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…

Koreltsak – Koreltsak

Artist: Koreltsak Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Those who tend to keep an eye on today’s Raw Black Metal underground, must at least have stumbled upon the name of Koreltsak, an American entity that spawns…

Odenwald – Felsenmeer [EP]

Artist: Odenwald Country: Germany Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 With having exactly zero information to work with, I can’t say anything else then that ‘Felsenmeer’ is the debut EP (or demo, if you prefer) from this German…

Gvozdena Nychta – Grimoire Des Sourires [EP]

Artist: Gvozdena Nychta Country: Serbia Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Gvozdena Nychta (“Iron Night” in English) is the new brainchild of Vinka Mrtvaluć, who recently put his previous project Dreg K to rest. The exact reasons for…

Silver – Obsidian Moon Invocation

Artist: Silver Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Year: 2025 After two demos, released in 2022 and 2024 that were both compiled on a cassette tape earlier this year, this American one-man Black Metal project is back with…

Zkywbrezdreb – My Dead Pulsing Vigil [Demo]

Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘My Dead Pulsing Vigil’ follows shortly after Zkywbrezdreb’s ‘Remnants Of Human Ash’, this project’s debut demo tape from a bit earlier this year. That demo, with such titles as ‘No Friends’, ‘No Trends’,…

Vortax – Vortax [Demo]

Artist: Vortax Country: Portugal Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Fresh from the ever-fertile Portuguese Black Metal scene comes Vortax. Other than that there is basically nothing to tell about the background or anything else concerning this new band,…

Empyrean Gaunt – Black Befallen Odium

Artist: Empyrean Gaunt Country: USA Label: Altare Productions / Poisonous Sorcery Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although the identity of the only person behind Empyrean Gaunt is kept in darkness, I would be very surprised if this would…

Rôtn – Demo 1/Demo 2 Svulst [Compilation]

Artist: Rôtn Country: Sweden Label: Altare Records Formats: CDr Year: 2025 Although I do like some of Magnus “Wagner Ödegård” Eriksson’s work, I always approach his work with a fair amount of scepticism and general caution. You really never know…

Altar Of Belial – Altar Of Belial [Demo]

Artist: Altar Of Belial Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Some time ago I ran into this rather mysterious one-man band. There’s very little information available, other than this is a solo-project that operates out of the…

Occult Mountain – Wolven Dawn [Demo]

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Wolven Dawn’ is the third demo from this American one-man band in only a matter of weeks, in three months, to be exact. With the previous two demos,…

Chalice Of Eden – Invoking The Spirit of Death [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Only a mere three weeks after the release of ‘The Black Serpents Lament’, Chalice Of Eden already returns with a second demo. Maybe we shouldn’t be that surprised, as the main composed…

Fields Of Agony – Rehearsal Promo

Artist: Fields Of Agony Country: United Kingdom Label: Hettend Tapes Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although I had never heard of Hettend Tapes before recently, this collective/label has a number of interesting bands under its wing. For me, it was…

Zkywbrezdreb – Remnants Of Human Ash [Demo]

Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With seemingly little effort, the anonymous figure behind projects such as Red Right Hand Of Plague, Kos, Thirsting Ampoule, Vëřťžîmbrÿġțžûmşțřě and Great Tribulation, as well as the Elf Eggs…

Serpent Gate – Serpent Gate [Demo]

Artist: Serpent Gate Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It is true that the things you grow up with always keep a certain charm, no matter your current age. Things tend to make more impact and help…

Hibernal Abyss – Demo MMXXV

Artist: Hibernal Abyss Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Demo MMXXV’ is the first demo of Hibernal Abyss, a new Raw Black Metal band from the United Kingdom that is apparently led by multi-instrumentalist Atavistic Passage,…