Mania / Natürgeist – Split 7″ EP

Artist:Mania / Natürgeist Country: USA Label: Electric Assault Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Honestly, I was never impressed by any of Mania’s previous output and Natürgeist’s sole demo, also reissued on a 7” EP, was more hype than anything else. Without wanting…

Chalice Of Eden – The Black Serpents Lament [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘The Black Serpents Lament’ is the first demo of a new entity roaming the North American Raw Black Metal realms. Within its ranks we find Fallen Warrior, who already left a certain…

Savage Master – Dark & Dangerous

Artist: Savage Master Country: USA Label: Shadow Kingdom Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although I always found Savage Master a very enjoyable band it is hard to deny that, especially early on in their career, the offered quality wasn’t always…

Azathoth’s Dream – Solitary Forest Necromancy

Artist: Azathoth’s Dream Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In 2023 Azathoth’s Dream debuted with an impressive debut called ‘Nocturnal Vampyric Bewitchment’. Maybe not completely out of the blue as it was preceded by a demo tape a…

Interceptor – Metal Death

Artist: Interceptor Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records / Motorpunk Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With two demos (also compiled together on a separate release) and a debut album released last year, chances are that you…

Occult Mountain – Demo ll Walking The Snow Covered Path

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Hot on the heals of this project’s debut demo, Occult Mountain is already back with another. ‘Winter Invocations’ was a particularly charming demo that showcased a great balancing…

Ancient North – The Woods Of Samael

Artist: Ancient North Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 After a blitzing start with firing away one recording after another, over time Ancient North has been taking on a slower pace. Still, you can’t be surprised that Forlorn…

Re-Buried – Flesh Mourning

Artist: Re-Buried Country: USA Label: Translation Loss Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Two years and a half after the release of the band’s debut album, ‘Repulsive Nature’, Re-Buried returns to the front with a new…

Occult Mountain – Winter Invocations [Demo]

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It could be a very good slogan to sell more copies of your demo: “so good, it’s not allowed on Metal-Archives”. While many of the unfathomable choices of…

Evil Deceiver – Hymns To Death [Demo]

Artist: Evil Deceiver Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Rather hot on the heels of the band’s self-titled demo that was released in the very waning days of 2024, Evil Deceiver returns with yet another demo. In…

Vengeance Sorcery – Demo MMXXIV

Artist: Vengeance Sorcery Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although ‘Demo MMXXIV’ has been released under the Vengeance Sorcery banner, it is the sole product of Deathwalker (also Nihil Invocation). On this recording he is responsible for…

Ichors Glaive – Jörmungandr [Demo]

Artist: Ichors Glaive Country: USA Label: Parasyte Curse Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 Hot on the tail of their warmly received debut demo, Ichors Glaive returns with ‘Jörmungandr’. Released in March of 2025 on tape by Parasyte Curse, it can…

Ichors Glaive – Solstice of an Ancient God [Demo]

Artist: Ichors Glaive Country: USA Label: Medieval Prophecy Records /Blud Auk Tapes Formats: 12” Demo / Demo tape Year: 2024 Medieval Propehcy Records is certainly a label that has the spotlights of the underground Black Metal community honed in on…

Hemdale – Can You Smell The Stench??? [Compilation]

Artist: Hemdale Country: USA Label: F.O.A.D. Records / Mierdas Production Formats: LP Year: 2025 Aaargh, Hemdale. Where to start? This is definitely one of the finest examples of a versatile and extremely powerful Grindcore band from the second wave that’s…

Desekryptor – Sarcophagal Corridors [EP]

Artist: Desekryptor Country: USA Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 After Nuclear Winter Records’ reissue of Desekryptor’s ‘Curse Of The Execrated’ EP, both band and label decided to further strengthen their partnership with the…

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…

Wulfgraf – Spirit Of The Moon [Demo]

Artist: Wulfgraf Country: USA Label: Temple Fan Wolven Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Wulfgraf’s name is one of those that I had written down quite a few times on many of those little papers laying here next to my laptop.…

Kos – Demo MMXXV

Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Kos is yet another concoction of the person behind such bands as Red Right Hand Of Plague, Great Tribulation and Thirsting Ampoule and the one running the Elf…

Imprecation – Vomitum Tempestas [EP]

Artist: Imprecation Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In my recent musings on Teitanblood’s latest album, I already addressed the fact that there are levels in everything. There might be hundreds…

Chevallier Skrog / Åndutsyn – Split

Artist: Chevallier Skrog / Åndutsyn Country: Czechia / USA Label: Nithstang Productions Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Here we have another split release from the ever-prolific MBN (also in Arzhaabat, Ärschlings, Blau Blut, CEP and a handful more) with his…

Befouled By Flies / Drekavac – Split LP

Artist: Befouled By Flies / Drekavac Country: USA Label: Ixiol Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 Befouled By Flies might be a name that only rings a bell with real fanatics of Raw Black Metal and Black So, if you,…

Daedric Chamber – Aurbis Unending [EP]

Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Over the past few years, I have learned a thing or two about video games that I have never even seen in my entire life. There is a…

Inferior – Wrath

Artist: Inferior Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Even without having a clue who is exactly behind the band, Inferior isn’t making a secret of their musical direction. The cover art for ‘Wrath’ already gives away a bit,…

Worm Altar – Promo 2025

Artist: Worm Altar Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After the release of the band’s ‘Astral Scourge’-EP from Summer 2023, it was rather quiet around Worm Altar. Usually one-man bands tend to release one demo or EP…

Daedric Chamber – The Bleak Veil Endures

Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Grime Stone Records / Nightshade Productions Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although ‘The Bleak Veil Endures’ is a bit older, being released on CD some half year ago, it is still very…

Corrosives – Wasteland [Demo]

Artist: Corrosives Country: Canada/USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 How this trio came together is something that you should ask them, but regardless of how their individual paths crossed, this Canadian/American collective surely knows how to make some…

Corpus Offal – Corpus Offal

Artist: Corpus Offal Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 “Bring in that debut album”. With these words I closed my review on Corpus Offal’s 2-track demo tape that was released in…

Pyromancer – Absolute Dominion By Fire

Artist: Pyromancer Country: USA Label: Adirondack Black Mass Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Demo MMXV’, Pyromancer’s debut demo tape from (you guessed it) 2015 it was awkwardly quiet around the band for about a…

Great Tribulation – Latter Realities

Artist: Great Tribulation Country: Spain / USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After the 1-track demo/promo from early January this year, the Spanish/American trio that together makes up Great Tribulation is back already with their debut album.…

Profanatica – Wreathed In Dead Angels [EP]

Artist: Profanatica Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Phrases like “band X requires no further introduction” are used all the time. In most cases that is highly debatable, at least in terms…

Carrion Liturgy – Demo I

Artist: Carrion Liturgy Country: USA Label: Venereal Veneration Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Without much information to go on, I can basically only mention that Carrion Liturgy is a new Black Metal project from USA, helmed by a duo whose identities are…

Ligament – Demo MMXXV

Artist: Ligament Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Yes, I can be a sour old guy for whom things are not easily good enough, but there are times when the young boy in me awakens. Just say “this…

Mephitic Corpse – Sickness Attracts Sickness

Artist: Mephitic Corpse Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records / 625 Thrash! Formats: Vinyl / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With the band’s debut, the ‘Immense Thickening Vomit’ demo tape from 2019, Mephitic Corpse managed to…

Sathanas – Into The Nocturne

Artist: Sathanas Country: USA Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With their 1988 released ‘Ripping Evil’-demo, Sathanas positioned themselves as one of the very first Extreme Metal bands that effectively blended those early elements of both Death-…

Noroth / Grave Infestation – Split 7″ EP

Artist: Noroth / Grave Infestation Country: USA / Canada Label: Carbonized Records Formats: Split 7″  EP Year: 2024 For fans of uncomplicated but effective old school Death Metal that doesn’t sound all too ancient, the Americans of Noroth and Grave…

Lore Liege – Remembrance

Artist: Lore Liege Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Over the roughly five years that Lore Liege, a one-man Black Metal band from the US, has been around, it has already produced quite a discography. Of that, I…

Heathendom – The Nightspirit Symphony [Demo]

Artist: Heathendom Country: USA Label: Sonorous Night Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 ‘The Nightspirit Symphony’ is the debut 2-track demo tape from an anonymous duo from the United States. With a title like this, it might not surprise that the…

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…

Balefire – Balefire [EP]

Artist: Balefire Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2025 This 12” EP, simply called ‘Balefire’ is the debut of this new band bearing the same name. But while this may be a new band on the…

Wuldorgast – Cold Light

Artist: Wuldorgast Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 At the very end of 2024 Iron Bonehead Productions offered us the debut album of American Black Metal band Wuldorgast, a new entity comprised of two…