Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Schrecken / Erzfeynd Country: Germany Label: Urtod Void Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 This split between two German Black Metal bands was actually already released digitally by both bands on their respective Bandcamp pages in November 2023 and it…
Artist: Nebiros Country: Colombia Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Earlier this spring Nuclear War Now! Productions reissued Nebiros’ first full-length album from 1996, an album that although it was released much later than other classics from…
Artist: Aznaitin Country: Aznaitin Label: Morken Tapes Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 Aznaitin, an anonymous Spanish entity from the Andalusian region, is a new act entering the Spanish Black Metal firmament. This self-titled demo tape is the band’s first feat,…
Artist: Mayhemic Country: Chile Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The “Toba catastrophe theory” posits that the evolution of the human race was significantly influenced by an eruption of the Toba super volcano…
Artist: Deteriorot / Rotpit Country: USA / Germany/Sweden Label: Seven Inches Of Metal Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 With the aptly titled ‘We Rot’ Seven Metal Inches Records presents a new 7” that brings together the long-running Deteriorot…
Artist: Cloaked Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 With very little info being available of this newly conceived Nashville, Tennessee-based Raw Black Metal band the music on this project’s debut demo should do the majority of the…
Of course, when talking about Austrian Death Metal, it is very easy to mention only bands like Disharmonic Orchestra, Pungent Stench, Disastrous Murmur, Miasma or maybe even Belphegor. While these bands have, of course, inevitably left their mark on the…
Artist: Liminal Shroud Country: Canada Label: Willowtip Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Album number three for this Canadian three-piece and with 2022’s ‘All Virtues Ablaze’ they have set the bar high for its follow-up release. That sophomore album…
Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Despite once being declared dead, Smyrtonos, Todorac’s main musical project, is more vibrant than ever before. Apart from a compilation of older material, we already saw him release an…
Artist: Slvogh Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 From the ever thriving Danish Death Metal/Grindcore scene comes this new entity called Slovgh. A band that was more or less conceived out of…
Artist: Phantom Country: Mexico Label: Doomentia Records / Headsplit Records / Inframetal Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Although the band had already released a couple of short players, Phantom from Mexicon only came…
Artist: VrkolakCountry: Bosnia and HerzegovinaLabel: Black Gangrene ProductionsFormats: LPYear: 2024 At lot of attention has gone to the Black Metal scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for good reason. Band such as Sulphuric Night and Obskuritatem have garnered wide interest and acclaim and put their…
Artist: Demonic TormentCountry: FinlandLabel: Unpure RecordsFormat: Demo tapeYear: 2024 After playing together in Krusifoitu, Human Animal, Arcanos (here under the pseudonym of Black Nuclear Hellstorm) and Vomit Deprivator thought it was time to combine their powers in a different vessel…
Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Not even a year after the band’s debut album, Death Metal one-piece Mortuary Ghoul returns with its follow-up. An album that is obviously based…
Artist: Herculean Death Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Some two years ago I reviewed Herculean Death’s first EP, ‘Lost Hierarchy Of Dark Twisted Arts’ and reading back that one while listening to that particular EP…
Artist: NecroracleCountry: SpainLabel: Triangulum Ignis / Nuclear Winter RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 The Spanish Death/Black Metal scene might not be the most active, but when a band releases an album, you know it’s worth your attention. That certainly applies…
Although I missed out on both 2021 released demos, ‘Arcane Diabolism’, released through Iron Bonehead Productions on LP and Unpure Records on tape, definitely piqued my interest. Cursed Excruciation blends all the best elements of those great occult sounding Black…
Artist: Clactonian Country: Finland / Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Forged out of the dark visions of a few like-minded folks from both Finland and Italy comes Clactonian. A band that took their name from an old…
Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Down With The Most High Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Prior this new EP Opositor already released about a handful of releases, including a full-length album, all varying greatly in sound quality, but if one…
Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Year: 2024 As the title might already suggest, ‘Primaeval Worships’ is a compilation tape of older Opositor tracks that were recorded during the first two years of the band’s existence. To…
From the category of underrated and overlooked bands: Thornspawn. That fact in itself would be enough to put the band in the limelight for once, but in addition, the band recently came up with their fifth long-player, the first since…
Artist: Desekryptor Country: USA Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 No, this is not new material from USA’s Desekryptor. Instead this is the vinyl and CD reissue of their Caligari-released EP that surfaced during…
Artist: Impiety Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 While the Singaporean Impiety by far is more well-known than this one from the USA, their musical background is not all that different. Okay,…
Artist: Penis Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This is the day we have all been waiting for. The day that there would finally be a band that would call themselves Penis. Hallelujah! Well, okay, the band…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 With his many bands and projects the ever restless and total workaholic MBN is presenting new music almost every week, and while, of course, not everything…
Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of this project’s debut full-length, not even released a month ago, the ever restless Todorac returns with a new Smyrtonos recording. This time a new…
Artist: Black Fullmoon Country: Puerto Rico Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 A haunting and sinister Dungeon Synth-like track sets the mood for the self-titled demo of this new and anonymous Black Metal entity from Puerto Rico. And their…
Artist: Ophidian Country: Greece Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Like many others, I have an unquenchable thirst for Greek Black Metal, so not only the obvious bands of the past, but certainly also the newer acts…
With two good demo tapes under their belt, Spanish outfit Vomit Messiah have proven, as far as I am concerned, to be a more than worthy continuation of what we can safely call the “Spanish Tradition” in Bestial Black/Death Metal.…
Artist: Sepulchral Curse / Ashen Tomb Country: Finland Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 ‘Ashen Curse’ is a part of four 7” EP’s released by the Polish Godz Ov War Productions label and combines two…
Artist: WurgilnõCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Fetzner Death Records / Rotting Sun RecordsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 That Consanguineus’ will, passion and inspiration does not wane has become clear with the pace at which he has propelled his latest project Wurgilnõ.…
Artist: Thornspawn Country: USA Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 When it comes to the North American Black Metal scene, the discussions usually evolve around the same bands, it’s always Judas Iscariot, Leviathan, Krieg,…
Much like the artwork of ‘Heavenly Down’ suggests, the new album by Sear Bliss is a grand return to its majestic sound of old. Yet, just like the band never was easy to catch under a single moniker, they are…
Artist: Sear Bliss Country: Hungary Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 In the more melodic and atmospheric Black Metal constellation from roughly half of the 90’s to the mid 00’s, Sear Bliss played a significant role. Maybe…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 The last couple of years saw a lot of Drowning The Light’s back catalogue resurface in the form of some well-deserved reissues, mostly through Azgorh’s very…
Artist: MoonstruckCountry: FinlandLabel: Signal RexFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2024 As if delivering one of the best Finnish Black Metal records of 2024 wasn’t enough, Kratti vocalist Haarniska returns once more in the entity Moonstruck. A different band in which the stage…
I was pointed out by my The Whispering Darkness companion on a demo I should check out, it was also available on cassette tape, but only in 13 copies. In other words: hurry up or you’ll be too late. Fortunately,…
Artist: Bok Country: The Netherlands Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 Although the musician behind this new Dutch Black Metal band gained his experience in bands like Göll and Experimentum, with Bok he takes all the reins in his…
Artist: Ieschure Country: Ukraine Label: Those Opposed Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although the band has released a good amount of EP’s and splits over the past years, ‘When The Darkness Comes’ is only Iechure’s…
Artist: Necrohammer Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Two years ago I stumbled upon this Mexican band playing a vintage sort of Black/Speed Metal that was inspired by all things old and extreme: Venom, Hellhammer, Sodom, Sarcófago…
Artist: Siegehammer Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Only formed last year, this Spanish Death Metal band had already released a demo tape in the waning days of December 2023 and now arrived to its second release:…
Artist: Sadistic Goatmessiah Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 As the title already suggests, this demo was actually the demo the band presented last year. That first version was recorded and released in October of 2023 and…
Funeral Storm’s second album, ‘Chthonic Invocations’ is another triumphant display of the Greek Black Metal sound, delving deep into the mystique of that distinctly recognizable atmosphere with its sinister and incantatory melodies and rhythms. This way the band is, slowly…
Artist: ElementalCountry: FinlandLabel: Final Agony RecordsFormats: 12″ LPYear: 2024 If you though that Kêres plays bareboned and primitive Black Metal, let me introduce Elemental to you. Atvar, the main man behind not only Kêres but also Circle of Ouroborus, Rahu…
Although Korpituli had already put out some good quality releases, it was with the recently released ‘Pohjola’ that things got really interesting. Whereas the first two albums consisted of fairly well-executed, but perhaps a bit on the safe side Melodic…
Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Death Division Rituals Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a couple of various short players Chilean Death Metal band Rotten Tomb struck us in 2022 with a great chunky piece of Death Metal…
Artist: Hellgate Necrosodomy Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Just add it all up: the band name, the Finnish origin, the album’s artwork and the fact that this record is released by Unpure Records… For the seasoned…
Artist: Ancient Necromancy Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Ancient Necromancy, a one-man Black Metal band spawned out of the mind of Eldrinacht, also responsible for such acts as Cult of Thaumiel and Gharmelicht, released one…
Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With this fourth EP in a short series of short-players released by the ever-restless and prolific T.S., a Canadian musician who has been torturing our senses with several other…
Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 ‘Heart’ is the third Kiloton EP that was released in a series of four that further expands the audial onslaught that was set in with last year’s trio of…