Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Victimarum Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Iätön, Kratti, Moonstruck, Valonkantaja, Kerzenlicht, Dark Divination, Devil Moon. The contingent of Finnish Black Metal bands on Signal Rex is rapidly expanding. And that’s a good thing,…
Artist: Demigoat Country: Sri Lanka Label: Black Kvlt Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Ever since the birth of our beloved genre, Sri Lanka might not have been the ultimate hotbed of our metal. But despite the lack of a rich…
Artist: Pillagery / Goatscrote Country: Canada Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With names like Pillagery and Goatscrote and a cover featuring goat heads and bullet belts, you don’t need to have an awful lot of imagination to…
Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although I tend to keep a close eye on the Elf Eggs label and I wrote a favourable review about Kos’ debut demo earlier this year, this new…
Artist: Evil Tree Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Admittedly, I have missed this band’s first demo from 2022, but when I came across the cover of this new demo on Instagram, I had to find it.…
Artist: Dismorfia Country: Peru Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Peru’s Dismorfia is ready to unleash their newest piece of savagery. While like Goat Semen and Anal Vomit the band draws its inspiration from the past, the musical…
Artist: Exploding Zombies Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 It is not quite the first time I have lauded Hells Headbangers Records for their recent series of Brutal Death Metal re-releases. In recent weeks,…
Artist: Nekromanteion Country: Bolivia Format: 7″ EP Label: Wolfkult Religion Year: 2025 Not to be confused with Necromanteion from South Africa or Nekromantheon from Norway, what we’re dealing with here is Nekromanteion from Bolivia. Their most recent release ‘The Sinister…
Artist: Hate Forest Country: Ukraine Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Originally released in 2005 by Supernal Music on CD, ‘Nietzscheism’ has seen no less than seven reissues over the years up till this most recent one on…
Artist: Consummatio Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 ‘Circulus’ is the follow-up recording of ‘Desaevio’, Consummatio’s debut album from 2022. If you happen to have heard that debut record, released on cassette tape and vinyl by Death…
Artist: Destruktor Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Like probably everyone else who has been around for a while, my introduction to Destruktor was through their “Brutal Desecration” 7″ EP, released by the sadly defunct Decius…
Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Occult Mountain’s first digital demo surfaced last June, although summer might be still fresh in our memories, ‘Cries Of The Forest Spirit’ is already this project’s fifth demo.…
Artist: Nyctophilia Country: Poland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 Ever since 2014, main man Grief has been pushing out releases for his project Nyctophilia. With ‘Stargazer’, we have arrived at the seventh full-length…
Artist: Oath Of Malignancy Country: Ecuador Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Cassette tape Year: 2025 The primitive sound of South America and Greece, if there would be a collective description of what unifies most of the recent releases on Wolfkult Religion…
Artist: Inritvm Country: France Label: End All Life Productions / Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘Ex Nihilo Ad Nihilum’ is the debut album of French act Inritvm, released through End All Life Productions. Having only released…
Artist: Medieval Demon Country: Greece Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although I already had seen the name of Medieval Demon mentioned here and there a few times before, I hadn’t actually heard them until a few years ago. I don’t…
Artist: Qrixkuor Country: United Kingdom Label: Dark Descent Records / Invictus Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 ‘The Womb of the World’ may only be the second album of Qrixkuor, but the band has taken immense…
Artist: Deathfuckingwound Country: Finland Label: Iron Corpse Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Void MMXXV’ is the debut demo from a Finnish duo that got together somewhere earlier this year, but seemingly they didn’t need much time to wrap their first…
Artist: Valturn Country: Puerto Rico Label: The Black Candles Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Whether or not Valturn was a product of the raging COVID pandemic or not, but this Puerto Rican Black Metal project was founded during these turbulent…
Artist: Nema Country: Germany Label: Northmoon Zephyr Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Nema was a German Black Metal band that by now has been dead and buried many times longer than it was actually alive. In their short lifespan…
Artist: Regurgitation Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 We usually focus our reviews on new releases and largely ignore the huge number of reissues that keep coming our way. And, as a whole, I try to…
Artist: Atavistic Passage Country: United Kingdom Label: Manifest Of Hate Creations Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 About a year ago the first demo of Atavistic Passage appeared and captivated me with its raw and hypnotic power. I absolutely loved the…
Artist: Red Right Hand Of Plague Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 With a demo tape and an EP in 2024 and a split 7” EP with Warslaughter earlier this year, the sonic assault that is…
Artist: Hate Forest Country: Ukraine Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With three EP’s and albums since Hate Forest’s return in 2020, we can safely say that Roman Saenko is not yet done with…
Artist: Effroi Country: Belgium Label: Amor Fati Productions / Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 All right, time to get through that pile of records I still have lying around here and that are crying out to…
Artist: Ritualhammer Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Ritualhammer is the result of a musical collision coming from a couple of Finnish musicians with past and present experience in such bands as Wömit Angel, Nachtgnawer,…
Artist: Affliction Vector Country: Italy Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘Contra Hominem’ is the follow-up of Affliction Vector’s ‘Death Comes Supreme’-EP, released through the Dutch Argento Records five years ago. My guess is that some…
Artist: Storming Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Iron Bonehead Productions announced ‘Celestial Clear Moonlit’ as the “highly anticipated” second album of this one-man Black Metal band from the USA. To be honest, I…
Artist: Abominator Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After what seemed like taking forever, Abominator, one of the unsung heroes of Australian wild musical barbarism, is finally back. Again, the Aussies…
Artist: Desaster Country: Germany Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Some bands need no introduction. And thank goodness, because what else is there to write about Desaster these days? The Germans are undoubtedly one of the…
Artist: Hulder Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Hulder started out as a good, yet considerably predictable and rather unoriginal Black Metal band, but over the course of this band’s existence the music progressed and developed tremendously.…
Artist: Blood Offer Country: Italy Label: Iron Fortress Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After a decent but kind of messy start in the form of their ‘Into Evil Rites’ demo tape (or EP), this company of youngsters…
Artist: Spiculum Iratus Country: USA Label: Into Extinction Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although they have existed since 2005, Spiculum Iratus is a new band to me. Perhaps that in part is caused by the fact that this Black Metal…
Artist: Celestial Call Country: Unknown Label: Mercury Chalice Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Celestial Call is a completely anonymous act with absolutely zero information to work on, not even their origin is known at this point, but it did manage…
Artist: Cryptopsy Country: Canada Label: Season of Mist / Tuneforce Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 It is more than safe to say that ‘As Gomorrah Burns’ won me back as a Cryptopsy fan. And we…
Artist: Violator Country: Brazil Label: High Roller Records / Kill Again Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Thrash Metal is not something that pops up on our pages on a daily basis, it is definitely a genre that is…
Artist: Kingdom Country: Poland Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although for me the Polish Death Metal band Kingdom has largely passed by unnoticed, this seventh album got a little more traction because it is…
Artist: Goat Semen / Bestial Rites Country: Peru Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Two portions of Peruvian perversion, that is what we’re treated with on this split between Goat Semen and Bestial Rites. In one corner,…
Artist: Serpere Country: Austria Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Somehow Serpere slipped under my radar. A shame, because the involvement of the members in amongst others Kringa, Hagzissa and Weathered Crest certainly would have drawn…
Artist: Sexlucifer Country: Finland Label: Kymijoen Levyt Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Ah, yes. You can leave it up to the Finnish to come up with some utterly deranged shit. Take this new band called Sexlucifer for instance, the combination of…
Artist: Desecration Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Honestly, when I first ran into Desecration, I wasn’t all too impressed with the band from Newport, Wales. Perhaps it was my mindset at the time, the setting in which they…
Artist: Evilcult Country: Brazil Label: Awakening Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 After an EP and two full-length albums, Evilcult is slowly starting to be an established name in the Speed/Thrash/Black Metal scene. Maybe that is not too difficult, as that…
Artist: Last Retch Country: USA Label: Time To Kill Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although I do understand that bands try to take a step up with each of their new releases and Last Retch was on…
Artist: Cruentation Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 It is no real secret that I am only marginally entertained by what today’s Death Metal scene has to offer. This topic regularly comes up in conversations with…
Artist: Geheimnisvoll Country: USA Label: Nithstang Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although not overly prolific, Geheimnisvoll has steadily been building a rather impressive reputation for being one of the absolute flagships of the “new wave” of American Raw Black Metal bands.…
Artist: Burial Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In its quest for unearthing some unsung genre highlights of late 90’s and early 00’s Brutal Death Metal, Hells Headbangers Records already crossed paths with a few undeniable…
Artist: Babylonian War Chant Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Although the all-knowing algorithms tend to taunt me with their suggestions of bands that I don’t give a dime about, sometimes they bring up something rather interesting. Such as…
Artist: Valac Country: USA Label: Black Gangrene Productions Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 Although Valac has been around for quite some time now, being formed in 2019, none of its rather extensive back-catalogue has been featured on these pages yet. Time to…
Artist: Black Discharge Country: USA Label: Death’s Radiance Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Under the banner of Death’s Radiance, an obscure label that already brought us such great acts as Firmament and especially Kudlaakh, comes the debut of Black Discharge. Apart…
Artist: Black Cum Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Usually, when Unpure Records hits the market with a new release, you know you have to fasten your seatbelts. Not necessarily because of the speedy music of their…