Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Combat Shrine Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 The all-knowing Metal-Archives filed Combat Shrine under “Grindcore”. Although that is not entirely out of touch with reality, you’re doing this Finnish band short quite a bit. And…
Artist: Abysmal Decay Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 ‘Abysmal Decay’ is the first feat for these four lads from Glasgow, Scotland. But although this is a short 2-track debut demo, these guys certainly are no…
Artist: Black Witchcraft Country: Poland Label: Under The Sign Of Garazel Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With ‘Stare Into The Blackest Depths Of Hell’ this Polish Black Metal duo offers their first full-length album and follow-up to the…
Artist: Teitanblood Country: Spain Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With especially the band’s first two albums, Teitanblood rose to true underground fame. Their sense for combining utter musical barbarity and impeccable song writing as well…
Artist: Iätön Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After two highly enjoyable demos released on Altare Productions and Korpituli Records respectively, it is now time for the debut of Finnish Black Metalers Iätön. For that…
Artist: Black Sword Thunder Attack Country: Greece Label: No Remorse Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although the name of this Epic Heavy Metal band from Greece might feel like some random cool words from the sword-‘n’-sorcery kind of…
Artist: Warmoon Lord Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 While debut album ‘Burning Banners of the Funereal War’ certainly gained some traction in the underground, it was arguably their sophomore record ‘Battlespells’…
Artist: Bestial Rites Country: Peru Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 From Peru comes Bestial Rites, a band that has been around for over a decade but only now releases their first feat. Within its ranks we can…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Who has been reading these pages regularly might have seen the name of Chevallier Skrog pass by more than once. MBN, who is also known for projects…
Artist: Spektrum Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Out of one of the world’s major hotbeds for Extreme Metal, the Chilean Death Metal underground scene, comes Spektrum. A relative new band that was initially founded under the…
Artist: Phantom Country: Mexico Label: High Roller Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Phantom’s debut record, ‘Handed To Execution’, was one of the absolute highlights of 2023 and consequently ended up in my personal top 5…
Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Over the past few years, I have learned a thing or two about video games that I have never even seen in my entire life. There is a…
Artist: Chaos Insignia Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Probably prompted by the current popularity of the virtuous Antichrist Siege Machine, who have a song titled Chaos Insignia, these Romanians enter the field of chaotic Black/Death Metal…
Artist: Haemorrhage Country: Spain Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Haemorrhage’s roots go as deep as to 1990 and have ever since been a band that’s been amongst the leading acts when it comes…
Artist: Sectarium Country: Cuba Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Extreme Metal might have been the most popular in some European, North and South American countries, but the long arms of the genre stretched to the most unlikely…
Artist: Whipstriker Country: Brazil Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although Whipstriker feels like they are around since forever, ‘Cry Of Extinction’ is only the band’s fifth full-length album. Their tendency to bombard…
Artist: Inferior Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Even without having a clue who is exactly behind the band, Inferior isn’t making a secret of their musical direction. The cover art for ‘Wrath’ already gives away a bit,…
Artist: Seance In Darkness To Shake The Firmament / Orgy Of Carrion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Split CD Year: 2025 Although Perverse Homage is a label that might primarily be associated with cassette tape releases, the label now…
Artist: Matru-zebu Country: Finland Label: Ancien Culte Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 Ancien Culte presents the debut demo tape of Matru-Zebu, what appears to be a new band from Finland. Spawned in the illustrious Elemental Cavern in Finland, the entities…
Artist: Moft / Nachtheem Country: The Netherlands Label: Self-released Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 Almost coinciding with the release of the remastered version of the band’s debut ‘Nacht Zij Met Ons..’ on the highly esteemed Terratur Possessions, Nachtheem has another…
Artist: Crepuscule Country: Italy Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Among the set of demo tapes recently re-released by La Caverna Records is also this single demo from Crepuscule. This Italian band was formed by the duo Raff…
Artist: High Speed Death Country: Italy Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 The Bogotá, Colombia based label La Caverna Records decided to take a really deep dive into someone’s old tapes collection. At least, so it seems, as…
Artist: Worm Altar Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After the release of the band’s ‘Astral Scourge’-EP from Summer 2023, it was rather quiet around Worm Altar. Usually one-man bands tend to release one demo or EP…
Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Grime Stone Records / Nightshade Productions Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although ‘The Bleak Veil Endures’ is a bit older, being released on CD some half year ago, it is still very…
Artist: Corrosives Country: Canada/USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 How this trio came together is something that you should ask them, but regardless of how their individual paths crossed, this Canadian/American collective surely knows how to make some…
Artist: Septicflesh Country: Greece Label: Nuclear Blast Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2025 In the running up to Septicflesh’s new album, that should appear somewhere in the next couple of months, the Greek masters of bombastic metal presents us with an…
Artist: Rotten Moon Country: Finland Label: Jems Label Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 By no means Finland’s Rotten Moon has ever been a band that was an easy listen or close to a quick Black Metal fix. Instead Antti “Heinous…
Artist: Corpus Offal Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 “Bring in that debut album”. With these words I closed my review on Corpus Offal’s 2-track demo tape that was released in…
Artist: Robust Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 This one came out of nowhere. No previous mention, no appearance on a Terratur Compendium. Here is Robust, from the fires of Nidaros, with their full-length debut.…
Artist: Enevelde Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions / Cloven Hoof Brewing & Releasing Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 “Night breaks open like a wound bleeding anew Blow after blow raging flames You call me I dream…
Artist: The Chamberlain Country: Finland Label: Out of the Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Dominus Noctis’ was a pretty decent first release for Finnish Black Metal outfit The Chamberlain, taking their experience in other bands into a symphonic Black Metal…
Artist: Norrhem Country: Finland Label: Out of the Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 Norrhem’s musical journey has taken them through quite a development, starting from rawer beginnings to a sound that became increasingly more epic in atmosphere. With ‘Aurinko Ja…
Artist: Lucifer’s Child Country: Greece Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Reviewing music is, just as listening to music, by definition about opinions and overall subjectivity. Although you might try to be as objective…
Artist: Black Fullmoon Country: Puerto Rico Label: Mamzer Records / Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Pure Les Légions Noires worship: the Puerto Rican Black Metal band Black Fullmoon clearly didn’t hide their intentions for their debut demo.…
Artist: Pyromancer Country: USA Label: Adirondack Black Mass Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Demo MMXV’, Pyromancer’s debut demo tape from (you guessed it) 2015 it was awkwardly quiet around the band for about a…
Artist: Blodoffer Country: Poland Label: Under The Sign Of Garazel Productions / Zombi Danz Records Formats: 12″ EP / Demo Tape Year: 2024 Even if you have no idea what to expect from a debut demo from an anonymous Polish…
Artist: Great Tribulation Country: Spain / USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After the 1-track demo/promo from early January this year, the Spanish/American trio that together makes up Great Tribulation is back already with their debut album.…
Artist: Priester Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Priester, a new Heavy/Speed Metal band from Finland, was built upon the bits and pieces that were left after Borley Rectory was put on ice – or at least,…
Artist: HellAvenger Country: Chile Label: Death Division Rituals / Destruktion Records / Dynamite Records / El Abismo / Holycaust Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 ‘The Primordial Fire’, the debut full-length of this Santiago, Chile based…
Artist: Trench Foot Country: United Kingdom Label: Cavernous Records / Iron Fortress Records / Macho Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 It hasn’t been since 2022, with the release of the ‘Moral Obscenity’ EP since we last…
Artist: Grave Infestation Country: Canada Label: Dark Descent Records / Invictus Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 The last couple of years Grave Infestation has evolved into a rather smooth rolling Death Metal machine. If you’d listen back to…
Artist: Necrochakal Country: Greece Label: Floga Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Since the band’s formation some 12 years ago, Necrochakal from Athens, Greece, has tormented the ears of followers of the Extreme Metal underground. Yet they have done so by…
Artist: Vidarr Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 By the look at the grainy black/white artwork and this specific logo you might judge that this is yet another band of Ildjarn-worship. And, in a certain way you wouldn’t be…
Artist: Ingwald Country: Russia Label: Jems Label Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Ingwald is one of the musical vessels of Waldsarg, the person who is also behind Vidarr, with which he releases his debut demo, simply titled ‘Demo 1’, through the USA-based…
Artist: Mystic Realm Plagued With Eternal Curses Country: USA Label: Annulet Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 From the illustrious Annulet circles comes this duo that goes under the long name of Mystic Realm Plagued With Eternal Curses. Just like their peers such as Juniper,…
Artist: Kêres Country: Finland Label: Final Agony / Vermines Pestifera Formats: LP Year: 2025 Kêres fans rejoice! One year after the last sign of life, Atvar returns. ‘Skryer of the Lighthouse’ is the latest full-length, featuring ten songs spread over…
Artist: Profanatica Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Phrases like “band X requires no further introduction” are used all the time. In most cases that is highly debatable, at least in terms…
Artist: Stygian Storm Country: Spain Label: Abyssal Spectra / Escafismo Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Usually, when it comes to reviewing, I like to stick with releases of a few weeks old, couple of months maximum. Otherwise…
Artist: Carrion Liturgy Country: USA Label: Venereal Veneration Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Without much information to go on, I can basically only mention that Carrion Liturgy is a new Black Metal project from USA, helmed by a duo whose identities are…
Artist: Ligament Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Yes, I can be a sour old guy for whom things are not easily good enough, but there are times when the young boy in me awakens. Just say “this…