Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Ebony Pendant Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 One of the American Black Metal bands that has caused the most stir in recent years is undoubtedly the one-man project Ebony Pendant. If we disregard the minor controversy surrounding his involvement with Degraved…
Artist: Gorewinter Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Gorewinter is one of those bands that have been mentioned only once in a while in discussions about the early sparks that ignited the Finnish Black Metal revolution. As long…
Artist: Godkiller Country: Monaco Label: Debemur Morti Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Probably prompted because the band’s 1998-released debut album was amongst the first Black Metal albums I’ve heard, Godkiller always remained a special band to me. Surrounded by…
Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Let’s start off with saying that nothing the musician behind Zkywbrezdreb ever did was even slightly middle of the road, but this particular project is definitely a great example of something that is…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 In Azgorh’s own words, ‘Current 1366’ is one of the rawest Drowning The Light full-length albums in recent years, but at the same time a spiritual extension of the ‘Conquer…
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: White Rune Country: Finland Label: Hammer Of Hate Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With another gorgeous cover, it is hard to miss there’s a new White Rune album out. And in the current musical constellation that seems…
Artist: Ofermod Country: Sweden Label: Shadow Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Never a dull moment with Ofermod, that’s for sure. ‘Drakosophia’ was released about two months ago, but it didn’t take many moons for the band to implode…
Artist: Kamra Country: Slovenia Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Kamra’s previous effort, ‘Cerebral Alchemy’ from 2022, was quite a stunning debut album. While all of the involved musicians have other or previous experience, none of these…
Artist: Mystic Circle Country: Germany Label: Reigning Phoenix Music Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘Hexenbrand 1486’ is already the fourth Mystic Circle album since their unexpected return in 2021 and the tenth album overall. The previous three albums and…
Artist: Torment Imagery Country: Indonesia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Torment Imagery’s Bandcamp page shows me a photo of one person and states that the band is Indonesian. Beyond that, there is nothing else to be found about…
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: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Fallen Warrior is a musician that seems to have difficulties with using a compass. A musical one, that is. Or simply a person who is very indecisive…
Artist: Sodality Country: Poland Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Sodality: a Roman Catholic religious guild or brotherhood. Also a Polish band consisting of T. Kaos and Mark of the Devil, two members that only share…
Artist: Nekkrolüst Country: USA Label: Metal Power Fighting Force / Putrid Cult Formats: CD / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After two demos, the last of which was released in 2024 by Destruktion Records in a limited edition of only 20…
Artist: Morbikon Country: USA Label: Tankcrimes Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 The downside of reviewing music is that you “have” to do that in a rather short amount of time and since we are being flooded with new…
Artist: Hagzissa Country: Austria Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12” EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Formed in 2016, Hagzissa combines members of the likes of Kringa, Serpere, Sněť and Weathered Crest. Despite having released an album on Iron Bonehead…
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: 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: Sardonic Order Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although Sardonic Order is a brand new Black Metal band with this specific release being their debut, the exact title of this 2-track demo is quite telling. This…
Artist: Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré Country: USA Label: Cranial Blast Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With one name even harder to pronounce than the other, this is definitely a split tape for enthusiasts. Which enthusiasts, you may ask. But those who…
Artist: Par-Delà Le Miroir Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After a 20-minute demo tape at the very end of last year called ‘Les adieux de l’âme’, this one-man Raw Black Metal project now returns with…
Artist: Hiemal Atavism Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After the last Reich Der Geister demo I have been keeping an eye on this project and all of its other affiliated activities. I am not entirely…
Artist: Infernal Presence Country: Germany Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD Year: 2025 Infernal Presence is a new Black Metal band from Germany that were picked right up by Darkness Shall Rise Productions. The duo have…
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: Unapproachable Light Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Unapproachable Light sprung from the mind of Tom “Obscurum” Kapsalis, who used to be one of the impetuses of Cult Of Daath, one of the…
Artist: Astral Spear Country: Poland Label: Signal Rex Formats: 12” EP / CD EP Year: 2025 No names, no history, just a birthright. Astral Spear is a mysterious new entity from Poland that is about to release its self-titled EP…
Artist: Orgy Of Carrion / Vulnakkthra Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Split CDR Year: 2025 Over the years Orgy Of Carrion has always been a bit of an enigma when it comes to their musical identity. While always dwelling…
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: 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: Matru-Zebu Country: Finland Label: Ancien Culte Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 To say that the Matru-Zebu demo released earlier this year impressed me is a gross understatement. The mash-up of first wave, Hellenic and Finnish Black Metal from the…
Artist:Sabulturath Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It’s perhaps not such a crazy assumption that the name of this band sounds a bit like that annoying drunk guy at the concert who keeps shouting in your ear that he thinks “Sepultura”…
Artist: Dark Divination Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Earlier in 2025 Dark Divination made their first appearance on Signal Rex with the release of the ‘Unforgotten’. With that EP, the band consisting of sole…
Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 In no time at all, the musician behind Occult Mountain and Chalice Of Eden has released an impressive number of demos, sometimes with only a few days in between. That is generally…
Artist: Traum Country: USA Label: Torture Palace Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I missed this project’s first offering, ‘Demo 2024’, but I would like to make amends by spending a few words on this follow-up, which was recently released…
Artist: Hautaveri Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although it is yet unclear who’s behind this new solo-project, but it is highly unlikely that Hautaveri is this musician’s first attempt of making music. It might not be the…
Artist: Sons Of Hades Country: Greece Label: Floga Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Imagine yourself being extremely hungry and you run into the nearest Domino’s or New York Pizza. But you suffer from severe indecisiveness,…
Artist: Necrobaptism Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 A few weeks ago I ran into this debut demo by a Greek duo that goes under the name of Necrobaptism. They apparently got together earlier this year and…
Artist: Sad Country: Greece Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 This year marks the twentieth anniversary for Sad, and what better way to celebrate that than with a brand new album. But while ‘Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening’…
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: Malhkebre Country: France Label: Battlesk’rs Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 French Black Metal has always been something that intrigued me. While there’s obviously also been some stuff that was fairly easy to digest like Anorexia Nervosa or the…
Artist: Astral Gauze Country: USA Label: Wergild Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Astral Gauze is a new project consisting of two musicians with lavish résumés that include current and previous experience with such bands as Ebony Pendant, Iron…
Artist: Nocturnal Adversary Country: USA Label: Mystic Glory Order Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Other than their affiliation with the Mystic Order circle, alongside Eisenblut, there’s practically no information about Nocturnal Adversary available. However, it is plausible that these two…
Artist: Death Yell Country: Chile Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape CD Year: 2025 If you’re talking about old Latin American Extreme Metal, it is categorically impossible to skip Death Yell. For the majority of the people…
Artist: Redenção Pelas Chamas Country: Portugal Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2025 It’s not really the first time I’ve expressed my not always mild aversion to overly smooth-and-simple or downright interchangeable Black Metal. Some musicians are just cranking…
Artist: Malakhim Country: Sweden Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With two demos and ‘Theion’, their debut album, released in the timespan between 2017 and 2021, Malakhim from Sweden has been working hard to establish their…
Artist: White Baroness Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 What do you get when members of Morgal, Sigon and Devil Moon get together in the same room? No doubt a deranged Heavy…
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…