Torturer – Oppressed By The Force [Re-Release]

Artist: Torturer Country: Chile Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 Originally released sometime in mid-1992 on a cassette tape, ‘Oppressed By The Force’ garnered quite a following in the Chilean underground. So much that the album was…

Malignancy – Intrauterine Cannibalism [Re-Release]

Artist: Malignancy Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Next chapter of Hells Headbangers Records’ quest to reinstate some of Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore classics is Malignancy’s ‘Intrauterine Cannibalism’. A record that indeed fits just perfectly with more…

Sectarium – God’s Wrath [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Sectarium Country: Cuba Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Extreme Metal might have been the most popular in some European, North and South American countries, but the long arms of the genre stretched to the most unlikely…

Crepuscule – Hybrid Cancer [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Crepuscule Country: Italy Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Among the set of demo tapes recently re-released by La Caverna Records is also this single demo from Crepuscule. This Italian band was formed by the duo Raff…

Morsun Diaboli – Dzień Triumfu [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Morsun Diaboli Country: Poland Label: Diabolical Vitriol / Pro Morte Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although ‘Dzień Triumfu’, Morsun Diaboli’s second demo from 1998, had already been reissued once in 2019 and a compilation of all surviving Morsun Diaboli tracks was released in…

Goreaphobia – Morbidious Pathology [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Goreaphobia Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Along with bands like Incantation, Rottrevore, Deceased and Immolation, Goreaphobia is a band that is frequently credited for being one of the most influential bands in USA’s underground…

Abruptum – Vi Sonus Veris Nigrae Malitiaes [Re-Release]

Artist: Abruptum Country: Sweden Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 Obviously, Abruptum is mostly known for its early work and their affiliation to Euronymous’ Deathlike Silence Productions. The band’s first two records and specially the ‘Obscuritatem Advoco…

Angelcorpse – Goats To Azazael [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Angelcorpse Country: USA Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2024 Angelcorpse’s ‘Goats to Azazael’ is a nothing short of a milestone in the wild and furious brand of Black/Death Metal. Not only did this mark the beginning of…

Pentacrostic – De Profundis [Re-Release]

Artist: Pentacrostic Country: Brazil Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 While Pentacrostic’s debut album, ‘The Pain Tears’ from 1992, is generally regarded as the band’s finest hour – even a bit of a cult album in the…

Masacre – Ola De Violencia [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Masacre Country: Colombia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In many ways the term “cult” applies to the early work of Masacre, and basically the band still very much fit to…

Armoured Angel – Baptism In Blood [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Armoured Angel Country: Australia Label: Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 Before the band would go on and gain some cult status as one of Australia’s first Extreme Metal bands with quite some demos that influenced the first generation of…

Rotting – Crushed [Re-Release]

Artist: Rotting Country: Canada Label: Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 While Hell’s Headbangers is primarily known for its released out of the Black/Death/Thrash Metal pond (preferably a mixture of all that), the people behind the label do have…

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…

Cursed Penetrator – Demo II 2023 [Re-Release]

Artist: Cursed Penetrator Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Early this year I reviewed Cursed Penetrator’s first digital demo, a solid and entertaining exercise of primal and rotten First Wave Black Metal, pretty much in the vein of early…

Jehovah Lashing – Jehovah Lashing [Re-Release]

Artist: Jehovah Lashing Country: USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Originally released in 2023, the self-titled debut album by Jehovah Lashing first only had a digital version available, yet since a few days, more or less around…

Immortal Death – Immortal Death [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Immortal Death Country: Japan Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Just as the name of this Japanese Death Metal band holds some contradiction, this re-release is also not devoid of surprises. Werewolf Records is not exactly…

Siegehammer – Demo MMXXIII [Re-Release]

Artist: Siegehammer Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 You can already tell from the title of this demo that we are dealing with a reissue of these recordings. We are now a year on, but Profaner…

Rotten Tomb – Necropolis [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Rather shortly after the release of Rotten Tomb’s most recent full-length, the excellent ‘The Relief Of Death’, there is more to enjoy in…

Sextrash – Funeral Serenade [Re-Release]

Artist: Sextrash Country: Brazil Label: I Hate Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 Many a review on early Extreme Metal releases out of the South American scene start with the appreciation for those early works of Sepultura and Sarcófago or the…

Nebiros – Rehearsal Demo 1991 [Re-Release]

Artist: Nebiros Country: Colombia Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Earlier this spring Nuclear War Now! Productions reissued Nebiros’ first full-length album from 1996, an album that although it was released much later than other classics from…

Impiety – Despondent Ecstacies [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Impiety Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 While the Singaporean Impiety by far is more well-known than this one from the USA, their musical background is not all that different. Okay,…

Drowning The Light – To The End Of Time [Re-Release]

Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 The last couple of years saw a lot of Drowning The Light’s back catalogue resurface in the form of some well-deserved reissues, mostly through Azgorh’s very…

Nebiros – Guerreros De Lucifer [Re-Release]

Artist: Nebiros Country: Colombia Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Ever since the genre’s earliest beginnings, the bands from South America has been contributing significally to the development of the phenomenon of Black Metal. Most notably, of…

Selvageria – Selvageria [Re-Release]

Artist: Selvageria Country: Brazil Label: I Hate Records Formats: LP Year: 2023 That Brazilians can Thrash, of course, we have known for several decades. Usually, however, this is in combination with Death Metal or Black Metal, but the foursome that…

Mortify – Grotesque Buzzsaw Defilement [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Mortify Country: Japan Label: Headsplit Records / Horror Pain Gore Death Productions / Obliteration Records / Psychocontrol Records / Red Truth Production / Septic Aroma Of Reeking Stench Formats: CD EP Year: 2022 Mortify’s ‘Grotesque Buzzsaw Defilement’, originally released…

Haunting Figure – Demo I [Re-Release]

Artist: Haunting Figure Country: USA Label: Primitive Propaganda Formats: Demo tape Year: 2023 Haunting Figure is a new band from Providence, Rhode Island, USA. That is pretty much all the information available about this act, otherwise it shrouds itself in…

Lividity – Rejoice In Morbidity [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Lividity Country: USA Label: Grinder Cirujano Records / Sindrome Productions Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2022 ‘Rejoice In Morbidity’ was Lividity’s first EP, originally released on cassette tape back in 1996 on the short-lived Immortal Records (which,…

Solothus – Summoned From The Void [Re-Release]

Artist: Solothus Country: Finland Label: Doomentia Records Formats: LP Year: 2023 The first time I heard the Finnish Death/Doom Metal band Solothus was with the 2013 Nihilistic Holocaust released reissue of the band’s sole demo, ‘Ritual Of The Horned Skull’,…

Mortem – Filicide [Re-Release]

Artist: Mortem Country: Russia Label: Coyote Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 In the wake of the re-release of Mortem’s first album, ‘Amputator’ (originally released in 1993), Coyote Records continues on its path, now also re-releasing 2000’s ‘Filicide’.…

Skeletal Earth – Dreighphuck [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Skeletal Earth Country: USA Label: VIC Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2022 Together with the reissue of the band’s two full-length albums, VIC Records also reissued Skeletal Earth’s 7” EP from 1993. The rather corny title, ‘Dreighphuck’, is quite…

Nächtlich – Third Ritual [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Nächtlich Country: Canada Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2022 Canadian Nächtlich was one of the bands that helped shape the current revival of the (ultimate) Raw or even Lo-Fi Black Metal movement. The band that already…

Odal – Sturmes Brut [Re-Release]

Artist: Odal Country: Germany Label: Eisenwald Formats: LP Year: 2022 At the tail end of 2022 the German quality label Eisenwald reissued Odal’s debut album ‘Sturmes Brut’ on vinyl. Originally released in 2002 through the Christhunt Productions label, it hasn’t…

Saram – …Lima Hell! [Compilation / Re-Release]

Artist: Saram Country: Peru Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP Year: 2023 Despite being officially formed in 1998 in Lima, Peru, Saram’s history goes back many more years. In 1991, the band Neuroparalya was formed which eventually turned into Saram Scivit…