Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 After a demo and two digital singles (both actually more or less the same song in a different version), all released in 2025, Zweihander quickly strikes again with a…
Artist: Lysergic Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 In the final moments of 2023, Canadian band Lysergic released a beastly album entitled ‘Dimethyltryptikon’. Even with a playing time of just under half an hour, it was actually an…
Artist: Void Meditation Cult Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2026 When I got my hands on Sperm Of Antichrist’s ‘Blight And Darkness’ demo in 2009, I was truly blown away. Although it was clearly based…
Artist: Incandescence Country: Canada Label: Profound Lore Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Although ‘Hors Temps’ is best translated to ‘Timeless’, the music of Incandescence is definitely not of that ilk. At least, in the sense that it has…
Artist: Bestial Possession Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Despite being around for over twenty-five years, a few months ago I covered the Peruvian band Bestial Possession for the first time. But what we have here though,…
Artist: Cadaveric Messiah Country: Colombia Label: Entropy Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 In 2024 this Colombian band debuted with a 2-track 7” EP ‘Into The Putrid Fumes Of The Abyss’, which offered us a thunderous and thoroughly regressive piece…
Artist: Terrorshroud Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Terrorshroud is a new Black/Death Metal band rising from the ever-fertile Greek underground scene. But while the individual band members only go by their initials and with blurred-out photos, it is at least known…
Artist: Bluthammer / Vider Country: Germany / Sweden Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split 12” LP Year: 2026 Relentless, menacing, uncompromising. Just some words that come to mind when playing this split between Bluthammer and Vider. Joined by their same home…
Artist: Verwándlung Country: Australia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although a physical cassette tape version has been announced, this debut demo by Australian band Verwándlung, recorded in separate sessions between 2024 and mid-2025, is only available digitally via…
Artist: Warfare Noise Country: Paraguay Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Even though Warfare Noise has been around for almost fifteen years already and has a considerable discography, they never landed on these pages before. Not even with the…
Artist: Deathwinds Country: Canada Label: Headsplit Records / Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 When the ‘Ripping Annihilation’-EP was released back in autumn of 2025, it was quite a bit of a surprise. After…
Artist: Lecherous Country: USA Label: Self-Released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 After a digital demo and two rather low-profile split releases (of which one was also only released digitally), the USA-based Bestial Black/Death Metal band Lecherous published another digital demo…
Artist: Sepulchral Witchcraft Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Although Sepulchral Witchcraft is a (new) band from Russia, there’s musically nothing that seems to tie the band to their native scene – or at least what we usually associate with Russian Black…
Artist: Sulphuric Deity Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although this demo seems to have been in the works for quite some time, this is still a new band for most people. Only those who regularly visit Reddit or Instagram may…
Artist: Genocidal Sodomy Country: Thailand Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Thai Bestial Black/Death Metal band Genocidal Sodomy first came to my radar with the split 7” EP with Savage Necromancy that was released in 2020, but even…
Artist: Bestial Warlust Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette / CD Year: 2026 Although bands like Impaled Nazarene, Blasphemy and Beherit were already blending the ferocity and darkness of Black Metal with the blunt brutality of…
Artist: Bestial Abyss Country: USA Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 In the latest series of releases by Unpure Records, there was also this re-release of the compilation of the first two digital demos by Bestial Abyss, originally…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Vomit Country: Ukraine Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Originally this split tape was already released in 2022 by Bathöryhead, a rather obscure label from Ukraine that seems to focus primarily on bands from…
Artist: Goatcorpse / Gotthammer Country: USA / Canada Label: WolfKult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 By no means do I have the illusion that in my role of a reviewer I have any other purpose than to just…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Abyss Country: Ukraine / USA Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 At the Unpure Records HQ, they must have devised a good way to start the year. And what better way to kick off…
Artist: Bestial Abyss / Bestial Temple Country: USA / Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split Year: 2025 No Nostradamus needed for this case, with such band names and the title this digital split was given, it is crystal clear what…
Artist: Antichrist Blood Scourge Country: Australia / USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 At some point, a few weeks ago, the name of Antichrist Blood Scourge was all over the place, although right now, a good couple of…
Artist: Archont Country: Austria Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although there is very little known about this band, it is most likely that Archont is from Austria as they are claimed to be part of the Symbolismus…
Artist: Bezdan Country: Croatia Label: I Hate Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although the band’s roots go as deep as 2009, ‘Upon The Altar’ is only Bezdan’s first full-length album. The first years of their existence the band…
Artist: Trance Of The Undead Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Now that Cursed Excruciation seems to have entered a somewhat quieter period, the sole musician behind this band has turned his attention…
Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 The exact idea of and the meaning behind this one-track promo is a bit unclear to me. This sole track seems to be part of a longer rehearsal set…
Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Abbatoir Prods. / Fehexenheit Prod. Formats: Demo CDr Year: 2025 Besides the black/white/red artwork that reveals just about everything of what to expect musically, it was this band’s name that attracted my attention. A German…
Artist: Seraphic Castration Country: Canada Label: Spiritual Warfare / War Vellum Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From the ashes of Gotthammer and the extremely fertile Canadian underground, not only did the recently resurfaced Melth rise again, but now Seraphic Castration…
Artist: Occultor Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 With a cover art like this, strongly resembling Chris Moyen’s, with two goats watching the moon fall apart with a dissected person on their table, it is clear that we…
Artist: Behemoth Country: Poland Label: Mystic Production / Nuclear Blast Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 This review is a bit late. Somewhat deliberately. Releases by the bigger bands in the Extreme Metal genres are usually…
Artist: Melth Country: Canada Label: Berserk Ritual Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Emerging from the equally inventive and unpredictable group of musicians who previously brought us acts such as Gotthammer, Complot!, Moulin Banal, Adversaire, Shezmu, Pénombre and Kiloton. The exact…
Artist: Baneful Tongue Country: Norway Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Baneful Tongue is the brainchild of S.B.E., the one and only member of the band. When exactly the band was formed is not entirely clear, but S.B.E. has quite…
Artist: Pentagoatcross Country: USA Label: Malevolent Sounds Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Life can be a difficult thing to deal with, but sometimes it is surprisingly simple. Like with this digitally released debut album, give me a band name like Pentagoatcross…
Artist: Barbaric Horde / Goatsmegma Country: Portugal / Estonia Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split LP / Split Cassette Year: 2025 With both bands having a long-standing relationship with Godz Ov War Productions as well as being two of…
Artist: Clavis Inferni Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape / 7″ EP Year: 2025 Clavis Inferni, a one-man project sprung from the mind of Trance Of The Undead, mostly known for his two other projects Cursed Excruciation and…
Artist: Death Yell Country: Chile Label: Seven Metal Inches Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Those who thought they were in for a treat, having been presented with a new full-length album (freshly released by Hells Headbangers Records) as well…
Artist: Funeral Vomit Country: Colombia Label: Xtreem Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With an album and the re-release of an earlier EP, Funeral Vomit has already proven itself to be by far the most interesting…
Artist: Wargoat Country: Greece Label: Angel Of Cemetery Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Originally released on cassette tape in 2023 by the same label, Angel Of Cemetery Records now presents Wargoat’s ‘Mysteries Of Primitive Damnation’ on a 7” EP.…
Artist: Chaos Insignia Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Earlier this year I stumbled upon Chaos Insignia’s debut EP (or demo, if you prefer). I was enamoured with this band’s take on the Bestial Black/Death genre, even…
Artist: Summoning Hellgates Country: Spain Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Spear Of Conquest’ is the debut EP of a Spanish duo that presents itself as Summoning Hellgates. While one of the…
Artist: Goathammered Country: Denmark Label: Blasphemic Siege Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 During my daily rounds through the deeper regions of the internet, searching for new demos to sink my teeth into, I found not one, but two new…
Artist: Schizophrenic Warfare Country: Denmark Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Just about everything about this first achievement by Schizophrenic Warfare exudes fresh finesse and thoughtful sophistication. Or not. Maybe not… True connoisseurs of the depraved art of the…
Artist: Depredation Netra Country: India Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Depredation Netra is a new band out of India. Given the insane size of the country’s population, there is hardly any metal scene to speak of, and for that reason…
Artist: Tormentador / Goat Semen Country: Brazil / Peru Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 A split LP with one of Brazil’s heaviest and Peru’s foulest. This is one of those records where you don’t really…
Artist: Cursed Penetrator Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Format: CD Year: 2025 After two demos, of which the first one was reissued as part of a split CD with Black Offal Messiah, ‘Invocation’ marks the band’s further deepening of the…
Artist: Sexófago Country: Australia Label: Sounds From The Gallows Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 Although the band got off to a flying start with no fewer than three demo tapes in their debut year, 2012, things then went completely quiet from there on. Into…
Artist: Spirit Of Impurity Country: USA Label: Death’s Radiance / Perverse Homage Formats: Demo CDR Year: 2025 ‘Occluding The Gates Of Heaven’ is the debut recording of a new band that goes by the name of Spirit Of Impurity. Other…
Artist: Demigoat Country: Sri Lanka Label: Black Kvlt Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Ever since the birth of our beloved genre, Sri Lanka might not have been the ultimate hotbed of our metal. But despite the lack of a rich…
Artist: Destruktor Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Like probably everyone else who has been around for a while, my introduction to Destruktor was through their “Brutal Desecration” 7″ EP, released by the sadly defunct Decius…
Artist: Qrixkuor Country: United Kingdom Label: Dark Descent Records / Invictus Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 ‘The Womb of the World’ may only be the second album of Qrixkuor, but the band has taken immense…