Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Spectrum Mortis Country: Spain Label: Bloody Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 When, out of the blue, Spectrum Mortis debuted with their ‘Blasphemare Nomen Eius’ 12” EP in 2016, I was pretty impressed with what these Spaniards were able…
Artist: Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: LP Year: 2025 Not too long ago Gates Of Dawn treated us with a cassette tape in the form of ‘III – Promo 2025’ and as well as with a…
Artist: Penance In Blood Country: Unknown Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Two years after the release of the self-titled debut demo, this enigmatic entity called Penance In Blood returns with a new demo. In that time not much…
Artist: Versteck / Geheimnisvoll Country: Indonesia / USA Label: Ancient Horror Records / Nithstang Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Albeit originating from different parts of the world, both Versteck (Indonesia) and Geheimnisvoll (USA) have amassed a considerable following within…
Artist: Ceremonial Incantations Country: USA Label: Northmoon Zephyr Productions / Sin For Belial Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although ‘Messengers Ov Sathanas’ is already the third full-length offering from Ceremonial Incantations, you don’t have to feel very ashamed…
Artist: Opositor / Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Split Cassette / Split CD Year: 2025 Although originally intended as a split 7” EP, this split between two contemporary Spanish descendants of the greats from their homeland has now…
Artist: Thäurnox Country: Puerto Rico Label: The Black Candles Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although Puerto Rico isn’t the first country you think of when you’re talking about Black Metal, there’s quite a few interesting acts to discover. One of…
Artist: Insane Apollyon Country: Finland Label: Final Agony Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Not too long ago I spent a few words on a vinyl compilation from unreleased early tracks from Sacellum Luciferi, a rather obscure Black Metal band from…
Artist: Destruction Ritual Country: France / USA Label: End All Life Productions / Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Four years ago, Destruction Ritual presented their self-titled demo. That by itself may not be all too noteworthy,…
Artist: Sargeist Country: Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Format: CD Year: 2025 Yes, we are late to the party. After all, the latest Sargeist record was already released at the end of May of this year. Obviously, this wasn’t a record…
Artist: Koreltsak Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Those who tend to keep an eye on today’s Raw Black Metal underground, must at least have stumbled upon the name of Koreltsak, an American entity that spawns…
Artist: Caveau Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Canada, to the outside world, always seems a country full of peaceful people doing smart things, keeping their country well-organised. But underneath that surface lies a rebellious character, at…
Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Year: 2025 After two demos, Dark Divinator feels it’s time to take his project Remains of Ash to the next level. With ‘Ikuisuuden Keskellä’, which translates to something as ‘In…
Artist: Odenwald Country: Germany Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 With having exactly zero information to work with, I can’t say anything else then that ‘Felsenmeer’ is the debut EP (or demo, if you prefer) from this German…
Artist: Stangarigel Country: Slovakia Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 It’s a great time for those that appreciate Slovakian Black Metal. A new Malokarpatan is due in 2026, KroloK has been hard at…
Artist: Gvozdena Nychta Country: Serbia Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Gvozdena Nychta (“Iron Night” in English) is the new brainchild of Vinka Mrtvaluć, who recently put his previous project Dreg K to rest. The exact reasons for…
Artist: Herzsklave Country: USA Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I am not too much into Depressive Black Metal myself. Most of the times I think it is rather pretentious and it is hard to take seriously,…
Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Iron Fortress Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 While ‘Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux’ is somehow marketed as a new Mortuary Ghoul album, it’s not. The title already suggests…
Artist: Necrohammer Country: Mexico Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 What there to say about Necrohammer than hasn’t already been mentioned by FelixS in his reviews of ‘Unholy Black Steel’ and ‘Ancient Metal Holocaust’? Uptempo Black Metal from…
Artist: Metal Faust Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Demo 2025’ is the debut demo of this new band from Germany that obviously had nothing else in mind than to pay homage to the 80’s tradition of…
Artist: Silver Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Year: 2025 After two demos, released in 2022 and 2024 that were both compiled on a cassette tape earlier this year, this American one-man Black Metal project is back with…
Artist: Obscentum Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 While its inception dates back a few years, ‘From Black Blood To Occult Flames’ is only the first recording that was publicly released by Obscentum, yet another musical outlet for Terrance…
Artist: Sacellum Luciferi Country: Finland Label: Satanik Requiem / Vermines Pestifera Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Finland is home to a great treasure trove of ridiculously obscure Black Metal. The true connoisseur of underground Black Metal is always served…
Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘My Dead Pulsing Vigil’ follows shortly after Zkywbrezdreb’s ‘Remnants Of Human Ash’, this project’s debut demo tape from a bit earlier this year. That demo, with such titles as ‘No Friends’, ‘No Trends’,…
Artist: Vortax Country: Portugal Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Fresh from the ever-fertile Portuguese Black Metal scene comes Vortax. Other than that there is basically nothing to tell about the background or anything else concerning this new band,…
Artist: Empyrean Gaunt Country: USA Label: Altare Productions / Poisonous Sorcery Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although the identity of the only person behind Empyrean Gaunt is kept in darkness, I would be very surprised if this would…
Artist: Rôtn Country: Sweden Label: Altare Records Formats: CDr Year: 2025 Although I do like some of Magnus “Wagner Ödegård” Eriksson’s work, I always approach his work with a fair amount of scepticism and general caution. You really never know…
Artist: Altar Of Belial Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Some time ago I ran into this rather mysterious one-man band. There’s very little information available, other than this is a solo-project that operates out of the…
Artist: Infernaculum / Secret Tongues Country: Spain / Germany Label: Profaner Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 From the ever-prolific HQ’s of Profaner Records from Spain, comes this new split tape that unites the obscure Spanish Black/Death Metal band Infernaculum…
Artist: Bentala Country: Indonesia Label: WolfKult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 It’s not every day that you come across a Black Metal band from Indonesia, but here we are. Bentala, nice to meet you! While it’s not entirely clear…
Artist: Deathhammer Country: Norway Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 When Deathhammer started to emerge from the underground, right after the release of the demos and with the first EP, ‘Forever Ripping Fast’…
Artist: Winterstorm Country: Ecuador Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 With ‘Australes Bosques Misantropicos’ Winterstorm presents a new EP or single, with two new tracks that are set to whet our appetites. This is not a real EP that…
Artist: Sacrilegious Crown Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 For me, Sacrilegious Crown was a band, or project rather, that popped up on my radar in the surge of Raw/Lo-Fi Black Metal bands that started popping up…
Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Wolven Dawn’ is the third demo from this American one-man band in only a matter of weeks, in three months, to be exact. With the previous two demos,…
Artist: Silent Millenia Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 If you came here because the artwork of ‘Celestial Twilight (Beyond the Scarlet Veil)’ reminded you of Odium and Limbonic Art, then I’m happy to tell you: you’ve come…
Artist: Guntmold Country: Canada Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 It was just how it went in the 80’s. Thrash Metal was becoming the dominant force. Too popular and not heavy enough for some, with it came a boundless search…
Artist: Venus Star Country: Finland Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Earlier this year Terratur Possessions released ‘Smokeless Fire’, Venus Star’s sixth album, presented in an attractively designed cover. An album that ends a five-year silence of…
Artist: Ancient Death Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Sacred Vessel’, Ancient Death’s debut EP, there were lots of plans. This rather young American Death Metal band had its hopes…
Artist: Midnight Country: USA Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Midnight’s best days are pretty much over, coinciding with their move from Hells Headbangers Records to Metal Blade Records, Athenar still manages to release solid…
Artist: Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 More or less simultaneously with the release of the split 7” EP with Sanguine Relic, this enigmatic American Black Metal act also released this 2-track promo…
Artist: Red Right Hand Of Plague / Warslaughter Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 After the release of the ‘Descent.Parasite.Abominator’ 7” EP that was released earlier this year and the ‘His Womb’-demo a few months…
Artist: Gjendød Country: Norway Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With a pace as menacing and relentless as their Black Metal, Gjendød returns with their latest full-length ‘Svekkelse’. Once again, the Norwegian three-headed serpent presents their sixth…
Artist: Grollteufel Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: LP Year: 2025 I’m rather sure that the name Grollteufel doesn’t ring a bell with too many people. It was a short-lived band/project that only recorded one single 15-minute demo tape back…
Artist: Nargothrond Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although the extensive back catalog of Germany’s Narbentage Produktionen has repeatedly delved into the country’s history to unearth some forgotten gems, the label now seems to have turned it…
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…