The Infernal Records: Week 52 & 01
The Infernal Records: Week 52 & 01 is out! Kick off the new year with our curated list of essential Black Metal releases. See the full list!
It's a new year, and we start that off with a new The Infernal Records. We got a week left from the year that we left behind and the first week of the new year. We from BMZ hope you all had a great time and that the new year may be filled with awesome black metal releases.
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Releases
Band: Absolutum
Album: Carne d'angelo
Country: Italy
Genre: Dissonant/Raw Black Metal
Date: January 1, 2026
Band: Aesthete
Album: A Ritual for Demons Lost in the Forest (EP)
Country: El Salvador / Germany
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal
Date: December 28, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 5, 2022
Band: Actum Inferni
Album: Insygnia diabelskiej władzy
Country: Poland
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 24, 2025
David Fischer
Band: Arcane Frost
Album: Night's Cavalry
Country: Germany
Genre: Black Metal
Date: January 3, 2026
Bandcamp Album of the Day Jan 14, 2026
Band: Ascalapha / Ithilrå
Album: Shadow Under a Ravens Wing (Split)
Country: USA
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Date: January 2, 2026
bmurator
Band: Beholder
Album: Prisonniers de l'Abîme
Country: Canada
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 22nd, 2025
larsfor09
Band: Black Autumn
Album: Rauhnacht MMXXV - Dusk Iterations (EP)
Country: Germany
Genre: Ambient Black/Doom (Instrumental)
Date: December 26th, 2025
Alice M.
Band: Consanguine
Album: Worlds Hidden Behind Vision, Rituals Hidden Behind Dream
Country: USA
Genre: Progressive Black Metal
Date: December 26, 2025
IvoryReverb
Band: Dhanthalion
Album: Above The Cross (Demo)
Country: Brazil
Genre: Atmospheric Raw Black Metal/Ambient
Date: December 24, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 3, 2020
Band: Ellende
Album: Zerfall
Country: Austria
Genre: Post-Black Metal
Date: January 2nd, 2026
Hernando
Band: Enfant Tombé
Album: Memories Of A Poisoned Past
Country: Unknown (Europe)
Genre: Black Metal/DSBM
Date: December 29, 2025
Band: Erancnoir
Album: Staxvan (EP)
Country: Iran
Genre: Epic/Raw Black Metal/Ambient
Date: January 4, 2026
Erancnoir
Band: Fauth
Album: III
Country: UK
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Date: January 2nd, 2026
Ricardo Cristof
Band: Frostbiten
Album: Kronologi XXV
Country: Sweden
Genre: Black/Doom Metal with Punk influences
Date: December 28, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 23, 2025
Band: Gormoth
Album: Winterfall
Country: Hungary
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Ambient
Date: December 24th, 2025
Gormoth
Band: Hunger
Album: Only For The Eyes Of The Pack (Demo)
Country: Germany
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 27th, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 6, 2023
Band: Kamanch'aca
Album: Fuerzas Abismales
Country: Chile
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 29, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 14, 2026
Band: Karévana
Album: 夜明けの空へ – To The Dawn Sky
Country: Japan
Genre: Raw Black Metal
Date: December 25th, 2025
Ryan
Band: Kréen
Album: Aurora (EP)
Country: Chile
Genre: Atmospheric Black/Doom Metal
Date: December 27, 2025
David Fischer
Band: Likno
Album: Summit and Trench
Country: Greece
Genre: Atmospheric Raw Black Metal
Date: December 31st, 2025
JDMP
Band: Melethor
Album: Tales from the Apennines (EP)
Country: Italy
Genre: Folk/Black Metal
Date: January 2nd, 2026
Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 7, 2026
Band: Midnight Silence
Album: Overgrown Paths
Country: Ukraine
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 24th, 2025
Hernando
Band: Moonless
Album: Under Stjernenes Prakt (EP)
Country: Germany
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Date: December 22nd, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 12, 2013
Band: Mörkvind / Tårfödd
Album: When The Gods Are Silent (Collaboration)
Country: Italy / Germany, Sweden
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Date: December 27, 2025
turkisandwitch
Band: Nangrad
Album: A Cold Breeze Of Death
Country: Paraguay
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Date: January 1st, 2026
Terastios4x4
Band: Nearless
Album: Autumnal Ache
Country: UK
Genre: Atmospheric Black/Post-Metal
Date: January 1, 2026
JDMP
Band: Nödtveidt
Album: Black Light Pantheon (EP)
Country: Bulgaria
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Date: December 25, 2025
Harold N’Hiver
Band: Nordjn
Album: In Winter's Reign (EP)
Country: USA
Genre: Black Metal/Ambient
Date: December 25, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable May 22, 2023
Band: Order Of Morbid Romanticism
Album: Order of Morbid Romanticism
Country: Italy
Genre: Raw Black Metal
Date: December 31st, 2025
Band: Spectral Lore
Album: IV (Part 2) (Demo)
Country: Greece
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal, Ambient
Date: December 31st, 2025
Spectral Lore
Band: Sombresprit
Album: Errance nocturne
Country: France
Genre: Black Metal (Instrumental)
Date: December 28, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 7, 2026
Band: Spirits of Jigoku
Album: Profane Cosmic Hymns
Country: USA
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal
Date: December 25, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 14, 2026
Band: Turpitude
Album: Mordoré
Country: Canada
Genre: Black Metal
Date: January 1, 2026
babischaralamp
Band: Unendlich
Album: Torn Pieces (EP)
Country: USA
Genre: Black Metal
Date: January 2nd, 2026
Obsidian One
Band: Vëstïge
Album: Contemplation & Entre Chiens et Loups (EP)
Country: Unknown
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 26, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 7, 2026
Band: Vergram
Album: Bitterkeit (EP)
Country: Germany
Genre: Atmospheric Black MEtal
Date: December 27, 2025
Bürli
Band: Vinterstorn
Album: Vinterstorn
Country: Canada
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 30th, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 6, 2023
Band: Woe
Album: Legacies of Human Frailty
Country: USA
Genre: Black Metal
Date: January 1st, 2026
Woe
Band: Wraithlord
Album: If Blood is to Spill... Make it an Ocean
Country: USA
Genre: Black Metal
Date: January 2, 2026
Wraithlord
Band: Zol Jad
Album: Ramnoteža (EP)
Country: North Macedonia
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 22nd, 2025
Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 14, 2026
Band: Impious Vesper
Album: Memoria Mortuorum
Country: Italy
Genre: Black Metal
Date: December 30th, 2025
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