Band info Band: Iron Spire Demo: ‘Iron Spire‘ Released: March 14th, 2025 Genre: Black metal, punk Location: US Review Iron Spire‘s debut self-titled EP of what they call “armored metal” offers delicious metal punk. It’s not the raw atavistic kind you’d expect from the Xerox cover but more a mix of Bathory, classic heavy metal, and crusty […]
Category: Demos
Review: Verstige – Urban Thoughts (Demo, 2025) | Ambient
https://youtu.be/blLXo5vVrGU Band info Band: Verstige Album: ‘Urban Thoughts‘ Released: 1st of March, 2025 Genre: Ambient Location: Switzerland Review Dense atmospheric synth textures floating around silent screams venturing into the black void of dark midnight suburbia. This might be one possible description of this ambient synth EP delivered to us by an artist working under the […]
Review: DŹONSLOVS – Asgrauw (Demo, 2025) | Atmospheric black metal
Band info Band: DŹONSLOVS Album: Asgrauw Released: January 5th, 2025 Genre: atmospheric black metal, DSBM Location: UK Review DŹONSLOVS is an antifascist black metal band from London that produces atmospheric, minimalistic, and depressive post-black metal. In January 2025, they released their second album, Asgrauw, which features five tracks in German, dealing with themes of resistance, […]
Review: The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir – Demo I – “Folklore” (Demo, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: The Blood Mountain Black Meal Choir Album: ‘Demo I – “Folklore”‘. Released: January 8, 2025. Genre: black metal Location: US Review The Blood Mountain Black Meal Choir is a one-man band from Appalachia which presents us their first demo, with 5 exceptional tracks. As the band states, “[Appalachia] has a long and […]
Review: Asiratic Lithomancy – From Either End the Welkin Burns (Demo, 2024) | Raw black metal
Today we are bringing you a raw coldness to either your winter or summer depending on where you are in the world. We have the incredibly raw black metal project of Asiratic Lithomancy and their album, From Either End the Welkin Burns. This is definitely for the enjoyers of all things raw black metal that’s […]
Review: Shades Of Extinction – Demo II (Full demo, 2024) | Raw black metal
A few months after their first demo that we already reviewed, Shades of Extinction is back with a second demo, soberly called Demo II. In the meanwhile, they did participate in a compilation to raise funds for 269 Libération Animale. In the world of antifascist black metal, there is not much raw BM, but Shades […]
Review: Demon Sluice – Demo MMXXIV (Full demo, 2024) | Black metal, death metal
Today it feels like we have a treat for those of you who enjoy the more death metal-influenced side of black metal that we tend to get. And by treat and death metal we mean, this shit is so fucking on the nose for bestial black metal that it’s shocking that it isn’t a tag […]