Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
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…
Artist: Harvest Of Grief Country: Spain Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Medieval Prophecy Records, home to Forbidden Temple, one of my favourite bands in the ancient rotting Black Metal genre, was once a label where you…
Artist: Diavol Country: Romania Label: Self-Releasaed Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Diavol is a relatively new band, hailing from the seemingly fertile Heavy Metal grounds in Bucharest, Romania. It is a duo consisting of Mike Witchspit on drums and on…
Artist: Vömitt Country: Romania Label: Self-Releasaed Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 In the summer of 2024 I first heard from Vömitt, a bunch of motörized scallywags from Romania. Although these lads already released an EP a year prior, I only…
Artist: Grieving Mirror Country: USA Label: Neuro Plastic Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 In summer last year, Grieving Mirror debuted with ‘Opulence And Grandeur’, a very interesting demo tape that showed the multifaceted character of this one-man project, led by…
Artist: Crévüre Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Whether Sanglant is also involved with other bands or projects, I do not know, but either way, ‘En Rase Campagne’ is the debut demo tape of Crévüre. As one might expect, judging by…