Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
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…
In the last few months I ‘discovered’ quite some interesting bands, one of the best will definitely be Nominon. I saw their name come by quite some times already, but I never came to the point of actually listening to…
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…
It was only recently that the Dutch doom/death band Beyond Belief saw its second coming, somewhere in 2004 the band reunited and presented two new members in its line-up. This was not the only thing that has changed in the…
When it comes to old school death metal from Sweden one of the nicest new bands will definitely be Necrovation, a young band that has the same kind of attitude like the ancestors of the infamous Swedish death metal bands…
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…
I can’t say it more often… Old school thrash metal is gainig popularity again. Nocturnal from Germany is probably the best available evidence for this backward progress (underlining the word progress). They have been spawning the underground with many demo’s,…
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…
It took the band seven goddamn years to come back with a new album, and now its out I can’t conclude anything else than that it is an album to be proud of. An album, that is rather different than…
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…
Lately From Beyond Productions spawned a whole lot of old school metal records, such as Nocturnal, Utuk-Xul, Cianade and Anal Vomit. I took the opportunity to ask Anal Vomit’s guitarist Noizer a few questions concerning the band, the new album…
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…
After a few interesting releases I think it was time to get a few things cleared from the man behind this band, R.U.. With this band he released quite a few releases (in a reasonable short period) that were able to…
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…
When I met Paul Speckmann on the Obituary tour – Master opened up for them all around Europe – we talked a bit about Master and labels and stuff. That reminded me that I wanted to interview him after 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…
What should I say to introduce Acheron? I guess everything that needs to be said has been said over a thousand times. Though, with an eye on their past three releases (all on the Greek Black Lotus Records label) and…
Artist: Rotting Christ Country: Greece Label: Century Media Formats: CD Year: 2004 Well, what can I say that haven’t been said before about the master of the Greek sound? Not too much? After a while of playing doomy atmospheric metal…
Artist: Darkened Nocturn SlaughtercultCountry: GermanyLabel: Black Blood Productions / PropagandaFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2004 And with “Nocturnal March” the German black metallers Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult delivered their third opus. And I was pretty curious what this would…
Artist: ArmageddaCountry: SwedenLabel: Agonia RecordsFormats: LP, CDYear: 2004 Pretty quickly after the release of “Only True Believers” we get this new Armagedda album called “Ond Spiritism”. People who read my previous articles on the band know that I always presented them as “the hope for…
Artist: Cultus Country: The Netherlands Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2004 People who like the Dutch underground metal scene know this guy named Arjan for sure. He’s the owner of the Heidenshart distro/label, a steady force in…
Artist: Gravehome Country: Turkey Label: Extreminal Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2004 I already begun several review of Turkish products with a story about the ever expanding scene over there. And, yet, I still think it is growing, though I…
Artist: AbruptumCountry: SwedenLabel: Blooddawn ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2004 I can’t recall getting a promo with a biography that was that short and that clear as the one I got with Abruptum’s last CD. Regain Records saw that a few…
Artist: AncientCountry: NorwayLabel: Metal Blade RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2004 Ancient. A band that has been loved and hated by many. Though, it is a band with a long history, emerging from the wealthy metal grounds of Norway. The first few releases…