Astral Gauze – A Fire As Alien As Hostile…

Artist: Astral Gauze Country: USA Label: Wergild Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Astral Gauze is a new project consisting of two musicians with lavish résumés that include current and previous experience with such bands as Ebony Pendant, Iron…

Perdition Temple – Malign Apotheosis

Artist: Perdition Temple Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Format: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Without being sure what the reason was behind Perdition Temple’s previous album, ‘Merciless Upheaval’, that only had the A-side filled with new…

Savaging – Vignettes of Cruelty and Callousness

Artist: Savaging Country: USA Label: Into Extinction Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 Having formed in 2024, Savaging recently released their debut release, a full-length titled ‘Vignettes of Cruelty and Callousness’. Despite that I somehow expected Death Metal after reading the…

Obeisance – Totaler Krieg Kurzester Krieg

Artist: Obeisance Country: USA Label: Wit Duivel Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Despite the band has been around for well over three decades and spawns out material on a very regular basis, Obeisance has never been featured on these pages before. And honestly, I…

Night’s Threshold – Nocturnal Obsession

Artist: Night’s Threshold Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 After two demos and three split releases, with Lament In Winter’s Night (Atrocity Altar, 2021), Efermus (Atrocity Altar, 2023) and Eerified Catacomb (Perverse Homage/His Wounds, 2023/2025) respectively, this…

Kos – Crawling Noxious Spells [Demo]

Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although I tend to keep a close eye on the Elf Eggs label and I wrote a favourable review about Kos’ debut demo earlier this year, this new…

Evil Tree – Lepers Tongue [Demo]

Artist: Evil Tree Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Admittedly, I have missed this band’s first demo from 2022, but when I came across the cover of this new demo on Instagram, I had to find it.…

Occult Mountain – Cries Of The Forest Spirit [Demo]

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Occult Mountain’s first digital demo surfaced last June, although summer might be still fresh in our memories, ‘Cries Of The Forest Spirit’ is already this project’s fifth demo.…

Storming – Celestial Clear Moonlit

Artist: Storming Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Iron Bonehead Productions announced ‘Celestial Clear Moonlit’ as the “highly anticipated” second album of this one-man Black Metal band from the USA. To be honest, I…

Hulder – A Beacon From Darkened Skies [EP]

Artist: Hulder Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Hulder started out as a good, yet considerably predictable and rather unoriginal Black Metal band, but over the course of this band’s existence the music progressed and developed tremendously.…

Cruentation – Damned Fallen Angels

Artist: Cruentation Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 It is no real secret that I am only marginally entertained by what today’s Death Metal scene has to offer. This topic regularly comes up in conversations with…

Burial – Enlightened With Pain [Re-Release]

Artist: Burial Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In its quest for unearthing some unsung genre highlights of late 90’s and early 00’s Brutal Death Metal, Hells Headbangers Records already crossed paths with a few undeniable…

Valac – By Twin Forces Of Evil [Demo]

Artist: Valac Country: USA Label: Black Gangrene Productions Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 Although Valac has been around for quite some time now, being formed in 2019, none of its rather extensive back-catalogue has been featured on these pages yet. Time to…

Black Discharge – EP 1 MMXXV

Artist: Black Discharge Country: USA Label: Death’s Radiance Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Under the banner of Death’s Radiance, an obscure label that already brought us such great acts as Firmament and especially Kudlaakh, comes the debut of Black Discharge. Apart…

Gates Of Dawn – III

Artist: Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: LP Year: 2025 Not too long ago Gates Of Dawn treated us with a cassette tape in the form of ‘III – Promo 2025’ and as well as with a…

Ceremonial Incantations – Messengers Ov Sathanas

Artist: Ceremonial Incantations Country: USA Label: Northmoon Zephyr Productions / Sin For Belial Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although ‘Messengers Ov Sathanas’ is already the third full-length offering from Ceremonial Incantations, you don’t have to feel very ashamed…

Koreltsak – Koreltsak

Artist: Koreltsak Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Those who tend to keep an eye on today’s Raw Black Metal underground, must at least have stumbled upon the name of Koreltsak, an American entity that spawns…

Herzsklave – Anti-Romantic Black Metal

Artist: Herzsklave Country: USA Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I am not too much into Depressive Black Metal myself. Most of the times I think it is rather pretentious and it is hard to take seriously,…

Silver – Obsidian Moon Invocation

Artist: Silver Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Year: 2025 After two demos, released in 2022 and 2024 that were both compiled on a cassette tape earlier this year, this American one-man Black Metal project is back with…

Obscentum – From Black Blood To Occult Flames [Demo]

Artist: Obscentum Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 While its inception dates back a few years, ‘From Black Blood To Occult Flames’ is only the first recording that was publicly released by Obscentum, yet another musical outlet for Terrance…

Zkywbrezdreb – My Dead Pulsing Vigil [Demo]

Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘My Dead Pulsing Vigil’ follows shortly after Zkywbrezdreb’s ‘Remnants Of Human Ash’, this project’s debut demo tape from a bit earlier this year. That demo, with such titles as ‘No Friends’, ‘No Trends’,…

Empyrean Gaunt – Black Befallen Odium

Artist: Empyrean Gaunt Country: USA Label: Altare Productions / Poisonous Sorcery Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although the identity of the only person behind Empyrean Gaunt is kept in darkness, I would be very surprised if this would…

Altar Of Belial – Altar Of Belial [Demo]

Artist: Altar Of Belial Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Some time ago I ran into this rather mysterious one-man band. There’s very little information available, other than this is a solo-project that operates out of the…

Occult Mountain – Wolven Dawn [Demo]

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Wolven Dawn’ is the third demo from this American one-man band in only a matter of weeks, in three months, to be exact. With the previous two demos,…

Ancient Death – Ego Dissolution

Artist: Ancient Death Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Sacred Vessel’, Ancient Death’s debut EP, there were lots of plans. This rather young American Death Metal band had its hopes…

Midnight – Steel, Rust And Disgust

Artist: Midnight Country: USA Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Midnight’s best days are pretty much over, coinciding with their move from Hells Headbangers Records to Metal Blade Records, Athenar still manages to release solid…

Gates Of Dawn – III Promo 2025

Artist: Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 More or less simultaneously with the release of the split 7” EP with Sanguine Relic, this enigmatic American Black Metal act also released this 2-track promo…

Sempervirens – Sword Ferns [Demo]

Artist: Sempervirens Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sempervirens, which loosely translates to “Evergreen”, was founded a few years ago as a duo with a seemingly aim to create some Black Metal that’s both raw and atmospheric.…

Chalice Of Eden – Invoking The Spirit of Death [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Only a mere three weeks after the release of ‘The Black Serpents Lament’, Chalice Of Eden already returns with a second demo. Maybe we shouldn’t be that surprised, as the main composed…

Zkywbrezdreb – Remnants Of Human Ash [Demo]

Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With seemingly little effort, the anonymous figure behind projects such as Red Right Hand Of Plague, Kos, Thirsting Ampoule, Vëřťžîmbrÿġțžûmşțřě and Great Tribulation, as well as the Elf Eggs…

Grieving Mirror – Opulence And Grandeur [Demo]

Artist: Grieving Mirror Country: USA Label: Neuro Plastic Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Either scavenging around on Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify, digging around through distro lists and webshops or following the much appreciated tips and hints from people whose nose for…

Wisteria – Haunted By Memories [Demo]

Artist: Wisteria Country: USA Label: Lampshade Tapes Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Wisteria, a one-man Black Metal band from Cleveland, Ohio, came to life early 2024 with a debut full-length called ‘Nightfall’. With its serene cover art and expressive title,…

Witchmoon – Eternal Winds Of Death

Artist: Witchmoon Country: USA Label: Death Hymns / Lampshade Tapes Formats: LP Year: 2025 Personally I ran into Witchmoon with the split LP’s with Lampir and Hand Of Glory from 2018 and 2019 respectively. Basically the peak of the madness surrounding the Raw/Lo-Fi…

Burning Winds – Hell And Damnation

Artist: Burning Winds Country: USA Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 In these times when everything is readily available and bands release one album after another, when transience and superficiality reign supreme, when attention spans seem to last no longer than…

Luminous Transfixion – Before The Invocation Of Straahl

Artist:Luminous Transfixion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: CDR Year: 2025 Well over four years after the debut album of the somewhat mysterious project of Luminous Transfixion, we are, more or less out of the blue, treated with its successor. Even if you have…

Grand Bewitchment – Sigils Of Steel [EP]

Artist: Grand Bewitchment Country: USA Label: Damnation’s Edge Productions Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 After having put out a demo tape and a split tape in 2021 and 2023 respectively, both released through the band’s own Damnation’s…