Nocuous Lust – Demo

Artist: Nocuous Lust Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sometimes very little words are needed, or they can even take some of the magic away. That must have been the way of thinking of this newly found…

Wolves Of Desor – The Witch Of November [Demo]

Artist: Wolves Of Desor Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 At the last days of December 2023 I stumbled upon the debut demo by Wolves Of Desor, a then new one-man project by M. who had otherwise…

Mercenario – Tormented Souls [EP]

Artist: Mercenario Country: USA Label: Atolinga Records / Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 In a conversation about the recent split up of Morbosidad, my interlocutor reported that Tomas Stench of that band had already got…

Sex Blasphemy – Pungent Ovulations Of The Sorceress

Artist: Sex Blasphemy Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 You don’t necessarily need to be a seasoned metal veteran or completed your metal studies at the Miskatonic University to make an educated guess of where this is going, musically…

Unblessing – Chalice Of Abomination [Demo]

Artist: Unblessing Country: USA Label: Hooded Demon Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With three demos under its belt from 2017, 2020 and 2022, of which all three saw a reissue via Poland’s Unpure Records, it took Unblessing a few…

Vampyreign – Throne Of Sanguine Eclipse [EP]

Artist: Vampyreign Country: USA Label: Red River Family Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Although ‘Throne Of Sanguine Eclipse’ is said to be already recorded back in 2019, it only saw the dark of night in the dying days of…

Crucifixation – Blaspheme Unto Death

Artist: Crucifixation Country: USA Label: Down With The Most High Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 The mind of the ever-prolific Tom, who goes under various pseudonyms, spawned this old style Black/Death Metal project called Crucifixation that debuted with…

Falsum – Privation [Demo]

Artist: Falsum Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 If I am well informed, this new one-man band is helmed by the drummer of Black Hurst, a band that I have been following because of their original and…

Annihilation Cult – Annihilation Cult

Artist: Annihilation Cult Country: USA Label: Profaner Records / Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 At the end of 2023 Annihilation Cult came up with a digital demo of just over 15 minutes of merciless Black/Death Metal…

Ancient Torment – Force Me Upon Death [EP]

Artist: Ancient Torment Country: USA Label: Old Pain Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although this freshly released new EP was preceded by an EP, a demo, a split cassette and a compilation tape, the band never really caught enough attention…

Mystic Veil – Hang Low The Millstone

Artist: Mystic Veil Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 After the one-track ‘What Misery Thou Art Fallen’-demo from 2022 and a split tape with one of their other bands (Erstwhile) the American duo that together make…

Evil Deceiver – Evil Deceiver [Demo]

Artist: Evil Deceiver Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Released in just 15 copies and only distributed to people within the close circles around the band… You can definitely say that this self-titled debut demo of Evil…

Ancient North – Winter Holocaust

Artist: Ancient North Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 With ‘Winter Holocaust’ the prolific Ancient North arrives at its 5th full-length album and second one in 2024. That in itself is not even that unique these days, but…

House Spirit – Seven Gables

Artist: House Spirit Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 With a title like this, especially in combination with the band’s name, it was not quite hard to guess the concept of this band’s first full-length album.…

Jehovah Lashing – Pulped Deity

Artist: Jehovah Lashing Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 With only 18 minutes, Jehovah Lashing’s debut album from 2023 was a rather short affair. However with 16 tracks and plenty of sonic violence, there was a lot…

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…

Luring – Malevolent Lycanthropic Heresy

Artist: Luring Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After having been quite impressed by Luring’s sophomore album, and first one through Iron Bonehead Productions, I was eagerly awaiting the band’s third offering. That follow-up…

Black Curse – Burning In Celestial Poison

Artist: Black Curse Country: USA Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Apart from those who saw the band live in its earliest stages and/or were able to obtain a copy of the advance…

Vampyric Bloodlust – Wretched Is The Light [EP]

Artist: Vampyric BloodlustCountry: USALabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Sure, I’m not the fastest writer, but in the time between adding the first Vampyric Bloodlust EP ‘Midnight Slaughter’ to my review list and the actual review, sole band member Mördann managed to…

Vampyric Bloodlust- Midnight Slaughter [EP]

Artist: Vampyric BloodlustCountry: USALabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 Mördann is one heck of busy guy. Aurora Mortis, Faded Memories, Moonlight Spirit and Vivvaden are all bands that he formed in 2024 (with the latter two in collaboration with band…

Tenebro / Mortuary Ghoul – Dellamorte [Split]

Artist: Tenebro / Mortuary Ghoul Country: Italy / USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Split Cassette EP Year: 2024 This is one of those splits that you knew that was eventually going to happen. It is no surprise that Tenebro-chief…

Vengeance Horde – Surging Vengeance

Artist: Vengeance Horde Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Stygian Black Hand / Deathrash Armageddon Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After the short but convincing and self-titled debut EP, released on cassette tape and…

Feeble Deity – Unholy Dissonance [Demo]

Artist: Feeble Deity Country: USA Label: Keepers Of The Flame Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Last year’s ‘Compendium Opus’ was Feeble Deity’s first release that was spread slightly wider than the previously released limited cassette tapes. That compilation, released on…

Åndutsyn – Into The Glory Of Violence [Demo]

Artist: Åndutsyn Country: USA Label: Nihtstang Productions Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 The aptly titled ‘Into The Glory Of Violence’ is Åndutsyn’s fourth instalment and follows last year’s great ‘The Epitome Of The End Of The Cavernous Forestry’, which was…

Excarnated Entity – Descended Immortality – Promo 2024

Artist: Excarnated Entity Country: USA Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 With ‘Descended Immortality – Promo 2024’ the Portland, Oregon based Death Metal band Excarnated Entity is giving us a 2-track sneak peak into what they have…

Black Funeral – Flames Of Sam​ū​m

Artist: Black Funeral Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Ever since Drowning The Light’s spiritual father Azgorh took his place in Black Funeral in 2015, the band’s sound has taken a markedly different turn and his…

Lampir – Demo I – III [Compilation]

Artist: Lampir Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Early this same year Perverse Homage, the long-time companions of Lampir, digitally released a second compilation of demo recordings. With the title ‘Demo I – III’ it leaves little…

Coffin Rot – Dreams Of The Disturbed

Artist: Coffin Rot Country: USA Label: Maggot Stomp Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After one album and a whole series of demos, splits, compilation and whatnot American Death Metal band Coffin Rot finally arrived at their…

Deceased – Children Of The Morgue

Artist: Deceased Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Some bands still arouse a kind of youthful enthusiasm in me. But, honestly, there are fewer and fewer of them. That may have…

Sanguine Relic – Within The Fog Of Fragmented Memory

Artist: Sanguine Relic Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 ‘Within The Fog Of Fragmented Memory’, Sanguine Relic’s seventh full-length album, was already released some months ago, yet so far only on cassette tape. Like many of…

Kudlaakh – Poisoned [EP]

Artist: Kudlaakh Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: CDr EP Year: 2024 In the great hoopla of Raw and/or Lo-Fi Black Metal bands and releases from around the second half of the 10s, Kudlaakh fell a bit outside the box.…

Temple Of The Beast – Geminian Arcana [EP]

Artist: Temple Of The Beast Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Admittedly, I have missed the self-titled demo that Temple Of The Beast had released two years ago, but in my own…

Arbor – Promo ‘24

Artist: Arbor Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 With a steady stream of quality releases, including a handful of demos, an EP and one full-length album, one-man band Arbor has garnered some world wide praise for its alluring raw…

Vile Rites – Senescence

Artist: Vile Rites Country: USA Label: Carbonized Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although this American trio is quite young in age, they seem to be intrigued by the concept of time. The band’s previously released…

Acid Mass – Upon The Knife [EP]

Artist: Acid Mass Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Yes, I have said it before and I will probably mention it again in the future: the advantage of having a one-man band is that you can crank…

Deteriorot / Rotpit – We Rot [Split 7″ EP]

Artist: Deteriorot / Rotpit Country: USA / Germany/Sweden Label: Seven Inches Of Metal Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 With the aptly titled ‘We Rot’ Seven Metal Inches Records presents a new 7” that brings together the long-running Deteriorot…

Cloaked – Vampyric Sorrow [Demo]

Artist: Cloaked Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 With very little info being available of this newly conceived Nashville, Tennessee-based Raw Black Metal band the music on this project’s debut demo should do the majority of the…

Mortuary Ghoul – Norman

Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Not even a year after the band’s debut album, Death Metal one-piece Mortuary Ghoul returns with its follow-up. An album that is obviously based…

Herculean Death – Glory Of Death’s Triumph

Artist: Herculean Death Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Some two years ago I reviewed Herculean Death’s first EP, ‘Lost Hierarchy Of Dark Twisted Arts’ and reading back that one while listening to that particular EP…