Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Black Cum Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 With Black Cum, Niko “Behemoth” Thomasson (known for his work in and relation with such acts as Cursed Penetrator, Aske, Necro Ritus, Sadistic Evil and Azazel) explores the most foul regions…
Artist: Temple Country: Germany Label: Ancient Spirit Terror Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 After a self-released and self-titled promo tape in 2025, Temple now returns with a proper demo tape, released under the banner of Ancient Spirit Terror. These Germans…
Artist: DET Country: Finland Label: Cruel Gates Records / Dying Victims Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 While DET is not quite a very appealing name for a band, it stands for “Destructive…
Artist: Martröð Country: International Label: Debemur Morti Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 When the debut release of Martröð hit in 2016, it certainly made a splash. Released on Terratur Possessions, it fit perfectly with the enhanced focus on…
Artist: Faerie Magic Country: USA/Australia Label: Black Omen Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 What we have here is a new band making its debut with ‘Upon The Black Soil’. But while Faerie Magic is a new band, the three musicians…
Artist: Dark Divination / Wampyric Rites Country: Finland / Ecuador Label: Signal Rex Formats: Split 7” EP Year: 2026 Two bands, two continents, united by the same label, and in their passion for raw and melancholic Black Metal. To be…
Artist: Spellblade Country: Unknown Label: Crucifixion Wounds Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Without any information to go on, we’ll have to rely primarily on the music itself when discussing ‘Citadel’, Spellblade’s debut demo. Just as there is no information available…
Artist: Nahtrunar Country: Austria Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 With focus and determination, Nahtrunar has been building an impressive discography. One that started with arguably their best work, the cold and atmospheric ‘Symbolismus’ in 2015, the…
Artist: Tol-In-Gaurhoth Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 For those thoroughly versed in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien, the name Tol-In-Gaurhoth might ring a bell. That wasn’t the case for me, and I had to…
Artist: Goat Orgy Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 If you’ve never heard of Goat Orgy, you’re forgiven. Although this obscure Bulgarian Black Metal band has recorded and released a few demos and splits since…
Artist: Vhünkhobeltràkh Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Lately, it seems like choosing the strangest and most unpronounceable band names has become a way to score points for being obscure. I get that a lot of names…
Artist: Morbosatan Country: Peru Label: Ablaze Productions / Fallen Temple / Goat Eyaculation Records / Iconoclasm Conquest / Southern Soundclash Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 ‘Morbo, Coca, Satán’, Morbosatan’s third full-length album, was originally released about a…
Artist: Necroblasphemer Country: Italy Label: Post Mortem Nihil Est Prod. Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Back in 2023 the Black/Death Metal band Necroblasphemer, hailing from the Emilio-Romagna region in Italy, debuted with a demo called ‘Smell Of Death’. Although the…
Artist: Entrancement Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital Year: 2026 Sometimes a title says more than you can explain in a few words, but as you might have guessed, this is indeed a compilation of Entrancement’s first two demos.…
Artist: Rito Profanatorio / Dethroner Country: Peru / Italy Label: Destruktion Records / Morbid Oath Records / Evil Prevailz / Hell Awaits / Sacrifice Records / Nuclear Winter Zine / Ocstanian Noise Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2026 This split…
Artist: Desaster Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2026 It has now become a non-time-bound tradition for Desaster to join forces with their own ‘Stormbringers’ fan club and the local metal collective Hellbangers Moselfranken to release a 7″…
Artist: Necrogore Country: Italy Label: Awakening Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 With two EPs (or demos) and an appearance on a compilation CD under their belt, the Italian band Necrogore made their debut album with Chinese label Awakening Records. A…
Artist: Liturgy Of Desecration Country: Greece Label: Fallen Temple Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 After three demos, or EPs as they are often called these days, the unholy duo known as Liturgy Of Desecration are now back with a proper…
Artist: Fulminate Country: USA Label: Acid Redux Productions / Septic Aroma Of Reeking Stench Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Even without the earlier digital release of the ‘3 Traxxx’ promo, we actually already had a pretty good idea of what to expect…
Artist: Orlok’s Plague Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2026 Maybe it’s because I’m an old fart, but even without having listened to a single track, I’ve got a fair bit of respect for a band like this that does things…
Artist: Cadaveric Incubator / Cardiac Arrest Country: Finland / USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2026 To mark their joint European tour, Extremely Rotten Productions is releasing this split 7″ EP on which both bands perform two songs each, which, to…
Artist: Blood Spirit Country: Australia Label: Into The Pentagram Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 It’s a bit hard to imagine, but despite Drowning The Light’s ever-intense release schedule, mastermind Azgorh has also found time to join a new band called…
Artist: Desert Fox Country: Poland Label: Gates Of Hell Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From ever fertile Silesian grounds comes yet another old school Speed Metal band, and like most of their contemporaries, they too have a good few…
Artist: Bloodsoaked Necrovoid Country: Costa Rica Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 With a considerable discography under their belts, with which they collaborated with labels such as Caligari Records, Blood Harvest and Iron Bonehead Productions, Bloodsoaked Necrovoid…
Artist: Baphomancia Country: USA Label: Nihilistic Mortality Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Although the ancient and occult Black Metal movement is primarily a European and South American phenomenon, there are a few American bands that have made their mark. One…
Artist: Goatspear Country: Canada Label: Pain Chain Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Goatspear is a relatively new one-man project by the multi-instrumentalist who is also a member of Nefarious Scorn and Pillagery, and performs here under the name The…
Artist: Triumph Country: USA Label: Black Plague Records / Pagan Fury Records Format: CD Year: 2026 Slowly but surely Evan “Immolator” Richardson is building quite a name for himself in the realm of Bestial Black/Death Metal. While not being specifically…
Artist: Vomit Mass Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Anyone who has read some of my reviews before may have noticed that I can be quite critical when it comes to Death Metal. I’m tired of mid-tempo, boring Death Metal, and passion…
Artist: Putridarium Country: Germany Label: Night Terrors Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2026 After a series of demos, a compilation of demos, two split releases and a full-length album, Germany’s Putridarium returns with a new EP called ‘Natvm Ad Mortem’. Honestly, the demos were…
Although the band has been active for over a quarter of a century, Anael is not exactly a hot topic. That was somewhat the case in their early years, when new material appeared regularly, but since the release of the…
Artist: Cryptworm Country: United Kingdom Label: Extremely Rotten Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 At the very tail-end of 2023 marked the return of one of the UK’s most celebrated…
Artist: Hammerthrone Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Hammerthrone is a new band that emerged from the ideas of a few like-minded musicians from Austin, Texas, USA, who are also active in other bands playing different musical…
Artist: Cadaverno Country: Chile Label: Cadaverismo Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 It’s probably not quite a good sign when you’re starting to have conversations about how good the times were when you were young. Most likely it means that you’re…
Artist: Funeral Vultures Country: Brazil Label: Moon Rites Productions / Reliquaire Hérétique Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Dread Cenotaph’ is the first release for this one-man Black Metal from Brazil, but while it was first distributed digitally through Moon Rites…
Artist: Podridão Country: Brazil Label: Iron Fortress Records / Kill Again Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 ‘Coffin Of The Corrupted Dead’ is this band’s fourth album, but even with the rather impressive back catalogue of Podridão, most…
Artist: Ald Weald Country: Unknown Label: Forlorn Majesty Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 This is yet another Black Metal band that is trying hard to be as obscure as possible. Although I do acknowledge that a bit of anonymity…
Artist: Omegavortex Country: Germany Label: Third Eye Temple Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although I knew there was a new Omegavortex album in the works, I only learned that it was released in December 2025 because…
Artist: Blood Rites Country: Chile Label: Life Eternal Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 After two demo tapes, from 2018 and 2020 respectively, and a 7” EP in 2021 via Zzooouhh Records, Blood Rites’ career came to a complete standstill. It was…
Artist: Noctis Bellum Country: USA Label: Torture Palace Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it was Vargrav and Evilfeast who, with their respective ‘Netherstorm’ (2018) and ‘Elegies Of The Stellar Wind’ (2017) single-handedly put…
Artist: Fulminate Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Fulminate, a one-man project from the US that combines Goregrind and Death Metal in a thoroughly old school way, was founded in 2022 and has since built up a…
Artist: Aerdryk / Oerheks Country: Belgium Label: Amor Fati Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2026 Despite them both taking their own paths, Aerdryk and Oerheks have been linked since the very beginning. They represented the 199th and 200th release by…
Artist: Szmrdt Country: Czechia Label: Filth Junkies Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 It will come as no surprise that, even more than the artwork and the logo, it was the title of this debut demo tape that caught my…
Artist: Abhorvm Country: Scotland Label: Death Revelations Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Abhorvm is the newest addition to the ranks of Death Revelations, a label that has been churning out stellar underground releases lately by Triumphal Vengeance, Hæksenhamer and Sacris…
Artist: Gaalvan Country: Germany Label: Crimson Reign Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Gaalvan is a rather new one-man Black Metal project from Germany, solely helmed by Dark Tormentor (also in Asmodeum). As is more often the case with one-man…
Artist: Sammas’ Equinox Country: Finland Label: Breath of Pestilence Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Pohjanheimo’ is the second album by Sammas’ Equinox, a band from Finland that amongst others harbours members of Blood Red Fog, Moon Oracle, Caestus and Nécropole (live).…
Artist: Aürc Country: Spain Label: Diabolical Vitriol Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 One-man Black Metal project Aürc, hailing from Catalonia, Spain, debuted with a digital demo called ‘Autumn Fires’ by the end of 2021, yet it remained largely unnoticed. Yours…
Artist: Black Hurst Country: USA Label: Ixiol Productions / Nuclear War Now! Productions / Signal Rex Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Black Hurst made their debut with a demo tape in 2023, if we don’t count…
Artist: Mughtasib Country: Spain Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 This second demo tape by Mexican one-man band Mughtasib, which translates to “Violator”, is simply called ‘Invictus’ and continues the path chosen about two years ago when…