Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Blood Offer Country: Italy Label: Iron Fortress Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After a decent but kind of messy start in the form of their ‘Into Evil Rites’ demo tape (or EP), this company of youngsters…
Artist: Spiculum Iratus Country: USA Label: Into Extinction Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although they have existed since 2005, Spiculum Iratus is a new band to me. Perhaps that in part is caused by the fact that this Black Metal…
Artist: Celestial Call Country: Unknown Label: Mercury Chalice Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Celestial Call is a completely anonymous act with absolutely zero information to work on, not even their origin is known at this point, but it did manage…
Artist: Cryptopsy Country: Canada Label: Season of Mist / Tuneforce Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 It is more than safe to say that ‘As Gomorrah Burns’ won me back as a Cryptopsy fan. And we…
Artist: Violator Country: Brazil Label: High Roller Records / Kill Again Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Thrash Metal is not something that pops up on our pages on a daily basis, it is definitely a genre that is…
Artist: Kingdom Country: Poland Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although for me the Polish Death Metal band Kingdom has largely passed by unnoticed, this seventh album got a little more traction because it is…
Artist: Goat Semen / Bestial Rites Country: Peru Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Two portions of Peruvian perversion, that is what we’re treated with on this split between Goat Semen and Bestial Rites. In one corner,…
Artist: Serpere Country: Austria Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Somehow Serpere slipped under my radar. A shame, because the involvement of the members in amongst others Kringa, Hagzissa and Weathered Crest certainly would have drawn…
Artist: Sexlucifer Country: Finland Label: Kymijoen Levyt Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Ah, yes. You can leave it up to the Finnish to come up with some utterly deranged shit. Take this new band called Sexlucifer for instance, the combination of…
Artist: Desecration Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Honestly, when I first ran into Desecration, I wasn’t all too impressed with the band from Newport, Wales. Perhaps it was my mindset at the time, the setting in which they…
Artist: Evilcult Country: Brazil Label: Awakening Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 After an EP and two full-length albums, Evilcult is slowly starting to be an established name in the Speed/Thrash/Black Metal scene. Maybe that is not too difficult, as that…
Artist: Last Retch Country: USA Label: Time To Kill Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although I do understand that bands try to take a step up with each of their new releases and Last Retch was on…
Artist: Cruentation Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 It is no real secret that I am only marginally entertained by what today’s Death Metal scene has to offer. This topic regularly comes up in conversations with…
Artist: Geheimnisvoll Country: USA Label: Nithstang Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although not overly prolific, Geheimnisvoll has steadily been building a rather impressive reputation for being one of the absolute flagships of the “new wave” of American Raw Black Metal bands.…
Artist: Burial Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In its quest for unearthing some unsung genre highlights of late 90’s and early 00’s Brutal Death Metal, Hells Headbangers Records already crossed paths with a few undeniable…
Artist: Babylonian War Chant Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Although the all-knowing algorithms tend to taunt me with their suggestions of bands that I don’t give a dime about, sometimes they bring up something rather interesting. Such as…
Artist: Valac Country: USA Label: Black Gangrene Productions Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 Although Valac has been around for quite some time now, being formed in 2019, none of its rather extensive back-catalogue has been featured on these pages yet. Time to…
Artist: Black Discharge Country: USA Label: Death’s Radiance Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Under the banner of Death’s Radiance, an obscure label that already brought us such great acts as Firmament and especially Kudlaakh, comes the debut of Black Discharge. Apart…
Artist: Black Cum Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Usually, when Unpure Records hits the market with a new release, you know you have to fasten your seatbelts. Not necessarily because of the speedy music of their…
Artist: Spectrum Mortis Country: Spain Label: Bloody Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 When, out of the blue, Spectrum Mortis debuted with their ‘Blasphemare Nomen Eius’ 12” EP in 2016, I was pretty impressed with what these Spaniards were able…
Artist: Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: LP Year: 2025 Not too long ago Gates Of Dawn treated us with a cassette tape in the form of ‘III – Promo 2025’ and as well as with a…
Artist: Penance In Blood Country: Unknown Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Two years after the release of the self-titled debut demo, this enigmatic entity called Penance In Blood returns with a new demo. In that time not much…
Artist: Versteck / Geheimnisvoll Country: Indonesia / USA Label: Ancient Horror Records / Nithstang Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Albeit originating from different parts of the world, both Versteck (Indonesia) and Geheimnisvoll (USA) have amassed a considerable following within…
Artist: Ceremonial Incantations Country: USA Label: Northmoon Zephyr Productions / Sin For Belial Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although ‘Messengers Ov Sathanas’ is already the third full-length offering from Ceremonial Incantations, you don’t have to feel very ashamed…
Artist: Opositor / Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Split Cassette / Split CD Year: 2025 Although originally intended as a split 7” EP, this split between two contemporary Spanish descendants of the greats from their homeland has now…
Artist: Thäurnox Country: Puerto Rico Label: The Black Candles Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although Puerto Rico isn’t the first country you think of when you’re talking about Black Metal, there’s quite a few interesting acts to discover. One of…
Artist: Insane Apollyon Country: Finland Label: Final Agony Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Not too long ago I spent a few words on a vinyl compilation from unreleased early tracks from Sacellum Luciferi, a rather obscure Black Metal band from…
Artist: Destruction Ritual Country: France / USA Label: End All Life Productions / Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Four years ago, Destruction Ritual presented their self-titled demo. That by itself may not be all too noteworthy,…
Artist: Sargeist Country: Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Format: CD Year: 2025 Yes, we are late to the party. After all, the latest Sargeist record was already released at the end of May of this year. Obviously, this wasn’t a record…
Artist: Koreltsak Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Those who tend to keep an eye on today’s Raw Black Metal underground, must at least have stumbled upon the name of Koreltsak, an American entity that spawns…
Artist: Caveau Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Canada, to the outside world, always seems a country full of peaceful people doing smart things, keeping their country well-organised. But underneath that surface lies a rebellious character, at…
Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Year: 2025 After two demos, Dark Divinator feels it’s time to take his project Remains of Ash to the next level. With ‘Ikuisuuden Keskellä’, which translates to something as ‘In…
Artist: Odenwald Country: Germany Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 With having exactly zero information to work with, I can’t say anything else then that ‘Felsenmeer’ is the debut EP (or demo, if you prefer) from this German…
Artist: Stangarigel Country: Slovakia Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 It’s a great time for those that appreciate Slovakian Black Metal. A new Malokarpatan is due in 2026, KroloK has been hard at…
Artist: Gvozdena Nychta Country: Serbia Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Gvozdena Nychta (“Iron Night” in English) is the new brainchild of Vinka Mrtvaluć, who recently put his previous project Dreg K to rest. The exact reasons for…
Artist: Herzsklave Country: USA Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I am not too much into Depressive Black Metal myself. Most of the times I think it is rather pretentious and it is hard to take seriously,…
Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Iron Fortress Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 While ‘Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux’ is somehow marketed as a new Mortuary Ghoul album, it’s not. The title already suggests…
Artist: Necrohammer Country: Mexico Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 What there to say about Necrohammer than hasn’t already been mentioned by FelixS in his reviews of ‘Unholy Black Steel’ and ‘Ancient Metal Holocaust’? Uptempo Black Metal from…
Artist: Metal Faust Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Demo 2025’ is the debut demo of this new band from Germany that obviously had nothing else in mind than to pay homage to the 80’s tradition of…
Artist: Silver Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Year: 2025 After two demos, released in 2022 and 2024 that were both compiled on a cassette tape earlier this year, this American one-man Black Metal project is back with…
Artist: Obscentum Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 While its inception dates back a few years, ‘From Black Blood To Occult Flames’ is only the first recording that was publicly released by Obscentum, yet another musical outlet for Terrance…
Artist: Sacellum Luciferi Country: Finland Label: Satanik Requiem / Vermines Pestifera Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Finland is home to a great treasure trove of ridiculously obscure Black Metal. The true connoisseur of underground Black Metal is always served…
Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘My Dead Pulsing Vigil’ follows shortly after Zkywbrezdreb’s ‘Remnants Of Human Ash’, this project’s debut demo tape from a bit earlier this year. That demo, with such titles as ‘No Friends’, ‘No Trends’,…
Artist: Vortax Country: Portugal Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Fresh from the ever-fertile Portuguese Black Metal scene comes Vortax. Other than that there is basically nothing to tell about the background or anything else concerning this new band,…
Artist: Empyrean Gaunt Country: USA Label: Altare Productions / Poisonous Sorcery Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although the identity of the only person behind Empyrean Gaunt is kept in darkness, I would be very surprised if this would…
Artist: Rôtn Country: Sweden Label: Altare Records Formats: CDr Year: 2025 Although I do like some of Magnus “Wagner Ödegård” Eriksson’s work, I always approach his work with a fair amount of scepticism and general caution. You really never know…
Artist: Altar Of Belial Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Some time ago I ran into this rather mysterious one-man band. There’s very little information available, other than this is a solo-project that operates out of the…
Artist: Infernaculum / Secret Tongues Country: Spain / Germany Label: Profaner Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 From the ever-prolific HQ’s of Profaner Records from Spain, comes this new split tape that unites the obscure Spanish Black/Death Metal band Infernaculum…