Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
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…
Artist: Funeral Moon / Gaalvan Country: Germany Label: Crimson Reign Records Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Just as on previous occasions, we haven’t had to wait long for new work from Gaalvan; just three months after the release of…
Artist: Abhorrent Execration Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 In just a few years, Abhorrent Execration was founded in 2022, this French duo has built up quite a discography. Starting with two demos, the band is now…
Artist: Arise From Worms Country: USA Label: Church Road Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Although the formation of Arise From Worms had already been announced a little earlier, the release of their self-titled 3-track 12″ back in 2022…
Artist: Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: BLKIIBLK Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 For a band that has been around more or less since 1985 and is known as the metal band with the most releases, it is perhaps…
Artist: Necro Ritus Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo tape Year: 2026 ‘Born by Evil Blood’ combines the ‘Beast Unleashed’ and ‘Temple of Fornication’ demos, the first two Necro Ritus releases, onto one Cassette. This band was spawned in…
Artist: Chamber Of Unlight Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 That a new Chamber of Unlight album was inbound comes as no surprise, as the band already teased a new track in 2023 in the…
Artist: Sadistic Evil Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo tape Year: 2026 Sadistic Evil is one of the many outlets of Behemoth, a gentleman that has made his mark on Finnish Black Metal since 1991 in bands such as…
When we talk about French Black Metal, we quickly end up discussing bands such as Mütiilation, Deathspell Omega, and Antaeus, for example, but in a previous interview, I already mentioned that excellent bands such as Merrimack and Hell Militia sometimes…
Artist: Devourment Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2026 Brutal Death Metal doesn’t feature on these pages all that often, but that doesn’t mean we’re not up for it. Certainly not when it comes to Devourment. Like…
Artist: Thy Killing Hand Country: Poland Label: End All Life Productions / Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Thy Killing Hand is a relatively new Polish band that after two demos now releases their debut full-length album…
Artist: Inferno Country: Czechia Label: Debemur Morti Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2026 For a discography marked by radical change, one that transitioned from crude Black Metal to a sophisticated and enveloping listening experience over the…
Artist: Witchcraft / BlackStream Country: Finland / Italy Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split 12” LP Year: 2026 Capping off a set of Witchcraft releases on WolfKult Religion is ‘House of Sacrilege’, a split release that was already launched in January…
Artist: Morgarath Country: Poland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 As previously noted and reported, the Silesia region of Poland is a hotbed of uncompromising Extreme Metal. In recent months, a great many bands from the area have managed…
Artist: Drudkh Country: Ukraine Label: Season of Mist Underground Activists Formats: 12” EP / CD EP Year: 2026 With thirteen full-lengths albums under their belts and an immensely recognizable sound, Drudkh has no doubt become of the most iconic Black…
Artist: Twilight Stronghold Country: France Label: The Weeping Kingdom Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Although Twilight Stronghold released their first demo back in 2021, followed by three split releases and a compilation featuring those tracks, I can imagine that for…
Artist: Riena Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 ‘Miekka Ja Varjo’ is the first sign of battle of Finland’s Riena. The band harbors the talents of Draghn and Woewerb, the latter who you…
Artist: Piołun Country: Poland Label: Malignant Voices Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 ‘Exolvuntur’ represents the second chapter in the discography of the Polish Black Metal band Piołun. That journey started in 2019 and led in 2022 to the debut…