WILD WITCH Reaper’s Blade Classic Metal (2025) Rating: 7/10 Eight years after their 2017 debut album The Offering, sporadic headbangers Wild Witch come surging back with this sophomore effort. Bassist Felipe Rippervert and drummer Weiberlan Garcia are all that remains from the original 2011 line-up which formed out of the Brazilian underground. They are joined […]
CASTRATOR Coronation Of The Grotesque Dark Descent (2025) Rating: 8/10 Castrator’s sophomore effort is one I’ve been waiting for excitedly due to being so impressed by the New York-based band’s 2022 debut album Defiled In Oblivion. The only change since then is the addition of guitarist Sara Loerlein (The Breathing Process), who joins vocalist Clarissa […]
TYRANTS Baptized In Blood Self-released (2025) Rating: 7.5/10 Here’s a dose of Colombian thrash for those who require a wake up jab. This is the third full-length album in four years from Tyrants, who only formed in 2021, and it’s quite the face melter. Clearly influenced by the raw South American underground scene alongside boasting […]
HAUNT Ignite Church Recordings (2025) Rating: 7/10 Eleven studio albums in eight years surely makes Californian metal band Haunt one of the most prolific out there. Don’t forget, this is the band who in 2020 released three full-length albums. Talk about being creative! Led, as always, by Trevor William Church (vocals and guitar), the current […]
MORTUARY GHOUL Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux Iron Fortress (2025) Rating: 7/10 Existing as a reworked version of Mortuary Ghoul’s Corpse Exhumation EP from 2022, Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux is a more expansive composition featuring a trio of new tracks and tacky artwork from Julian Mortuus. Inspired, as before, by cult horror […]
PSEUDOMAIMER Cavernopathic Autoentombment EP Self-released (2025) Rating: 6.5/10 While not convinced that the album title consists of real words, I’m still on board for this Finnish dollop of brutal death metal. I know next to nothing about Pseudomaimer, but what I do know is that this release bludgeons your brain to a pulp. Stepping up […]
CRYPT SERMON Saturnian Appendices EP Dark Descent (2025) Rating: 7.5/10 Very much an extension from last year’s impressive The Stygian Rose opus, this latest four song EP from Crypt Sermon, with the exception of the cover rendition of Mayhem’s ‘De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas’, could easily have been included as bonus tracks from the album. I’m […]
PUSTULANT FLESH Gurgling Pustulence Extremely Rotten Productions (2025) Rating: 7/10 The congealed waves of death metal seem never ending as this time it is Denmark’s Pustulant Flesh who bestows upon us their bile-soaked bath scum. The band formed originally as Fetus Deletus in 2022 and then changed their name to the equally ridiculous Putrid Abortion […]
THORN Nebulous Womb Of Eternity Transcending Obscurity (2025) Rating: 8/10 Once again combing unfathomable squalid depths, Brennen Westermeyer (otherwise known as Thorn) squeezes out a fourth full-length album as if it were pus from an infected wound. Phoenix, Arizona-based Thorn inhabits a subterranean realm which reeks of damp, yet feeds off its own mould spores. […]
CANCER VOID First Metastasis EP Me Saco Un Ojo / Iron Fortress (2025) Rating: 7.5/10 Clouds over Prague in Czechia have become thicker and poisonous since the arrival of Cancer Void. Although lasting for a mere 20 minutes, this debut EP isn’t just turning heads in the death metal underground but tearing them off. First […]
