Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 Honestly, Danish Black/Death Metal band Strychnos never really did much to me with the bands’ early (and sparse) releases over the course of…
Artist: WitchcraftCountry: FinlandLabel: Down With The Most HighFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2022 Originally released in only a handful of copies and spread early on in 2022, this rehearsal demo is the first of three of such demos that were reissued by…
Artist: Manticore Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 One of Hells Headbangers earliest releases was Manticore’s debut album, ‘Bowels Of The Holy Anoint Us In Evil’. Together with a few other of those…
Artist: Eggs Of GomorrhCountry: SwitzerlandLabel: Godz Ov War ProductionsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Of all the bands that uphold the Ross Bay Cult tradition, I have never found Swiss Eggs Of Gomorrh very convincing. Throughout their career,…
Artist: Sarcasm Country: Sweden Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Uppsala, Sweden based Sarcasm is a band with a story. When they started out in 1990 they were basically a rather standard Death Metal band, which, like…
Artist: Muert Country: Spain Label: Immortal Frost Productions Formats: CD Year: 2022 Though most people know the Spanish Canary Islands only from their nice sunny holidays, the islands too have a very dark side. Its unpredictable and evil, volcanic character…
Artist: Vas SatanasCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2022 Vas Satanas is a Finnish band consisting of Exxxiler (Morgal and Bergilmir) on drums and Vorr (Daemonlust, Nefarious Rites, Nocturnal Sorcery and Persekution) on vocals and guitars. Their self-titled demo was…
Artist: Lucifericon Country: The Netherlands Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 After releasing three EP’s and one full-length album, the Dutch Black/Death Metal combo Lucifericon is ready to strike again with a new full-length…
Artist: Septicflesh Country: Greece Label: Chaos Reigns / Nuclear Blast / Shinigami Records / Ward Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 When the band fell apart in 2003 and arose again four years later, they not…
Artist: Pyra Country: Italy Label: Immortal Frost Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Founded in 2020, this Italian Black/Death Metal three-piece released a couple of digital singles in prelude to the official release of their self-titled debut EP through…
Artist: Weregoat / Eggs Of Gomorrh Country: USA / Switzerland Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Split LP / Split Cassette EP / Split CD Year: 2022 Simultaneously with the release of Weregoat’s ‘The Devil’s Lust’ 12″ EP, Iron Bonehead Productions…
Artist: Perversion / Pyromancer Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 “Dies irae, dies illa. Solvet saeclum in favilla“. The first words in the Latin Dies Irae, the Day Of Wrath, they…
Artist: Prehistoric War Cult Country: Germany Label: Fucking Kill Records / Kellerassel Records Formats: 10″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2022 Out of the sewers of Osnabrück, Germany, comes this ugly creature named Prehistoric War Cult. Having released a couple…
Artist: Weregoat Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2022 Upon seeing this new EP, put in a subtle cover by Sadistik Exekution’s Rok, I had dived into my own collection.…
Artist: Proclamation Country: Spain Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ross Bay Cult Formats: LP / CD Year: 2020 After the break-up of Proclamation, the band members formed a new band, Sacrificio, that leans a bit more towards Black Metal…
Artist: Proclamation Country: Spain Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ross Bay Cult Formats: LP / CD Year: 2020 While bands like Blasphemy, Beherit and in a lesser extent Sarfcófago defined a viciously suffocating brutal sound in the late 80’s…
Artist: Proclamation Country: Spain Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ross Bay Cult Formats: LP / CD Year: 2020 Whether it is due to the limitations of the Blasphemy-based Black/Death Metal or simply to the unbridled commitment of these Spaniards,…
Artist: Proclamation Country: Spain Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ross Bay Cult Formats: LP / CD Year: 2020 As a reviewer, you are happy if you can write something about a good band or a nice release. People who…
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: Diabolical OathCountry: USALabel: Sentient Ruin LaboratoriesFormats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2022 After Shroud Of The Heretic went on a indefinite hiatus by the end of the 10’s some members went on to form this Diabolic…
Artist: Naked Whipper Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Once in a while Iron Bonehead Productions digs up something from the German underground, earlier we saw for example Ungod, Baxaxaxa, Moonblood and Fulgor. With…
Artist: Naked Whipper Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Together with the re-issue of the bands’ first and only album, ‘Painstreaks’, Iron Bonehead Productions releases this compilation of both the ‘Moloch-Acid Orgy’ 12″ (1995,…
Artist: Supremative Country: Spain Label: Crimson Tide Productions Formats: LP Year: 2022 Although I already picked up the reissue of Supremative’s first demo on 7”, which was released by Blood Harvest Records back in 2016, I still had to check…
Artist: In Aeternum Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest / Pulverised Records Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2007 With varying succes Swedish band In Aeternum have spawned records on mankind, through various labels and with an ever changing line-up.…
Artist: Akercocke Country: United Kingdom Label: Earache Records Formats: CD Year: 2003 Due to the great hype around this band I think most of the people know about this band. From their first release “Rape Of The Bastard Nazarene” album…
Artist: EnshadowedCountry: GreeceLabel: Black Lotus RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2003 Just after I reviewed their first CD I already have the second album of Enshadowed in my hands. And even before I read the biography or listened to any of the music…