The Infernal Records: Week 50 & 51
The Infernal Records: Week 50 & 51 is here! Explore our final curated list of 2025. With some stellar releases in it. See the full list!
We are crawling towards the end of the year, and because of that, soon it will be time for the album of the year lists, but for now, we have some fresh new albums that got released, the past 2 weeks. It's a very long list this time, if the email client you are reading this on (for those that receive the newsletter) cuts it off, you can read it in its entirety on the website.
The albums:
Band: Aether
Album: Verfallsschemen
Country: Germany
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 18, 2025
1gel
Band: Astral Spear
Album: Ancient Throne Of Sinister Rites (EP)
Country: Poland
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 11th, 2025
sashavonkarl74
Band: Black Usurper
Album: The Glory of What Once Was… (EP)
Country: USA
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 11th, 2025
Black Usurper
Band: Bloedmaan
Album: Vampyric War in Blood
Country: Belgium
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 19th, 2025
Roberto
Band: Chasse-Neige
Album: Joual Black Metal
Country: Canada
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 9, 2025
Ensomhed
Band: Dark Divination
Album: Liitto hengen ja veren
Country: Finland
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 12, 2025
Michael Hojjatie
Band: Der Rote Milan
Album: Verlust (EP)
Country: Germany
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 12, 2025
Lord Ilendhir
Band: Dimholt
Album: MetaForm
Country: Bulgaria
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 13, 2025
Dimholt
Band: Dratna
Album: Samhain Dawn at the Gates of Mag Mell
Country: UK
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 12, 2025
Dratna
Band: Ebony Pendant
Album: Threnodies From The Coldlands
Country: USA
Genre: Raw Black Metal
Date: December 19, 2025
trollfi3nd
Band: Ephel Duath
Album: Melancholia
Country: Spain
Genre: Atmospheric/Depressive Black Metal
Date: December 11, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable May 9, 2025
Band: Erz
Album: II (EP)
Country: Germany
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 8, 2025
paradoxalaughs
Band: Fading Path
Album: Every Path Leads to a Dead End (Demo)
Country: Moldova
Genre: Raw Black Metal
Date: December 9, 2025
Fading Path
Band: Hierophany
Album: Tenebrario
Country: Mexico
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 12, 2025
Hierophany
Band: Himberg & Wintergrau
Album: Vergänglichkeit, Erinnerung, Vergessen (Collaboration)
Country: Italy / Germany
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Date: December 15th, 2025
Ryan
Band: Hexagraf
Album: Walsen van hoop
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Black/Doom Metal
Date: December 18th, 2025
Band: Huskarl
Album: Barbaric Savagery
Country: USA
Genre: Raw Black Metal
Date: December 10, 2025
Band: Illvilje
Album: La meg sjå alt omkring meg falle
Country: Norway
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 14th, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 1, 2024
Band: Kaosophia
Album: Beyond the Black Horizon
Country: Ukraine
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 12th, 2025
Obsidian One
Band: Kra
Album: Pogrzebanych Nocą Złudzeń
Country: Poland
Genre: Black/Death
Date: December 12, 2025
doive
Band: Lamenthum
Album: Lament I
Country: Poland
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Date: December 12, 2025
200lbgoblin
Band: Laspherus
Album: Laspherus
Country: Italy
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Date: December 20, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 10, 2025
Band: Lunar Amulet
Album: Lunar Amulet (EP)
Country: US
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Ambient
Date: December 5th, 2025
LUNAR AMULET
Band: Martröð
Album: Draumsýnir eldsins
Country: Iceland / United States
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 12th, 2025
Jesus Popcornius
Band: Melancholie
Album: Winterkronieken
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Ambient
Date: December 19th, 2025
Bandcamp: https://melancholienp.bandcamp.com/album/winterkkonieken
Band: Morbonoct
Album: No One Knows We’re Dying
Country: Ukraine / Poland
Genre: Progressive Black Metal
Date: December 12, 2025
Nocturnal Egg (Jordan)
Band: Murokhamma
Album: Исступлением, лютою думою... (Demo)
Country: Russia
Genre: Atmospheric/Raw Black Metal
Date: December 12th, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 3, 2020
Band: Nemorous
Album: What Remains When Hope Has Failed
Country: UK
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Date: December 19th, 2025
Bindrune Recordings
Band: Noxifer
Album: Enamoured Of Thy Beauty In Darkness
Country: Mexico
Genre: Melodic Black/Death
Date: December 21st, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 28, 2025
Band: Obscura Domini
Album: Sepulchral Echoes Beneath the Withered Sky
Country: Italy
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal
Date: December 13, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 31, 2023
Band: Omitten
Album: Unrevelling the Obscure
Country: Türkiye
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 20th, 2025
Bandcamp Album of the Day Oct 9, 2025
Band: Oppression
Album: No Safe Place
Country: France
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Date: December 18th, 2025
Terastios4x4
Band: Патриархь (Patriarkh)
Album: Hospodi IX.XI.MMXIX Live (Live Album)
Country: Poland
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 19th, 2025
KoolMagma
Band: Streams of Blood
Album: Vermaledeit
Country: Germany
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 18th, 2025
Ensomhed
Band: Unfyros
Album: Star Blood
Country: Finland
Genre: Black/Doom Metal
Date: December 12, 2025
porcelainheart-
Band: Weft
Album: The Splintered Oar
Country: USA
Genre: Atmospheric Folk/Black Metal
Date: December 19th, 2025
Bindrune Recordings
Band: Windswept
Album: The Devil's Vertep
Country: Ukraine
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 12, 2025
Windswept
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