Grieving Mirror – Golden Age Restored [Demo]

Artist: Grieving Mirror Country: USA Label: Neuro Plastic Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 In summer last year, Grieving Mirror debuted with ‘Opulence And Grandeur’, a very interesting demo tape that showed the multifaceted character of this one-man project, led by…

Crévüre – En Rase Campagne [Demo]

Artist: Crévüre Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Whether Sanglant is also involved with other bands or projects, I do not know, but either way, ‘En Rase Campagne’ is the debut demo tape of Crévüre. As one might expect, judging by…

Fegefeuer – Plageteufel [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Fegefeuer Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: LP Year: 2026 Narbentage Produktionen, the label behind this vinyl reissue of the only recording Fegefeuer ever made, is based in the village of Ralingen, a town situated right on the Luxembourg…

Nathrath – Demo 1

Artist: Nathrath Country: Spain Label: Narbentage Produktionen Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 For an old soul like me, it’s still nice to actually hear a demo on cassette tape, especially a first one. In fact, I have nothing against demos being made available digitally,…

Verdigris / Crève-Gorge – MMXXVI Split Tape

Artist: Verdigris / Crève-Gorge Country: France Label: Starless Industries Formats: Split Tape Year: 2026 Although I am familiar with Veins Like Vines, I had missed the existence of this project by Septembre. About a year ago, he released his debut…

Moospirscher / Grundhyrde – Split

Artist: Moospirscher / Grundhyrde Country: Germany / USA Label: NIthstang Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2026 What we have here is a split tape that is quite a bit out of the ordinary. Grundhyrde is one of the many musical…

Akhoth – Storm Of Pagan Fury [Demo]

Artist: Akhoth Country: Australia Label: Sorcery Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Storm Of Pagan Fury’, the latest demo from Australian band Akhoth, sounds as if time has stood still. In fact, everything here exudes nostalgia. Not just the music,…

Kurjuus – Takaisin Alkukantaisuuteen

Artist: Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 This Finnish one-man Black Metal band was founded around 2017, but it took four years before the first demo could be released. After that, however, there was no stopping him.…

Torpefied Bloodlust – Torpefied Bloodlust

Artist: Torpefied Bloodlust Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Demo CDr Year: 2026 After recording a bunch of demos around the 2020s, only a small portion of which were actually distributed, things went eerily quiet around Torpefied Bloodlust. It’s therefore…

Infernal Mantle – Satanic Blood Burns True

Artist: Infernal Mantle Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 In the spring of 2025, I pored over the debut demo by Infernal Mantle, a one-man Black Metal band from the United Kingdom. Although my final verdict was…

Atavistic Passage – Demonstration Three [Demo]

Artist: Atavistic Passage Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 With two solid demo under his belt, Atavistic Passage didn’t quite chose the easiest way to go forward with his third one. I wouldn’t quite classify both…

Nefarious Scorn – Warriorization Of The Black Pentagram

Artist: Nefarious Scorn Country: Canada Label: Pain Chain Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 The Canadian Raw Black Metal act Nefarious Scorn is born out of the minds of two musicians who are also active in some other bands and projects, together forming quite an…

Funeral Fire – Demo 3 [Re-Release]

Artist: Funeral Fire Country: Japan Label: Rat Covenant Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 In the summer of last year, Funeral Fire’s debut demo was reissued through the German label Menscheinfeind Propaganda and in the waning moments of 2025 the same honour befell the band’s last…

Chevallier Skrog – Stíny Domoviny

Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2026 Fans of Chevallier Skrog usually don’t have to wait long for new material. Sometimes it seems like things are quiet around this project for a little while,…

Flesh Hierarchy – Demo 1

Artist: Flesh Hierarchy Country: USA Label: Grotesque Devotion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Flesh Hierarchy is the brainchild of a person named JN, and if we were to believe the internet sources, this one-man project is the first step into…

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…