Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Bidirna Dhamani Country: India Label: Goatowarex / Kaliyuga Konspiracies Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Have you ever wondered what Morbid Angel would sound like if they were a Black Metal band? Of course you did. And we have…
Despite both lads rightly claiming below that Hertogenwald is not a Belgian band per se, as two of the three band members are French, Hertogenwald is still considered part of the increasingly interesting and improving Belgian Black Metal scene. The…
Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Before I could finish the review of the first Remains of Ash demo, another demo already dropped. ‘Demo II’ was released just a few months after ‘Remains…
Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Remains of Ash was formed in January 2025 by Dark Divinator, who is also active in Kerzenlicht, Dark Divination, Valonkantaja and Nekromanser. Like Dark Divination, Remains of…
Artist: Dark Divination Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 You just gotta love the thrill of finding new acts based on members of bands you like. Despite being formed in 2022, I was unaware of Dark…
Artist: Kerzenlicht Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 When Signal Rex teased images of ‘Demo I’ by the new Finnish act Kerzenlicht, I knew to pay attention. Lately, the label has been releasing excellent demos and…
Artist: Crucifixion Ritual Country: USA Label: Invictus Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although the band’s line-up is somewhat shrouded in mists, it seems to at least be comprised of musicians who have had past and present activities in bands…
Artist: Chemical Death Country: Brazil Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Zombi Danz Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Those who delved very deep into the Extreme Metal scene of Brazil from around the turn of the 90’s, might have read…
Artist: Alesya Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Not too long ago I stumbled upon Alesya’s marvellous ‘Hex De Tristesse Et Peste’-demo that was released by Mexico’s underground label Svart Hat Productions. The almost 20-minute demo brought together…
Artist: Darkera / Nigromancer Country: Finland / Spain Label: Escafismo Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Next up in line from the 7” EP’s released by Escafismo Records is this one that teams up Darkera from Finland and the…
Artist: Draugheimen Country: Unknown Label: Bloodthorn Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 The so far mostly very mysterious Draugheimen, whose background and origins are currently shrouded in mists, unleashed a fine self-titled demo on humanity at the end of last year.…
Artist: Mephitic Corpse Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records / 625 Thrash! Formats: Vinyl / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With the band’s debut, the ‘Immense Thickening Vomit’ demo tape from 2019, Mephitic Corpse managed to…
Perhaps because ‘Tormented Souls’ has only been released on cassette tape via Hells Headbangers Records and on CD via the somewhat smaller Atolinga Records, it may be that this debut from Mercenario has been slightly less noticed. But based on…
Artist: Mournful Moon Country: Greece Label: His Wounds Formats: LP Year: 2025 Those who heard the band’s previous two outings will testify that Mournful Moon is truly something special. With 2020’s ‘...As Shadows Fall Over Zenitheaen’-EP and especially the ‘Rose…
Artist: Morsun Diaboli Country: Poland Label: Diabolic Vitriol / Pro Morte Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although ‘Dzień Triumfu’, Morsun Diaboli’s second demo from 1998, had already been reissued once in 2019 and a compilation of all surviving Morsun Diaboli tracks was released in…
Artist: Trance Of The Undead Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Format: Demo tape Year: 2024 ‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’ was the second demo tape (or EP) from the Brazilian Black/Death Metal band Trance Of The Undead, helmed by the person…
Artist: Bode Maldito Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Format: Demo tape Year: 2024 Although ‘Sodomizing Christ’ was already released digitally by the band itself around the summer of last year, it took a few more months before a physical version…
Artist: Tumba Country: Colombia Label: Destruktion Records / Inframetal Records / Vociferos Malditos Producciones Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After a good amount of short players and splits, Tumba from Bogatá, Colombia thought it was about time to…
Artist: Eternal Ice Country: Japan Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although Eternal Ice already released a demo tape in autumn of last year, the band didn’t caught my attention yet. But even though that demo was only distributed in extremely…
Artist: Vastago Country: Spain Label: Elf Eggs / Profaner Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although the tape version of ‘Hexagnosis’ was already released digitally in October of last year, this second EP of Spanish Black/Death Metal band Vastago didn’t see…
Artist: Abbashaitan Country: Finland Label: Worship Tapes Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the band has already been around for a respectable amount of time, Abbashaitan’s first two demos, from 2017 and 2020 respectively, have remained completely under the radar…
Artist: Morbific Country: Finland Label: Headsplit Records / Me Saco un Ojo Records / Memento Mori Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 If you happen to be a fan of Morbific you never have to really wait…
Artist: Consumption Country: Sweden Label: Dusktone Formats: CD Year: 2025 After two full-length records for Hammerheart Records in 2020 and 2022, the Swedes of Consumption went for the Como, Italy based Dusktone for their third album. Without knowing any details,…
Artist: Moulin BanalCountry: CanadaLabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Cassette tapeYear: 2025 Moulin Banal was a Black Metal band that hailed from Montréal in the Canadian province of Quebec. During its 6 -year existence it initially consisted of Carabinier Carignan, and Comte Bergaby (the mind behind acts like…
Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: Breath Of Pestilence Formats: CD Year: 2025 After a good couple of demos, EP’s and a split tape with Geatkihaukr, early this year the Finnish one-man army of Veitsi returns with its first full-length album.…
Artist: Salacious GodsCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Demo TapeYear: 2025 After an extended period without releases, Salacious Gods has turned the tide completely. There was the long-awaited full-length ‘Oaelevluuk’ and the band returned to the stages in 2023. Last year…
Artist: Warhammer Country: Germany Label: Ván Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 If you would have told me some twenty-five years ago that Warhammer would release their sixth full-length album in 2025 on a label like Ván Records, widely…
Artist: Bluthammer Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 “Fuck Religion, Fuck Politics, Fuck Humanity”. It can only be clear. Bluthammer does not mince words: this is merely about sonic violence and unhinged total hatred. And, of course,…
Artist: Tales Of Blood Country: France Label: Great Dane Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Although French Death Metal band Tales Of Blood, in one form or another has been around since the early 1990’s, the band was totally unknown to…
Artist: Barshasketh Country: New Zealand Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Besides a couple of splits, Barshasketh released no less than five albums in fifteen years, still I am amazed by how little appreciation this band gets.…
Artist: Ninkharsag Country: United Kingdom Label: Vendetta Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Of course, when you have heard something good or “discovered” a new band, you really want nothing but more of it. But personally, I…
Artist: Sathanas Country: USA Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With their 1988 released ‘Ripping Evil’-demo, Sathanas positioned themselves as one of the very first Extreme Metal bands that effectively blended those early elements of both Death-…
Artist: Shadow DungeonCountry: Bosnia and HerzegovinaLabel: GoatowaRexFormats: LPYear: 2024 Shadow Dungeon was one of the many projects of O. (who in this entity goes by The Leper King), the prolific mastermind behind acts such as Sulphuric Night, Obskuritatem, Niteris and Void Prayer. While…
Artist: Death Pulsation Country: Sweden Label: Caligari Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although Death Pulsation is a new band, debuting with this 3-track demo, in its ranks we do recognize musicians who has earned their stripes in the underground…
Artist: MatavitatauCountry: BelgiumLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital DemoYear: 2025 From the fertile Black Metal grounds of Belgium hails Matavitatau, an entity that finds its origin in 2021. ‘Numen Nescio’ is their debut demo and contains four tracks of Black Metal, with a rather…
Artist: Sadist Country: Italy Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Originally debuting as one of the first bands on the cult but sometimes criticized Obscure Plasma Records label, that would later evolve into Avantgarde…
Artist: Void of HopeCountry: FinlandLabel: Avantgarde MusicFormats: LP / CDYear: 2025 A band with members of Moonlight Sorcery and Ondfødt, Avantgarde Music sure knows how to grab my attention. Void of Hope is a new entity that was born during a…
Artist: Noroth / Grave Infestation Country: USA / Canada Label: Carbonized Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 For fans of uncomplicated but effective old school Death Metal that doesn’t sound all too ancient, the Americans of Noroth and Grave…
Artist: Venefixion Country: France Label: Iron Bonehead Productions / Obscurity Of Error Records / Spikekult Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 Quite some time has passed since we heard from Venefixion, one of the best and most…
Artist: Lore Liege Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Over the roughly five years that Lore Liege, a one-man Black Metal band from the US, has been around, it has already produced quite a discography. Of that, I…
Artist: HersirCountry: SwedenLabel: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2025 In my review of the 2023 demo ‘Hateful Draugar’ by Hersir, I lauded the heavy pummeling sound, and drew paralels with Behexen mixed with Mayhem, Emperor…
Artist: Wampyric Rites Country: Ecuador Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 ‘Night Winds Of The Tempest’ isn’t a new EP in the true sense of the word. It was already recorded back in 2023, in the same session as…
Artist: Wampyric Rites Country: Ecuador Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Since Wampyric Rites’ latest effort, the ‘The Rites Of The Vampire Inscriptions’-EP from 2023, the band again expanded from a…
Artist: Genocide Kommando Country: France Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tapes / CD Year: 2024 The very short-lived first incarnation of Genocide Kommando (2002-2003) left us only one album, the Moribund Records released ‘Black Metal Supremacy’ from 2002.…
Artist: Ad Hominem Country: France Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Few bands stir up more controversy than France’s Ad Hominem. Even without having heard a note, there are already fans and haters of…
Artist: Vainot Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Honestly, I was planning to review ‘Rituaalikooma’, the first demo the Finnish Black Metal band Vainot. It came out in October last year, but even before I could blink…
Artist: Aspaarn Country: Switzerland Label: Self-Released Formats: LP Year: 2025 ‘Oblation In Atrocity’ is Aspaarn’s fourth album in about as many years, and just like the majority of the band’s earlier work this one too is presented on a self-released…
Of the past year, we can certainly count Abhorration’s debut record, ‘Demonolatry’, as one of the best. In terms of originality, it may not be startling, but the execution of Morbid Angel-inspired Death Metal leaves nothing to complain about. The…
Artist: FaidraCountry: SwedenLabel: Northern Silence ProductionsFormats: 12″ EP / CD EPYear: 2025 ‘Militant : Penitent : Triumphant’ was a rather impressive record, released by the Swedish one-man act Faidra in late 2023. Basing its atmospheric Black Metal on a straightforward but…
Artist: Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst / Crypt Of The Wizard / Tour De Garde Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Almost simultaneously with the ‘Crude Magick’ double LP, a compilation of the earliest Hail…