Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: WiatykCountry: PolandLabel: Diabolical Vitriol / Pro MorteFormats: Demo TapeYear: 2024 I won’t pretend I knew Wiatyk before I laid eyes on the recent reissues of the band’s only two demo tapes (by Diabolical Vitriol and Pro Morte). In my defense, the two…
Artist: Mortem Agmen Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 From the band’s very first step, the ‘Where Life Ends Forever’-demo from April 2023 the German Black Metal band Mortem Agmen has been able to capture my attention.…
Over 20 years ago I spoke with Acheron’s Vincent Crowley for Vampire-Magazine. Back then it was mainly in connection with the then just released ‘Tribute To The Devil’s Music’-album consisting solely of covers of bands like Kiss, Iron Maiden, Mercyful…
Artist: Cultus / Pest Country: The Netherlands / Germany Label: Heidens Hart Records / Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 With strong ties between bands and labels, with multi-instrumentalist Arjan being found in Cultus as well as Pest and…
Artist: Sanctvs / Sotherion Country: Canada / France Label: Sepulchral Productions Formats: Split CD Year: 2025 Not all too long after Sotherion’s debut full-length, released last year by W.T.C. Productions, the French one-man band seemed to have started working on new material…
Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Almost simultaneously with the ‘Swine Slice’-EP Kiloton also assumed we, poor humans, were ready for even a full-length release of this rotten and totally degenerated Black Noise. Even if ‘Ruine…
Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Before briefly calling it a day, the enigmatic Kiloton released this 20-minute EP, quickly followed by the project’s first and so far only full-length album. While Kiloton has proved…
Artist: Degraved Country: USA Label: Grip Of Darkness Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Admittedly, I wasn’t overly impressed with Degraved’s first two outings, the ‘Exhumed Remnants’-demo from 2020 and the ‘Whispered Morbidity’ EP from 2023. Although both saw releases through…
Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Veitsi, one of the bands from the River Valley Cult collective, is going through a development quite contrary to what is commonly seen within metal’s confinements. If…
Artist: Unblessing Country: USA Label: Hooded Demon Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With three demos under its belt from 2017, 2020 and 2022, of which all three saw a reissue via Poland’s Unpure Records, it took Unblessing a few…
Artist: Vampyreign Country: USA Label: Red River Family Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Although ‘Throne Of Sanguine Eclipse’ is said to be already recorded back in 2019, it only saw the dark of night in the dying days of…
Artist: Shadowdances Country: Lithuania Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Life can hit you right in the face in the most wonderful ways at unexpected moments. For me, in these times of war and general polarization, or just…
It may not be the most accessible Black Metal niche genre, nor is much of it really worthwhile, but occasionally something pops up that sparks my fascination with the more electronically-inclined Black Metal. Although Blackstream was formed back in 2005,…
Artist: Crucifixation Country: USA Label: Down With The Most High Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 The mind of the ever-prolific Tom, who goes under various pseudonyms, spawned this old style Black/Death Metal project called Crucifixation that debuted with…
Artist: Falsum Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 If I am well informed, this new one-man band is helmed by the drummer of Black Hurst, a band that I have been following because of their original and…
Artist: Atavistic Passage Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Introducing a new band with zero info is not the easiest task. Other than that this anonymous entity hails from somewhere in the North West of England…
Obviously, it is no longer the case that for good Black Metal you necessarily have to go to Norway. Over the past few years, Chile, for example, has claimed an increasingly prominent place in the international Black Metal scene. One…
Artist: Nocturnal Deviancy Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Just before the band’s split with Drowning The Light, Nocturnal Deviancy released this little demo, made available as a digital stream only (at least so far). With the…
Artist: Annihilation Cult Country: USA Label: Profaner Records / Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 At the end of 2023 Annihilation Cult came up with a digital demo of just over 15 minutes of merciless Black/Death Metal…
Artist: Gnipahålan Country: Sweden Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2024 At the very frayed ends of 2024 the overly-prolific Swartadauþuz comes with yet another record. I haven’t really counted his work this year, but at the beginning of…
Artist: Ancient Torment Country: USA Label: Old Pain Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although this freshly released new EP was preceded by an EP, a demo, a split cassette and a compilation tape, the band never really caught enough attention…
Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although Dryad could have several meanings, based on the song titles and mainly the wintry music, it seems to be derived from the term that divides the last…
Some things are worth waiting for. You can use some clichés here about cheese and wine that get better if you leave them for a while, but we are talking about Australian Black/Death Metal with a touch of Thrash: Destruktor.…
Artist: Mystic Veil Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 After the one-track ‘What Misery Thou Art Fallen’-demo from 2022 and a split tape with one of their other bands (Erstwhile) the American duo that together make…
Artist: Necrosorcery Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 As a jaded old fart, you rarely get truly impressed by new music (that’s different from enjoying good stuff!), so it’s extra pleasing to come across something that really opens…
Artist: Throne Of Charlemagne Country: USA Label: Diabolical Vitriol Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Charlemagne’s name obviously resonates through history as one of the most powerful rulers of ancient Europe, the grand emperor of the post-Roman Empire-era. When choosing a…
Artist: Evokthum Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Someone even half-versed in the wonderful world of the Bestial Black/Death Metal scene will have no difficulty in already getting some idea of where this is going to, simply…
Artist: A Dead PoemCountry: BrazilLabel: Personal RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 You can’t accuse the Brazillian band A Dead Poem of hiding their inspirations. And indeed, it was Marlon Combat’s aim all along when he formed the band in 2023 to create…