Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Serpere Country: Austria Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Somehow Serpere slipped under my radar. A shame, because the involvement of the members in amongst others Kringa, Hagzissa and Weathered Crest certainly would have drawn…
Artist: Sepulchral Lamentations Country: Austria Label: TSC Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Sepulchral Lamentations is a new one-man project from Austria, helmed by Stephan “Shathrazhul” Homschek who started creating music under this moniker only this year. Although he has some…
Artist: Venator Country: Austria Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although the NWOBHM-movement has never really stopped attracting new listeners over the past two decades or so, its popularity has been coming and…
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: 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: Obscure Anachronism / Horna Country: Austria / Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 Horna, undoubtedly one the ultimate stalwarts of Finnish Black Metal, is not quite a stranger to the concept of split releases. I quickly…
Of course, when talking about Austrian Death Metal, it is very easy to mention only bands like Disharmonic Orchestra, Pungent Stench, Disastrous Murmur, Miasma or maybe even Belphegor. While these bands have, of course, inevitably left their mark on the…
Artist: Cryptal Echoes Country: Austria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 When thinking about Austrian Death Metal, the majority of us reading this will think of bands like Pungent Stench, Disharmonic Orchestra, Disastrous Murmur or perhaps Miasma. But recently…
Although more or less recent bands like Tomb Mold, VoidCeremony, Miscreance and Sovereign are keeping the Death Metal scene of today a bit interesting, adventurous and overall volatile. It is mainly in those more outward-thinking niches that the best bands…
Artist: Grabunhold / Circle Of Shadows Country: Germany / Austria Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Split LP / Split CD Year: 2023 The ones who are keen to keep an eye on what’s new in the underground of extreme metal…
Artist: Fessus Country: Austria Label: Self-Released / Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 / 2024 At the beginning of Autumn 2023, the rather fresh Austrian Death Metal outfit Fessus self-released their debut demo tape, ‘Pilgrims…
Artist: KringaCountry: AustriaLabel: Terratur PossessionsFormats: CDYear: 2023 Kringa’s ‘Total Mental Desecration’ was a pretty sensational EP. Although the band had released some demos since its inception in 2009, it was probably that specific release that gained the band a bit…
Artist: Lichtblick Country: Austria Label: Immortal Frost Productions Formats: CD Year: 2022 Lichtblick is German for ‘bright spot’, a symbol for hope, a brighter future. This is in stark contrast to the title of this second full-length from the Austrian…
Artist: Weathered CrestCountry: AustriaLabel: Fallow FieldFormats: Cassette tape EPYear: 2022 On their first EP and debut album, we were already introduced to Weathered Crest, a Raw Black Metal band from Austria that sprung from the brain of Vritra of Kringa…
Artist: Weathered CrestCountry: AustriaLabel: Into Endless Chaos Records / Tour de GardeFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 Earlier in 2021, Weathered Crest, the project started by Vritra from Brånd and Kringa, released the ‘Broken Column’ debut EP. Which…
Artist: Weathered CrestCountry: AustriaLabel: Födweg / Into Endless Chaos RecordsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2021 Early last year, the world saw Weathered Crest’s first born, the ‘Broken Column’ EP. Weathered Crest is a side-project of Vritra who continues to kill his time…
Artist: TheotoxinCountry: AustriaLabel: Art Of PropagandaFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 After some changes in their sound on the first few albums, Theotoxin seemingly found their style of Black Metal on the album ‘Fragment : Erhabenheit’. Eager to bring this to…
Artist: TheotoxinCountry: AustriaLabel: Art Of PropagandaFormats: LP / CDYear: 2020 Austria’s Theotoxin have upheld a steady pace of releasing albums since its formation in 2016. The sound varied a bit from one album to the other, however. On the 2017…
Artist: EllendeCountry: AustriaLabel: Art Of PropagandaFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Ellende has been an intriguing project. Ever since its inception in 2011 by L.G., then being only 20 years of age, the project has reflected its main man’s innermost thoughts,…
Artist: BelphegorCountry: AustriaLabel: Nuclear BlastFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Admittedly, I had lost sight of Belphegor for a while. After the 2000 release of ‘Necrodaemon Terrorsathan’, I somewhat lost interest in the band. I did hear some…
Artist: NahtrunarCountry: AustriaLabel: Altare Productions / Symbolismus WerkeFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Insiders might know Austria’s Nahtrunar from the excellent debut album `Symbolismus’, a work that was heavily inspired by the spirit of 90s Norwegian Black Metal. Follow-up `Existenz’ mostly…
Artist: Firunwinta Country: Austria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2022 Austrian one-man act Firunwinta presents their first offering: a 23-minute EP of bleak Black Metal in old school fashion. The cover to this digital EP shows a forest in…
Artist: Valhalla Country: Austria Label: Hallucination’Zine Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2002 Another demo from my dungeons. So, not new, from autumn 2002, but we are supporting the underground right? So here it is! And this one is really cool. I…