Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Fleshcrawl Country: Germany Label: Reigning Phoenix Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 From the very first moment I heard Fleshcrawl, which was in 2000, with the band’s ‘As Blood Rains From The Sky… We Walk The Path Of Endless…
Artist: Last Rites Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Depending on how you look at this release, you could call it either a compilation tape or a re-release of a demo. But regardless of how you choose…
Artist: Venomous Invokation Country: USA Label: Crow’s Nest Records / Funeral Moon Records Formats: Demo Tape / Demo CD Year: 2026 Although Venomous Invokation already released three short players (and a compilation CD with those earlier tracks), this Knoxville, Tennessee (USA)…
Artist: Babylonian War Chant Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 This monochromatic cover with the large logo is quite a departure from Babylonian War Chant’s earlier output. All previous releases featured a cover depicting Assyrian, Mesopotamian or Babylonian engravings or scenes,…
Artist: Clementis / Eternal Ice Country: France / Japan Label: A Clockwork Apple Production Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 The ever-prolific Japanese Black Metal duo known as Eternal Ice is back with a new split. This time on CD through…
Artist: Teñvalded Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Teñvalded debuted last April with a self-titled demo tape that contains a mix of both Dark Ambient and Dungeon Synth. Although it leaned more towards the latter and therefore…
Artist: Grave Ceremony Country: Spain Label: Dying Sun Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Night Of Sepulchral Profanation’ is the debut demo tape of this new Spanish band consisting out of a couple of scene veterans from the Spanish Extreme…
Admittedly, the fact that I already had some warm contacts with the musicians who form the circle around Living Evil certainly helped me listen to the first demo of this relatively new band. With my preference for 80’s metal in…
Artist: Primordial Gate Country: Finland Label: Forest Gloom Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Primordial Gate is a new solo-project by Yöpyöveli, who has gained a bit of traction in the underground Black Metal scene with his other project Bronze Hall, but is also active…
Artist: Talvi Country: Finland Label: Forest Gloom Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From Finnish, “Talvi” translates to “Winter”, a very befitting name for a band from Finland, a country known for its harsh winter. Therefore it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there’s two bands…
Artist: Nathrath / CelticHammer Country: Spain Label: Bundushathûr Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2026 ‘Décadas De Represión’ is a short split tape that brings together Nathrath and CelticHammer, two bands from the Gallaecia Kommando, a circle of bands from the Galicia region in…
Artist: Goatkraft Country: Norway Label: Deathrune Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 I said it before, not everything from Norway sounds like Borknagar, Arcturus or Ulver. Not quite. With ‘Barbed Wire Doctrine’, Goatkraft’s latest offering and follow-up to 2023’s ‘Prophet…
Let’s keep this brief: Cult Of Daath is among the most underrated American Extreme Metal bands. When one of the two brothers comes up with something new fifteen years after the last Cult Of Daath demo, I naturally jump at…
Artist: Crévüre Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 With ‘Le Dernier Messie’, the French one-man band Crévüre has already released its third demo tape within the relatively short span of four months. Whilst Crévüre’s Raw Black Metal may not be of the…
Artist: Amputorium Country: Belgium Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although nothing official has yet been announced about Amputorium, you don’t need to be a genius to piece things together regarding this new band. Not only…
Artist: Kūkāʻilimoku Country: USA Label: Goatowarex / Nithstang Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Over the past years, basically since this solo-project’s inception in 2019, Kūka’ilimoku has been attracting attention from underground Black Metal fans from various directions.…
Artist: Black Cilice Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions / Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 When Black Cilice hit the underground scene with their first two albums in the first half of the 10s,…
Artist: Consecration Country: United Kingdom Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 In their 15+ year career this British Death/Doom Metal band has amassed a respectable discography. Besides a couple of short players, this…
Artist: Whitemoon Country: Poland Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2026 With Whitemoon, we have yet another impressively good band from the equally impressive Polish Black Metal scene. Although it is not entirely clear to…
Artist: Godless Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 I have said before and I will say it again, and probably will repeat myself another countless after this one: there must be…
Artist: Mangled Recrement Country: Poland Label: Caligari Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although this band consists of a trio of musicians who have already gained some experience in bands such as Toughness and Leucotome, Mangled Recremant has only been…
Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Although it’s been the case ever since the early days of Extreme Metal, in recent years you can certainly count on the…
Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Fallen Warrior, the only musician behind Occult Mountain, is one of such people who seem to have more hours in a day and more days in a week…
Artist: Beast Majesty Country: Peru Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Beast Majesty might be a new band in the Extreme Metal scene, but the only person behind it is far from a newcomer. The wild child helming this…
Artist: Ancient Entity Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 With Ancient Entity, Oskar Brahn his fifth band, but this time he’s doing it all by himself. But although all those other bands also fall within the Death…
Artist: Bewitched Country: Sweden Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 In the mid-90s, Osmose Productions was arguably the leading force when it came to offering quality releases and setting trends within the realm of…
Good things tend to take time. I wouldn’t necessarily compare Abominator to an exquisite wine or anything of that nature, but apparently it’s quite common for the finer wines to be left to age for ten years. That’s exactly how…
Artist: Baphomet’s Blood Country: Italy Label: Dying Victims Productions Format: LP / CD Year: 2026 After two records (and two demos) in the mid 00’s, that were as ramshackle as they were charming, the Italian Heavy-/Speed Metal band Baphomet’s Blood arrived at their third instalment…
Artist: Blood Serpent Country: Vietnam Label: House Of Ygra Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 After a good debut album back in 2023 and an enjoyable split CD with Iron Bludgeon in 2025, both released by the enigmatic House Of Ygra label, the Vietnamese noise mongers…
Artist: Division 52 Country: Germany Label: Rat Covenant / Southern Soundclash Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 This is an EP I’ve been looking forward to for a while. ‘Total War’ is the debut release from the German duo who perform…
Artist: Black Rock Country: Finland Label: Planet Of Judgement Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 Behind this band, with the rather uninspiring name Black Rock, lies a duo who, in this line-up, have been regularly unleashing their primitive-style Black Metal upon the world since 2012. Although…
Artist: Ashes Country: Poland Label: Malignant Voices Formats: CD Year: 2026 Earlier in the year, Ashes presented their third album. Titled ‘Into the Woodlands’, it marked yet again a change in vocalist. After Vann sang on the eponymous debut album…
Artist: Enevelde / Gjendød Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Some years ago, Terratur Possessions used to frequently release splits. But since the last one (between Whoredom Rife and Taake) dated from 2020 it seemed…
Artist: AntiHuman Industries Country: Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Behind the moniker of AntiHuman Industries is a line-up that would make the average adorer of the Finnish Black Metal scene salivate. On vocals we find…
Artist: Morgal Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2026 I thoroughly enjoyed the over the top ferocity and speed on Morgal’s ‘Nightmare Lord’, the band’s debut full-length released in 2021 on Werewolf Records.…
Artist: Pharmacist Country: Japan Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 From the moment the band burst onto the scene, Pharmacist became an absolute crowd-pleaser for anyone who considered themselves a fan of the…
Artist: Devil’s Emissary Country: Poland Label: Putrid Cult Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 With two albums in 2013 and 2014, ‘Malignant Invocation’ (Under The Sign Of Garazel Productions) and ‘Evangelic Decimations’ (through the same label) respectively, and the ‘Demiurge Asceticism’-…
Artist: Mordberg Country: Germany Label: Sturmglanz Black Metal Manufaktur Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 As I write this, the temperature is almost at 30 degrees, and I’m trying to do as little as possible and keep the…
Artist: Deathstorm Country: Austria Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Although this is the first time this Austrian Thrash Metal band has appeared on these pages, the band has been around for over fifteen years, and…
Artist: Stygian Storm Country: Spain Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Stygian Storm’s debut album was preceded by a demo tape released in the fall of 2023, it was primarily ‘The Flame Of Rebellion Never Dies’, released in the summer…
It is newsworthy in itself when a band returns out of the blue from a 20-year hiatus. But it becomes even more interesting when it concerns In Aeternum, a band I have had a soft spot for for about a…
Artist: Geheimnisvoll Country: USA Label: Obscurant Visions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Over the course of just a few years, Geheimnisvoll has emerged as one of the most celebrated Black Metal bands on the North American continent. Although ‘Pale…
Artist: Countess Country: The Netherlands Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2026 For fans of straightforward Black Metal with a nod to the past and a thick, heavy Pagan vibe, Countess is a solid fixture in their lives. For years now,…
Artist: Savage Country: The Netherlands Label: Milkcow Records Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2026 Savage is a new Death Metal band from the north of The Netherlands and while there’s still not so much known about the band, at least it…
Artist: Antichrist Siege Machine Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Within the Bestial Black/Death Metal genre, few bands are currently as popular as the American group Antichrist Siege Machine. Although the band has been around for over…
Artist: Jungle Rot Country: USA Label: Unique Leader Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Debuting into the international Death Metal scene in 1996, at a moment that hardly anyone still cared about Death Metal, is actually pretty symbolic of…
Artist: Vomitory Country: Sweden Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 There is something special about Vomitory. It’s not about their level of sophistication, or how they’re pushing the envelope of Death Metal. it’s the chopping and…
Artist: Execution Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 If I were to start a band (which I’m not going to do, so don’t worry), I’d probably enjoy coming up with song titles and things like that the…