Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: AzaghalCountry: FinlandLabel: Avantgarde MusicFormats: CDYear: 2022 Finnish black metal kings of releases Azaghal return with their sixth album in just over ten years “Luciferin Valo” (which is something like their 22nd release in total). It might be clear that…
Artist: Inborn Suffering Country: France Label: Sound Riot Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Bands like Inborn Suffering and albums like “Wordless Hope” gives me so much pleasure and hope for the future. They have been proving a lot to the…
Artist: Fall Of The Idols Country: Finland Label: I Hate Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Everyone who saw Fall Of The Idols live on their short tour with Centurions Ghost last April will certainly remember the apathetic and rather schizophrenic…
Artist: VominationCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 This Swedish Vomination are throwing in some old school material on some old school format. That is how you can make me smile, some raw and obscure black, death, thrash or grindcore…
Artist: Inquisition Country: Colombia / USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 American based Colombian black metal band came a long way. From zero to a considerable cult status. 2007 should be the year of a new…
Artist: CorruptCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 After four demos and a split 7” with Necrovation (also on Blood Harvest) that I personally all missed, even the split 7”, I finally got my first release from them in the…
Artist: Butcher ABCCountry: JapanLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: CDYear: 2006 Japanese grindcore/death metal act Butcher ABC are preparing a new mini CD and wanted to promote that release on their trip to the prestigious Maryland Deathfest earlier this year. It is very unlikely…
Artist: Lethal Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2006 Not to be confused with the American progressive metal band that released a couple of albums from the early to the mid-nineties on various labels this Swedish Lethal…
Artist: UrgehalCountry: NorwayLabel: Agonia RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2006 I have to say I haven’t been much into this band before, but after their show with Shining a little earlier they convinced me. Urgehal is one of the very few…
Artist: Mysto Dysto Country: The Netherlands Label: Rusty Cage Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Young as I am, being born in 1983 myself, I haven’t been able to witness the Dutch metal scene in the eighties. But the fact that…
Artist: TerrorizerCountry: USALabel: Century MediaFormats: CD / LPYear: 2006 For all the well-known reasons it took Terrorizer 17 (!!) years to come-up with a follow-up of one of the most influential albums in grindcore history, “World Downfall” from 1989. And…
Artist: Last Days Of Humanity Country: The Netherlands Label: Bones Brigade Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 This was an album I have been waiting for for over one year and a half for sure, as soon as I got to…
Artist: Regnum Tenebrarum Country:France Label: Totalrust Music Formats: CD Year: 2005 This duo from France (though Carline van Roos sounds as Dutch as Gouda cheese) recently released their debut CD through the interesting Israelian Total Rust label. I missed their…
Artist: XI-VoidCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Demo CDYear: 2006 This young quartet from the northern parts of The Netherlands plays a mixture of thrash metal and heavy metal. Pretty reminiscent to bands like later Death, Iced Earth, Megadeth and Control Denied.…
Artist: Hate Profile Country: Italy Label: Cruz Del Sur Music Formats: CD Year: 2005 This Italian Hate Profile is a band consisting out of two members who made some of their fame in Hortus Animae, which has Grom in the…
Artist: Meatyard / Maggots Country: New Zealand / The Netherlands Label: No Escape Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2006 This split CD is the first No Escape Records CD that kind of disappointed me. Meatyard is a grindcore band that…
Artist: Putrescence Country: Canada Label: No Escape Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 These Canadians surprised quite some people with their “Mangled, Hollowed Out And Vomit Filled” from 2004, right after the release of their debut they announced its follow-up, yet…
Artist: Ingrowing Country: Czechia Label: Obscene Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 After the rather succesful “Sunrape” album from 2003 they have put themselves on the global grindcore/death metal market with even a vinyl release on Autopsy Stench Records, after a…
Artist: AlchemistCountry: AustraliaLabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 This might be the most dull-sounding name for a band ever, yet Alchemist is one of the longest running bands from downunder and are gaining little by little the recognition they – are…
Artist: Ceremonial ExecutionCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 Before I read Blood Harvest was going to release this 7” EP I never heard of this Swedish band called Ceremonial Execution, so I didn’t know what to expect. Well, I…
Artist: Embalming TheatreCountry: SwitzerlandLabel: Power-It-UpFormats: CDYear: 2006 What we’ve got here is a re-release for Embalming Theatre’s second album “Sweet Chainsaw Melodies” from 2003 which was originally released by top-notch always-on-top Razorback Records (the vinyl version was put out by…
Artist: Cock And Ball Torture Country: Germany Label: Obliteration Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 The reason for the release of this boxset is unknown to me, but it has got something to offer, especially for the newer fans who got…
Artist: ArckanumCountry: SwedenLabel: Carnal RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 After the recent release of Arckanum’s “The 11 Year Anniversary Album” it is time for more retro-releasing for one of Sweden’s best kept black secrets. This time it is Arckanum’s 1994 demo “Trulen”-demo tape put on a silver…
Artist: Sanitys Dawn Country: Germany Label: Power-It-Up Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Sanitys Dawn is one of Germany’s leading grind/death metal acts since their foundation somewhere at the early nineties. They have been spawning the scene with quite some interesting…
Artist: Indesinence Country: United Kingdom Label: Goat Of Mendes Formats: CD Year: 2006 As their “Ecstatic Lethargy” demo from 2003 and 2006’s EP “Neptunian” already promised, Indesinence would come up with an astonishing debut album. Yet they surprised me with…
Artist: DisgorgeCountry: MexicoLabel: Obliteration RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 Let’s get first clear that this is the Mexican death metal/grindcore band and not one of the other 666 bands with the same name from whatever corner of the world. And what we…
Artist: Permafrost Country: Germany Label: Christhunt Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 I am unable to give you a proper introduction about this German Permafrost, as I just can’t seem to find any decent information and I was not aware of…
Artist: Indesinence Country: United Kingdom Label: Weird Truth Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2006 Just before releasing their debut album the English doomsters of Indesinence released an EP through the Japanese Weird Truth Productions label to save some extra recordings…
Artist: Pantheïst Country: United Kingdom Label: Serpent’s Lair Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2005 Just after the release of the well received Amartia at the end of the summer of 2005 Pantheist returns with an EP with the well-fitting name…
Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Mortician Records Formats: CD Year: 2004 It might be a little late, but when I got this CD in the mail the other day I thought it still deserved a review at our beloved magazine.…
Artist: Nominon Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest / Deathgasm Records / Konqueror Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2005 Recremation? That means that you will be set on fire twice when you are dead, to be sure you are more…
Artist: Negură Bunget Country: Romania Label: Code666 Formats: CD EP Year: 2005 One of the better things that has happend over the last few years when it comes to black metal will definitely be the signing of Negura Bunget to…
Artist: Deep Vein / Bloody Sign / OppressionCountry: France / France / SwedenLabel: Nihilistic HolocaustFormats: Split cassette tapeYear: 2004 Another tape from the Nihilistic Holocaust label, an old school label that is specialized in releasing old fashioned tape releases. Can…
Artist: BarbatosCountry: JapanLabel: Agonia RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2005 Remind yourself, when was the last time you bought an album and noticed on the band pictures in the booklet (or the inlay in the case it was a vinyl record, which is…
Artist: Avulsed Country: Spain Label: Metal Age Productions Formats: CD Year: 2005 Avulsed is to me one of the best examples of a band that started out rather slow but surely got themselves a status within the death metal world,…
Artist: Mütiilation Country: France Label: End All Life Productions / Ordealis Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2005 Mütiilation is one of those elite bands from the healty French Black Metal scene. A scene that gets more attention with every…
Artist: ArckanumCountry: SwedenLabel: Carnal RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2004 Arckanum shouldn’t be a new name for any of the Black Metal fans around the globe. This Swedish act is around for many, many years now. Seeing the title of this record, I guess the band is around…
Artist: UlfsdalirCountry: GermanyLabel: Christhunt ProductionsFormats: CD EPYear: 2005 Here it is already. The next Ulfsdalir release, it wasn’t so long ago since I reviewed its last album “Christenhass” (for which I also published an interview). This time it is a…
Artist: Nocturnal Country: Germany Label: Deathstrike Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2004 Not so long ago I reviewed the first album of the German thrashers Nocturnal. A band that I’ve been watching for some time now and certainly a band…
Artist: Nocturnal Vomit Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2003 Nocturnal Vomit is some kind of a strange band. I’m not entirely sure, but the band is said to have its roots in Australia, where it was founded…
Artist: Legion Of Sadism Country: Germany Label: Christhunt Productions Formats: CD Year: 2004 I never heard any music by Legion Of Sadism before I only read a review of a previous output by a colleague at Vampire-Magazine, this and some…
Artist: Fleshless Country: Czechia Label: Obscene Productions Formats: CD Year: 2003 Forgetting the splits and the demos this is already the fourth album by the death metallers from the Czech Republic. I heard quite some songs over the years but…
Artist: CamulosCountry: GermanyLabel: Christhunt RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2003 For the ones who are familiar with the band know about the history. The made themselves immortal and highly infamous with their other release “Der Untermensch (Mit Namen Christ)”. The original artwork has been banned and with that…
Artist: Graveland Country: Poland Label: No Colours Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2004 The highly productive Polish pagan/black metal band Graveland, who release something at least once a year, now return with their latest effort titled “Dawn of Iron…
Artist: Black AltarCountry: PolandLabel: Christhunt ProductionsFormats: CDYear: 2004 Black Altar is a Polish black metal band that lives up all the standards that goes within the scene. Complete with corpse paint, weaponry, pseudonyms and blasphemed artwork. When looking at this…
Artist: Necrophagia Country: USA Label: Displeased Records / Red Stream Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2004 Metalheads who aren’t familiar with Necrophagia … Are there any? This is a band that has an enormous historical value when you…
Artist: Nazgul Country: Spain Label: Christhunt Productions Formats: CD Year: 2004 First of all I like to say that this is one of the two releases of Nazgul this year. Both CDs carry some older material that was recorded in…
Artist: Nazgul Country: Spain Label: Christhunt Productions Formats: CD Year: 2004 This is the other chapter of the Nazgul 2004 releases. For more information on the band and its links in the Spanish black metal scene you’d better read the…
Artist: Necrovation Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2004 The red line through this demo-tape by Swedish Death Metallers is definitely the word “old school”. Everything this demo breathes is just old school, when was the last time…
Artist: DarkthroneCountry: NorwayLabel: Moonfog ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2004 What is to be said about Darkthrone Unholy Darkthrone? I skip the introduction part of the review and go directly to the new album. Already very quick after the release of…