October 21, 2025
On December 12, 2025 Personal Records will release “Enter: Vampyric Manifestation”, the debut full-length from Colorado based Black / Deathers PEDESTAL FOR LEVIATHAN, on CD format. A cassette tape edition will be available via Gurgling Gore. The cover artwork was created by Alexander Kemp. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Chalice Bleeds Intoxicant’, ‘Summoning Sickness’, ‘Lycanthropichrist’, ‘Sanctity Of Retribution’, ‘Purgatory Displacement’, ‘Karmic Recollection Mirror’, ‘Snow Covered Monolith’, ‘Warlock Blacksmith’, ‘Siphoning Of The Liege’ (bonus track), ‘Beast Rune’ (bonus track) and ‘Nightshade Familiar’ (bonus track). The bonus tracks are taken from the band’s “Festering Apparition” EP from 2024. You can already check out ‘Lycanthropichrist’ at this location. More PEDESTAL FOR LEVIATHAN info you will find at www.instagram.com/pedestalforleviathan
Swiss Death Thrashers TOTAL ANNIHILATION will release their fourth full-length “Mountains Of Madness” on January 16, 2026 via Testimony Records on all formats. It was recorded by Christoph Brandes at Iguana Studios in Freiburg, Germany and mixed and mastered by Ronnie Björnström at Björnström Sound & Production in Sundsvall, Sweden. The cover artwork was created by Bruno Gonzalez. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘The Art Of Torture’, ‘Mountains Of Madness’, ‘Illusion’, ‘Chokehold’, ‘Choose The Day’, ‘Age Of Mental Suicide’, ‘Nyctophobia’, ‘Beneath The Cross’, ‘Invisible Conflagration’, ‘Lost Forever’ and ‘Hate Remains’. A video for the album opener ‘The Art Of Torture’ can already be watched over here. For all additional TOTAL ANNIHILATION information please visit www.facebook.com/total.annihilation.thrash
American melodic Death Metal project OPHIDIAN MEMORY will self-release its fifth full-length “Seraphim” on November 07, 2025. It was recorded and mixed by Blake Lamoureux, mastered by Rick Stallkamp and the cover artwork was created by Jon Weber. You can already check out the album track ‘Cenotaph’ at this location. The complete “Seraphim” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Charred Chasm Of The Meadow’, ‘Resurrected Primordials’, ‘Conceiving Dreams To Quell Our Ruin’, ‘Bleeding Darkness Bound By Fire’, ‘You:I:Us’, ‘Cenotaph’ (feat. Jacob Dieffenbach) and ‘Syzygy’. www.instagram.com/ophidianmemory
On December 05, 2025 Caligari Records will release “The Vengeful Ghost / Tombstone Hex”, the debut EP from Italy’s old school Death Metal project ELSINORE, on 7″ vinyl format. The two featured tracks ‘The Vengeful Ghost’ and ‘Tombstone Hex’ were recorded by Giorgio Trombino at Mal De Testa studio, engineered by Daniel Grego and mixed and mastered by Trombino as well. You can already stream ‘The Vengeful Ghost’ over here. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/caligarirecords
Raleigh, North Carolina based Black’n’Rollers VALLETTA have just released ‘Spitting The Word’, the second single from their upcoming EP “Bitter Lucid Truth”, at this location. The EP will be released via Lifeforce Records on October 24, 2025 on limited 12″ splatter vinyl, digipak CD, ultra-limited cassette tape and digital formats. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Blood And Jesus’, ‘Cold Death’, ‘Aggressor’, ‘Doing Well’ and ‘Spitting The Word’. www.facebook.com/vallettanc
Finnish Pagan Metallers KAAMOS WARRIORS have just released a video for ‘Nightless Night’ over here. The track will be featured on their upcoming, as of yet, untitled fifth full-length, which will be released later in 2026 via Inverse Records. A video for the first single ‘Seita’ can still be watched at this location. More about KAAMOS WARRIORS at www.facebook.com/kaamoswarriorsofficial
On December 19, 2025 Iron Bonehead Productions will release “Revelry Of A Maltreated Jade”, the new EP from Austrian Black Metallers HAGZISSA, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. You can already check out the EP track ‘A Single Feather Coiling’ at this location. The complete tracklist of “Revelry Of A Maltreated Jade” reads like this: ‘Der Schwarze Teich (Introduction)’, ‘A Single Feather Coiling’, ‘Kingly Daughters Of The Alder-Wisp’ and ‘Sic Transit (Gloria Mundi) / …Coda’. www.facebook.com/hagzissa
“Amid”, the third full-length from Berlin, Germany based Black Metallers AZKETEM, will be released via Darkness Shall Rise Productions on December 12, 2025 on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Erected To Commemorate’, ‘End It All’, ‘Nights Adrift’, ‘T-O-I-F-T-G’, ‘By Light’ and ‘Riven Astray’. The album opener ‘Erected To Commemorate’ can already be streamed over here. More about AZKETEM at https://azketem.bandcamp.com