Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 ‘Heart’ is the third Kiloton EP that was released in a series of four that further expands the audial onslaught that was set in with last year’s trio of…
Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Because ‘Gears’ is the second Kiloton EP in an impressively short time, I would almost suggest to read the review of the first EP ‘War’ too to at least…
Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With no less than four EP’s in about two months, one-man force Kiloton, hailing from the Quebec-region of Canada, is following up its death march as started back in…
Artist: Heresiarch Country: New Zealand Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 From the very start, in the form of the first ‘Hammer Of Intransigence’ 12” EP from 2011 and its follow-up in the form of ‘Wælwulf’,…
Artist: Black Ceremonial Kult / Shambles Country: Chile / Thailand Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 In the latest batch of Godz Ov War Productions’ releases there are four 7” EP’s, a format I am…
Artist: Nocturnal Deviancy Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 Together with a digital split with Chasmic Filth that appeared just a month prior this Dark Adversary Productions released EP, these are the first recordings from…
Artist: Nihil Invocation Country: USA Label: Northern Void Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 The ever-restless and hardworking Deathwalker returns with his sixth full-length album with Nihil Invocation, not all too long after the 2-track demo from February this same year.…
Artist: Prehistoric War Cult Country: Germany Label: Fucking Kill Records / Iconoclasm Conquest / Kellerassel Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With a good couple of short players in the past few years the German Black/Death…
Artist: Abysmal Winds Country: Sweden Label: I Hate Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man: the problem with much of today’s Death Metal is that it suffers from having too…
Artist: Vömitt Country: Romania Label: Self-Releasaed Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Sometimes not much words are needed to get to the core of something. This new EP from Romanian Vömitt for instance, the band name, logo and EP title do…
Artist: Alkemisti Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 ‘Ajan Ja Tilan Rajamailla’ is the debut recording for a this new Finnish Black Metal band. Loosely translated, the title in Finnish means something like “At The Frontiers Of…
Artist: NightsideCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Last year Nightside returned with the demo ‘Lions’, their first release in 22 years. A glorious return, as the Finnish Black Metal outfit combined an excellent sense of fast-paced Swedish…
Artist: ACODCountry: FranceLabel: Hammerheart RecordsFormats: LP / CD Year: 2024 A mix of Swedish melodic Death Metal with atmospheric Black Metal into something that could be described as a much heavier and more Black Metal version of more modern Dark Tranquillity, that’s how…
Artist: Hate Forest Country: Ukraine Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 As a youngster getting into Black Metal around the turn of the millennium I was extremely impressed by Hate Forest’s debut album, ‘The Most…
Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Back in 2022 I reviewed Smyrtonos’ last recordings, as Todorac had carried this project to its grave. Yet, that seemingly was for a short period only as last year the…
Artist: Primitive Warfare Country: USA Label: Godz Ov War Productions / Stygian Black Hand Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a demo and two splits (with Complot! and Bog Body) the duo that is behind Primitive Warfare thought it…
Artist: Ancient Guard Country: Australia Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 While ‘Nightfall Enthroned’ might be the debut EP by a new band, the sole member behind Ancient Guard is everything but a rookie.…
Artist: Sabbat Country: Japan Label: Evil Horn Records / Iron Pegasus Records / Nuclear War Now! Productions / Old Library Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 As one of the stalwarts of the First Wave of…
Artist: IätönCountry: FinlandLabel: Korpituli ProductionsFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2024 Following the release of their first demo ‘Loitsutulet’ I lauded the Finns in Iätön for delivering harsh and haunting Black Metal in the vein of Barathrum and Korgonthurus mixed with a dash of…
Artist: Profanation Country: France Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Profanation is a band that sprung from the minds of a number of French musicians who had previously earned their stripes in bands such…
Artist: Rotten Cavern Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Rotten Cavern is a new band from the Catalonia region of Spain, formed by a duo that is also found in the equally great Siegehammer. However, their…
Artist: Messe De Minuit Country: Spain Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Born from the spirits of the trinity of Eosforos, Crucifier and Lucifogo, they collectively lay their first feat on the table: ‘Invocation’. A 1-track demo…
Artist: Necrophagia Country: USA Label: Time To Kill Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With the passing of Killjoy back in 2018 the metal scene lost not only a musician who was widely loved and appreciated…
Artist: Necrogore Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Last year I stumbled upon Italy’s Necrogore, a band that isn’t offering anybody a life-changing experience. On the contrary, Necrogore is playing it quite safe with their mixture of…
Artist: Necromoon Country: Poland Label: Putrid Cult Formats: CD Year: 2024 From the Putrid Cult stables comes this new anonymous Polish act called Necromoon. With no other information available than this, we should just start focussing on the music of…
Artist: Blaze Of Perdition Country: Poland Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With roots dating as far back as 2004, Blaze Of Perdition can rightfully be called one of the main acts in the Polish Black…
Artist: Adversarial Country: Canada Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Admittedly, after the band’s first few releases I kind of lost track of Adversarial. In the early 10’s I did pick up the…
Artist: Hellbutcher Country: Sweden Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 While Nifelheim’s official status is unclear, it is most likely that the band died a slow death in the past decade. With only the occasional sign…
Artist: Witchflame Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: CD Year: 2023 Being released on the 12th of December of 2023, ‘Omen’, the debut album of Finnish Black Metal band Witchflame is not quite the latest of releases from the Werewolf…
Artist: Black Cilice Country: Portugal Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Founded back somewhere at the end of the 00’s, Black Cilice’s rise to fame (for Black Metal standard at least) came after the…
Artist: OerheksCountry: BelgiumLabel: Amor Fati ProductionsFormats: 10″ DemoYear: 2024 In many ways, this review for the fourth demo of Oerheks has been a while coming. Mastermind H. had already mentioned last year that he had recorded five demos for this…
Artist: WitchfukkerCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: De Pankraker Records / Destruktion RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tapeYear: 2024 Off the back of the excellent ‘Deathaemorrhage’ demo, Witchfukker returns with the first full-length of the band’s career. On ‘Tapestry of Unspeakable Horrors’, they look…
Artist: Vomit Messiah Country: Spain Label: In Pulverem Mortis Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Last autumn, Spain’s Vomit Messiah had already caught my attention with their self-titled demo tape that was brimming with unbridled savage barbarism. Deliciously unoriginal and…
Artist: Cryptal Echoes Country: Austria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 When thinking about Austrian Death Metal, the majority of us reading this will think of bands like Pungent Stench, Disharmonic Orchestra, Disastrous Murmur or perhaps Miasma. But recently…
Artist: Sotherion Country: France Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With the 2022 released two-track ‘Schwarmgeist’-demo we already had a bit of a sneak peak into what we could expect from Sotherion, a Paris, France based one-man band founded by BST.…
Artist: NachtheemCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Nachtheem is a mysterious new entity hailing from The Netherlands that released their debut EP ‘Nacht, Zij met Ons…’ at the dawn of 2024. While that release initially passed me by unnoticed,…
Artist: They Came From Visions Country: Ukraine Label: Eisenwald Formats: CD Year: 2024 Drudkh’s immense influence on contemporary Black Metal is beyond any dispute, echoes of its elongated riffs based on the grandeur of nature can be heard in more…
Artist: HæksenhamerCountry: GermanyLabel: Death RevelationsFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 ‘Heimat (Foul Folk Crusade)’, a title that seems awfully fitting with the music that’s presented by Hæksenhamer. On their first release (although technically the EP was first released as an advance demo),…
Artist: Triumphal VengeanceCountry: Chile / GermanyLabel: Death RevelationsFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 With the coming of the band’s second EP, Triumphal Vengeance has turned quite a few things around. While the band, consisting of sole member Nebel, still plays Pagan Black…
Artist: Purulency Country: USA Label: Caligari Records / Pulverised Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 ‘Transcendent Unveiling Of Dimensions’ is the first feat of the Kingsport, Tennessee, USA-based Death Metal that was founded back…
Artist: Svrm Country: Ukraine Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Almost immediately after the band’s conception back in the early 00’s Drudkh has gained a big following. Not only in people who found something new in the sort of…
Artist: Drunemeton Country: Russia Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 The man behind Drunemeton, who is from Russian origin but currently resides in Serbia, Europe, has had all of his previous releases done by a wide range of…
Artist: Kawir Country: Greece Label: Soulseller Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although we were already offered a sneak peak with the digital-only EP ‘War Of The Giants’ from 2022, mainly a fundraiser for the treatment of Kawir main…
Artist: Diocletian Country: New Zealand Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Diocletian’s ‘Gesundrian’ from 2014, released by the French Osmose Productions label, is commonly seen as one of the absolute cornerstones of…
Artist: KråbølCountry: NorwayLabel: Terratur PossessionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Families devoting their lives to Black Metal is hardly new. Quorthon and Boss, Mika and Kimmo Luttinen, LRH and Spellgoth: just a few examples of fathers/sons or siblings ending up in…
Artist: Dismorfia Country: Peru Label: Gurgling Gore Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although I must say that the times in which I fully immersed myself in the grimey world of Grindcore are half a lifetime behind me, I can still…
Artist: Markgraf Country: Germany Label: Blutrausch Propaganda / AbArt Corruption Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Although this German band already released a 12” EP back in 2020, with even a demo a year earlier, Markgraf went completely under…
Artist: ParfaxitasCountry: Iceland / Norway / USALabel: Terratur PossesionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Parfaxitas, the archdemon that rules over astral thunderstorms. Ruler of wrath, fevers, vengeance and atavism. That who can gives rise to chaos, destruction and death through acts…
Artist: Nächtlich Country: Canada Label: Deathful Lust Productions Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The Canadian Black Metal entity that is Nächtlich has been quite prolific throughout their entire career that started back in 2016. With a lot short…
Artist: Whoredom RifeCountry: NorwayLabel: Terratur PossessionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 In my review of ‘Winds of Wrath’ I had concluded that it was a logical continuation of what Whoredom Rife has stood for ever since they were conceived. At the…