ABYSMAL DAWN
“A Nightmare Slain” (Radio Single)
Season of Mist
9 December 2021
Extreme, technical, catchy, blackened death stuff again, these guys slay it every time.

ATLAS
UKKO
Long Branch Records
This ticks off a lot of boxes for metalcore and some seemingly finnish folk stuff too.

Slow Burning Rage
Slow Burning Rage
Pax Aeternum
Release date: Friday, December 17th 2021
Avant garde – jazzy doom sounds

Sacrificium Carmen
Nekrognosis – Avain Varjoihin
Purity Through Fire
12 December 2021
Straightforward blackened death metal, has a technicaly thrashy speed with the cold harsh black metal elements too. Good stuff.

Caestus
The Undoer’s Key
Purity Through Fire
12 December 2021
Old school black metal sound. good production.

Kriegzeit
Hateworship
Purity Through Fire
12 December 2021
More black metal… straightforward, harsh, brutal.

Coraxul
Vihavirsiä Aamunkoin
Purity Through Fire
12 December 2021
Classic black metal, a bit of a melodic catchiness under some layers.

Mavorim
Non Omnis Moriar
Purity Through Fire
12 December 2021
More classic black metal, this time a melodic dooomy undertone

Bekëth Nexëhmü
De Fornas Likgaldrar
Purity Through Fire
12 December 2021
Black/noise metal, with a post metal tempo

PHOBETOR
THROUGH DEEPEST FEARS AND DARKEST MINDS
LABEL: BLACK JASPER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 13th 2021
Brutal death metal, solid grooves

Charnel Altar
Abatement of the Sun CD/LP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
17 December 2021
Old school black metal.

Just Before Dawn
In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow
Raw Skull Recordz – RSR 055
18 December 2021
Old school death metal with a brutal blackened doom thing going on

Phenocryst
Explosions CD/12″ MLP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
17 December 2021
Down tempo brutal death metal with a bit of a melodic doom feel

Diablery
Candles
Saturnal Records
17 December 2021
Melodic blackened death metal, lots more of a black metal thing happening, but some brutal death groovings

Torii
Torii
Self-released
17 December 2021
Doomy post death metal.

BEYOND DEATH’S THRONE
Haphazard Ethos
Signal Rex
17 December 2021
Classic black metal with a bit more heaviness and melodic grooves. Cool!!

HAALBUAER
Mortal Ones Scream in Horror
Caligari Records
17 December 2021
Sludgey doomy death metal with some raw production

MURDER VAN
“Crooked Smiles” EP
Wormholedeath
Fast extreme thrash sounding stuff, vox are a bit more on the growly side… cool stuff.

RAVENBLOOD
Resurgent
ON FIRE Records
A bit of a melodic death, big grooves, a little Amon Amarth-ish sound.

FROZEN SHIELD
Ínia
HELHEIM Records
Epic/symphonic melodic blackened death. cool stuff!

CMPT
Krv i pepeo
Osmose Productions
21 December 2021
Classic old school black metal. cold, harsh. `

Beldam
Live At The Golden Pony
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Dec 17
sludgey groovin’ dooming blackened death.

DELIBERATE MISCARRIAGE
MORTUARY MELODIES
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 17th 2021
From the “oh so wrong” band and song name department, you have some actual, good brutal and technical death metal.

KADAVEREICH
Radiance of Doom
Label: Godz Ov War Productions
Release date: December 18, 2021
Brutal death metal, a big of a grindy wall of sound doomy groove

KROLOK
Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky
Osmose Productions
21 December 2021
Lo-fi old school black metal.

Seas On The Moon
‘Prey’
Self Released
Progressive Metal, a bit of a gothy groove going on, female vox,

Mental Devastation
The Delusional Mystery of the Self (Part I) CD/LP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
31 December 2021
Catchy thrash and technical death type stuff… pretty cool stuff!

Artist: Cruciatus Infernalis
Release title: Untot
Label: Kvlt und Kaos Productions
Release Date: 10-12-2021
Raw old school black/death metal with a muffled lo-fi production.