Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Evil Deceiver Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Rather hot on the heels of the band’s self-titled demo that was released in the very waning days of 2024, Evil Deceiver returns with yet another demo. In…
Artist: Black Offal Messiah / Burning Winds Country: USA Label: Sexmord Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 This split 7” EP is actually not really new. In fact, about a year old now, but it took me quite some…
Artist: Sexmag Country: Poland Label: Destruktion Records / Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Over the past few years Sexmag has been growing into what you might call the “underground next big thing”. Not only just…
Artist: Profanação Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 From the ever-fertile Portuguese soil comes Profanação, a band that already released two demo tapes through M.D.M. in 2022 and an Altare Productions-released full-length album on cassette tape.…
Artist: Konfus Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Besides a one-track demo that was digitally released about a year ago, ‘Rabenlieder’ is the first offering from this relatively new German one-man band called Konfus. That one song that was previously released…
Artist: As Serenity Fades / August Moon Country: Finland Label: Personal Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Almost fifteen years ago, in 2011 all the collected work of Finnish gloomy Death Metallers As Serenity Fades was already immortalized on one of those glorious reissues that…
Artist: Grave Of God Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions / Final Agony Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although I tend to keep a close eye on the Portuguese Black Metal scene and Grave Of God already released a split tape, a full-length album and a 7”…
Artist: Funeral Fire Country: Japan Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Originally ‘Demo’ was first available in summer last year as a self-released demo tape, but early 2025 it saw its reissue through Germany’s Menschenfeind Propaganda. A collaboration that is not too surprising,…
Artist: Vengeance Sorcery Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although ‘Demo MMXXIV’ has been released under the Vengeance Sorcery banner, it is the sole product of Deathwalker (also Nihil Invocation). On this recording he is responsible for…
Artist: Eternal Ice / Spiralen Country: Japan / Germany Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Only a couple of weeks ago I reviewed Eternal Ice’s ‘Curse In The Sky’ EP, released by Elff Eggs, an EP that followed shortly after the band’s debut…
Artist: Ichors Glaive Country: USA Label: Parasyte Curse Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 Hot on the tail of their warmly received debut demo, Ichors Glaive returns with ‘Jörmungandr’. Released in March of 2025 on tape by Parasyte Curse, it can…
Artist: Ichors Glaive Country: USA Label: Medieval Prophecy Records /Blud Auk Tapes Formats: 12” Demo / Demo tape Year: 2024 Medieval Propehcy Records is certainly a label that has the spotlights of the underground Black Metal community honed in on…
Artist: Nebelfaust Country: Germany Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Nebelfaust is the brain child and solo act of German multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Zinkruwahn, who formed the band some years ago. That resulted in the band’s first demo ‘Finsternisse’, which…
Artist: Torturer Country: Chile Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 Originally released sometime in mid-1992 on a cassette tape, ‘Oppressed By The Force’ garnered quite a following in the Chilean underground. So much that the album was…
Artist: Under The Moon Country: Spain Label: Crimson Tide Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Crimson Tide Productions is not a very prolific label, but if they decide to dedicate some time and money to something, it surely is something…
Artist: Hemdale Country: USA Label: F.O.A.D. Records / Mierdas Production Formats: LP Year: 2025 Aaargh, Hemdale. Where to start? This is definitely one of the finest examples of a versatile and extremely powerful Grindcore band from the second wave that’s…
While in essence there is nothing wrong with so many other bands in the genres that claim to lean on the principles of paganism, the number of bands that really feel a deep connection to it is scarce. This becomes…
Artist: Desekryptor Country: USA Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 After Nuclear Winter Records’ reissue of Desekryptor’s ‘Curse Of The Execrated’ EP, both band and label decided to further strengthen their partnership with the…
Artist: Hammer Country: Brazil Label: Poserkiller Records Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sprung out of the mind of ‘Kadu Necro Defunto’, Hammer is just one of the many projects of this ever-restless man from Brazil. And while with most of…
Artist: Bestial Possession Country: Peru Label: Aberration Records / Black Legion Records / Tyrants Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Although Bestial Possession has been around for quite a few years, over two decades…
Artist: Edge Of Sanity Country: Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Without wanting to do any wrong to the musical legacy of Edge Of Sanity, this has always been a band that has mostly been appreciated…
From one thing comes another. A while back I interviewed Blackstream, and like things sometimes go, you continue the conversation and other bands come up. Orgiastic Pleasures, in this case. Like Blackstream, this band also appears to have been around…
Artist: Hellcrash Country: Italy Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With ‘Inferno Crematörio’ the Italian trio known as Hellcrash delivers its third full-length instalment, and, frankly, this is a logical continuation of what the band has…
Artist: Finngálkn Country: Iceland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Just a few years before Icelandic Black Metal exploded into the international scene with Misþyrming, Sinmara and Svartidauði as most prominent exponents, the Icelandic Black Metal scene was largely…
Artist: Malignancy Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Next chapter of Hells Headbangers Records’ quest to reinstate some of Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore classics is Malignancy’s ‘Intrauterine Cannibalism’. A record that indeed fits just perfectly with more…
Artist: Bitter Loss Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 After two successful EP’s released in 2021 and 2022, both issued by several labels with the second EP even being issued on vinyl by Headsplit Records, the Russian…
Artist: Azzagrat Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Again, completely out of the blue there’s another new Finnish Black Metal band. The duo behind Azzagrat for now remains anonymous, but felt confident enough to go straight for the…
Artist: Ërhatiüurä Country: France Label: Realm And Ritual Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Weltnacht’ is the first feat of Ërhatiüurä, a new and anonymous band from France, that will see its physical release on May 30th through the always interesting…
Artist: Tyrannosatan Country: Sweden Label: Jawbreaker Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Admittedly, I too initially ignored this band because of the somewhat cheesy band name. Tyrannosatan is not the most attractive name, and the album did not come with…
Artist: Nortt Country: Denmark Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although ‘Endeligt’ is not commonly seen as Nortt’s best or most compelling album, yet for me this 2017-released piece of work was monumental. For…
Artist: Hydin Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 Sometimes things don’t need to be perfect to strike a certain charm Or maybe it’s even that imperfect things tend to me more charming. In all sorts of music…
Artist: Mortal Decay Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although Europe as well as other places on earth also had their heroes when it comes to Brutal Death Metal, and I don’t want to sell anyone…
Artist: Hexenshade Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Hexenshade from Argentina, formed in May 2024, is a relatively new one-man band. Yet, with ‘The Revelation Of Doom……’ the project is already delivering its second full-length album, in addition…
Black Metal and a certain form of mysticism and individualism are part of the same thing. The sinister-eyed gritty one-man bands are popping up like mushrooms, but rarely are these core values conveyed as convincingly as by Switzerland’s Aspaarn. Not…
Artist: Armory Country: Sweden Label: Dying Victims Productions / Jawbreaker Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 ‘Mercurion’, Armory’s last full-length album, dated back to 2022, so it’s no luxury that we get a new sign of life from these Swedish…
Artist: Feral Howl Country: Norway Label: Breath Of Pestilence / Howling Fury Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Back in 2022 Feral Howl released two demos, of which the second was an instrumental full Dark Ambient/Dungeon Synth-like recording, but the…
Artist: Wulfgraf Country: USA Label: Temple Fan Wolven Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Wulfgraf’s name is one of those that I had written down quite a few times on many of those little papers laying here next to my laptop.…
Anthropomorphia has been among my favorite Dutch metal bands for years. The records the band released after their resurrection in 2009 are extraordinarily good, simply overwhelming. And when I saw them perform once at the Netherlands Deathfest years ago, the…
Artist: Antropomorphia Country: The Netherlands Label: Testimony Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 For me, Dutch Death Metal veterans Antropomorphia are a textbook example of one of the most underrated bands, not only on the international stage but maybe…
Artist: Venator Country: Austria Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although the NWOBHM-movement has never really stopped attracting new listeners over the past two decades or so, its popularity has been coming and…
Artist: Nithe Country: Norway Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 After a digitally released demo in 2021 the Norwegian Black/Death Metal band released a very strong EP in the form of ‘Night Of The Ghoul’, of which I…
Artist: Draugaskógur Country: Serbia Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 From the Inferna Profundus Records stables comes this new Serbian one-man project called Draugaskógur and with ‘Fullmoon Hypnotic Ritual’ it goes right for the full-length album, skipping…
Artist: Gallower Country: Poland Label: Dying Victim Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 The current stream of bands playing a Punk-ish, Heavy Metal-tinged sort of Black/Thrash Metal seems endless. And in such situations it is rather hard to stand…
Artist: The Satan’s Scourge Country: Colombia Label: Triumvirate Of Evil Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although The Satan’s Scourge, hailing from Bogota, Colombia, has already been around for over two decades, ‘Abhorrent Spear Of Vengeance’ is only the band’s second…
Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Kos is yet another concoction of the person behind such bands as Red Right Hand Of Plague, Great Tribulation and Thirsting Ampoule and the one running the Elf…
Artist: Haavrun Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Transcendental Eclipse Of Inner Darkness’ is the debut demo tape of Haavrun, a new Bulgarian Raw Black Metal combo that sprung out of the minds of vocalist…
Artist: Imprecation Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In my recent musings on Teitanblood’s latest album, I already addressed the fact that there are levels in everything. There might be hundreds…
Artist: Vrëdehexen Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 From Tampere, Finland hails the duo of Vrëdehexen who in April of this year, the band released their debut demo, ‘Omen of Evil’. And even though it clocks in…