Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Mortal Decay Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although Europe as well as other places on earth also had their heroes when it comes to Brutal Death Metal, and I don’t want to sell anyone…
Artist: Hexenshade Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Hexenshade from Argentina, formed in May 2024, is a relatively new one-man band. Yet, with ‘The Revelation Of Doom……’ the project is already delivering its second full-length album, in addition…
Black Metal and a certain form of mysticism and individualism are part of the same thing. The sinister-eyed gritty one-man bands are popping up like mushrooms, but rarely are these core values conveyed as convincingly as by Switzerland’s Aspaarn. Not…
Artist: Armory Country: Sweden Label: Dying Victims Productions / Jawbreaker Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 ‘Mercurion’, Armory’s last full-length album, dated back to 2022, so it’s no luxury that we get a new sign of life from these Swedish…
Artist: Feral Howl Country: Norway Label: Breath Of Pestilence / Howling Fury Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Back in 2022 Feral Howl released two demos, of which the second was an instrumental full Dark Ambient/Dungeon Synth-like recording, but the…
Artist: Wulfgraf Country: USA Label: Temple Fan Wolven Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Wulfgraf’s name is one of those that I had written down quite a few times on many of those little papers laying here next to my laptop.…
Anthropomorphia has been among my favorite Dutch metal bands for years. The records the band released after their resurrection in 2009 are extraordinarily good, simply overwhelming. And when I saw them perform once at the Netherlands Deathfest years ago, the…
Artist: Antropomorphia Country: The Netherlands Label: Testimony Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 For me, Dutch Death Metal veterans Antropomorphia are a textbook example of one of the most underrated bands, not only on the international stage but maybe…
Artist: Venator Country: Austria Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although the NWOBHM-movement has never really stopped attracting new listeners over the past two decades or so, its popularity has been coming and…
Artist: Nithe Country: Norway Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 After a digitally released demo in 2021 the Norwegian Black/Death Metal band released a very strong EP in the form of ‘Night Of The Ghoul’, of which I…
Artist: Draugaskógur Country: Serbia Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 From the Inferna Profundus Records stables comes this new Serbian one-man project called Draugaskógur and with ‘Fullmoon Hypnotic Ritual’ it goes right for the full-length album, skipping…
Artist: Gallower Country: Poland Label: Dying Victim Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 The current stream of bands playing a Punk-ish, Heavy Metal-tinged sort of Black/Thrash Metal seems endless. And in such situations it is rather hard to stand…
Artist: The Satan’s Scourge Country: Colombia Label: Triumvirate Of Evil Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although The Satan’s Scourge, hailing from Bogota, Colombia, has already been around for over two decades, ‘Abhorrent Spear Of Vengeance’ is only the band’s second…
Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Kos is yet another concoction of the person behind such bands as Red Right Hand Of Plague, Great Tribulation and Thirsting Ampoule and the one running the Elf…
Artist: Haavrun Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Transcendental Eclipse Of Inner Darkness’ is the debut demo tape of Haavrun, a new Bulgarian Raw Black Metal combo that sprung out of the minds of vocalist…
Artist: Imprecation Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In my recent musings on Teitanblood’s latest album, I already addressed the fact that there are levels in everything. There might be hundreds…
Artist: Vrëdehexen Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 From Tampere, Finland hails the duo of Vrëdehexen who in April of this year, the band released their debut demo, ‘Omen of Evil’. And even though it clocks in…
Artist: Skoj Country: International Label: Self-released Formats: Cassette EP / Digital EP Year: 2025 Skoj is a new entity of international origin, and the band name is short for “Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije”, which translates to “League of Communist Youth of…
Artist: Woundead Country: Italy Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Just about five months after ‘Breeding Depravity’, the band’s second demo, Death Metal band Woundead already returns with a new demo tape. With three demos in less than a year, these…
Artist: Woundead Country: Italy Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 ‘Breeding Depravity’, subtitled as ‘Demo II’, is the successor of the short 2-track ‘Festering Death’-demo tape that was released in summer of 2024, both independently and through Iron Fortress Records.…
Artist: Crucifire Country: Australia Label: Trauma Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Dark Souls Abyss’ is a compilation of the majority of Crucifire’s work, recorded back in the 00’s. Yet, you don’t have to feel ashamed of not having heard any of the material…
Artist: Infernal Mantle Country: United Kingdom Label: Diabolical Vitriol Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Sometimes, or even most of the times, musical comparisons or other references made by a label to promote or describe their newest release are far from…
Artist: Ablazen Winds Country: USA Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Originally self-released in a small run of 15 copies for a local show, ‘Burning Scripture Of War’ now sees a slightly larger release through Belgium’s revered…
Mortem Agmen has made their presence felt in a fairly short time with a demo, a full-length album and most recently with a new EP. Although all three releases have a fairly distinct sound, it is clear that these four…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog / Åndutsyn Country: Czechia / USA Label: Nithstang Productions Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Here we have another split release from the ever-prolific MBN (also in Arzhaabat, Ärschlings, Blau Blut, CEP and a handful more) with his…
Artist: Befouled By Flies / Drekavac Country: USA Label: Ixiol Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 Befouled By Flies might be a name that only rings a bell with real fanatics of Raw Black Metal and Black So, if you,…
With ‘Demon Steel,’ Finnish Urn delivers its sixth album, for which Season Of Mist was exchanged for the also French Osmose Productions. Prior to this, most of the older albums were re-released by Osmose Productions as well as a compilation…
Artist: Urn Country: Finland Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 One of the bands relentlessly kept in the dark shadows of the Finnish Extreme Metal underground is definitely Urn. A combination of wrong choices,…
Artist: Gryla Country: Norway Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Gryla is the brainchild and solo project of Torbjørn Kirby Torbo, a young Norwegian gentleman that is also active in Hevn III, Nedgravd and Ormpest. In…
Artist: Eclipsed Moon Apparitions Country: Spain Label: En Claustere Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Eclipsed Moon Apparitions is a new Black Metal project that sprung from the minds of M.W. (Manel Woodcutter) and S.M. (Sanguinous Moth), two individuals who are…
Artist: Doodswens Country: The Netherlands Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although ‘Het Nieuwe Licht’ was already released digitally on YouTube over a year ago, the band only released a physical edition of this 4-track live set, that was recorded in February 2024,…
Artist: Clactonian Country: Italy Label: Prehistoric Sounds Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Dea Madre’ was the short debut demo of this Italian Black/Death Metal band and displayed the steps of a decent, yet not completely convincing band. Their aim was…
Artist: Draconian Key Country: USA Label: Ancient Spirit Terror Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although this demo tape is a little older than what I would usually still consider for a review, I think that ‘Mystic Rites Of The Oracle’…
Artist: Tumba Country: Colombia Label: Destruktion Records / Hell Force Records / Inframetal Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Just a few months prior to the release of the band’s debut album ‘Blasfémico Resplandor’, Tumba also released a 4-track demo…
Artist: Thlipsis (Θλίψις) Country: Greece Label: Fucking Your Creation Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 Θλίψις’s previous outing, ‘Dawn Of Defiance’, from 2023 was quite an interesting record that combined some classic Black Metal with the more typical Greek Black…
Artist: Satanic Black Blood Country: Germany Label: De Pankraker Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 From the German virtuous society of punks-gone-metal, this new band arises. Satanic Black Blood are a duo that’s also active in bands such as Secret…
Artist: Leper Colony Country: Germany / Sweden Label: Testimony Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In hindsight I might have been a bit too positive on Leper Colony’s self-titled debut album from 2023. Since the few spins around the…
Artist: Warloghe Country: Finland Label: Northern Heritage Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Despite its release in 2021, the preceding Warloghe album ‘Three Angled Void’ was originally written between 2003 and 2007. Much closer to the recordings of the band’s first…
Artist: Serpent Mass Country: Belgium Label: De Pankraker Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Serpent Mass hails from Ghent, Belgium, and saw its formation in 2016. At that time, Kosmokrator members J. Witchfvkker and J. Deathhammerer joined forces in a different…
Artist: Combat Shrine Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 The all-knowing Metal-Archives filed Combat Shrine under “Grindcore”. Although that is not entirely out of touch with reality, you’re doing this Finnish band short quite a bit. And…
Artist: Abysmal Decay Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 ‘Abysmal Decay’ is the first feat for these four lads from Glasgow, Scotland. But although this is a short 2-track debut demo, these guys certainly are no…
Artist: Black Witchcraft Country: Poland Label: Under The Sign Of Garazel Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With ‘Stare Into The Blackest Depths Of Hell’ this Polish Black Metal duo offers their first full-length album and follow-up to the…
Artist: Teitanblood Country: Spain Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With especially the band’s first two albums, Teitanblood rose to true underground fame. Their sense for combining utter musical barbarity and impeccable song writing as well…
Artist: Iätön Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After two highly enjoyable demos released on Altare Productions and Korpituli Records respectively, it is now time for the debut of Finnish Black Metalers Iätön. For that…
Artist: Black Sword Thunder Attack Country: Greece Label: No Remorse Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although the name of this Epic Heavy Metal band from Greece might feel like some random cool words from the sword-‘n’-sorcery kind of…
Artist: Warmoon Lord Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 While debut album ‘Burning Banners of the Funereal War’ certainly gained some traction in the underground, it was arguably their sophomore record ‘Battlespells’…
Artist: Bestial Rites Country: Peru Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 From Peru comes Bestial Rites, a band that has been around for over a decade but only now releases their first feat. Within its ranks we can…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Who has been reading these pages regularly might have seen the name of Chevallier Skrog pass by more than once. MBN, who is also known for projects…