Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Arist: Unholy Archangel Country: Greece Label: Profaner Records / Temple Profanator Format: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Unholy Archangel has already been around since the mid- to late 90’s and has a decent number of releases in their back catalogue, yet the band has never been…
Arist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 Together with the rehearsal demo ‘Shaitan’, Wolfkult Religion re-released the Witchcraft rehearsal demo ‘Belphegor’ in June 2025. Also stemming from 2024, this rehearsal is a little different than…
Arist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 ‘Shaitan’ is one of two rehearsal tapes of the Finnish maniacs of Witchcraft that were recently re-released by Wolfkult Religion. With both rehearsals originally appearing in 2024, this…
Artist: Invoketh Country: France Label: Messe Noire Productions / Obscurity Of Error Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Invoketh is a new entity arising from the Extreme Metal scene from France. A new band maybe, but the three members are far from rookies. On…
Artist: Starcave Nebula Country: Canada Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 If you thought that releasing the likes of Kiloton, Goat Semen and Witchcraft pushed the label Wolfkult Religion far into Extreme Metal label, brace yourselves. With the…
Artist: Messe Mortuaire / Trance Of The Undead Country: France / Brazil Label: Angel Of Cemetery Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 ‘Funeral Mass For The Undead’ is a split 7” EP combining one track of both Messe Mortuaire…
Artist: Nefarious Scorn Country: Canada Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 At the waning moments of last year the German label of all things unpolished, Narbentage Produktionen, released a new demo tape from the Canadian entity called Nefarious Scorn. With only…
Artist: Plegaria Maldita Country: Costa Rica Label: Zombi Danz Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although I missed the actual release date of this demo, most sources date it from 2024, but it does not seem to have surfaced until around the spring months…
Artist: Charogne Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Rance Moelle / Accoutumanc’ is the one-track follow-up demo of ‘Bourbe’ and ‘Liturgia Horarum’, two demos that saw the light of day at the end of 2024 and very…
Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It could be a very good slogan to sell more copies of your demo: “so good, it’s not allowed on Metal-Archives”. While many of the unfathomable choices of…
Artist: Iron Division Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / IYY Blitzkrieg Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the Danish Extreme Metal scene and the Danish Extremely Rotten Productions label are mostly known for their Autopsy and Incantation-influenced Death Metal…
Artist: Empalamento Country: Portugal Label: Self-released / Haloran Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 / 2025 Even though I consider myself rather well-versed in the underground Extreme Metal scene, I sometimes tend to miss out on rather…
Artist: Eerified Catacomb / Gnawed Chrisom Country: Canada / Andorra Label: Under The Dark Soil Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Although I’ve seen the name of Gnawed Chrisom before, I never had the opportunity to check this project out musically.…
Artist: Burr Hole Country: The Netherlands Label: Self-released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 At the time of writing, the identity of the two musicians behind Burr Hole remains hidden, but even without knowing that it is highly unlikely that they…
Artist: Thromvosis Country: Greece Label: Death’s Ovasions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 ‘Black Signs Of Bestiality’ is the follow-up recording to 2023’s ‘Proclamation Of The Smegmatic Warcult’, a record that I have reviewed and spent only a few hands full…
Artist: Protector / Suicidal Winds Country: Germany / Sweden Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7” EP Year: 2025 Thrash Metal aplenty on this split 7″ courtesy of Wolfkult Religion. In one corner we have the once German, now Swedish legends…
Band: Impurity / Satanicristo Country: Brazil Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Extreme Metal from Brazil that heavily leans on the legendary sound of the 80’s. That is what Wolfkult Religion is set to offer with a…
Artist: Azazel Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: CD Year: 2025 33 years and still going, Azazel returns with their latest full-length ‘Ave Dominus Luciferi’. Released on, how could it be any differently, the 6th day of the 6th month…
Artist: Medico Peste Country: Poland Label: Malignant Voices Formats: CD Year: 2025 Five years have passed since the last album by the Polish band Medico Peste. A time in which a lot has happened. For one, a drastic change in…
Artist: Crown Of The Usurper Country: Italy Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Profaner Records isn’t exactly known for its refined taste in art. In fact, when their releases my digital desk I am in for a treat…
Artist: Tenebro Country: Italy Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 ‘Inferno Contaminato’ is yet another 2-track EP by the Italian masters of musical gore. And again, Tenebro pays homage to a horror movie, this time it is…
Artist: Vampirska Country: USA Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With one demo, three full-length albums and six split releases in about six years, Vampirska is definitely a band that prefers the fast lane – not to…
Artist: Pandemia Country: Czechia Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 During the late 90’s and first years of the 00’s eastern Europe had a rather vibrant Death Metal scene, a scene that went very well with the region’s ever-thriving Grindcore tradition. It…
Artist: Living Evil Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Living Evil is a new band formed by the duo that together also appear as the Traditional Doom Metal outfit Kathryn Danielle, whose debut finished high in my…
Artist: Eternal Ice / Yūrei Country: Japan / Greece Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Eternal Ice from Nagano, Japan wastes no time. This split tape with Yūrei is one of their five releases this year and second one that…
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…