Canada-based REVENGE has a new album called Violation.Strife.Abominate through Season Of Mist.
Copenhagen, Denmark-based PHRENELITH has an album called Ashen Womb through Dark Descent Records/Me Saco Un Ojo Records on February 7th.
Canada-based VORTEX and France-based XAON have booked an eastern Canadian tour this coming April followed by European dates in October and November.
SARKOM, which is led by songwriter and vocalist Erik Unsgaard, returns with an album called Exceed In2 Chaos. The band is Unsgaard – vocals, Galaaen – lead guitar, Somby – rhythm guitar and bass and Dominator – drums. It will be released through Dusktone on February 21st 2025.
Finland-based SEPULCHRAL CURSE will release its third full-length, entitled Crimson Moon Evocations, through Dark Descent Records this month.
Norway-based solo act FELGRAVE has signed with Transcending Obscurity Records. The Otherlike Darknesses album is out this year.
UK-based VACUOUS has a Relapse Records debut with the In His Blood album. There is a video for the title track. Singer Jo Chen and guitarist Michael Brodsky formed the band in 2019.
UTHULLUN has a two-track EP called The Barbed Thread Of Madness through Wolves Of Hades in March.
UNBOUNDED TERROR will release a new album, called Something Is Rotten In Humanity, through Xtreem Music on April 1st 2025.
Finland-based back/thrash metal band BEATRIX has an EP called Deathsent Ceremony through Inverse Records. The release was delayed due to the ouster of drummer V.P. in favour of M.R. The band is working on a full-length.
The Germany-based trio WARFIELD will release an album, called With The Old Breed, through Napalm Records on April 4 2025. There is a video for the song Lament Of The White Realm. “The song criticizes war in every form.”
WARBRINGER has a new album, entitled Wrath And Ruin, through Napalm Records on 14.03.2024. The band was part of the Infernal Bleeding Over Europe 2025 tour in support of DECAPITATED alongside CRYPTOPSY, and CARNATION. The band, ALLEGAEON, SKELETAL REMAINS and SUMMONING THE LICH were part of The Vortex Of Violence Tour in North America first.
Crown Of Mortis is the name of a WRATH OF LOGARIUS (formerly MARTYR LOGARIUS) album released through Season Of Mist on April 4th. There is a video for the song Keeper Of The Spectral Legion. The band likes to call its music “formless black metal.”
Comatose Music will release CHORDOMA’s self-titled EP of death in March. The band is vocalist and lyricist Justin D (VITUPERATE, ENDOPARASITIC, etc), guitarist/bassist Blake S (PURULENT NECROSIS, PUTREFYING CADAVERMENT, etc) and drummer Nikhil T (ANAL STABWOUND, CELESTIAL BIFURCATION, etc)
Theogonia Records has signed Greece-based LLOTH. The act’s second full-length album, Archees Legeones (Ancient Legions), will be released on May 9th 2025. The band was founded in 1995 before changing its name to ASTARTE for a period.
Joshua Nassaru Ward, the drummer for USA-based death metal band VORAATH, was killed along with his fiancee and two others by a drunk driver on New Year’s Eve. There is a GoFundMe available.
RETROMORPHOSIS’ Psalmus Mortis album is available through Season Of Mist on 21,02.2025. All four members played together on SPAWN OF POSSESSION’S Incurso album.
USA-based METAPHOBIC has an album called Deranged Excruciations through Everlasting Spew Records on 28 February 2025. The band is compared to early GORGUTS and DEMILICH.
Poland-based EMBRIONAL has an album, called Inherited Tendencies For Self-Destruction, through Agonia Records on 21.03.2024. It was produced by frontman Skullripper.
France-based SCORCHED EARTH is supporting its 2024 album The Day Of The Damned with a lyric video for the song Invocation. The band intends to tour in 2025.
UK-based black metal/punk band FINAL DOSE has an album called Under The Eternal Shadow through Wolves Of Hades on April 11th 2025.
Portugal-based black metal band IRAE has an EP Promiscuous Fire through Signal Rex that was released in January. IRAE will be supporting MARDUK on its upcoming European tour in February and March.
UK-based crossover band SIDEWINDER will release a demo called March Of The Eternal Heretic on February 7th 2025.
Formed in 2023, TIL THE END features veteran musicians vocalist Antony Hämäläinen (NIGHTRAGE and ARMAGEDDON), guitarist Kostas Sotos (MYSTIC PROPHECY and CRYSTAL TEARS), bassist/rhythm guitarist Nic Svensson (SLAVES FOR SCORES) and drummer Márton Veress (ORGY and ARMAGEDDON). The band has a music video for the song Cemetery Trees, which is from the Dark Kings demo to be released on March 7 2025.
They need to make sure they each are in 20 bands minimum. IGOR CAVALERA (CAVALERA CONSPIRACY) and SHANE EMBURY (NAPALM DEATH) have announced a new split release. The music will be available through Cold Spring Records in March 2025.
Melodic death metal band NEPHYLIM has a music video for the song Inner Paradigm. It is taken from the Circuition demo, which is scheduled for March 7th, 2025.
Germany-based HARVST has an album called Maelstrom through Crawling Chaos Records as of the 10th of January.
USA-based death doom metal band DRUID LORD and Sweden-based ROTPIT have a split album, Doomed To Rot, through Behind The Mountain.
BEHEMOTH has a new album called The Shit Ov God through Nuclear Blast Records on May 9th 2025. The Christian ‘IHS’ symbol is made upside down to form the first three letters of ‘shit’ on the artwork.
OBITUARY has announced a North American tour for the 35th anniversary of the Cause Of Death album.
Revolving door: EXODUS has asked singer Steve “Zetro” Souza to leave and replaced him with former singer, Rob Dukes. The latter man was with the band from 2005 to 2014. Since everyone is doing anniversary gigs, EXODUS (and DEATH ANGEL) are doing a mini-tour for the 40th anniversary of the Bonded By Blood album.
Lol at the anniversary trend: VADER has announced an EP called Humanihility for this spring. The band will begin recording for a new album this autumn. There is a summer tour “to celebrate” the 25th anniversary of the Litany album, which for the occasion will be performed live in its entirety.
Avantgarde Music has two new releases this month. They are Russia-based SIVYJ YAR’s A Scarlet Sunset Over The Horrid Abyss (post-black metal) and USA-based LIGHT DWELLER’s The Subjugate (death metal) albums.
Personal Records will release the debut album of Mexico-based FUMES, which is called Skeletal Wings Unleashed, in February. The band was founded in 2022.
Fredrik Lindgren (a.k.a. Freddie Eugene), the original guitarist for UNLEASHED and later in the stoner band TERRA FIRMA, has died at the age of 53.
HELVITNIR, a Norwegian black metal act founded in 2023, shall release a debut album, entitled Wolves Of The Underworld, through Dusktone in March. The band was born when Hellcommander V, Bjarkan and Ihizahg parted ways with RAGNAROK. DrummerJan Axel “Hellhammer” Blomberg joined later in 2023.
France-based black metal band ARKAIST has uploaded a song called Aube Noire, which is the title track for its debut full-length. It will be released through Antiq on 24.02.2025.
DEADSPAWN has released a full-length demo called Bile Of The Gods on January 24th.
Technical deathcore band FROGG has a demo called Eclipse in March 2025.
DROID KILLER has a music video for Delete Everything as a mini film, directed by Scott Rudd (ABORTED/INGESTED) at SR Films, that ties into the act’s most recent demo, The Terminator Vs. The Preacher and the novel that accompanies it, namely Origins.
France-based thrash metal group HEXECUTOR has a full-length, called …Where Spirit Withers In Its Flesh Constraint, which will be released through Dying Victims Productions on 28.03.2025.
The thrash/heavy metal band ETXALE APIO has an upcoming album, called Furia Animal, through Art Gates Records in early March 2025.
Luxembourg-based thrash metal band SUBLIND has a demo called Metalmorphosis on 15.02.2025.
Nagoya, Japan-based JASONS has a demo called Motordead. The cover references MOTORHEAD. The release features the group’s new line-up.
Italy-based black/thrash metal group LOCULO has a late 2024 demo called Artificial Ignorance, which is being promoted by the Black Tears label.
Thrash metal act THREE SIXES has a full-length demo entitled Call Me The Devil.
Rottweiler Records has signed USA-based thrash metal group DEATH PROTOCOL and is aiming to release a first album, Demonic Onslaught, this summer. The band is David Priest – vocals and guitarists David Estrada and Nicholas Pelamati.
THE MACHINIST has released its second full-length studio album, which is entitled Contempt For Life, through InViMa Records on January 24th. The label calls the band “Industrial blackened death force,” but then again everyone knows that everything is called “blackened” nowadays.
PATHS TO DELIVERANCE has an album called Ten through Malpermesita Records on 28.03.2025. The debut album is compared to DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT and DEATHSPELL OMEGA and draws inspiration from Allan Poe, Lovecraft, etc.
SHORES OF NULL has a live album in May 2025. Entitled Beauty Over Europe, it features 10 tracks that were recorded during the 2023 European tour with SWALLOW THE SUN, DRACONIAN and AVATARIUM.
Night Terrors Records has released Mired In The Reek Of Grief, the debut album by Australia-based sludge-doom group REEKMIND. It will be available on MC and LP format on March 7th, 2025. The band is compared to INVERLOCH.
After 13 years of silence, RWAKE is back with an album called The Return Of Magik through Relapse. The new lead guitarist is Austin Sublett.
CRADLE OF FILTH has named its next album The Screaming Of The Valkyries. It is expected through Napalm Records in April.
Coimbra, Portugal-based thrash metal band DESTROYERS OF ALL has uploaded a song called Ritual, which is taken from the band’s forthcoming In Darkness We Remain release.
The first Avantgarde Music Festival is taking place at Legend Club in Milan, Italy on Saturday, September 20th, 2025. Bands announced so far are MESARTHIM and DØDHEIMSGARD.