Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
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…
Artist: Blood Spirit Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Formats: CD Year: 2026 Just a couple of weeks after the release of the ‘Zeal For Blood’ demo tape, this Australian band is back again to present their debut full-length album. Composed…
Artist: Baphomet’s Blood Country: Italy Label: Dying Victims Productions Format: LP / CD Year: 2026 Everything has a beginning, and beginnings are often slightly messy and unorganised. That also applies to Italy’s most straight forward, unpretentious and downright barbaric Speed-/Thrash Metal band, Baphomet’s Blood. Baphomet’s…
If you are even remotely interested in underground metal, then you couldn’t have missed Sexmag over the past year. Not only was there a lot of enthusiasm online, especially for ‘Sexorcyzm’, the band’s debut album, but Sexmag was also impossible…
Artist: Goatoimpurity Country: Chile Label: Acta Nefanda Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 It might be fair to say that even people who enjoyed Chilean Black/Death Metal band Goatoimpurity around the time their full-length album came out might have forgotten about them. This trio released…
Artist: Black Vomit 666 Country: Colombia Label: Black Legion Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 Only about two months after Black Vomit 666’s latest full-length album, the band already presents something new to sink your teeth in: a new EP released on CD…
Artist: Desolus Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Anyone who prefers their Thrash Metal mercilessly fast and heavy had a field day in 2024 with the debut album from Washington, D.C.-based…
Artist: Hexenaltar Country: Poland Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Founded in 2021, the Polish band known as Hexenaltar got off to a flying start. This resulted in two EPs and a…
Artist: Archaic Blood Country: France Label: Hidden Marly Production / Southern Rampart Formats: Demo Tape / Demo CD Year: 2026 Although there’s basically nothing that I can tell you about Archaic Blood or the only person behind the band, but…
Artist: Gaalvan Country: Germany Label: Crimson Reign Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 In the introduction part of my review of ‘Geschworener Hass’, the previous demo of Gaalvan, I already cited that many one-man Black Metal bands do not beat…
A bit like the lightning bolt on the cover of their self-titled album, this band struck unexpectedly and mercilessly. Although Black Sword Thunder Attack has been around for about twenty-five years, their debut album was not released until 2025. The…
Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Anyone who regularly visits these pages has likely come across Veitsi before. Not counting the other projects and bands associated with Veitsi, this is already the seventh time we’ve dedicated a few…
Artist: Nachtheem Country: The Netherlands Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Comparisons were undeniable when Nachtheem released their debut EP ‘Nacht, Zij met Ons…’ in 2024. The album felt like a spiritual follow-up to ‘Venter på Stormene’…
Artist: Doedsvangr Country: Norway / Finland / France Label: Soulseller Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Gehenna, Mayhem, Sargeist, Horna, Tsjuder, Nordjevel and Aosoth: it’s just a fraction of the impressive resume of bands that the members of Doedsvangr…
Artist: Suicidal Winds Country: Sweden Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: CD Year: 2025 If you’re a fan of Suicidal Winds you must have some patience. Sure, the band’s early years were relatively prolific, racking up four demos, four full-lengths and a…
Artist: Night’s Embrace Country: France Label: Starless Industries Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although L.S., also known as Lila Starless, has been active in countless bands and projects, she has only appeared on these pages once before. That was with…
Artist: Countess / Wrok Country: The Netherlands Label: WolfKult Religion Format: Spit 7” EP Year: 2025 With the release of the split Necromantical Worship and The Nameless Shrine, WolfKult Religion already dove into a little bit of more recent Dutch…
Artist: Nigromancer Country: Spain Label: Crimson Tide Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 When it comes to occult sounding, ancient Black Metal, in recent years most attention is directed at the Belgian scene. Not without reason, as bands like Forbidden Temple and Moenen…
Artist: Conifère / Vespéral Country: Canada Label: Goatowarex Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2026 After a good demo tape in 2020, Conifère came with a downright excellent album in 2024, ‘L’impôt Du Sang’ even ended up taking the second place in…
Artist: Diabolical Vengeance Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 I don’t know who lies behind the pseudonyms Pyromaniak and Decimator, but together they form the new Finnish duo that, under the name Diabolical Vengeance, is making its mark on the slowly…
Artist: Madom Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 With little to no information about Madom, we, to quote Joe Perry, will let the music do the talking. There’s literally nothing else to say other than that this is a new one-man Raw…
Artist: Kerzenlicht / Kirous Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 Manifesting themselves as a prominent new home for Finnish Black Metal, Signal Rex once agains brings two bands from the land of the thousand lakes together.…
Artist: Solomonar Country: Czechia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Although there are certainly plenty of conventional Black Metal bands from the Czech Republic and the surrounding region that stick almost entirely to the script, I never cease to be amazed by the…
Artist: Hæksenhamer Country: Germany Label: Death Revelations Formats: 12” EP / Cassette EP Year: 2026 With the dust left behind by the first full-length ‘Poisonous Heathenism +rabid:antikosmik:madness+’ barely settled, Hæksenhamer already returns with their latest EP. ‘Kaoskampf +raging:void:ultras+’ features three…
Although we Europeans initially remembered Death Yell primarily as “that other band” on the split 7″ EP with Beherit, these Chileans were of great importance in the development of Extreme Metal in South America at the end of the 1980s.…
Artist: Varathron Country: Greece Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: 7” EP Year: 2026 In the history of Black Metal, the Greek scene stands out as one of the most unique and recognisable. Forming separate from the Scandinavian Black Metal scene, it’s…