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…

Abysmal Decay – Boneache [Single/Demo]

Artist: Abysmal Decay Country: United Kingdom Label: Goreture Rex / Old Skull Productions Formats: 7″ / Demo tape Year: 2025 After the solid self-titled demo tape that was issued earlier in 2025, UK Death Metal band Abysmal Decay released a…

Saor – Amidst The Ruins

Artist: Saor Country: United Kingdom Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although ‘Origins’ ended up rather high on my Album Of The Year-list, I had difficulties properly wrapping my head around this follow-up…

Qrixkuor – The Womb of the World

Artist: Qrixkuor Country: United Kingdom Label: Dark Descent Records / Invictus Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 ‘The Womb of the World’ may only be the second album of Qrixkuor, but the band has taken immense…

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…

Desecration – Gore And Perversion [Re-Release]

Artist: Desecration Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Honestly, when I first ran into Desecration, I wasn’t all too impressed with the band from Newport, Wales. Perhaps it was my mindset at the time, the setting in which they…

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…

Kasturn – Rehearsal II [Demo]

Artist: Kasturn Country: United Kingdom Label: Hettend Tapes Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After an exceptionally good sophomore record, the 2024-released ‘The Torchbearer Fades’, the trio that is Kasturn returns with a new rehearsal tape. With another round of tracks…

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,…

Benediction – Ravage Of Empires

Artist: Benediction Country: United Kingdom Label: Nuclear Blast Records Format: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Death Metal hall-of-famers Benediction lost their grinding edges from the first two albums and along the way got increasingly groove-based, overall, they haven’t changed a whole lot. The…

Caustic Phlegm – Demo 2025

Artist: Caustic Phlegm Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With a great demo and a successful full-length album on Hells Headbangers Records, released earlier this year, it is fair to say that one-man army Caustic Phlegm…

Abysmal Decay – Abysmal Decay [Demo]

Artist: Abysmal Decay Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 ‘Abysmal Decay’ is the first feat for these four lads from Glasgow, Scotland. But although this is a short 2-track debut demo, these guys certainly are no…

Trench Foot – Cavernous Necrophagy [EP]

Artist: Trench Foot Country: United Kingdom Label: Cavernous Records / Iron Fortress Records / Macho Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 It hasn’t been since 2022, with the release of the ‘Moral Obscenity’ EP since we last…

Ninkharsag – The Black Swords Of Winter [EP]

Artist: Ninkharsag Country: United Kingdom Label: Vendetta Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Of course, when you have heard something good or “discovered” a new band, you really want nothing but more of it. But personally, I…

Adorior – Bleed On My Teeth

Artist: Adorior Country: United Kingdom Label: Dark Descent Records / Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Adorior’s ‘Bleed On My Teeth’ already came out in autumn last year, so I am arriving to the party a bit…

Caustic Phlegm – Purulent Apocalypse

Artist: Caustic Phlegm Country: United Kingdom Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Without any question, Caustic Phlegm’s 2022 debut demo was definitely one of the highlights of that year. Consequently, the three-song ‘Putrefying Flesh’ ended…

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…

Razör Forge – Nightfall Hunter [7″ EP]

Artist: Razör Forge Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 Although this sort of music is not featured on these pages, it doesn’t mean that we are not fond of a good portion of rough Heavy Metal.…

Necromaniac – Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable

Artist: Necromaniac Country: United Kingdom Label: Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With the band’s 2015-released ‘Morbid Metal’ demo tape and the ‘Subterranean Death Rising’ 7” EP from 2018 Necromaniac already released some snippets…

Winterfylleth – The Imperious Horizon

Artist: Winterfyllth Country: United Kingdom Label: Candlelight Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although Winterfylleth has become more or less synonymous with everything sounding safe, slick and accessible in Black Metal over the past few years, the English collective…

Anatomia / Eternal Rot – Split

Artist: Anatomia / Eternal Rot Country: Japan / Germany/United Kingdom Label: Behind The Mountain / Gurgling Gore Formats: Split LP / Split Cassette / Split CD Year: 2024 While Anatomia might forever be regarded as Coffins’ little brother, they have…

My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding

Artist: My Dying BrideCountry: United KingdomLabel: Nuclear BlastFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 My Dying Bride is a band with a special place in my heart. I remember first learning of the band during high school when a classmate was wearing…

Kasturn – The Torchbearer Fades

Artist: Kasturn Country: United Kingdom Label: Unmatched Dominance Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Early last year, spring 2023, Kasturn’s ‘Rehearsal Promo 23’ popped up at my radars and knew to impress me, even with only 15 minutes of rawly recorded music.…

Lore – Altars Of The Precipice Possession [EP]

Artist: Lore Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released / Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Cassette Tape / 12″ EP Year: 2023 Of course, a cover with a winter scene of trees on a mountain is not very unique; ever since Ulver’s debut…

Cruciamentum – Obsidian Refractions

Artist: Cruciamentum Country: United Kingdom / USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Six long years since the band’s last sign of life and even eight years after the release of the debut…

Body Asphyxiation Science – Heresy [EP]

Artist: Body Asphyxiation Science Country: United Kingdom Label: Gurgling Gore / Huangquan Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2023 The first time I ever heard Body Asphyxiation Science I was drawn to it by its intriguing name, it…

Malediction – The Soil Throne [EP]

Artist: Malediction Country: United Kingdom Label: Cosmic Key Creations / Macho Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Over the course of their existence in the first half of the 90’s, UK Death/Grind band Malediction has experimented…

Wulvyr – Moon.Malice.Heresy

Artist: Wulvyr Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2023 Personally I love it when a band name, the title or artwork of an album clearly gives away what you are in for. Such is the case with Wulvyr’s…

Cryptworm – Oozing Radioactive Vomition

Artist: Cryptworm Country: United Kingdom Label: Extremely Rotten Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records / Pulverised Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Even if you have not picked up any of Cryptworm’s previous releases, when…

Imperial Demonic – Beneath the Crimson Eclipse [EP]

Artist: Imperial DemonicCountry: United KingdomLabel: Black Lion MusicFormats: 12″ EP / CDYear: 2023 ‘Beneath the Crimson Eclipse’ may be the debut EP of Imperial Demonic, but judging by the music presented on this release there can be no mistake that…

Yellow Obelisk – Demo

Artist: Yellow ObeliskCountry: United KingdomLabel: Negate EverythingFormats: Digital demoYear: 2023 Hardly anything is known about this act, of which I presume is from the UK, so instead we go and dive directly into their brand of Raw Black Metal. The…

Kasturn – Rehearsal Promo 23 [Demo]

Artist: Kasturn Country: United Kingdom Label: Death Hymns Formats: Demo tape Year: 2023 Although it is not 1997 anymore, but I could’ve picked any other random bygone year, sometimes a good cover still does the trick. On my daily foray…

Seven Doors – Feast Of The Repulsive Dead

Artist: Seven Doors Country: United Kingdom Label: Redefining Darkness Records, Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 After an EP, a digital split and a few singles, Ryan Wills felt he was ready recording and releasing his first full-length album with…

Roots Of The Old Oak – Blot [Demo]

Artist: Roots Of The Old Oak Country: United Kingdom Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2022 Roots Of The Old Oak is a Doom/Death Metal trio from the UK, that released their first four-track demo tape last summer through…

Khazad-Dûm – Hymns From The Deep [Re-Release]

Artist: Khazad-Dûm Country: United Kingdom Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP Year: 2022 Deep down under the Misty Mountains lies an ancient kingdom of the dwarfs of Durin’s Folk, that kingdom is also known as Moria or Khazad-Dûm. That hidden and…

Tchornobog / Abyssal – Tchornobog / Abyssal [Split]

Artist: Tchornobog / AbyssalCountry: USA / United KingdomLabel: Lupus Lounge / Vigor DeconstructFormats: Split LP / Split tape / Split CDYear: 2022 Lupus Lounge is presenting a very interesting split LP (also released on CD and on cassette tape by…

Necromaniac – Morbid Metal [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Necromaniac Country: United Kingdom Label: Invictus Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2021 Originally released in 2015 by Me Saco Un Ojo Records (and already reissued a year later) Invictus Productions thought it was about time to give this demo…

Grave Miasma – Abyss Of Wrathful Deities

Artist: Grave Miasma Country: United Kingdom Label: Black Hearts Records / Dark Descent Records / Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2021 In the Death Metal scene of the recent years, one of the most…

Trench Foot – Moral Obscenity [EP]

Artist: Trench Foot Country: United KingdomLabel: Brutal Cave Productions / Dry Cough Records / Frozen Screams Imprint / Stump Grinder RecordsFormats: Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2022 Recently I reviewed the short but powerful split tape that Trench Foot shared…

Symbtomy – Demo #2

Artist: Symbtomy Country: Czechia / United Kingdom Label: Souls Of Underworld Records Formats: Demo Tape / Demo CD Year: 2022 With a logo in which a guitar pedal is depicted and above which it reads ‘Old School HM-2 Death Metal’,…

Svor – Demo I

Artist: Svor Country: Czechia / United Kingdom Label: Legion Blotan / Pant Y Meddygon Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2022 Svor is a new international band by G.P. (George Proctor) from the UK and MBN from the Czech Republic but residing…