Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Nuctemeron Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 In recent years, German Black/Speed Metal band Nuctemeron has worked hard to build a solid reputation, and it’s almost impossible not to have come across their name somewhere…
Artist: Hyperdontia Country: Denmark Label: Desiccated Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although I followed the Danish Death Metal scene rather religiously when things started booming there around the 2010’s, over the years it brought us an…
Artist: Unleashed Country: Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In some of my previous reviews I already touched upon it, the way how you perceive an album (or a band as a whole) has not only…
Artist: Blight Psalm Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Blight Psalm seems to be the result of the involved musicians’ desire to do something different from Death Metal-oriented music. These Spaniards are also active in bands…
Artist: Sempervirens Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sempervirens, which loosely translates to “Evergreen”, was founded a few years ago as a duo with a seemingly aim to create some Black Metal that’s both raw and atmospheric.…
Artist: Gam Country: Denmark Label: Résilience Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 After Gam’s amazing 2022 ‘Hvisken Fra Skyggernes Vrå’-demo and the following full-length album, ‘Alt Hans Væsen’, from 2023, that for me came out of left field, I was eagerly awaiting some new sign of…
Artist: Cerebral Curse Country: Spain Label: Rotted Life Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Promo ‘25’ is the first feat of this Spanish duo, who have already been featured on these pages before in their other bands like Rotten Cavern, Siegehammer and Blight Psalm.…
Artist:Blasfemator / Sepulcral Country: Greece / Colombia Label: Murder Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I am never keeping a very close eye on Murder Records. There’s no particular reason, it’s just that this label’s releases aren’t usually my cup of tar. But,…
Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Only a mere three weeks after the release of ‘The Black Serpents Lament’, Chalice Of Eden already returns with a second demo. Maybe we shouldn’t be that surprised, as the main composed…
Artist: Temora Country: Czechia Label: Filth Junkies Records Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 With this self-titled debut demo, this young Czech band presents itself to the world. Although the Filth Junkies Records label is involved, a physical release seems not…
Artist: Spectral Torture Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Together with this new ‘Reflections Under The Stench Of Resentment’, Spectral Torture, one of the many musical endeavours of E.X. (also known for his work in Drape, EJXA…
Artist: Nidernes Country: Portugal Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 Whether desired or not, Nidernes was part of the exploding (Raw) Black Metal scene of the late 2010s, in which his home country Portugal proved to be an…
Artist: Fields Of Agony Country: United Kingdom Label: Hettend Tapes Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although I had never heard of Hettend Tapes before recently, this collective/label has a number of interesting bands under its wing. For me, it was…
Artist: Kasturn Country: United Kingdom Label: Hettend Tapes Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After an exceptionally good sophomore record, the 2024-released ‘The Torchbearer Fades’, the trio that is Kasturn returns with a new rehearsal tape. With another round of tracks…
Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With seemingly little effort, the anonymous figure behind projects such as Red Right Hand Of Plague, Kos, Thirsting Ampoule, Vëřťžîmbrÿġțžûmşțřě and Great Tribulation, as well as the Elf Eggs…
Artist: Grieving Mirror Country: USA Label: Neuro Plastic Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Either scavenging around on Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify, digging around through distro lists and webshops or following the much appreciated tips and hints from people whose nose for…
Artist: Sarastus Country: Finland Label: Dominance of Darkness Records Format: LP / CD Year: 2025 Five years have passed since the last release by Finland’s Sarastus, even six if you count the time since the last full-length. Time that did…
Artist: Mystic Blood Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 Dark Divinator and Haarniska seem overflowing with ideas. Mystic Blood is their latest cooperation, after also featuring together in the excellent Kerzenlicht alongside their other…
Artist: Abominablood Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 With quite an extensive discography, existing out of several demos, EP’s, split releases and three full-length albums, Argentinian Abominablood has increasingly perfected its take on the Black/Death Metal genre.…
Artist: Serpent Gate Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It is true that the things you grow up with always keep a certain charm, no matter your current age. Things tend to make more impact and help…
Artist: Hibernal Abyss Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Demo MMXXV’ is the first demo of Hibernal Abyss, a new Raw Black Metal band from the United Kingdom that is apparently led by multi-instrumentalist Atavistic Passage,…
Artist: Efermus Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Format: CDR EP Year: 2025 With a considerable output over the past four-and-a-bit years, it might not be surprising that Portuguese Efermus was featured on these pages before. In fact, the last year,…
Artist: Satans Blade Country: Canada Label: Defiled Altar Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 In times when we have become accustomed and spoiled, consciously or not, to the convenience of having all music at our fingertips and receiving our promos digitally,…
Artist: Wisteria Country: USA Label: Lampshade Tapes Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Wisteria, a one-man Black Metal band from Cleveland, Ohio, came to life early 2024 with a debut full-length called ‘Nightfall’. With its serene cover art and expressive title,…
Artist: Witchmoon Country: USA Label: Death Hymns / Lampshade Tapes Formats: LP Year: 2025 Personally I ran into Witchmoon with the split LP’s with Lampir and Hand Of Glory from 2018 and 2019 respectively. Basically the peak of the madness surrounding the Raw/Lo-Fi…
Artist: Satanic Gore Procession Country: USA Label: Nihilistic Mortality Productions / Order Of The Old Flame Productions Formats: Demo Tape / Demo CD Year: 2025 First of all, this is not exactly a brand new demo (or EP), it was originally released…
Artist: Burning Winds Country: USA Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 In these times when everything is readily available and bands release one album after another, when transience and superficiality reign supreme, when attention spans seem to last no longer than…
Artist:Luminous Transfixion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: CDR Year: 2025 Well over four years after the debut album of the somewhat mysterious project of Luminous Transfixion, we are, more or less out of the blue, treated with its successor. Even if you have…
Artist: Mooncitadel Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 Finland’s Mooncitadel has continued to impress me, from their earliest beginnings as Watcher’s Abyss and Empire of Tharaphita to their first recordings with Mooncitadel, and their most…
Artist: Grand Bewitchment Country: USA Label: Damnation’s Edge Productions Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 After having put out a demo tape and a split tape in 2021 and 2023 respectively, both released through the band’s own Damnation’s…
Artist: …and Oceans Country: Finland Label: Season of Mist Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 When I first ran into …and Oceans, sometime around the turn of the millennium, I was completely blown away with the band’s debut album, ‘Dynamic…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 After the monumental achievement of releasing no less than five full-length albums at once, Azghor again found some spare time to record a new EP, entitled ‘Viscera Of The…
Artist: Dracula Country: Australia Label: Creep Purple Formats: LP (Unofficial) Year: 2025 As if there isn’t enough controversy involved with a release that has a member of Black Magick SS in their ranks, this compilation LP, covering the entire discography…
Artist: Mystic Veil Country: USA Label: Sinister Shadow Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although ‘What Misery Thou Art Fallen… Taste Of Death But Once’ is mentioned as a compilation LP, it is not much of compilation in the typical sense. Side…
Artist: Sewer Haul Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 After the release of Slovgh’s ‘Emetic Fluid Transaction’-EP on cassette, released in the summer of 2024, both the band and their label thought it would be…
Artist: Deceased Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 2CD Year: 2025 My guess is, since you are reading this, that Deceased is a band that has a special place for you as well. Deceased has never been a trendy…
Artist:Smyrtonos / Vagabond Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 After no less than five new releases in 2024, including the debut album, this year so far was remarkably quiet for Bulgarian Raw Black Metal act Smyrtonos (or Смъртонос), but…
Artist: Nihilvm Country: Poland Label: Malignant Voices / Terratur Possessions Formats: CD Year: 2025 The first release of the Polish Nihilvm was not what I expected. Released on the respected Black Metal label Malignant Voices, the pulverising formula of their…
Artist: Auriel’s Bow Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Not something I like to admit, but when I started the reviewing in the first years of the 00’s I used to be the youngest in every crew, now I am…
Artist: Spellgate Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 From Finland hails the entity of Spellgate, a rather mysterious band of which we know that E.P. runs the entire show and that their debut eponymous album has just been…
Artist: Anthropomantic Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette Tape / CDR Year: 2025 Anthropomantic is the latest project of a 18-year old musician from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Although ‘Blasphemous Decree’ is just the band’s debut album, it seems that Boyan…
Artist:Mania / Natürgeist Country: USA Label: Electric Assault Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Honestly, I was never impressed by any of Mania’s previous output and Natürgeist’s sole demo, also reissued on a 7” EP, was more hype than anything else. Without wanting…
Artist: Fulgorious Country: Ecuador Label: Nebulavaho Records Formats: 7″ EP / Demo Tape Year: 2025 Spawned from the mind of S.S comes Fulgorious, a new Black Metal band from the fertile Ecuadorian Black Metal grounds. While the country has a couple of well-known…
Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘The Black Serpents Lament’ is the first demo of a new entity roaming the North American Raw Black Metal realms. Within its ranks we find Fallen Warrior, who already left a certain…
Artist: Savage Master Country: USA Label: Shadow Kingdom Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although I always found Savage Master a very enjoyable band it is hard to deny that, especially early on in their career, the offered quality wasn’t always…
Artist: Azathoth’s Dream Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In 2023 Azathoth’s Dream debuted with an impressive debut called ‘Nocturnal Vampyric Bewitchment’. Maybe not completely out of the blue as it was preceded by a demo tape a…
Artist: Moonfall Country: Finland Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After a split LP with Regere Sinister and two demo tapes released prior, with the first one dating back to 2010, this obscure Finnish act finally comes out with their…
Artist: Profanação / Teufelsdom Country: Portugal / Russia Label: Altare Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 This split tape comes rather hot on the heals of both band’s latest releases. Teufelsdom released their second two-track demo last May and Profanação’s second full-length album, also…
Artist: Knüth Country: Russia Label: Unholy Wormhole Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 Ever since the band’s foundation back in 2018, this duo has been spawning demos, at least one per year. With this latest one they arrived at their tenth…
Artist: Carved Cross / Native Glow Country: Australia Label: Solar Wind Productions Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2025 The otherwise prolific output of Carved Cross suddenly and unexpectedly came to a halt in 2023. Whereas we had previously struggled to…