Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Clandestine Blaze Country: Finland Label: Northern Heritage Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Despite the band’s rather modest start with a couple of bit too standard releases, Clandestine Blaze’s rise to underground fame started with 2002’s ‘Fist Of The…
Artist: Penthos Country: Greece Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 Formed in 2017, it took the Greek band Penthos five years since its inception to craft their debut album, released independently on…
Artist: Likno Country: Greece Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: CD Year: 2025 On the same day that fireworks lit the sky to call for the end of 2025, Likno had a little thing to celebrate as well. Conceived in that same…
Artist: Malicious Torment Country: USA / Greece Label: Ancient Spirit Terror / Spreading The Pest Productions Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Malicious Torment is a relatively new band that sprung out of the minds of KK and…
Artist: Seraphic Castration Country: Canada Label: Spiritual Warfare / War Vellum Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From the ashes of Gotthammer and the extremely fertile Canadian underground, not only did the recently resurfaced Melth rise again, but now Seraphic Castration…
Artist: Execrated Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 When I stumbled upon Occultor a couple of days ago, I also found out that three of them were also in a Death Metal band called Execrated and were…
Artist: Saor Country: United Kingdom Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although ‘Origins’ ended up rather high on my Album Of The Year-list, I had difficulties properly wrapping my head around this follow-up…
Artist: Occultor Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 With a cover art like this, strongly resembling Chris Moyen’s, with two goats watching the moon fall apart with a dissected person on their table, it is clear that we…
Artist: Devilpriest Country: Poland Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 To be honest, I wasn’t much impressed with Devilpriest’s early output. While it was nothing really bad, I thought it overall lacked a bit of that…
Artist:Witchlike Star Cones / Eternal Ice Country: Israel / Japan Label:Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 In the what seems to be endless stream of Eternal Ice releases, being either short players or split tapes, this is the next chapter: a split…
Artist: Mortual Country: Costa Rica Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although Mortual has its roots back in 2015, starting out as Sepulchrated, and the band had already released two short players and…
Artist: Volahn Country: Mexico Label: Crepúsculo Negro Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although there’s been a few short players and split releases in between, ‘Popul Vuh’ is Volahn’s first full-length since 2014’s ‘Aq’Ab’Al’. But that was also the year that…
Artist: Behemoth Country: Poland Label: Mystic Production / Nuclear Blast Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 This review is a bit late. Somewhat deliberately. Releases by the bigger bands in the Extreme Metal genres are usually…
Artist: Haavrun Country: Bulgaria Label: Hellvetic Carnage Productions Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 With Todorac you are always in for a surprise. One day he starts a project, the other day he disbands it again, or changes its name. Same…
Artist: Melth Country: Canada Label: Berserk Ritual Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Emerging from the equally inventive and unpredictable group of musicians who previously brought us acts such as Gotthammer, Complot!, Moulin Banal, Adversaire, Shezmu, Pénombre and Kiloton. The exact…
Artist: Krvna Majka Country: USA Label: Prism of Deceit Recordings Formats: Digital Year: 2025 While the roots of the members are unknown, the Slavic band name Krvna Majka, or Blood Mother, may imply a European band is behind this eponymous…
Artist: Blood Altar Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2025 Blood Altar is a new band that, at least for the most part, hails from Germany – but at least has some international component in their line-up. The exact…
Artist: Baneful Tongue Country: Norway Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Baneful Tongue is the brainchild of S.B.E., the one and only member of the band. When exactly the band was formed is not entirely clear, but S.B.E. has quite…
Artist: Flail Country: Finland Label: Gramschap Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Despite that the band has existed since 2018, the Finnish Flail was unknown to me up til very recently. With members that are part of Kiira, Celestial Grave…
Artist: Katakomba Country: Sweden Label: Majestic Mountain Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘The Second Death’ is Katakomba’s return after the solid self-titled album from 2022. Albeit nothing really spectacular, that debut album was definitely a tasty slab of…
Artist: Pentagoatcross Country: USA Label: Malevolent Sounds Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Life can be a difficult thing to deal with, but sometimes it is surprisingly simple. Like with this digitally released debut album, give me a band name like Pentagoatcross…
Artist: Hjemsøkt Country: Norway Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Time is a fickle. A couple of years ago I intended to write up my thoughts on ‘Mystikk & Mørke’, an EP released by the Norwegians…
Artist: Katalepsie Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 In today’s conversations about Lo-Fi Black Metal we usually refer to bands like Sanguine Relic, Mons Veneris, Black Cilice, Orgy Of Carion and the likes. Some 20 years ago…
Artist: Eternal Darkness Country: Brazil Label: Millennium Nocturne Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 As a lot of things in history, also the exact data and facts surrounding old and obscure recordings are veiled by the mists of time. So is…
Artist: Sacris Ritus Vermes Country: Germany Label: Death Revelations Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Some images say more than a thousand words. The candles, the smoke and the skull to remind me of Mare’s ‘Spheres Like Death’. A band name…
Artist: Geatkihaukr Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 Although the band already released two demo tapes and a 7” EP through Out Of The Dungeon in 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively, I only ran into…
Artist: Greve Country: Sweden Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2025 If I’m being honest, as time has gone by my opinion on the output of Swartadauþuz has changed. While I certainly appreciate the body of work that he…
Artist: Barbaric Horde / Goatsmegma Country: Portugal / Estonia Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split LP / Split Cassette Year: 2025 With both bands having a long-standing relationship with Godz Ov War Productions as well as being two of…
Artist: Death Invoker Country: Peru Label: Primitive Devil Worship Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Death Invoker was founded two decades ago and although the band has never released a full-length, it is highly unlikely you’ve never heard of the band…
Artist: Triumphal Vengeance Country: Chile / Austria Label: Death Revelations Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 After a duo of EPs, sole member Nebel is now ready to unleash the full-length debut of Triumphal Vengeance upon us. Once again brought by…