Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
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…
Artist: Necromantic Worship / The Nameless Shrine Country: The Netherlands Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7” EP Year: 2026 Mystical, Dutch, and a love for ancient Black Metal. It is what ties bands and label together on this Wolfkult Religion…
Artist: Nefarious Scorn Country: Canada Label: Pain Chain Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Not even that long after the release of Nefarious Scorn’s second full-length album, that saw the light of day in December 2025, the duo is now back with a…
Artist: Hexorcist Country: USA Label: Angel Of Cemetery Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 This is Hexorcist, the Death Metal band from the USA. They were formed back in 2019 and released a demo tape before properly entering the scene with their…
Artist: Svrm Country: Ukraine Label: Vendetta Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2026 Although I acknowledge the fact that Vendetta Records usually offers quality in music, I am not really much into the label’s catalogue. Simply because of the fact their…
Artist: Sorgetid / The True Werwolf Country: Finland Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Split 10″ EP / Split Tape Year: 2026 Under the title “We Spit On The Flower Of Life”, two Finnish Black Metal bands pay tribute to transience and melancholy. And…
Artist: Lord Country: France Label: Northmoon Zephyr Productions Formats: CD Year: 2026 Anyone who thought, upon seeing this release, that Lord, a fairly obscure and by many now forgotten French Black Metal band that existed roughly between 1995 and 2005,…
Artist: Fleshless Rots Country: Indonesia Label: Self-Released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2026 What we have here is the very first offering from Fleshless Rots, a new band from Indonesia. Whether this is due to the increasingly strict regulations imposed by the Indonesian authorities or simply…
Artist: Sentencia Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Formed in 2024, Sentencia is a relatively new band coming from the ever-fertile grounds of Chile. After a bit of changes in personnel, the band eventually felt ready to record their first…
Artist: Solar Cross Country: USA Label: Ixiol Productions Format: 7″ EP / Demo Tape Year: 2026 Originally ‘The Herald Of The Lightning And The Sun’ was released on a very limited cassette tape for Solar Cross’ appearance at the Cascadian Usurpation Festival in autumn…
Artist: Baphomet’s Blood Country: Italy Label: Dying Victims Productions Format: LP / CD Year: 2026 Usually I try to stay away from reviewing re-releases from more regular albums, I’d like to aim more for old demos or whatever obscure stuff that is given a second…
With Vider’s debut on cassette tape, the recent split LP with Bluthammer, and the upcoming album ‘Sounding The Horn Of Obliteration’ under the banner of WolfKult Religion, it is of course curious that this Swedish one-man band has not yet…
Artist: Curse Of Belial Country: Germany Label: Astral Nightmare Productions Format: CD Year: 2026 Curse Of Belial is, as I recently learned, the solo-project of Agris, a multi-instrumentalist who is also active in a bunch of other projects. As I flick through the pages linked…
Artist: Satan’s Vengeance Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2026 There’s close to nothing to tell about Satan’s Vengeance, a band that seemingly came from nowhere and debuted with a digital demo entitled ‘taog kcalb eht fo htaO ehT’. But sometimes info…
Artist: Nathrath Country: Spain Label: Crimson Reign Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 In early March, the German label Narbentage Produktionen released the debut demo tape by Nathrath, a band that had only just emerged from the Spanish underground scene. When ‘Demo 1’ was released,…
Artist: Black Funeral Country: Brazil Label: Northmoon Zephyr Productions Formats: CD Year: 2026 Everyone mildly interested in underground Black Metal, beyond your average Nuclear Blast Records catalogue “Black Metal”, must have at least heard about Black Funeral. It is one…
Artist: Vorgalen Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 ‘Winds Of The Downed Mire’ is the debut demo of a new German Black Metal band called Vorgalen. And that’s about it when it comes to the information that’s…
Artist: Sura’sura Country: Sri Lianka Label: විරූපි Propaganda Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 Although ‘Warfare Metal’ is only the first offering of Sura’sura from Sri Lanka, the band was already formed back in 2022. Not really sure what kept them…
Artist: Criminal Christ Country: Japan Label: Smuggler Tapes Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Bands like Venom and Celtic Frost influenced hundreds of bands in Europe and the USA, in fact they ignited a true explosion of bands who went in…
Artist: Coldfall Country: United Kingdom Label: Forbidden Keep Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Not so long ago, I reviewed two recent releases by Fields Of Agony and Pragha, two bands from the increasingly interesting British black metal scene. Although…
Artist: Messorem Country: Poland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Estimating ages is always tricky. But even taking into account the fact that Messorem were formed back in 2018, it’s likely, judging by the band photo too, that these…
Artist: Necromorbid Country: Italy Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 The Italian band Necromorbid has never been one to work hard and churn out releases at a rapid pace. You could say…
Artist: Evokthum Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Formats: Digitaal Year: 2026 When I reviewed Evokthum’s debut demo, ‘Majesty Blood Vomiter’, back on the first day of 2025 it was still a one-man operation. But now, several releases on, Evokthum has become a duo.…
Artist: Mortuary Country: Mexico Label: Horror Pain Gore Death Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 For many, the return of Mortuary, one of the best Death Metal bands Mexico has ever produced, was something eagerly anticipated. Maybe not entirely comparable, but Mexico…
Artist: Infernal Storm Country: Greece Label: Askio Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Although the Greek Black Metal band Infernal Storm was conceived back in 2020 and have a few shortplayers behind them, it seems the band is preparing for bigger things in…
Artist: Hingriden Fortress Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Hingriden Fortress is another endeavor by the remarkably prolific multi-instrumentalist Wandering Shade, whose work with several of his other projects has already been featured here, including Ërhatiüurä, Hiemal Atavism, Par-delà le…
Artist: Crévüre Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Five weeks ago, on March 17th to be precise, the debut demo tape of Crévüre was released and it is clear that Sanglant, the sole member of the project, doesn’t intend to waste much…
Artist: Gonkulator Country: USA Label: Final Agony Records Formats: LP Year: 2026 Everyone who lived through the 90s and early 00s and had an insatiable love for underground, morbid music must at least have come across Gonkulator or the Fudgeworthy Records label that…
Artist: Eternal Ice / Vëřťžîmbrÿġțžûmşțřě Country: Japan / USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Split Tape Year: 2026 For the ever-prolific Eternal Ice this is their tenth (and seventh split) recording since their inception in late 2024, so if you consider yourself a fervent…