Vampyreign – Throne Of Sanguine Eclipse [EP]

Artist: Vampyreign Country: USA Label: Red River Family Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Although ‘Throne Of Sanguine Eclipse’ is said to be already recorded back in 2019, it only saw the dark of night in the dying days of…

Atavistic Passage – Demonstration One [Demo]

Artist: Atavistic Passage Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Introducing a new band with zero info is not the easiest task. Other than that this anonymous entity hails from somewhere in the North West of England…

Dryas – Monumentos à Eternidade [Demo]

Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although Dryad could have several meanings, based on the song titles and mainly the wintry music, it seems to be derived from the term that divides the last…

Mystic Veil – Hang Low The Millstone

Artist: Mystic Veil Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 After the one-track ‘What Misery Thou Art Fallen’-demo from 2022 and a split tape with one of their other bands (Erstwhile) the American duo that together make…

Rotten Moon – Seal Of Decay [Demo]

Artist: Rotten Moon Country: Finland Label: Ancien Culte Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 2022’s ‘The Endless Church’ demo by Finnish one-man Black Metal band intrigued me quite a bit, the Lo-Fi production and the rough-edged guitars matched perfectly with the…

Templum Supra – Criptam Ostium [Demo]

Artist: Templum Supra Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although ‘Criptam Ostium’ is the debut demo tape from this new Portuguese Black Metal band Templum Supra, there is a bit of a background story to tell.…

Repúdio – Linhagens Esquecidas [Demo]

Artist: Repúdio Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Over the past decade or so the Portuguese Black Metal scene has spawned an incredible amount of quality Black Metal, Raw Black Metal to be exact. Without wanting…

Valdivian Tower – Die Schattenfestung

Artist: Valdivian Tower Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne / Inferna Profundus Records Formats: CD / LP Year: 2024 Everyone remotely following the (underground) Black Metal scene or regularly read our pages knows that Lord Valtgryftåke is one of the most…

Mánþiel – From Lycanthropic Realms Of Sorrow [Demo]

Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne Formats: CD Year: 2024 Although ‘From Lycanthropic Realms Of Sorrow’ was released just a few days before the ‘A Thousand Ornaments Of The Cosmos’-album that I reviewed just before this one, I deliberately…

Mánþiel – A Thousand Ornaments Of The Cosmos

Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne Formats: CD Year: 2024 After the ‘Vestiges Engraved In Frozen Mysticism’-album and the split with Wampyric Rites, both released in January 2023, it got a bit quiet around this project, run by the…

Vampyric Bloodlust- Midnight Slaughter [EP]

Artist: Vampyric BloodlustCountry: USALabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 Mördann is one heck of busy guy. Aurora Mortis, Faded Memories, Moonlight Spirit and Vivvaden are all bands that he formed in 2024 (with the latter two in collaboration with band…

Geatkihaukr / Veitsi – Split Tape

Artist: Geatkihaukr / Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 This split tape brings together two of Finland’s finest when it comes to crude-sounding Black Metal, both marching under the flag of River Valley Cult.…

Kinahmi – Birth of the Nine Diseases

Artist: KinahmiCountry: FinlandLabel: Death MonumentFormats: Cassette tape / CD-RYear: 2024 Unpolished, twisted and atonal. Just a few words to describe the music of the Finnish band Kinahmi. The raw Black Metal that is presented on the debut ‘Birth of the…

Åndutsyn – Into The Glory Of Violence [Demo]

Artist: Åndutsyn Country: USA Label: Nihtstang Productions Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 The aptly titled ‘Into The Glory Of Violence’ is Åndutsyn’s fourth instalment and follows last year’s great ‘The Epitome Of The End Of The Cavernous Forestry’, which was…

Chevallier Skrog – Betrayal In Realm Of Two Pillars

Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 In many reviews of MBN’s work I have called him a workaholic or a restless soul, most likely, he’s both. But not infrequently, this does lead…

Eerified Catacomb – Sordid Realm Of Apparition

Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: LP Year: 2024 After no less than 2 full-lengths and 18 short players, Canada’s Eerified Catacomb is on its third album. You might wonder where the inspirer behind this band gets…

Lampir – Demo I – III [Compilation]

Artist: Lampir Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Early this same year Perverse Homage, the long-time companions of Lampir, digitally released a second compilation of demo recordings. With the title ‘Demo I – III’ it leaves little…

Kurjuus – Ihmisyydestä Luopunut [EP]

Artist: Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With Hämärä’s steady working pace you know you have to be on your qui vive, a new Kurjuus release (or that of a related project) is always lurking. And…

Ruttokosmos – Apoteoosi

Artist: Ruttokosmos Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Ruttokosmos might well be one of the most obscure acts from the deepest forests of the Finnish Black Metal scene. Although never officially disbanded, after only having…

Sanguine Relic – Within The Fog Of Fragmented Memory

Artist: Sanguine Relic Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 ‘Within The Fog Of Fragmented Memory’, Sanguine Relic’s seventh full-length album, was already released some months ago, yet so far only on cassette tape. Like many of…

Kudlaakh – Poisoned [EP]

Artist: Kudlaakh Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: CDr EP Year: 2024 In the great hoopla of Raw and/or Lo-Fi Black Metal bands and releases from around the second half of the 10s, Kudlaakh fell a bit outside the box.…

Owl – Wat Overblijft

Artist: Owl Country: The Netherlands Label: Zwaertgevegt Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Earlier, in spring this year, Jeroen Putman released a new album with Owl. Although I interviewed him for his previous record, the existence of this new work had…

Cachot d’Effroi / Wolftower – Split MMXXIV

Artist: Cachot d’Effroi / Wolftower Country: France / Finland Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2024 On this Narbentage Produktionen released split tape two of the most interesting bands out of today’s European Black Metal scene team up…

Kerkerengel – …From a Dishonoured Grave

Artist: KerkerengelCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 With Kerkerengel we witness the birth of another band led by Lord Vrăjitor, the mastermind behind the likes of Warmoon Lord, Old Sorcery and Argenthorns. But while epic and symphonic elements form parts…

Castrivenian – Eternal Fog’s Rebirth [Demo]

Artist: CastrivenianCountry: BrazilLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassete tapeYear: 2024 Castrivenian is a relatively new entity from Brazil that was formed earlier in 2024. The band released their first demo ‘S.H.T.I.’ earlier in April, but with fires of creativity burning brightly, immediately…

Aznaitin – Aznaitin [Demo]

Artist: Aznaitin Country: Aznaitin Label: Morken Tapes Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 Aznaitin, an anonymous Spanish entity from the Andalusian region, is a new act entering the Spanish Black Metal firmament. This self-titled demo tape is the band’s first feat,…

Cloaked – Vampyric Sorrow [Demo]

Artist: Cloaked Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 With very little info being available of this newly conceived Nashville, Tennessee-based Raw Black Metal band the music on this project’s debut demo should do the majority of the…

Vrkolak – Carpathian Tyranny Returns

Artist: VrkolakCountry: Bosnia and HerzegovinaLabel: Black Gangrene ProductionsFormats: LPYear: 2024 At lot of attention has gone to the Black Metal scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for good reason. Band such as Sulphuric Night and Obskuritatem have garnered wide interest and acclaim and put their…

Chevallier Skrog – Dokud Nepomine Nebe I Zem [Demo]

Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 With his many bands and projects the ever restless and total workaholic MBN is presenting new music almost every week, and while, of course, not everything…

Black Fullmoon – Black Fullmoon [Demo]

Artist: Black Fullmoon Country: Puerto Rico Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 A haunting and sinister Dungeon Synth-like track sets the mood for the self-titled demo of this new and anonymous Black Metal entity from Puerto Rico. And their…

Black Cilice – Atavistic Possessions [EP]

Artist: Black Cilice Country: Portugal Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Founded back somewhere at the end of the 00’s, Black Cilice’s rise to fame (for Black Metal standard at least) came after the…

Xulux / Kurjuus – Split

Artist: Xulux / Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Split Cassette Tape / Split CD Year: 2024 Not only do both bands on this split hail from the same Finnish town of Jyväskylä, they are also both one-man bands venturing…

Kratti – Matka Kohti Kosmista

Artist: KrattiCountry: FinlandLabel: Signal RexFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 After releasing one of the best demos of 2023, the Finns in Kratti will return with their first full-length of the band’s carreer. To be released by Signal…

Order Of Nosferat – The Absence Of Grace

Artist: Order Of Nosferat Country: Finland / Germany Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 As enchanting and confusing the shapeshifting entity of a vampire can be, the same can be said about this…

Drape – The Choir Above And The Symphony Below [EP]

Artist: Drape Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Only a couple of days after Drape’s debut demo ‘Under The Majestic Black Mist’ the American one-man act returns with its follow-up; the twenty minute clocking and the evocatively…

Iron Firmament – Empyrean Blood [EP]

Artist: Iron Firmament Country: USA Label: Wergild Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 ‘Empyrean Blood’ is Iron Firmament’s second offering, after last July’s debut EP ‘Keepeater’. That EP already introduced us to an interesting piece of Raw Black Metal that sounded…

Drape – Under The Majestic Black Mist [Demo]

Artist: Drape Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Drape is a new Black Metal band without any other information than it is apparently coming from the USA. But, since we are here for the music and not…

Viharukous – Viimeisiä Houreita [EP]

Artist: Viharukous Country: Finland Label: Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 After four demos, recorded in the timeframe between 2018 and 2021, this Finnish duo finally breaks a rather long silence with this latest offering, a 4-track EP (including…