Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: DrudkhCountry: UkraineLabel: Season of Mist Underground ActivistsFormats: LP / Cassette tape /CDYear: 2025 As conflict continues to tear apart their homeland, Roman Saenko and companions relentlessly persist to bring a homage to the landscapes of Ukraine and its history.…
Artist: Alesya Country: Mexico Label: Svart Hat Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Mexican Alesya was born from the minds of two lads each with some experience within the underground Black Metal scene, but in this formation, ‘Hex De Tristesse…
Artist: Genocidal Rites Country: USA Label: Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With a demo and three solid EP’s under their belts, it was about time that this relatively young band went for their…
Artist: Reeking Aura Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 ‘Blood And Bonemeal’, Reeking Aura’s 2022-released debut album was a thoroughly satisfying and joyous ride for anyone who has a knack for something else than your…
Artist: Archaic Behest Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although Archaic Behest is a new band, debuting with ‘Lore’ through Iron Bonehead Productions, the musicians behind the band are far from rookies. With an accumulated…
Artist: Blasphamagoatachrist Country: Brazil/Canada Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Those who thought that Blasphamagoatachrist would cease to exist after the deaths of Sabbaoth (2021) and Virrugus (2024) turns out completely mistaken. Of course, it…
Artist: Moonlight Malefice Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Only a week after the release of ‘Demo 2024’ there is this other short demo, also clocking under seven minutes with basically only one song as…
Artist: Moonlight Malefice Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 In the span of just a week, American Moonlight Malefice has delivered two digital demos. Although both demos last only a little over 6 minutes, that…
Artist: Blackdeath Country: Russia Label: End All Life Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Russian Blackdeath has never chosen the easy route. Over their three decades span career they have delivered quite a few records that were either hard…
Artist: Merciless Country: Sweden Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Obviously, Merciless is mainly known for their downright cult debut album. Not only for the musical content and its wide influence on…
Artist: Old Wainds Country: Russia Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With ten years in the making, the unannounced release of ‘Stormheart’ is quite a bit of a surprise. Over the past…
Artist: Gorgon Country: France Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Despite this being the seventh album in total, with the appearance of ‘For Those Who Stay’, it is fair to speak of the “third…
Artist: Ungfell Country: Switzerland Label: Eisenwald Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 In recent years the phenomenon of Ungfell has been all over the place if you are into folky and creative Black Metal. With their splendid sense for dramatique…
Artist: Yoth Iria Country: Greece Label: Edged Circle Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 All good things must come to an end. Heroes will die and empires will fall… Although Yoth Iria’s ‘As The Flame Withers’…
Artist: Fessus / Kill The Lord Country: Austria / Germany Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 This split LP brings together two new Death Metal acts which Darkness Shall Rise Productions has set its eyes on.…
Artist: Tyrannic Country: Australia Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 One of the most musically interesting bands from the celebrated Iron Bonehead Productions stables must definitely be Australia’s Tyrannic. Over the past decade the band has…
Artist: Dakini Country: India Label: Final Agony Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Nope. Black/Noise (or Blacknoise) has never been a genre that attracted many people, for quite obvious reasons. Even today where everybody all of a sudden is jumping on…
Artist: Malignant Country: Chile Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Malignant can more or less be seen as “the new band” from Occulterror, the former vocalist of Sepulchral Rites who teams up with her former band mate…
Artist: Misantropical Painforest / W.A.I.L. Country: Finland Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 Under the title ‘Dare To Venture Down To Earth, Father! Perish Into Nothingness’ Nuclear War Now! Productions releases a very special split LP.…
Artist: Angelcorpse Country: USA Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2024 Angelcorpse’s ‘Goats to Azazael’ is a nothing short of a milestone in the wild and furious brand of Black/Death Metal. Not only did this mark the beginning of…
Artist: Pyre Country: Russia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Ever since Russia’s Pyre’s appearance on the international Death Metal scene the band has been appreciated for their take on the Old School way…
Artist: Pentacrostic Country: Brazil Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 While Pentacrostic’s debut album, ‘The Pain Tears’ from 1992, is generally regarded as the band’s finest hour – even a bit of a cult album in the…
Artist: Canis Dirus Country: USA Label: Bindrune Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 In this wretched world, life can still sometimes surprise you in a positive way. When I was asked to dive into this latest record of Canis Dirus,…
Artist: Tormentador / Sex Messiah Country: Brazil / Japan Label: Sex Desire Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 This release may be a bit older, but as a fan of the 7” EP format and the underground qualities of…
Artist: Svrm Country: Ukraine Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 The prolific Ukrainian one-man Black Metal operation that is Svrm seems to prefer shorter releases over full-lengths. Although S. has delivered three full-length albums, ‘Скорбота’ is the band’s 11th…
Artist: Nocuous Lust Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sometimes very little words are needed, or they can even take some of the magic away. That must have been the way of thinking of this newly found…
Artist: Grief Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Over the past few years, Chilean Black Metal is something that we have learned to reckon with. Yet, it certainly is not only Lord Valtgryftåke that is dictating the…
Artist: Red Right Hand Of Plague Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 After an interesting demo tape in Spring 2024, which unfortunately was too limited and hard to get for a European like me, this American…
Artist: Hasswald Country: Estonia Label: Warhorn Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 With their great debut demo, ‘Und So Begann…’ the Estonian Hasswald came as a bit of a surprise. Not only for the somewhat obvious fact that there’s not many…
Artist: Wolves Of Desor Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 At the last days of December 2023 I stumbled upon the debut demo by Wolves Of Desor, a then new one-man project by M. who had otherwise…
Artist: Irae Country: Portugal Label: Signal Rex Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Just a few years ago, we might have started a review of a Portuguese Black Metal band by saying that this sunny country by exception…
Artist: Drowning The Light / Forbidden Citadel Of Spirits Country: Australia Label: Winterreich Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 Just before the release of the five new Drowning The Light albums, this split LP was released, right at the end of…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 With ‘Conquer Or Serve V: Setapophian Black Magick’, the fifth album in the cycle of new releases of the prolific Australian Black Metal act, Drowning The Light closes the ride…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 After having been involved in a few more humanly or earth-bound spirited albums in the ‘Conquer Or Serve’-series, this fourth chapter is a somewhat more otherworldly. In an almost literal…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 As the third chapter of the cycle of five new albums of Drowning The Light Azgorh is taking another trip through the mind and the conquer or serve contradiction. Where…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 Second album in this cycle of five new albums by the maestro of Australian Black Metal, not only known for his insane pace of releasing, but definitely also for the…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 Although you can’t possibly be surprised by Drowning The Light’s Azgorh’s working ethos, he still amazed me when he told me he was working on a set of no less…
Artist: Masacre Country: Colombia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In many ways the term “cult” applies to the early work of Masacre, and basically the band still very much fit to…
Artist: Fides InversaCountry: ItalyLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 It’s been rather quiet around Fides Inversa, but in late November 2024 the band made their return to the stages, performing at the Unholy Congregation festival in Belgium. To mark that resurfacing,…
Artist: Naked Whipper Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With the reissue of Naked Whipper’s cult back catalogue and its (unexpected) return on stage, appearing on the Never Surrender festival, it should come as…
Artist: IzrodCountry: Bosnia and HerzegovinaLabel: Signal RexFormats: 12” EP / CD EPYear: 2025 In 2023 Izrod, the latest assembly of gifted Black Metal musicians from the Bosnian Black Plague Circle, presented their debut album ‘Sarajevski Odisej’. In reality, that first recording was born from…
Artist: Hell Militia Country: France Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 In recent years basically every record has been reissued, at least once. But there is still a bunch of albums that…
Artist: Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: Discos MeCagoEnDios Formats: LP Year: 2024 Within the ranks of Death Metal the early Nunslaughter demos are regarded as real cult items, maybe not as revolutionary or as influential as some of the other demos…
Artist: Vider Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 On a miserable, rainy, grey and stormy January day, nothing really fits better than an all-consuming darkness in musical form. For that joyous occasion today, I threw in the debut…
Artist: Mörkvind & Tårfödd Country: Italy & Germany / Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Despite Tårfödd’s impressive output, having released three albums and two EP’s in 2024 alone, the band never crossed my path before. Mörkvind, on the…
Artist: Nubivagant / Häxenzijrkell Country: Italy / Germany Label: Amor Fati Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 After having embarked on a tour together, this split 7” EP is meant to further strengthen the musical bond between both Nubivagant…
Artist: Hesperia Country: Italy Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Hesperia’s history goes back all the way to the mid 90’s, when this one-man band arose out of the ashes of an underground Black Metal act from the middle…
Artist: BehexenCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2025 2016. It’s nearly nine years ago that Behexen released the sledgehammer called ‘The Poisonous Path’, the last release of the band. Never the most productive band, it is by far the longest period…