Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Bestialgoat Country: Brazil Label: Brasilis Produções / Unpure Records Formats: Cassette tape / CD Year: 2024 With a back catalogue consisting of releases with black/white/red tones on the cover and titles of which the words are separated.by.dots. it is…
Artist: Destruktor Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 While Destruktor is not exactly at the top of lists of the most obvious Australian bands out of the Extreme Metal spectrum, for…
Artist: Black Funeral Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Ever since Drowning The Light’s spiritual father Azgorh took his place in Black Funeral in 2015, the band’s sound has taken a markedly different turn and his…
Artist: Abysmal Desecration Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With ‘Total Extinction Of Humanity’, this new Argentine band lays their first feat on the table. And if the band name combined with the black, white and red…
Artist: Winterfyllth Country: United Kingdom Label: Candlelight Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although Winterfylleth has become more or less synonymous with everything sounding safe, slick and accessible in Black Metal over the past few years, the English collective…
Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: LP Year: 2024 After no less than 2 full-lengths and 18 short players, Canada’s Eerified Catacomb is on its third album. You might wonder where the inspirer behind this band gets…
Although ‘Fuck Christ’ is not the long-awaited second album, we can still say that this nearly 20-minute new EP can be seen as a prelude to what should be the successor to 2015’s ‘Ego Svm Satana’. I spoke to founder…
Artist: VafurlogiCountry: IcelandLabel: Norma Evangelium Diaboli / Oration RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Þórir Garðarsson can rightfully be regarded as one of the prominent members of the icelandic Black Metal scene, standing at the basis of both Svartidauði and Sinmara (and…
A lot of metal hearts beat faster when Kawir arrives at the front with a new album under its arm. The band has been at the top of Greek Black Metal for about three decades, but unlike many of its…
Artist: GjendødCountry: NorwayLabel: Osmose ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Gjendød have been out for nearly a decade now to relive the glory days of 90’s Norwegian Black Metal. From the slow and threatening sound of ‘Nedstigning’ to the brutality of…
Artist: Nocturnal Sorcery Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2024 Not long after the release of the band’s second album, Nocturnal Sorcery, in conspiracy with Out Of The Dungeon, releases this compilation. ‘War In Heaven, Hell…
Artist: Nocturnal Sorcery Country: Finland Label: Kvlt Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Ay, again I’m arriving a bit late to the party here. But since ‘Captive In The Breath Of Life’ is such a great record, I still decided…
Artist: Lampir Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Early this same year Perverse Homage, the long-time companions of Lampir, digitally released a second compilation of demo recordings. With the title ‘Demo I – III’ it leaves little…
Artist: Dead Flesh StigmaCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 Dead Flesh Stigma is the newest vessel in which v-Khaoz enacts his desire to bring back the glory days of 90’s Black Metal. With Vargrav he was at the forefront of…
Artist: Coffin Rot Country: USA Label: Maggot Stomp Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After one album and a whole series of demos, splits, compilation and whatnot American Death Metal band Coffin Rot finally arrived at their…
Artist: NahtrunarCountry: AustriaLabel: Altare ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Following up ‘Wolfsstunde’ is quite a tall order, as Nahtrunar delivered a stellar atmospheric Black Metal record that could match itself with their fantastic debut ‘Symbolismus’ and their genre peers. Yet…
Artist: Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With Hämärä’s steady working pace you know you have to be on your qui vive, a new Kurjuus release (or that of a related project) is always lurking. And…
Artist: Ruttokosmos Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Ruttokosmos might well be one of the most obscure acts from the deepest forests of the Finnish Black Metal scene. Although never officially disbanded, after only having…
Artist: AethyrickCountry: FinlandLabel: End All Life ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 After a collaboration giving rise to four full-length albums, a compilation and two EPs, the union of Aethyrick and The Sinister Flame is no more. As the fire of…
Despite moving to Sweden a few years ago, Volc Vermaledide can still be seen as a Dutch Black Metal band. After all, already formed in 2001, the band has existed on Dutch soil for the most part. Despite now slowly…
Artist: Volc VermaledideCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2024 The Dutch band Volc Vermaledide finds its origins in 2001, and is the brainchild of Satanael M Raben, formerly in Cirith Gorgor and Walpurgisnacht and currently also in Asregen. After…
Artist: Deceased Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Some bands still arouse a kind of youthful enthusiasm in me. But, honestly, there are fewer and fewer of them. That may have…
Artist: Ignobleth Country: Italy Label: Masked Dead Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Despite these three blokes from the Northern region of Italy being said to be in their mid-teens, they know their craft damn well. Being formed somewhere in…
Artist: Sanguine Relic Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 ‘Within The Fog Of Fragmented Memory’, Sanguine Relic’s seventh full-length album, was already released some months ago, yet so far only on cassette tape. Like many of…
Artist: Kudlaakh Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: CDr EP Year: 2024 In the great hoopla of Raw and/or Lo-Fi Black Metal bands and releases from around the second half of the 10s, Kudlaakh fell a bit outside the box.…
Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: CDYear: 2024 ‘Nuclear Conquest’ is the tale of Turbo Sodomizer, Hammer Commander and Sonic Reducer, who together as Gotthammer have set out to turn the world to ash with their downtuned savagery. This compilation is a…
Artist: KilotonCountry: CanadaLabels: War Vellum / Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 Presented in chronological order, ‘World War V’ is a compilation of the demos and four EPs that Canadian act Kiloton amassed over the last year or so.…
Artist: Temple Of The Beast Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Admittedly, I have missed the self-titled demo that Temple Of The Beast had released two years ago, but in my own…
Artist: Spectral WoundCountry: CanadaLabel: Profound Lore RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 It’s already been three years since Spectral Wound unleashed ‘A Diabolic Thirst’ upon the world, the sophomore record of the band filled with blistering Canadian Black…
Released via Sweden’s I Hate Records this summer, Abysmal Winds’ debut album, ‘Magna Pestiencia’ followed up the ‘Doom Prayer’-demo tape from two years earlier. Those who had the band on their radar back then may have already realised that we…
Artist: Wirdha / NachtheemCountry: Sweden / The NetherlandsLabel: Tour de GardeFormats: Split TapeYear: 2024 On this Tour de Garde released Split Tape, Wirdha and Nachtheem found each other. Wirdha is a new entity with anonymous Black Metal veterans from Sweden.…
Artist: Goat Semen Country: Peru Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 When it comes to Latin American Extreme Metal there are obviously a lot of bands that laid down the foundations…
Artist: AvmaktCountry: NorwayLabel: Peaceville RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 The musical direction of Darkthrone may not excite me nearly as much these days as it once did. But it’s hard to deny that Fenriz has some musical taste. And when…
Artist: Skelethal Country: France Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Probably recognisable to most readers: there are those bands that keep falling off your radar time and again unintentionally and for no apparent…
Artist: DeimhalCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Last year we saw the appearance of Deimhal on the symphonic Black Metal stage, launching into the scene with their EP ‘The Grand Gathering’. Featuring multiple members of the band Catamenia, the first…
Artist: Bloodsoaked Visions / Strigoic Curse Country: United Kingdom / Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split EP Year: 2024 This digitally released split EP combines the music of two one-man bands, both of which have featured on these pages before.…
Artist: Bloodsoaked Visions Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Earlier this year the one-man act Bloodsoaked Visions, part of the English Black Swarm circle (together with acts such as Blót and Snares Of Impurity), released a…
Artist: HornaCountry: FinlandLabel: W.T.C. ProductionsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 At the end of the 18th century, the German romantic poet Novalis (born Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg) finished his poem ‘Hymnen an Die Nacht’. Inspired by the…
Artist: Obscure Anachronism / Horna Country: Austria / Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 Horna, undoubtedly one the ultimate stalwarts of Finnish Black Metal, is not quite a stranger to the concept of split releases. I quickly…
Artist: Sokeus Country: Finland Label: Breath Of Pestilence Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With the previous demo ‘Immortal Wisdom’, this Finnish band already showed some fascination for ancient beliefs, philosophy and sages. Those themes are embodied again on ‘Ekpyrosis’,…
Artist: Arbor Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 With a steady stream of quality releases, including a handful of demos, an EP and one full-length album, one-man band Arbor has garnered some world wide praise for its alluring raw…
Artist: Funeral Vomit Country: Colombia Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Before the Xtreem Music-released ‘Monumental Putrescence’ from late December last year, the Colombians of Funeral Vomit released a demo, two splits and a self-titled…
Artist: Owl Country: The Netherlands Label: Zwaertgevegt Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Earlier, in spring this year, Jeroen Putman released a new album with Owl. Although I interviewed him for his previous record, the existence of this new work had…
Despite the Belgian Black Metal scene having set my heart racing more than once in recent years, those bands were mostly roughly in the same category. Bands such as Forbidden Temple, Moenen Of Xezbeth, Perverted Ceremony, Walghinge, Crypts Of Wallachia,…
Artist: Cachot d’Effroi / Wolftower Country: France / Finland Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2024 On this Narbentage Produktionen released split tape two of the most interesting bands out of today’s European Black Metal scene team up…
Artist: Invocation Country: Chile Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After two demos and two short-players, that for the majority of them have seen multiple re-releases through various labels, the Chilean Death Metal band Invocation felt…
Artist: Sepulchral Conjurator Country: Ecuador Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Sepulchral Conjurator is a relatively new band who deliver their first demo with ‘Ceremony Ritual I’. This already happened late last year with a first self-released on…
With ‘Diabolatry’, released at the end of 2023, one of the standard bearers of Singapore’s Extreme Metal scene made itself heard again. While a new album from Infernal Execrator always guarantees quality and musical integrity, recent years have seen an…
Artist: Concrete Winds Country: Finland Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After Vorum was laid to rest in 2018, drummer Mikko Josefsson and guitarist/vocalist Jonatan Johansson must have looked at each other and…