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.…

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…

Ninkharsag – The Dread March Of Solemn Gods

Artist: Ninkharsag Country: United Kingdom Label: Vendetta Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2021 The UK Black Metal band Ninkharsag was founded by Paul Armitstead in 2009, after his former band Unsanctum was carried to its grave.…

Gorgon Vomit – Babylon Detonator [Demo]

Artist: Gorgon Vomit Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2022 This ugly creature crawled straight out of the London Dungeons and calls itself Gorgon Vomit. Named after the vomit of the gorgons, the three daughters (of which…

Strigoi – Viscera

Artist: Strigoi Country: United Kingdom Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 If I am sufficiently informed, Vallenfyre was founded by Greg Mackintosh, best known as Paradise Lost guitarist, as a vehicle to help him cope with…

Klaaromtesterven – Pyschological Pain [Demo]

Artist: Klaaromstesterven Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2019 The Bandcamp-page of this one-man act says that it is from the UK, something I do not dispute, but judging from the Dutch band name it is a…

Saor – Origins

Artist: Saor Country: United Kingdom Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 With Saor celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, it’s safe to say that Andy Marshall has (much) more to offer than just…

Benediction – Scriptures

Artist: BenedictionCountry: UKLabel: Nuclear BlastFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2020 May 2019 marked the moment that vocalist Dave Hunt left Benediction to concentrate on his PhD studies and his other band Anaal Nathrakh. For many of the dedicated…

Axegrinder – Rise Of The Serpent Men [Re-Release]

Artist: Axegrinder Country: United Kingdom Label: Peaceville Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 In the early days of Peaceville there has been some truly worthwhile releases that somehow faded into oblivion and are totally unknown to most of the new-school metalheads…

Deviated Instinct – Welcome To The Orgy [Compilation]

Artist: Deviated Instinct Country: United Kingdom Label: Peaceville Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Peaceville Records started out as label for punk, crust and hardcore and had cult bands like Doom, Axegrinder, Prophecy Of Doom, Electro Hippies and this Deviated Instinct…

Indesinence – Noctambulism

Artist: Indesinence Country: United Kingdom Label: Goat Of Mendes Formats: CD Year: 2006 As their “Ecstatic Lethargy” demo from 2003 and 2006’s EP “Neptunian” already promised, Indesinence would come up with an astonishing debut album. Yet they surprised me with…

Indesinence – Neptunian [EP]

Artist: Indesinence Country: United Kingdom Label: Weird Truth Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2006 Just before releasing their debut album the English doomsters of Indesinence released an EP through the Japanese Weird Truth Productions label to save some extra recordings…