Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Sépulcre Country: France Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 With a demo entitled ‘Ascent Through Morbid Transcendence’, the French band Sépulcre made their debut on the scene in 2020, backed by the Irish quality label Invictus…
Artist: Miscreance Country: Italy Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 In a Death Metal scene that was almost completely stagnant, ‘Convergence’ by the Italian band Miscreance was a real breath of fresh air. It’s not as…
Artist: Invoketh Country: France Label: Obscurity Of Error Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Hell’s Black Vomit’ is the second demo tape of the French Blackened Death Metal band Invoketh. Back in the summer of 2025, this trio really made an impression on…
Artist: Krolok Country: Slovakia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2026 Five years after the band released ‘Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky’ on Osmose Productions, Krolok returns with yet another album. On this third full-length…
Artist: De Vermis Mysteriis Country: Belgium Label: Altare Productions Formats: CD Year: 2026 By the time that you read this review, the main actor in this story, De Vermis Mysteriis, is no more. Now I know I’m a bit of…
Artist: Empty Chalice Country: Canada Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2026 Empty Chalice is not exactly a new band, as they have been around for six years already and ‘Majesty of Sin’ is their sixth release so far.…
Artist: Obsequial Sceptre Country: Cyprus Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Cyprus isn’t exactly a country that’s flooding us with any particular style of metal; in fact, I didn’t get much further than Necrosadist and Temple Of Evil, two Black Metal bands…
Artist: Hemorrhoid / Sequestrum Country: USA / Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2026 Some labels have never lost their love for (split) 7″ EPs. Thank goodness for that. Whether in collaboration with other labels or…
Artist: Raped God 666 Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 Despite the fact that Raped God 666 released two splits (in 2012 and 2021 respectively), this Mexican old-school Thrash Metal band had completely slipped off my radar. In…
Artist: Orgy Of Carrion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 There’s no denying that the hype surrounding Lo-Fi Black Metal has completely faded. The few years during which one could speak of a peak are now…
Artist: Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst / Crypt Of The Wizard / Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 This Finnish one-man band is certainly not one where you have to wait long for new…
Artist: Sakrifixion Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Sakrifixion may well be a new band, but the musicians involved have been active in the German underground scene for decades. Their track records boast names such as Abythic, Lunar Chalice, Mysteria Mystica…
Artist: Severe Torture Country: The Netherlands Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: 12” LP Year: 2026 When we think about Dutch Death Metal, inevitably the names of Asphyx, Pestilence and Sinister will enter the conversation And understandably so, as they were part…
Artist: Nathrath Country: Spain Label: Diabolical Blood Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Rexurdimento’ is the fourth release under the name Nathrath, whose first demo came out in March this year. That means that in less than half a year, we’ve already been treated…
Artist: Blasphegenocidic Sadowar Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Not much is known yet about this Russian band, which recently made its debut with ‘Icon Of Carnage’. I am unaware of exactly who is in the band…
Artist: Gvozdena Nychta Country: Serbia Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 About a year and a half after the debut EP from this enigmatic duo known as Gvozdena Nychta, they’ve given a new sign of life.…
Artist: Adverso Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 The Portuguese band Adverso released three demos in the late 2010s (the last of which came out in 2020), the first two being released via the now-defunct Purodium…
Artist: Efermus Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Format: CDR EP Year: 2026 Although the spotlight usually falls on bands such as Black Cilice and Candelabrum when we talk about Portuguese Raw Black Metal, this enigmatic one-man band is also making…
Artist: Thornhammer Country: Bulgaria Label: Hellvetic Carnage Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although I wasn’t entirely sure, of course, I was fairly certain that Thornhammer was yet another offshoot of Todorac. Bulgarian Raw Black Metal isn’t something I run…
Artist: Baphomet’s Blood Country: Italy Label: Dying Victims Productions Format: LP / CD Year: 2026 Despite being ten years old now, ‘In Satan We Trust’ remains the latest release from the Italian band Baphomet’s Blood. A few years after its initial release via Iron Bonehead…
Artist: Matavitatau Country: Belgium Label: Altare Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 Quite a bit has happened since we last covered the band Matavitatau. At that time, the band’s first demo ‘Numen Nescio’ had just been released, a release that…
Artist: Archgoat Country: Finland Label: Debemur Morti Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 I’ll have to admit that I was somewhat surprised to find out that it’s already five years ago since Archgoat released their previous full-length album ‘Worship…
Artist: Wampyric Rites / Oath of Malignancy Country: Ecuador Label: Wolfkult Religion / Massacre Productions Formats: Split 7” EP Year: 2026 ‘The Oath’ is a double feature of Ecuadorian Black Metal bands, with Wampyric Rites on one side and Oath…
Artist: Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: Wolfkult Religion / Massacre Productions Formats: 7” EP Year: 2026 I think we can cut right to the chase when it comes to a Nunslaughter release. For about four decades the band has been playing…
Artist: Vināyakas Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 A couple of key musicians that become the face of a genre: that certainly can be said for a country like Finland, with iconic musicians like Shatraug, Werwolf…
Artist: Onheilsprofeet Country: The Netherlands Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 At face value there’s plenty of similarities between the Black Metal bands Onheilsprofeet and Bløtskål. Not only were both bands founded in 2025, they also simultaneously released…
Artist: Flame Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Flame fans are always called upon to be patient. This Finnish band isn’t exactly known for its brisk pace of work; there are usually many years between the few releases…
Artist: Bleak House Country: United Kingdom Label: High Roller Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2026 The story of Bleak House is actually much like that of so many bands from the NWOBHM movement: after a few name…
Artist: In Obscurity Revealed Country: Mexico Label: Personal Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 The Mexican band In Obscurity Revealed have been making a name for themselves for over ten years now and, following a number of EPs and their debut album…
When I first encountered Mausoleum Gate, it was with the release of their ‘Obsessed By Metal’ 7“ EP. I saw it in the Iron Bonehead Records shop and picked it up out of curiosity – back then, 7” singles were…
Artist: Doodswens Country: The Netherlands Label: Svart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 I’d go so far as to say that, given all the touring and the mild hype surrounding Doodswens, I was, if anything, surprised that the band took five years to…
Artist: Weresatan Country: Canada Label: Defiled Altar Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From the ever-thriving Canadian Extreme Metal scene, here’s yet another new band that adds to the country’s metal landscape. Canada may well be the only civilised country in…
Artist: Nuclearhammer Country: Canada Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2026 Three years after the release of Nuclearhammer’s last sign of life, the ‘Xaos Tenawas’ demo, released on Nuclear War Now! Productions, the illustrious duo…
Artist: Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: CDR Year: 2026 ‘Uneen Eksynyt’ is already the second full-length release that the prolific Finnish one-man band Kurjuus has unleashed on us this year. Yet in almost every conceivable respect, this release is…
Artist: Savage Master / Mystic Storm Country: USA / Russia Label: Shadow Kingdom Records Formats: Split LP Year: 2026 Just one year after the release of ‘Dark & Dangerous’, arguably the best album Savage Master have released to date, the…
Artist: Alliberant Country: Spain Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Although Alliberant officially operates under the Spanish flag, the two gentlemen behind this relatively new band will not appreciate this geographical classification. Like many Black Metal bands from…
Artist: Cenotafio Country: Chile Label: Demoniac Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Anyone who, for the last decade or so, has followed the Death Metal scene even a little, will undoubtedly have come across Cenotafio at some point. Despite…
Artist: Bloodgargling Country: Germany Label: Astral Nightmare Productions / Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Non-Scandinavian bands that do go for Scandinavian band names and titles don’t usually stand out for their originality. Black Metal bands from the northern…
Artist: Diabolic Oath Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: 12″ EP /Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 I must admit that, despite being very familiar with Diabolic Oath’s previous work, I found this new EP, released by Sentient…
Artist: Horn Country: Germany Label: Northern Silence Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Although Horn do not follow the same musical path as the pioneers of the pagan strand of metal, and are therefore not comparable to bands such as Bathory, Thyrfing or Falkenbach,…
Artist: Necrotesque Country: The Netherlands Label: Grotesque Metal Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Personally, I’m not usually very optimistic about the state of the current Death Metal scene. There really is far too much run-of-the-mill stuff and, on top of that, not…
Artist: Moonfall / Cult Of Eibon Country: Finland / Freece Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Split LP / Split CD Year: 2026 Although the brief text accompanying this split mentions that it follows in the tradition of classic, cult split…
Artist: Primordial Intolerance Country: Canada Label: Green Matter Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 When listening to ‘Antipodean Evasion Tactics’, Primordial Intolerance’s debut demo tape, and knowing that they are from Quebec, Canada, it’s not unreasonable to think first of…
Arist: Old Curse Country: Paraguay Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Old Curse from Paraguay have been around since 2018, and quite quickly after their conception released their debut EP ‘Solve et Coagula’. Whether it was due to…
Artist: Fosse Septique Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Me Saco Un Ojo Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2026 Although these pages focus primarily on Black and Death Metal, that is certainly not the intention per se.…
Artist: Vafurlogi Country: Iceland Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli / Oration Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 ‘Gneisti af eldi Guðs’, the sophomore album of Vafurlogi, arrives just two years after the debut ‘Í Vökulli Áþján’. Since then, the Icelandic…
Artist: Unholy Black Pentagram Country: Spain Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 While perhaps historically not the most active outside some stoic stalwarts keeping the banner high, one can certainly speak of quite a productive time for the…
Artist: Blótskål Country: The Netherlands Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 The Blótskål originates from the old Norse words blót and skál, and joined together translates to something like sacrificial bowl. It was central to the blót, a…