Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Forbidden Temple Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Yes, I still have a lot of catching up to do. ‘In The Rotting Grave’ is Forbidden’s second full-length album that was…
Artist: Lead Injector Country: Germany Label: High Roller Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 In times when everything around us is becoming more complicated and developments are sometimes taking on frightening speeds, it is sometimes nice to embrace the…
Artist: Abhorration Country: Norway Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 With the release of ‘Demonolatry’ at the end of 2024, Abhorration’s name buzzed through the underground. And not without reason: the album was a highlight in Extreme Metal in…
Artist: Tempest Country: Mexico Label: Chaos Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Tempest’s first outing, ‘Unending Torment’, was a very enjoyable debut album, but in all honesty, there was a clear lack of a determined vision. Like a lose canon…
Artist: Deathwinds Country: Canada Label: Headsplit Records / Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 When the ‘Ripping Annihilation’-EP was released back in autumn of 2025, it was quite a bit of a surprise. After…
Artist: Vulkan Grit Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Since I’ve missed the band’s debut EP from 2023, Vulkan Grit arrived to me pretty much out of the blue with their full-length album. But since the Werewolf…
Artist: Tenebroso Country: Brazil / Japan Label: A Clockwork Apple Production Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 One of the latest additions in what seems to be an endless stream of Eternal Ice releases is this split CD with Tenebroso from…
Artist: Average Misanthropy / Eternal Ice Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split Year: 2025 As part of the latest run of Eternal Ice releases, is this digitally released split with Average Misanthropy, a fellow Black Metal act from Japan.…
Artist: Final Ritual Country: Chile Label: Oratorivm Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Ulterior Spiritual Resonances’ is the debut demo of a new band from Chile, and although that is basically it as far as the available information goes, that…
Artist: Lecherous Country: USA Label: Self-Released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 After a digital demo and two rather low-profile split releases (of which one was also only released digitally), the USA-based Bestial Black/Death Metal band Lecherous published another digital demo…
Artist: Dark Fog Eruption Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Dark Fog Eruption started sometime in the late 2010s and has been around for a while now, yet I haven’t really paid much attention to them. And…
Artist: Irae Country: Portugal Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 A year after the release of the ‘Promiscuous Fire’ EP, we now finally have Irae’s new full-length album and follow-up to 2022’s ‘Assim Na Terra Como No Inferno’. Even though Irae’s discography…
Artist: Remina Country: Greece / Japan Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Rather hot on the heels of the band’s debut EP, the duo returns with their second EP. With a duration of half an hour, ‘Νεκροταφείο Αγγέλων’…
Artist: Remina Country: Greece / Japan Label: Metal Throne Productions / Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In spring 2025 Menschenfeind Propaganda released a split tape between Eternal Ice from Japan and Yūrei, that, even though…
Artist: Autumn Mountains / Witchlike Star Cones Country: Japan / Israel Label: Rat Covenant Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 ‘The Land Where Light And Sky Will Wither’ is the title of a split tape that brings together Autumn Mountains from…
Artist: Diabolus, Mecum Semperterne! Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possession Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Those that follow the Terratur Possessions label or the Trondheim Black Metal scene with interest will (want to) know, this is one to watch. Diabolus,…
Artist: Sepulchral Witchcraft Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Although Sepulchral Witchcraft is a (new) band from Russia, there’s musically nothing that seems to tie the band to their native scene – or at least what we usually associate with Russian Black…
Artist: Misotheist Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Ever since the Nidrosian Black Metal bands Mare, Kaosritual, Celestial Bloodshed and One Tail, One Head reignited the flame of Black Metal in Trondheim in the mid…
Artist: Coscradh Country: Ireland Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2026 I know, nothing is forever. But still, it was somewhat of a surprise to see that the new Coscradh album is not released…
Artist: Sulphuric Deity Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although this demo seems to have been in the works for quite some time, this is still a new band for most people. Only those who regularly visit Reddit or Instagram may…
Artist: Caprice Steel Country: Chile Label: Eseocho Label Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 When we talk about Chile as a country that provides metal enthusiasts with new music, we are almost always referring to Death Metal or Black Metal, and…
Artist: Genocidal Sodomy Country: Thailand Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Thai Bestial Black/Death Metal band Genocidal Sodomy first came to my radar with the split 7” EP with Savage Necromancy that was released in 2020, but even…
Artist: Hideous Mangleus Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Even if Hideous Mangleus released a 7” EP through the French Thrash (Records) back in 1990, I have always felt that the band’s popularity was…
Artist: Asiratic Lithomancy / Eternal Ice Country: USA / Japan Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Although I have pretty much covered all of Eternal Ice’s material so far, I somehow failed to review this split tape with Asiratic Lithomancy. Time…
Artist: Bestial Warlust Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette / CD Year: 2026 Although bands like Impaled Nazarene, Blasphemy and Beherit were already blending the ferocity and darkness of Black Metal with the blunt brutality of…
Artist: Bestial Abyss Country: USA Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 In the latest series of releases by Unpure Records, there was also this re-release of the compilation of the first two digital demos by Bestial Abyss, originally…
Artist: Anima Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 I was first drawn to Anima through the release of their debut ‘Yllä Kaikkitietävän Tyhjyyden’, so for the right context I would recommend reading that review first. It was…
Artist: Anima Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 There’s not much to say about Anima, simply because not much is known. The band hails from Finland and consists of a single entity that goes by the name of…
Artist: Tünböri Country: Türkiye Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 If we have to rely on the numbers provided by Metal Archives, Tünböri are one of just 799 Metal bands that hail from Türkiye, a number that drops…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Vomit Country: Ukraine Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Originally this split tape was already released in 2022 by Bathöryhead, a rather obscure label from Ukraine that seems to focus primarily on bands from…
Artist: Hæksenhamer Country: Germany Label: Death Revelations Formats: LP / Cassette tape Year: 2025 What was never supposed to be more than a drunken improvisation, turned out to be an excellent first release for Hæksenhamer. Recorded in just one day,…
Artist: Goatcorpse / Gotthammer Country: USA / Canada Label: WolfKult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 By no means do I have the illusion that in my role of a reviewer I have any other purpose than to just…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Abyss Country: Ukraine / USA Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 At the Unpure Records HQ, they must have devised a good way to start the year. And what better way to kick off…
Artist: Obseqk Country: Canada Label: 7S7W7 Formats: Digial EP Year: 2026 It is highly unlikely that anybody would claim that Olivier B. Emond is a one-sided musician. With his current and past work in acts such as Gotthammer (now Seraphic Castration), Kiloton, Melth, Pénombre,…
Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As a fan of Veitsi’s take on the Black Metal genre, I never have to wait too long before there’s new material to wrap my ears around. ‘Fenno-Ugrilainen Yliherruus’, the band’s last…
Artist: Vong Country: Vietnam Label: Diabolical Vitriol / House Of Ygra Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although the digital version of Vong’s second offering was already released digitally and on CD through the band’s Bandcamp page and House…
Artist: Krucifixion Woods Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 While Veitsi has enough punk vibes going on, I think Krucifixion Woods, one of the other bands of M.K., has a way stronger punk connotation. Honestly,…
Artist: Bestial Abyss / Bestial Temple Country: USA / Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split Year: 2025 No Nostradamus needed for this case, with such band names and the title this digital split was given, it is crystal clear what…
Artist: Hatenoir Country: Unknown Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 In the fall of 2025 Hatenoir debuted with ‘Candles Hold The Dark Light’, a demo that was released by Blackreach Productions on the most inferior format ever: a…
Artist: Antichrist Blood Scourge Country: Australia / USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 At some point, a few weeks ago, the name of Antichrist Blood Scourge was all over the place, although right now, a good couple of…
Artist: Oblivion Country: Chile Label: Fehexenheit Prod. Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As more or less my standard procedure when stumbling upon a label that I had never heard before: checking what else is or was going on. A couple…
Artist: Archont Country: Austria Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although there is very little known about this band, it is most likely that Archont is from Austria as they are claimed to be part of the Symbolismus…
Artist: Kêres Country: Finland Label: His Wounds Formats: LP Year: 2025 While Kêres amassed an impressive number of demos in the earliest years of its existence, the last few years main man Atvar has been churning out a respectable number…
Artist: Sataras Belzebulba Country: Czechia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 You should do yourselves a favour and check out this band’s pictures before reading further or listening to this demo. Of course I am not sure whether we’re…
Artist: Adversus Semita Country: Norway Label: Altare Productions / Astral Nightmare Productions / Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Adversus Semita was conceived somewhere in 2009 by its sole member Abandoned and hails from Trondheim. The city…
Artist: Inquisition / Demonical Country: USA / Sweden Label: Agonia Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 What we have here is a split 7” EP with a title that inspires little enthusiasm. This “Deadly Alliance” offers two bands from…
Artist: Oraculum Country: Chile Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP/ CD Year: 2026 Formed in 2011, Oraculum from Chile features members of amongst others Wrathprayer and Deathwards. Very early on they struck a union with Invictus Productions from Ireland, a collaboration…
Artist: Darvaza Country: Italy / Norway Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In my review of ‘Ascending Into Perdition’, I wrote that this debut album by the band, released in 2022, proved that their formula, as presented…