Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Flesher Country: USA Label: Maggot Stomp Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Tales Of The Grotesque Demise’, Flesher’s debut album from 2023, was a surprisingly good Death Metal album and one of the genre’s…
Artist: Sodality Country: Poland Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Sodality: a Roman Catholic religious guild or brotherhood. Also a Polish band consisting of T. Kaos and Mark of the Devil, two members that only share…
Artist: Mausoleum Gate Country: Finland Label: Cruz Del Sur Music Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Ever since Mausoleum Gate introduced themselves into the scene, they have made an impact. At first, it wasn’t even so much their music, but…
Artist: Ültra Raptör Country: Canada Label: Fighter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Admittedly, for a good while I have avoided listening to this band for rather obvious reasons. Although I do not consider myself a…
Artist: Nekkrolüst Country: USA Label: Metal Power Fighting Force / Putrid Cult Formats: CD / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After two demos, the last of which was released in 2024 by Destruktion Records in a limited edition of only 20…
Artist: Morbikon Country: USA Label: Tankcrimes Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 The downside of reviewing music is that you “have” to do that in a rather short amount of time and since we are being flooded with new…
Artist: Hagzissa Country: Austria Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12” EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Formed in 2016, Hagzissa combines members of the likes of Kringa, Serpere, Sněť and Weathered Crest. Despite having released an album on Iron Bonehead…
Artist: Kalmankantaja Country: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Autumnheart’ is the second Kalmankantaja album of 2025, and as the change of logo might foretell, it is quite a different affair. While ‘Musta Aurinko’ took the atmospheric Black…
Artist: Kalmankantaja Country: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 While the band has been active on other fronts, 2025 in comparison seems like a rather modest year for Kalmankantaja in terms of new albums. Only two albums were…
Artist: Summoning Hellgates Country: Spain Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Spear Of Conquest’ is the debut EP of a Spanish duo that presents itself as Summoning Hellgates. While one of the…
Artist: Sardonic Order Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although Sardonic Order is a brand new Black Metal band with this specific release being their debut, the exact title of this 2-track demo is quite telling. This…
Artist: Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré Country: USA Label: Cranial Blast Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With one name even harder to pronounce than the other, this is definitely a split tape for enthusiasts. Which enthusiasts, you may ask. But those who…
Artist: Par-Delà Le Miroir Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After a 20-minute demo tape at the very end of last year called ‘Les adieux de l’âme’, this one-man Raw Black Metal project now returns with…
Artist: Hiemal Atavism Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After the last Reich Der Geister demo I have been keeping an eye on this project and all of its other affiliated activities. I am not entirely…
Artist: Dismorfia Country: Peru Label: Gurgling Gore / Lycanthropic Chants Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 ‘Slow Disembowelment To Be Defecated Alive’ is yet another addition to the rapidly growing discography of Peru’s most active Death/Grind band. Although…
Artist: Carnal Savagery Country: Sweden Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Over the past few weeks, I have had a number of discussions about the current state of affairs in the world of Death Metal. I have…
Artist: Infernal Presence Country: Germany Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD Year: 2025 Infernal Presence is a new Black Metal band from Germany that were picked right up by Darkness Shall Rise Productions. The duo have…
Artist: Goathammered Country: Denmark Label: Blasphemic Siege Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 During my daily rounds through the deeper regions of the internet, searching for new demos to sink my teeth into, I found not one, but two new…
Artist: Schizophrenic Warfare Country: Denmark Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Just about everything about this first achievement by Schizophrenic Warfare exudes fresh finesse and thoughtful sophistication. Or not. Maybe not… True connoisseurs of the depraved art of the…
Artist: Unapproachable Light Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Unapproachable Light sprung from the mind of Tom “Obscurum” Kapsalis, who used to be one of the impetuses of Cult Of Daath, one of the…
Artist: Astral Spear Country: Poland Label: Signal Rex Formats: 12” EP / CD EP Year: 2025 No names, no history, just a birthright. Astral Spear is a mysterious new entity from Poland that is about to release its first EP…
Artist: Orgy Of Carrion / Vulnakkthra Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Split CDR Year: 2025 Over the years Orgy Of Carrion has always been a bit of an enigma when it comes to their musical identity. While always dwelling…
Artist: Blood Curse Country: Unholy Trinity Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Blood Curse is a trio that has been around for about a decade and released a good few of short players as well as a full-length album in 2018 (released through Stormspell…
Artist: Frailord Country: Canada Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 On the cover of this cassette tape you see, what I presume, is the musician behind Frailord. He’s also behind or involved in such acts like Erythrite Throne, Moss Golem and…
Artist: Fate’s Hand Country: Australia Label: Dying Victim’s Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Unfortunately I have missed this band’s debut 12” EP that was released back in 2021, otherwise I surely would’ve checked out this first full-length album by Australia’s Fate’s Hand.…
Artist: Depredation Netra Country: India Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Depredation Netra is a new band out of India. Given the insane size of the country’s population, there is hardly any metal scene to speak of, and for that reason…
Artist: Matru-Zebu Country: Finland Label: Ancien Culte Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 To say that the Matru-Zebu demo released earlier this year impressed me is a gross understatement. The mash-up of first wave, Hellenic and Finnish Black Metal from the…
Artist:Sabulturath Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It’s perhaps not such a crazy assumption that the name of this band sounds a bit like that annoying drunk guy at the concert who keeps shouting in your ear that he thinks “Sepultura”…
Artist: Dark Divination Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Earlier in 2025 Dark Divination made their first appearance on Signal Rex with the release of the ‘Unforgotten’. With that EP, the band consisting of sole…
Artist: Speedslut Country: Denmark Label: Beer Drinkers & Hellraisers Inc. Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although the band’s name might suggest that this is a Speed Metal outfit that should not be taken too seriously, the music on this debut cassette EP is…
Artist: Evoken Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 I vividly remember my first brush with Evoken. It was late 2002, and my friends and I had called for the help of a local Doom Metal…
Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 In no time at all, the musician behind Occult Mountain and Chalice Of Eden has released an impressive number of demos, sometimes with only a few days in between. That is generally…
Artist: Parasite Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 I’ve probably said it more than once before, Thrash Metal isn’t exactly the most frequent featured genre of Extreme Metal here at out pages, but that doesn’t mean we don’t like out fair share of…
Artist: Traum Country: USA Label: Torture Palace Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I missed this project’s first offering, ‘Demo 2024’, but I would like to make amends by spending a few words on this follow-up, which was recently released…
Artist: Hautaveri Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although it is yet unclear who’s behind this new solo-project, but it is highly unlikely that Hautaveri is this musician’s first attempt of making music. It might not be the…
Artist: Sons Of Hades Country: Greece Label: Floga Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Imagine yourself being extremely hungry and you run into the nearest Domino’s or New York Pizza. But you suffer from severe indecisiveness,…
Artist: Executioner’s Blade Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘First Execution’, a not so subtle way to announce your own debut. However, in this case, the emphasis is not so much on “First” as on “Execution”. This…
Artist: Sintage Country: Germany Label: High Roller Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Even more than Sintage’s debut, it was once again the glorious artwork of this new album that immediately caught my attention. One of…
Artist: Deranged Country: Sweden Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 This isn’t exactly the first time I’ve shared my surprise and delight at the current Brutal Death Metal re-release frenzy from Hells Headbangers Records. Although I don’t follow…
Artist: Necrobaptism Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 A few weeks ago I ran into this debut demo by a Greek duo that goes under the name of Necrobaptism. They apparently got together earlier this year and…
Artist: Sad Country: Greece Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 This year marks the twentieth anniversary for Sad, and what better way to celebrate that than with a brand new album. But while ‘Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening’…
Artist: Tormentador / Goat Semen Country: Brazil / Peru Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 A split LP with one of Brazil’s heaviest and Peru’s foulest. This is one of those records where you don’t really…
Artist: Malhkebre Country: France Label: Battlesk’rs Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 French Black Metal has always been something that intrigued me. While there’s obviously also been some stuff that was fairly easy to digest like Anorexia Nervosa or the…
Artist: Astral Gauze Country: USA Label: Wergild Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Astral Gauze is a new project consisting of two musicians with lavish résumés that include current and previous experience with such bands as Ebony Pendant, Iron…
Artist: Nocturnal Adversary Country: USA Label: Mystic Glory Order Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Other than their affiliation with the Mystic Order circle, alongside Eisenblut, there’s practically no information about Nocturnal Adversary available. However, it is plausible that these two…
Artist: Death Yell Country: Chile Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape CD Year: 2025 If you’re talking about old Latin American Extreme Metal, it is categorically impossible to skip Death Yell. For the majority of the people…
Artist: Revenge Country: Colombia Label: Dying Victims Productions / Rata Mutante Records Format: LP / CD Year: 2025 One of the longest running Colombian Heavy/Speed Metal bands are back with a new record. Revenge, founded back in 2002, have been…
Artist: Hostilia Country: Sweden Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Personally I had never heard of Hostilia before, but before this debut full-length album for Hammerheart Records they apparently released two EP’s and a couple of digital singles. Yet, even…