen in my entire life. There is a…

Daedric Chamber – The Bleak Veil Endures

Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Grime Stone Records / Nightshade Productions Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although ‘The Bleak Veil Endures’ is a bit older, being released on CD some half year ago, it is still very…

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…

Black Fullmoon – Antithesis of the Light [Demo]

Artist: Black Fullmoon Country: Puerto Rico Label: Mamzer Records / Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025   Pure Les Légions Noires worship: the Puerto Rican Black Metal band Black Fullmoon clearly didn’t hide their intentions for their debut demo.…

Vidarr – Bäume Unter Dem Mond Demo

Artist: Vidarr Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 By the look at the grainy black/white artwork and this specific logo you might judge that this is yet another band of Ildjarn-worship. And, in a certain way you wouldn’t be…

Orrery – Nine Odes to Oblivion [Re-release]

Artist: Orrery Country: Australia Label: Forbidden Frequencies Formats: LP Year: 2025 I’m sure many a music fanatic has those releases, the ones that made an immediate impact, stuck with you for years, yet never got the proper treatment and recognition…

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…

Alesya – Chants d’une Lignée Sanglante

Artist: Alesya Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Not too long ago I stumbled upon Alesya’s marvellous ‘Hex De Tristesse Et Peste’-demo that was released by Mexico’s underground label Svart Hat Productions. The almost 20-minute demo brought together…

Eternal Ice – Curse In The Sky [EP]

Artist: Eternal Ice Country: Japan Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although Eternal Ice already released a demo tape in autumn of last year, the band didn’t caught my attention yet. But even though that demo was only distributed in extremely…

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…

Aspaarn – Oblation In Atrocity

Artist: Aspaarn Country: Switzerland Label: Self-Released Formats: LP Year: 2025 ‘Oblation In Atrocity’ is Aspaarn’s fourth album in about as many years, and just like the majority of the band’s earlier work this one too is presented on a self-released…

Amargura – Dernier Soupir

Artist: Amargura Country: France / Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Some four years ago this rather enigmatic entity called Amargura debuted with their Altare Productions-released ‘L’astre Mort’ demo tape and while for today’s standards…

Repúdio – Transcrito De Cinza

Artist: Repúdio Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Not too long ago I read a serious piece of writing in which a fairly seasoned Black Metal fan wondered, while writing, what exactly “Raw Black…

Dryas – Gates To The Realm Of Silence And Rot [Demo]

Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Primitive Blood Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Demo #2 for Dryas from a series of three rapidly successive demo releases – not in the “right” sequence, though. The Portuguese Black Metal band, which sometimes operates…

Dryas – The Land Of Wolves And The Black Frost [Demo]

Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Asylum Tenebris Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 When I reviewed Dryas’ ‘Monumentos à Eternidade’-demo tape a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t know that was actually their third demo. At the time of writing there…

Wiatyk – Tron Wlen [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Wiatyk Country: Poland Label: Diabolical Vitriol / Pro Morte Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 This second demo tape from Wiatyk, originally released in 1996, was simultaneously reissued with the band’s first effort. And while ‘Mysticism’, from 1995, showed a band in a blueprint…

Wiatyk – Mysticism [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: WiatykCountry: PolandLabel: Diabolical Vitriol / Pro MorteFormats: Demo TapeYear: 2024 I won’t pretend I knew Wiatyk before I laid eyes on the recent reissues of the band’s only two demo tapes (by Diabolical Vitriol and Pro Morte). In my defense, the two…