Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Krolok Country: Slovakia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2026 Five years after the band released ‘Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky’ on Osmose Productions, Krolok returns with yet another album. On this third full-length…
Artist: Kalmankantaja Country: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 Recent years have marked a rather diverse soundscape for Kalmankantaja, continuously enriching their atmospheric Black Metal discography with ever-expanding escapades towards Doom Metal territories. But while that always felt…
Artist: Sol Sistere Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Personally I ran into Sol Sistere when I randomly picked up the first two albums from one of the many Hammerheart Records sales, together I didn’t pay more…
Artist: Nachtheem Country: The Netherlands Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Comparisons were undeniable when Nachtheem released their debut EP ‘Nacht, Zij met Ons…’ in 2024. The album felt like a spiritual follow-up to ‘Venter på Stormene’…
Artist: Night’s Embrace Country: France Label: Starless Industries Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although L.S., also known as Lila Starless, has been active in countless bands and projects, she has only appeared on these pages once before. That was with…
Artist: Nahtrunar Country: Austria Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 With focus and determination, Nahtrunar has been building an impressive discography. One that started with arguably their best work, the cold and atmospheric ‘Symbolismus’ in 2015, the…
Artist: Aerdryk / Oerheks Country: Belgium Label: Amor Fati Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2026 Despite them both taking their own paths, Aerdryk and Oerheks have been linked since the very beginning. They represented the 199th and 200th release by…
Artist: Aerdryk Country: Belgium Label: Amor Fati Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 When the Aerdryk debut was released in 2022, it was presented with quite some flair. Not only did it form catalog number AFP199 of the renowned…
Artist: Likno Country: Greece Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: CD Year: 2025 On the same day that fireworks lit the sky to call for the end of 2025, Likno had a little thing to celebrate as well. Conceived in that same…
Artist: Saor Country: United Kingdom Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although ‘Origins’ ended up rather high on my Album Of The Year-list, I had difficulties properly wrapping my head around this follow-up…
Artist: Krvna Majka Country: USA Label: Prism of Deceit Recordings Formats: Digital Year: 2025 While the roots of the members are unknown, the Slavic band name Krvna Majka, or Blood Mother, may imply a European band is behind this eponymous…
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: 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: Storming Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Iron Bonehead Productions announced ‘Celestial Clear Moonlit’ as the “highly anticipated” second album of this one-man Black Metal band from the USA. To be honest, I…
Artist: Wisteria Country: USA Label: Lampshade Tapes Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Wisteria, a one-man Black Metal band from Cleveland, Ohio, came to life early 2024 with a debut full-length called ‘Nightfall’. With its serene cover art and expressive title,…
Artist: Spellgate Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 From Finland hails the entity of Spellgate, a rather mysterious band of which we know that E.P. runs the entire show and that their debut eponymous album has just been…
Artist: Cénotaphe Country: France Label: Ancien Culte / Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ossuaire Records Format: LP / CD Year: 2025 Things moved fast for Cénotaphe. Born out of their time together in Nécropole, instrumentalist Fog and vocalist Khaosgott started…
Artist: Draugaskógur Country: Serbia Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 From the Inferna Profundus Records stables comes this new Serbian one-man project called Draugaskógur and with ‘Fullmoon Hypnotic Ritual’ it goes right for the full-length album, skipping…
Artist: Eclipsed Moon Apparitions Country: Spain Label: En Claustere Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Eclipsed Moon Apparitions is a new Black Metal project that sprung from the minds of M.W. (Manel Woodcutter) and S.M. (Sanguinous Moth), two individuals who are…
Artist: Iätön Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After two highly enjoyable demos released on Altare Productions and Korpituli Records respectively, it is now time for the debut of Finnish Black Metalers Iätön. For that…
Artist: Moft / Nachtheem Country: The Netherlands Label: Self-released Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 Almost coinciding with the release of the remastered version of the band’s debut ‘Nacht Zij Met Ons..’ on the highly esteemed Terratur Possessions, Nachtheem has another…
Artist: Orrery Country: Australia Label: Forbidden Frequencies Formats: LP Year: 2025 I’m sure many a music fanatic has those releases, the ones that made an immediate impact, stuck with you for years, yet never got the proper treatment and recognition…
Artist: FaidraCountry: SwedenLabel: Northern Silence ProductionsFormats: 12″ EP / CD EPYear: 2025 ‘Militant : Penitent : Triumphant’ was a rather impressive record, released by the Swedish one-man act Faidra in late 2023. Basing its atmospheric Black Metal on a straightforward but…
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: 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: 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: DjevelCountry: NorwayLabel: Aftermath MusicFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 Ever since their beginning, Djevel has brought an ode to the Norwegian Black Metal of the 90’s, and in particular the more atmospheric likes of Gehenna, Ulver, Borknagar…
Artist: Vampyric BloodlustCountry: USALabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Sure, I’m not the fastest writer, but in the time between adding the first Vampyric Bloodlust EP ‘Midnight Slaughter’ to my review list and the actual review, sole band member Mördann managed to…
Artist: Demstervold Country: The Netherlands Label: New Era Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After the impressive ‘Den Svartne Spökerii’ demo tape from 2017, which was released through Jeroen’s own then resurrected Black Abyss Productions, we were treated with…
Artist: Bortglömd Country: Sweden Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 ‘Haunting Calls’ is the debut demo of a new Swedish duo with Dutch connections, yet with this 3-track demo tape the band is distinctly sounding more Northern…
Artist: Winterfyllth Country: United Kingdom Label: Candlelight Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although Winterfylleth has become more or less synonymous with everything sounding safe, slick and accessible in Black Metal over the past few years, the English collective…
Artist: NahtrunarCountry: AustriaLabel: Altare ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Following up ‘Wolfsstunde’ is quite a tall order, as Nahtrunar delivered a stellar atmospheric Black Metal record that could match itself with their fantastic debut ‘Symbolismus’ and their genre peers. Yet…
Artist: AethyrickCountry: FinlandLabel: End All Life ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 After a collaboration giving rise to four full-length albums, a compilation and two EPs, the union of Aethyrick and The Sinister Flame is no more. As the fire of…
Despite moving to Sweden a few years ago, Volc Vermaledide can still be seen as a Dutch Black Metal band. After all, already formed in 2001, the band has existed on Dutch soil for the most part. Despite now slowly…
Artist: Volc VermaledideCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2024 The Dutch band Volc Vermaledide finds its origins in 2001, and is the brainchild of Satanael M Raben, formerly in Cirith Gorgor and Walpurgisnacht and currently also in Asregen. After…
Artist: Wirdha / NachtheemCountry: Sweden / The NetherlandsLabel: Tour de GardeFormats: Split TapeYear: 2024 On this Tour de Garde released Split Tape, Wirdha and Nachtheem found each other. Wirdha is a new entity with anonymous Black Metal veterans from Sweden.…
Artist: Cachot d’Effroi / Wolftower Country: France / Finland Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2024 On this Narbentage Produktionen released split tape two of the most interesting bands out of today’s European Black Metal scene team up…
Artist: Cantique Lépreux Country: Canada Label: Eisenwald Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Anyone who has been compelled by the grandeur of the Metal Noir Quebecois scene will most likely have stumbled upon the back catalogue of Cantique Lépreux. It might be a bit…
Artist: Svrm Country: Ukraine Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 As stated in a previous Svrm review, I wouldn’t claim that I have heard the entire back catalogue of this Ukrainian band. But it was clear to me that…
Artist: Schrecken / Erzfeynd Country: Germany Label: Urtod Void Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 This split between two German Black Metal bands was actually already released digitally by both bands on their respective Bandcamp pages in November 2023 and it…
Artist: Liminal Shroud Country: Canada Label: Willowtip Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Album number three for this Canadian three-piece and with 2022’s ‘All Virtues Ablaze’ they have set the bar high for its follow-up release. That sophomore album…
Much like the artwork of ‘Heavenly Down’ suggests, the new album by Sear Bliss is a grand return to its majestic sound of old. Yet, just like the band never was easy to catch under a single moniker, they are…
Artist: IätönCountry: FinlandLabel: Korpituli ProductionsFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2024 Following the release of their first demo ‘Loitsutulet’ I lauded the Finns in Iätön for delivering harsh and haunting Black Metal in the vein of Barathrum and Korgonthurus mixed with a dash of…
Artist: OerheksCountry: BelgiumLabel: Amor Fati ProductionsFormats: 10″ DemoYear: 2024 In many ways, this review for the fourth demo of Oerheks has been a while coming. Mastermind H. had already mentioned last year that he had recorded five demos for this…
Artist: NachtheemCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Nachtheem is a mysterious new entity hailing from The Netherlands that released their debut EP ‘Nacht, Zij met Ons…’ at the dawn of 2024. While that release initially passed me by unnoticed,…
Artist: Svrm Country: Ukraine Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Almost immediately after the band’s conception back in the early 00’s Drudkh has gained a big following. Not only in people who found something new in the sort of…
Artist: Kalmankantaja / Somber WindsCountry: FinlandLabel: Misantropia RecordsFormats: Split CDYear: 2024 Shortly after the release of reimagined tracks from the 2014-2016 period, Kalmankantaja returns to the release front with the first new material of 2024 (although technically it was already…
Artist: Conifère Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 After having released a demo and a split in 2020, Conifère went silent for a good couple of years. While many bands do release one album or EP after another,…
Artist: KalmankantajaCountry: FinlandLabel: Wolfspell RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 It has taken a couple of months, but with the release of ‘Varjosielu’ the first recording of Kalmankantaja of 2024 is finally here. This time around we aren’t presented with a new album,…