Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Carved Cross / Native Glow Country: Australia Label: Solar Wind Productions Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2025 The otherwise prolific output of Carved Cross suddenly and unexpectedly came to a halt in 2023. Whereas we had previously struggled to…
Artist: Crucifire Country: Australia Label: Trauma Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Dark Souls Abyss’ is a compilation of the majority of Crucifire’s work, recorded back in the 00’s. Yet, you don’t have to feel ashamed of not having heard any of the material…
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: Sarcophagum Country: Australia Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Australian Death Metal, maybe not the first thing people will talk about when discussing the genre, but over the past few years I’ve…
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: 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: Armoured Angel Country: Australia Label: Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 Before the band would go on and gain some cult status as one of Australia’s first Extreme Metal bands with quite some demos that influenced the first generation of…
Some things are worth waiting for. You can use some clichés here about cheese and wine that get better if you leave them for a while, but we are talking about Australian Black/Death Metal with a touch of Thrash: Destruktor.…
Artist: Nocturnal Deviancy / Drowning The Light Country: USA / Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: Split CD Year: 2024 Besides Drowning The Light’s split CD with Azgorh’s own Harvest, there’s also this split release with Nocturnal Deviancy. Although Azgorh…
Artist: Harvest / Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: Split CD Year: 2024 While waiting for newest album of Australia’s most prolific Black Metal titan, Drowning The Light, we were surprised by no less than three…
Artist: Endless Loss Country: Australia Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After a demo, a digitally available live set and an EP, the Australian Black/Death Metal band Endless Loss felt it was time to unleash…
Artist: Destruktor Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 While Destruktor is not exactly at the top of lists of the most obvious Australian bands out of the Extreme Metal spectrum, for…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 The last couple of years saw a lot of Drowning The Light’s back catalogue resurface in the form of some well-deserved reissues, mostly through Azgorh’s very…
Artist: Ancient Guard Country: Australia Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 While ‘Nightfall Enthroned’ might be the debut EP by a new band, the sole member behind Ancient Guard is everything but a rookie.…
Artist: Runespell Country: Australia Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 While Runespell started out as a solo band of Nightwolf (mostly known for his work in Eternum), it was expanded to a full-fledged band in 2022. This…
Artist: Deadspace Country: Austalia Label: Immortal Frost Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Despite having been around since 2014 (albeit with a short break between 2020 and 2021) and already having a hefty discography, Australian black metal outfit Deadspace…
One of the most distinctive bands from the Australian extreme metal scene is undoubtedly Tyrannic from Sydney. The band primarily qualifies itself as a Black Metal act but musically has much more than just that to offer. It effortlessly interweaves…
Artist: Cemetery Urn Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 It has always been somewhat of a mystery to me why a band like Cemetery Urn has never received any more attention…
Artist: Miserable Creature Country: Australia Label: Transylvanian Recordings Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 Miserable Creature, a duo from Melbourne, Australia is presenting their third mutual effort under the rather uninspired title ‘3’. Just like with the previous two demos, released…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 Hot on the heels on the in August released two EP’s, Australia’s most prolific Black Metal band, Drowning The Light, returns with a yet another…
Artist: Runespell Country: Australia Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Formed in 2017, Australian outfit Runespell has impressed not only with its hefty work rate, which in those seven years has yielded no fewer than five…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 Both this new EP and the ‘Violet Mercury & Moonlit Sorcery’ EP were released at the very same time, clock in around 20 minutes each…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 The Australian band never lets its loyal following wait long for a sign of life, earlier this year Azgorh already brought us two EP’s, a…
Artist: Drowning The Light / Ghosts Of Oceania Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: Split CD Year: 2023 Those of you who tend to follow Azgorh’s musical steps in general and that of Drowning The Light in particular, will…
Artist: Mournful Congregation Country: Australia Label: Osmose Productions / 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 We live in a time where everything happens so fast, where all contacts seem fleeting and there seems to…
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Australia-based Denouncement Pyre, a band that I feel does not always get the credit it does deserve based on its music. Last year, the band released their fourth album with ‘Forever Burning’ through…
Last year’s ‘Ascetic Reflection’ was one of the best forward thinking Death Metal releases that reached my ears in a long time. The compelling intricacies, creative dynamics and overall mind-boggling musical wizardy made the album slip into my Top-15 of…
Artist: Impetuous RitualCountry: AustraliaLabel: Profound Lore RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2023 It was 2009’s ‘Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence’, initially released by Profound Lore Records on CD and later in 2011 on vinyl by Blood Harvest, that put Australia’s Impetuous…
For a long time, the Death Metal genre seems to have been a fairly static affair. Apart from a few exceptions in the form of bands like Atheist, Cryptopsy and, of course, Death, most of it has been mostly of…
Artist: Deströyer 666Country: AustraliaLabel: Season Of MistFormats: LP, Cassette Tape, CDYear: 2022 Good morning, y’all. Am I late to the party? Again. Yes, I suppose I am, this new album for Deströyer 666 has been out since early December last…
Artist: Drowning The LightCountry: AustraliaLabel: Iron Bonehead ProductionsFormats: LPYear: 2023 Most bands start in a rather modest way, probing one’s own musical abilities, gaining experience in writing and recording. In short, demo time. The same, of course, applies to Drowning The Light. Although…
Artist: Drowning The LightCountry: AustraliaLabel: Iron Bonehead ProductionsFormats: LPYear: 2023 In a long series of vinyl reissues of the impressive Drowning The Light back catalogue, Iron Bonehead Productions also added ‘Oceans Of Eternity’ to its list. Originally released in 2013, ‘Oceans Of Eternity’…
Artist: Ceremonial Crypt DesecrationCountry: AustraliaLabel: Banner Of BloodFormats: Digital demoYear: 2023 This Australian one-man Black Metal band has been featured on our VM-Underground pages a couple of times, it well seems this album will be the last one ever to…
Artist: Hormagaunt Country: Australia Label: Bitter Loss Records / Frozen Screams Imprint Formats: Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 After an untitled demo from 2021, the Australian Death Metal combo Hormagaunt now returns with a full-length album. ‘In The Flesh’…
Artist: Drowning The LightCountry: AustraliaLabel: Dark Adversary ProductionsFormats: CD EPYear: 2023 In a span of a few days (8th, 10th and 13th of January), Azgorh and his Drowning The Light brought us no less than three new releases. A full-length album and two EPs, of which…
Artist: EncabulosCountry: AustraliaLabel: Nuclear Winter RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2022 Under the fitting title of ‘Exhumed Abominations’ Nuclear Winter Records unearthed an almost forgotten piece of underground Death Metal history: Encabulos. They were a Death Metal band from Australia that released six…
Artist: Drowning The LightCountry: AustraliaLabel: Dark Adversary ProductionsFormats: CD EPYear: 2023 Very hot on the heels of Drowning The Light’s latest offering, Azgorh’s seventeenth full-length album with Drowning The Light ‘Haunter Of The Deep’, he returns with the already announced first of a…
Artist: Drowning The LightCountry: AustraliaLabel: Dark Adversary ProductionsFormats: CDYear: 2023 As a fan of Australian Black Metal act Drowning The Light, it is not hard to get spoilt, in fact, you only have to blink a few times or Azgorh already has something…
Artist: CryptivoreCountry: AustraliaLabel: Awakening Records / Bitter Loss RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 The first demo of Australian one-man band Cryptivore was already received with great enthusiasm on our pages. My colleague was shocked by the quality the band had…
Artist: Denouncement PyreCountry: AustraliaLabel: Agonia RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With Denouncement Pyre’s 20th anniversary approaching and a brand new album under its belt, this is a perfect time to give this underrated band some well-deserved praise. Because although the band has…
Artist: Drowning The LightCountry: AustraliaLabel: Dark Adversary ProductionsFormats: CDYear: 2022 The last two or so years, Dark Adversary Records, run by Drowning The Light mastermind Azgorh, has been reissuing quite a lot of his older material. Some of his older albums saw the…
Artist: Faceless BurialCountry: AustraliaLabel: Dark Descent Records / Desiccated Productions / Me Saco un Ojo RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With ‘Speciation’, the Australian Death Metallers shook off their early-stage darker branded Death Metal, not much was…
Artist: Drowning The LightCountry: AustraliaLabel: Iron Bonehead ProductionsFormats: LP Year: 2022 In 2019 Drowning The Light released the ‘A Gleam In The Eye Of Set’ mini CD through Azgorh’s own Dark Adversary Records which ended up on this vinyl together with 2022’s ‘Wolrd…
Artist: AltarsCountry: AustraliaLabel: Everlasting Spew RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Following the bands’ debut album, the great Blood Harvest Records released ‘Paramnesia’ from 2013, Altars mostly lay dormant for about a decade. That means that having the band returned to…
Artist: Exordium MorsCountry: AustraliaLabel: Praetorian Sword RecordsFormats: LPYear: 2022 When New Zealand is mentioned many people think of those great mountain landscapes in which Peter Jackson filmed his Lord Of The Rings trilogy. But it also has a small but…