Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Speedwagon Country: Malaysia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 It was, of course, inevitable that the first comments on the internet about this debut EP by Malaysian band Speedwagon would be about the absence of “REO,” but it…
Artist: Verwándlung Country: Australia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although a physical cassette tape version has been announced, this debut demo by Australian band Verwándlung, recorded in separate sessions between 2024 and mid-2025, is only available digitally via…
Artist: Priester Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Although many Hard Rock enthusiasts will associate the title ‘Soldier Of Fortune’ with the Deep Purple ballad and closing track of their 1974 album ‘Stormbringer’, it is also the…
Artist: Warfare Noise Country: Paraguay Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Even though Warfare Noise has been around for almost fifteen years already and has a considerable discography, they never landed on these pages before. Not even with the…
Artist: Lugubrious Garment Country: Italy Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: Demo Tape / CD Demo Year: 2025 Honestly, if this demo tape wasn’t released on Nuclear Winter Records, I am pretty sure I would’ve never heard it. Maybe it’s short-sighted…
Artist: Flesh Hierarchy Country: USA Label: Grotesque Devotion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Flesh Hierarchy is the brainchild of a person named JN, and if we were to believe the internet sources, this one-man project is the first step into…
Artist: Forbidden Temple Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Yes, I still have a lot of catching up to do. ‘In The Rotting Grave’ is Forbidden’s second full-length album that was…
Artist: Lead Injector Country: Germany Label: High Roller Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 In times when everything around us is becoming more complicated and developments are sometimes taking on frightening speeds, it is sometimes nice to embrace the…
Artist: Abhorration Country: Norway Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 With the release of ‘Demonolatry’ at the end of 2024, Abhorration’s name buzzed through the underground. And not without reason: the album was a highlight in Extreme Metal in…
Artist: Tempest Country: Mexico Label: Chaos Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Tempest’s first outing, ‘Unending Torment’, was a very enjoyable debut album, but in all honesty, there was a clear lack of a determined vision. Like a lose canon…
Artist: Deathwinds Country: Canada Label: Headsplit Records / Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 When the ‘Ripping Annihilation’-EP was released back in autumn of 2025, it was quite a bit of a surprise. After…
Artist: Vulkan Grit Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Since I’ve missed the band’s debut EP from 2023, Vulkan Grit arrived to me pretty much out of the blue with their full-length album. But since the Werewolf…
Artist: Tenebroso Country: Brazil / Japan Label: A Clockwork Apple Production Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 One of the latest additions in what seems to be an endless stream of Eternal Ice releases is this split CD with Tenebroso from…
Artist: Average Misanthropy / Eternal Ice Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split Year: 2025 As part of the latest run of Eternal Ice releases, is this digitally released split with Average Misanthropy, a fellow Black Metal act from Japan.…
Artist: Final Ritual Country: Chile Label: Oratorivm Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Ulterior Spiritual Resonances’ is the debut demo of a new band from Chile, and although that is basically it as far as the available information goes, that…
Artist: Lecherous Country: USA Label: Self-Released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 After a digital demo and two rather low-profile split releases (of which one was also only released digitally), the USA-based Bestial Black/Death Metal band Lecherous published another digital demo…
Artist: Dark Fog Eruption Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Dark Fog Eruption started sometime in the late 2010s and has been around for a while now, yet I haven’t really paid much attention to them. And…
Artist: Irae Country: Portugal Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 A year after the release of the ‘Promiscuous Fire’ EP, we now finally have Irae’s new full-length album and follow-up to 2022’s ‘Assim Na Terra Como No Inferno’. Even though Irae’s discography…
Artist: Remina Country: Greece / Japan Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Rather hot on the heels of the band’s debut EP, the duo returns with their second EP. With a duration of half an hour, ‘Νεκροταφείο Αγγέλων’…
Artist: Remina Country: Greece / Japan Label: Metal Throne Productions / Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In spring 2025 Menschenfeind Propaganda released a split tape between Eternal Ice from Japan and Yūrei, that, even though…
Artist: Autumn Mountains / Witchlike Star Cones Country: Japan / Israel Label: Rat Covenant Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 ‘The Land Where Light And Sky Will Wither’ is the title of a split tape that brings together Autumn Mountains from…
Artist: Diabolus, Mecum Semperterne! Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possession Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Those that follow the Terratur Possessions label or the Trondheim Black Metal scene with interest will (want to) know, this is one to watch. Diabolus,…
Artist: Sepulchral Witchcraft Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Although Sepulchral Witchcraft is a (new) band from Russia, there’s musically nothing that seems to tie the band to their native scene – or at least what we usually associate with Russian Black…
Artist: Misotheist Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Ever since the Nidrosian Black Metal bands Mare, Kaosritual, Celestial Bloodshed and One Tail, One Head reignited the flame of Black Metal in Trondheim in the mid…
Artist: Coscradh Country: Ireland Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2026 I know, nothing is forever. But still, it was somewhat of a surprise to see that the new Coscradh album is not released…
Artist: Sulphuric Deity Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although this demo seems to have been in the works for quite some time, this is still a new band for most people. Only those who regularly visit Reddit or Instagram may…
Artist: Caprice Steel Country: Chile Label: Eseocho Label Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 When we talk about Chile as a country that provides metal enthusiasts with new music, we are almost always referring to Death Metal or Black Metal, and…
Artist: Genocidal Sodomy Country: Thailand Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Thai Bestial Black/Death Metal band Genocidal Sodomy first came to my radar with the split 7” EP with Savage Necromancy that was released in 2020, but even…
Artist: Hideous Mangleus Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Even if Hideous Mangleus released a 7” EP through the French Thrash (Records) back in 1990, I have always felt that the band’s popularity was…
Artist: Asiratic Lithomancy / Eternal Ice Country: USA / Japan Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Although I have pretty much covered all of Eternal Ice’s material so far, I somehow failed to review this split tape with Asiratic Lithomancy. Time…
Artist: Bestial Warlust Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette / CD Year: 2026 Although bands like Impaled Nazarene, Blasphemy and Beherit were already blending the ferocity and darkness of Black Metal with the blunt brutality of…
Artist: Bestial Abyss Country: USA Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 In the latest series of releases by Unpure Records, there was also this re-release of the compilation of the first two digital demos by Bestial Abyss, originally…
Artist: Anima Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 I was first drawn to Anima through the release of their debut ‘Yllä Kaikkitietävän Tyhjyyden’, so for the right context I would recommend reading that review first. It was…
Artist: Anima Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 There’s not much to say about Anima, simply because not much is known. The band hails from Finland and consists of a single entity that goes by the name of…
Artist: Tünböri Country: Türkiye Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 If we have to rely on the numbers provided by Metal Archives, Tünböri are one of just 799 Metal bands that hail from Türkiye, a number that drops…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Vomit Country: Ukraine Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Originally this split tape was already released in 2022 by Bathöryhead, a rather obscure label from Ukraine that seems to focus primarily on bands from…
Artist: Hæksenhamer Country: Germany Label: Death Revelations Formats: LP / Cassette tape Year: 2025 What was never supposed to be more than a drunken improvisation, turned out to be an excellent first release for Hæksenhamer. Recorded in just one day,…
Artist: Goatcorpse / Gotthammer Country: USA / Canada Label: WolfKult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 By no means do I have the illusion that in my role of a reviewer I have any other purpose than to just…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Abyss Country: Ukraine / USA Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 At the Unpure Records HQ, they must have devised a good way to start the year. And what better way to kick off…
Artist: Obseqk Country: Canada Label: 7S7W7 Formats: Digial EP Year: 2026 It is highly unlikely that anybody would claim that Olivier B. Emond is a one-sided musician. With his current and past work in acts such as Gotthammer (now Seraphic Castration), Kiloton, Melth, Pénombre,…
Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As a fan of Veitsi’s take on the Black Metal genre, I never have to wait too long before there’s new material to wrap my ears around. ‘Fenno-Ugrilainen Yliherruus’, the band’s last…
Artist: Vong Country: Vietnam Label: Diabolical Vitriol / House Of Ygra Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although the digital version of Vong’s second offering was already released digitally and on CD through the band’s Bandcamp page and House…
Artist: Krucifixion Woods Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 While Veitsi has enough punk vibes going on, I think Krucifixion Woods, one of the other bands of M.K., has a way stronger punk connotation. Honestly,…
Artist: Bestial Abyss / Bestial Temple Country: USA / Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split Year: 2025 No Nostradamus needed for this case, with such band names and the title this digital split was given, it is crystal clear what…
Artist: Hatenoir Country: Unknown Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 In the fall of 2025 Hatenoir debuted with ‘Candles Hold The Dark Light’, a demo that was released by Blackreach Productions on the most inferior format ever: a…
Artist: Antichrist Blood Scourge Country: Australia / USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 At some point, a few weeks ago, the name of Antichrist Blood Scourge was all over the place, although right now, a good couple of…
Artist: Oblivion Country: Chile Label: Fehexenheit Prod. Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As more or less my standard procedure when stumbling upon a label that I had never heard before: checking what else is or was going on. A couple…
Artist: Archont Country: Austria Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although there is very little known about this band, it is most likely that Archont is from Austria as they are claimed to be part of the Symbolismus…