Kūka’ilimoku – Creation Chant

Artist: Kūkāʻilimoku Country: USA Label: Goatowarex Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 With two releases in 2023 and one in both 2024 and 2025, it is clear that Kūka’ilimoku is slowing down a bit after a rather prolific start…

Malicious Torment – Realms Of The Occult [EP]

Artist: Malicious Torment Country: USA / Greece Label: Ancient Spirit Terror / Spreading The Pest Productions Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Malicious Torment is a relatively new band that sprung out of the minds of KK and…

Krvna Majka – Krvna Majka [EP]

Artist: Krvna Majka Country: USA Label: Prism of Deceit Recordings Formats: Digital Year: 2025 While the roots of the members are unknown, the Slavic band name Krvna Majka, or Blood Mother, may imply a European band is behind this eponymous…

Pentagoatcross – Open Your Mouth Bitch

Artist: Pentagoatcross Country: USA Label: Malevolent Sounds Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Life can be a difficult thing to deal with, but sometimes it is surprisingly simple. Like with this digitally released debut album, give me a band name like Pentagoatcross…

Sathanas / Nunslaughter – Torn Apart [Split 7″ EP]

Artist: Sathanas / Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Considering they both have existed since the 80’s, they have expansive discographies and the sheer number of splits released by both bands, it’s nothing short…

Moonlight’s Empathy – Stalwart Servants Of Satan [Demo]

Artist: Moonlight’s Empathy Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 ‘Stalwart Servants Of Satan’ is the title of the debut demo of Moonlight’s Empathy, a new one-man project helmed by Eldrinacht, a musician that’s mostly known…

Acheron – Alla Xul [7″EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Acheron Country: USA Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: 7” EP Year: 2025 Acheron and its main member Vincent Crowley really shouldn’t require any introduction, and therefore I will blatantly assume you went straight for the juicy info on this release.…

Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid – Split 7″ EP

Artist: Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid Country: Finland / USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Split 7” EP’s are basically seen in every style of extreme music, but with their roots in Punk and Hardcore it…

Lord Gore – Dark Lords Of The Cyst [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Lord Gore Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 It’s not exactly the first time I’ve said that I’m not really interested in contemporary Grindcore, Death/Grind or related genres, but I do have a soft spot…

Ebony Pendant – Threnodies From The Coldlands

Artist: Ebony Pendant Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 One of the American Black Metal bands that has caused the most stir in recent years is undoubtedly the one-man project Ebony Pendant. If we disregard the minor controversy surrounding his involvement with Degraved…

Zkywbrezdreb – Uatrevyktuor [Demo]

Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Let’s start off with saying that nothing the musician behind Zkywbrezdreb ever did was even slightly middle of the road, but this particular project is definitely a great example of something that is…

VoidCeremony – Abditum

Artist: VoidCeremony Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 Although there is plenty of good Death Metal out there, it is difficult to argue that the genre is not suffering from a…

Chalice Of Eden – March Through Black Night [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Fallen Warrior is a musician that seems to have difficulties with using a compass. A musical one, that is. Or simply a person who is very indecisive…

Flesher – Gore On Gore [EP]

Artist: Flesher Country: USA Label: Maggot Stomp Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Tales Of The Grotesque Demise’, Flesher’s debut album from 2023, was a surprisingly good Death Metal album and one of the genre’s…

Morbikon – Lost Within The Astral Crypts

Artist: Morbikon Country: USA Label: Tankcrimes Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 The downside of reviewing music is that you “have” to do that in a rather short amount of time and since we are being flooded with new…

Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré – Split Tape

Artist: Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré Country: USA Label: Cranial Blast Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With one name even harder to pronounce than the other, this is definitely a split tape for enthusiasts. Which enthusiasts, you may ask. But those who…

Blood Curse – Unholy Trinity [EP]

Artist: Blood Curse Country: Unholy Trinity Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Blood Curse is a trio that has been around for about a decade and released a good few of short players as well as a full-length album in 2018 (released through Stormspell…

Evoken – Mendacium

Artist: Evoken Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 I vividly remember my first brush with Evoken. It was late 2002, and my friends and I had called for the help of a local Doom Metal…

Chalice Of Eden – The Essence Of Imperial Blood [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 In no time at all, the musician behind Occult Mountain and Chalice Of Eden has released an impressive number of demos, sometimes with only a few days in between. That is generally…

Parasite – Indoctrination Rituals

Artist: Parasite Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 I’ve probably said it more than once before, Thrash Metal isn’t exactly the most frequent featured genre of Extreme Metal here at out pages, but that doesn’t mean we don’t like out fair share of…

Traum – Diminishment In Perpetuum [Demo]

Artist: Traum Country: USA Label: Torture Palace Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I missed this project’s first offering, ‘Demo 2024’, but I would like to make amends by spending a few words on this follow-up, which was recently released…

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…