Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Black Lycanthropy Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 For those who have delved a little deeper into Black Metal than the interchangeable artists on the Nuclear Blast, Metal Blade, Century Media or even Season Of Mist…
Artist: Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 One of the most intriguing Finnish Black Metal bands definitely is Hail Conjurer, the band’s otherworldly take on Black Metal has already resulted in a…
Artist: Wolftower Country: Finland Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 Ever since the early 20’s Finnish one-man band Wolftower have been firing away one release after the other, yet none of them ever featured on these pages. Strange…
Artist: Ribspreader Country: Sweden Label: Xtreem Music Formats: CD Year: 2024 Although having come across the name before, I first really heard about Ribspreader with their 2007 ‘The Monolith’ 7” EP by Blood Harvest, a label that I religiously followed…
Artist: Haan Valar Country: USA Label: Mamzer Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Apart from the big commercial success of Rotting Christ, that mythical sound of Greek Black Metal has always been loved, it was mostly appreciated by a small…
Artist: The True Werwolf / Commander Agares Country: Finland Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 In a long tradition of splitting EP’s, The True Werwolf returns with two new split 7” EP’s in the first month…
Artist: Nekromanteion Country: Bolivia Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Nekromanteion from Bolivia came to my path with their split 7” EP with Nebiros (2014) and the following ‘Cosmic Horrors’ 7” EP from 2015, both released by…
Artist: Master Country: USA Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 It has been more than 20 two decades since I have reviewed my first Master release, at the time I started with ‘Unreleased 1985…
Artist: Upon Stone Country: USA Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 The early 90’s were the domain of Swedish Death Metal in its most primal form, following the path first paved by Nihilist and giving way to…
Artist: Funeral Vomit Country: Colombia Label: Xtreem Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Founded not too long ago, in 2020, this Colombian Death Metal band unleashed some first recordings in the form of two split EP’s,…
Artist: Gravemoon Country: Puerto Rico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Not so much is known about this Black Metal band from Puerto Rico, yet it is around for at least a year as this second demo, ‘Glare Of…
Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 After some first small releases, an EP and a split EP, Matt N. (also active in a whole slew of other bands), the godfather…
Artist: Moon Oracle Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst Formats: CD Single Year: 2023 After the band’s second full-length, ‘Ophidian Glare’, released earlier in 2023, Moon Oracle already returns with a 2-track single, also released by the great Bestial Burst label.…
Artist: Abysmal Grief Country: Italy Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP Year: 2023 In March 2023 Abysmal Grief and Avantgarde Music releases a vinyl-only compilation LP to celebrate the start of their collaboration, it was also meant as a run up…
Artist: Flesher Country: USA Label: Redefining Darkness Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Admitted, on more than one occasion I have labelled Redefining Darkness Records as a thoroughly mediocre label spawning huge amounts of interchangeable Death Metal records of…
Artist: Ancient North Country: USA Label: Wulfhere Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 If one-man Black Metal band Ancient North has proven one thing over the course of two years (and three full-length albums, an EP and a split release) is…
Artist: Cruciamentum Country: United Kingdom / USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Six long years since the band’s last sign of life and even eight years after the release of the debut…
Artist: Black Funeral Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 Over the course of its expansive career, spanning over three decades, Black Funeral have proven itself as one of the most elusive Black Metal bands ever…
Artist: Masticated Cadaver Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Almost exactly a year ago I reviewed the first demo tape of this Canadian one-man Death Metal act, ‘Necrotic Mutation’ specifically appealed to me because of its thoroughly authentic…
Artist: Aberration / Diabolic Oath Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Ever since I started to get into extreme music, split 7” EP’s have intrigued me. Through many of them I discovered a lot…
Artist: Nartvind Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Nartvind is not quite the band that is firing away releases at Drowning The Light-speed, but when they do have something new for you, you can…
Artist: Gouffre Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 After two great demo tapes released in 2019 and 2021 and the 2022-released split 7” EP with their compatriots of Phlegethon’s Majesty the band returned to the…
Artist: Varathron Country: Greece Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 For the lovers of the Hellenic sound, Varathron will always remain something that sparks a feeling of magical enthusiasm. Not only were they amongst the very…
Artist: Venusberg Cardinal Country: Canada Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Admittedly, I am arriving a bit late to the party with my review for the one and only release of the gritty sounding Canadian…
Artist: Bloedmaan Country: Belgium Label: Immortal Frost Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 From the increasingly interesting Belgian Black Metal scene comes this latest addition, Bloedmaan (Blood Moon when translated from Dutch). Named after the scarlet red colour of…
Artist: Efraah Enhsikaah Country: United Kingdom Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Seemingly like a bolt from the blue came this new Black Metal act from the UK, the anonymous musician behind it goes under the same…
Artist: Demoncy Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2023 Hot on the heals off the band’s sixth full length album, Demoncy also releases this new 12” EP (also released on cassette…
Artist: Demoncy Country: USA Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 If anything, Demoncy is a band that seems to work in short and unexpected outbursts of creativity. In their early days since their…
Artist: Tenebro Country: Italy Label: Xtreem Music Formats: Digital EP Year: 2023 Just five weeks after the release of the band’s second full-length album, Italian gore lords Tenebro are back with another (digital only) EP, their fourth in total. This…
Artist: Blood Loss Country: USA Label: Self-Released / Tape Eater Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 The award of Best Death Metal Demo of 2022 definitely went to the youngsters of Blood Loss. ‘The Order Of Malevolence’ blew me right off my socks with…
Artist: SammaleCountry: FinlandLabel: Naturmacht ProductionsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2023 In languages, Finno-Ugric is a grouping of all languages in the Uralic family except the Samoyedic languages. The three most common of these languages are Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian. A…
Artist: Ringarë Country: USA Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 The story of Ringarë began all the way back in 2004 when this US-based Black Metal band recorded two demos in the following years but eventually more or…
Artist: KorgonthurusCountry: FinlandLabel: Woodcut RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2023 Despite a history marred by periods of inactivity and break ups, Korgonthurus managed to create one of the most enthralling records in Finnish Black Metal with 2009’s ‘Marras’.…
Artist: Hellmoon Country: Canada Label: Forbidden Keep Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 The Canadian Black Metal musician known as Plääg (although his mother knows him as Cavan Rian Hoover) is quite a busy man, not only is he active…
Artist: Infernathan / Necro Ritus Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2023 The ones in the knowing that when a band like Infernathan teams up with the Polish Unpure Records label, that certainly you are in for a treat.…
Artist: Body Asphyxiation Science Country: United Kingdom Label: Gurgling Gore / Huangquan Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2023 The first time I ever heard Body Asphyxiation Science I was drawn to it by its intriguing name, it…
Artist: Nigromancia Country: Chile Label: Black Legions Records / Rawforce Productions / Sacred Tomb Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 On the very last day of 2023 Chilean Nigromancia releases their second EP, ‘Vortex Of Existence’. It follows up the in 2021…
Artist: UrväsenCountry: SwedenLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2023 While Urväsen appears to hail from Sweden, the music on the debut EP ‘Fåror’ sounds far from the typical Swedish Black Metal style. Instead, the music on the five tracks has more in…
Artist: Deconsekrated Country: Chile Label: Iron, Blood And Death Corporation Formats: CD Year: 2024 After a 2-track demo in 2020, which also appeared as a part of split CD that appeared a year later, Chilean Death Metal band Deconsekrated only released…
Artist: IätönCountry: FinlandLabel: Altare ProductionsFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2023 Iätön is the brainchild of musicians Woewrb and Penetreichtus I. Formed in 2022, the band hailing from Oulu, Finland, recently released their very first demo courtesy of the mighty Altare Productions. Those…
Artist: VeitsiCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2023 After having released three EPs in 2022, the first year of band’s existence, 2023 almost passed by without any new Veitsi releases. But salvation came on the 29th of December as the newest four…
Artist: SynCountry: NorwayLabel: Terratur PossessionsFormats: CDYear: 2023 The latest offering presented by Terratur Possessions is Syn. While the collective behind it does not see a need to reveal the individuals behind it, the attentive listener might be able to pick…
Artist: Satans Mördör Country: Unknown Label: Mamzer Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 ‘Into The Cold Eternity…’ was initially a digital self-released demo that appeared in December 2023, but since its impeccable quality it really needed a physical release as well. The…
Artist: Cursed Penetrator Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2023 Behind this new Finnish act are two anonymous individuals going under the names of “Desecrator Of Holy Cunt” and “Priest Of Angel Sodomy”, but at least one of them is…
Artist: Misanthropic War Country: Germany Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: CD Year: 2023 Rarely do you come across a cover that so tellingly mirrors the musical content of an album as this one on German Misanthropic War’s ‘Utter Human Annihilation’. A…
Artist: Malediction Country: United Kingdom Label: Cosmic Key Creations / Macho Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Over the course of their existence in the first half of the 90’s, UK Death/Grind band Malediction has experimented…
Artist: Mörkvind Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 ‘Hypnotiskt Vanvett Av Skogens Irrgångar’ is the the fifith release of this one-man project, it is following up on two previously released full-length albums as well as two EP’s. The…
Artist: Wulvyr Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2023 Personally I love it when a band name, the title or artwork of an album clearly gives away what you are in for. Such is the case with Wulvyr’s…