Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: ArmaggedonCountry: FranceLabel: Christhunt ProductionsFormats: CDYear: 2006 When you talk about black metal and productivity, this French Armaggedon is definitely one of the hard hitters. This could be something of the bands fifteenth release since their first one in 2002, which is not easy to…
Artist: Necroccultus Country: Mexico Label: Blood Harvest Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2006 At the time this 7” EP was released the band already split up, or not very long after. So these Mexicans will never come much further then an…
Artist: TribulationCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 Though there are two different bands from Sweden with the name Tribulation, this is the alive and kicking one. It might be a little confusing as Blood Harvest also releases a lot…
Artist: Karnarium Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2006 This underground Swedish death metal band has released a handful of demos before getting to releasing this 7” EP through the Swedish, underground praising Blood Harvest Records. Ever…
Artist: DarkthroneCountry: NorwayLabel: Peaceville RecordsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 Not too long after the release of Darkthrone’s last album, “The Cult Is Alive” they return with a single taken from that record, “Forebyggende Krig”, on black wax. Although they always said…
Artist: Necrodeath Country: Italy Label: Scarlet Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 This Italian band will certainly ring a bell to old school metallers as they have been a part of a very lively underground scene in the eighties. Having their…
Artist: Axegrinder Country: United Kingdom Label: Peaceville Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 In the early days of Peaceville there has been some truly worthwhile releases that somehow faded into oblivion and are totally unknown to most of the new-school metalheads…
Artist: Deviated Instinct Country: United Kingdom Label: Peaceville Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Peaceville Records started out as label for punk, crust and hardcore and had cult bands like Doom, Axegrinder, Prophecy Of Doom, Electro Hippies and this Deviated Instinct…
Artist: AzaghalCountry: FinlandLabel: Avantgarde MusicFormats: CDYear: 2022 Finnish black metal kings of releases Azaghal return with their sixth album in just over ten years “Luciferin Valo” (which is something like their 22nd release in total). It might be clear that…
Artist: Inborn Suffering Country: France Label: Sound Riot Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Bands like Inborn Suffering and albums like “Wordless Hope” gives me so much pleasure and hope for the future. They have been proving a lot to the…
Artist: Fall Of The Idols Country: Finland Label: I Hate Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Everyone who saw Fall Of The Idols live on their short tour with Centurions Ghost last April will certainly remember the apathetic and rather schizophrenic…
Artist: VominationCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 This Swedish Vomination are throwing in some old school material on some old school format. That is how you can make me smile, some raw and obscure black, death, thrash or grindcore…
Artist: Inquisition Country: Colombia / USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 American based Colombian black metal band came a long way. From zero to a considerable cult status. 2007 should be the year of a new…
Artist: CorruptCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 After four demos and a split 7” with Necrovation (also on Blood Harvest) that I personally all missed, even the split 7”, I finally got my first release from them in the…
Artist: Butcher ABCCountry: JapanLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: CDYear: 2006 Japanese grindcore/death metal act Butcher ABC are preparing a new mini CD and wanted to promote that release on their trip to the prestigious Maryland Deathfest earlier this year. It is very unlikely…
Artist: Lethal Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2006 Not to be confused with the American progressive metal band that released a couple of albums from the early to the mid-nineties on various labels this Swedish Lethal…
Dutch Speed/Thrash Metal band Mysto Dysto is as strangely named (after a guitar pedal) as it is cult. They started as early as 1983 and, with two demos and their only LP, ‘The Rules Have Been Disturbed’, have a solid…
Artist: UrgehalCountry: NorwayLabel: Agonia RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2006 I have to say I haven’t been much into this band before, but after their show with Shining a little earlier they convinced me. Urgehal is one of the very few…
Artist: Mysto Dysto Country: The Netherlands Label: Rusty Cage Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Young as I am, being born in 1983 myself, I haven’t been able to witness the Dutch metal scene in the eighties. But the fact that…
Artist: TerrorizerCountry: USALabel: Century MediaFormats: CD / LPYear: 2006 For all the well-known reasons it took Terrorizer 17 (!!) years to come-up with a follow-up of one of the most influential albums in grindcore history, “World Downfall” from 1989. And…
Artist: Last Days Of Humanity Country: The Netherlands Label: Bones Brigade Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 This was an album I have been waiting for for over one year and a half for sure, as soon as I got to…
Artist: Regnum Tenebrarum Country:France Label: Totalrust Music Formats: CD Year: 2005 This duo from France (though Carline van Roos sounds as Dutch as Gouda cheese) recently released their debut CD through the interesting Israelian Total Rust label. I missed their…
Artist: XI-VoidCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Demo CDYear: 2006 This young quartet from the northern parts of The Netherlands plays a mixture of thrash metal and heavy metal. Pretty reminiscent to bands like later Death, Iced Earth, Megadeth and Control Denied.…
Artist: Hate Profile Country: Italy Label: Cruz Del Sur Music Formats: CD Year: 2005 This Italian Hate Profile is a band consisting out of two members who made some of their fame in Hortus Animae, which has Grom in the…
Artist: The Day Everything Became Nothing Country: Australia Label: No Escape Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Australian The Day Everything Became Nothing did it again, blasting the world with a massive release. Both of their predecessors were highly successful in…
Artist: Meatyard / Maggots Country: New Zealand / The Netherlands Label: No Escape Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2006 This split CD is the first No Escape Records CD that kind of disappointed me. Meatyard is a grindcore band that…
Artist: Putrescence Country: Canada Label: No Escape Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 These Canadians surprised quite some people with their “Mangled, Hollowed Out And Vomit Filled” from 2004, right after the release of their debut they announced its follow-up, yet…
Artist: Ingrowing Country: Czechia Label: Obscene Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 After the rather succesful “Sunrape” album from 2003 they have put themselves on the global grindcore/death metal market with even a vinyl release on Autopsy Stench Records, after a…
Artist: Burst Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: CD Year: 2005 Burst has always been a band worth mentioning, even if you don’t like them, always going their own way. Their last album “Prey On Life” was a bit of…
Artist: AlchemistCountry: AustraliaLabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 This might be the most dull-sounding name for a band ever, yet Alchemist is one of the longest running bands from downunder and are gaining little by little the recognition they – are…
Artist: Ceremonial ExecutionCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 Before I read Blood Harvest was going to release this 7” EP I never heard of this Swedish band called Ceremonial Execution, so I didn’t know what to expect. Well, I…
Artist: Embalming TheatreCountry: SwitzerlandLabel: Power-It-UpFormats: CDYear: 2006 What we’ve got here is a re-release for Embalming Theatre’s second album “Sweet Chainsaw Melodies” from 2003 which was originally released by top-notch always-on-top Razorback Records (the vinyl version was put out by…
Artist: Cock And Ball Torture Country: Germany Label: Obliteration Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 The reason for the release of this boxset is unknown to me, but it has got something to offer, especially for the newer fans who got…
Artist: ArckanumCountry: SwedenLabel: Carnal RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 After the recent release of Arckanum’s “The 11 Year Anniversary Album” it is time for more retro-releasing for one of Sweden’s best kept black secrets. This time it is Arckanum’s 1994 demo “Trulen”-demo tape put on a silver…
Artist: Sanitys Dawn Country: Germany Label: Power-It-Up Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Sanitys Dawn is one of Germany’s leading grind/death metal acts since their foundation somewhere at the early nineties. They have been spawning the scene with quite some interesting…
Artist: Indesinence Country: United Kingdom Label: Goat Of Mendes Formats: CD Year: 2006 As their “Ecstatic Lethargy” demo from 2003 and 2006’s EP “Neptunian” already promised, Indesinence would come up with an astonishing debut album. Yet they surprised me with…
Artist: DisgorgeCountry: MexicoLabel: Obliteration RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 Let’s get first clear that this is the Mexican death metal/grindcore band and not one of the other 666 bands with the same name from whatever corner of the world. And what we…
Artist: Permafrost Country: Germany Label: Christhunt Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 I am unable to give you a proper introduction about this German Permafrost, as I just can’t seem to find any decent information and I was not aware of…
Artist: Indesinence Country: United Kingdom Label: Weird Truth Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2006 Just before releasing their debut album the English doomsters of Indesinence released an EP through the Japanese Weird Truth Productions label to save some extra recordings…
Artist: Agathocles / Bloodred Bacteria Country: Belgium / Germany Label: Crimes Against Humanity Records / First Blood Family / Raw Noise Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2003 This split 7″ has got some strange story to it, it has…