Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
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: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Occult Mountain’s first digital demo surfaced last June, although summer might be still fresh in our memories, ‘Cries Of The Forest Spirit’ is already this project’s fifth demo.…
Artist: Nyctophilia Country: Poland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 Ever since 2014, main man Grief has been pushing out releases for his project Nyctophilia. With ‘Stargazer’, we have arrived at the seventh full-length…
Artist: Oath Of Malignancy Country: Ecuador Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Cassette tape Year: 2025 The primitive sound of South America and Greece, if there would be a collective description of what unifies most of the recent releases on Wolfkult Religion…
Artist: Inritvm Country: France Label: End All Life Productions / Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘Ex Nihilo Ad Nihilum’ is the debut album of French act Inritvm, released through End All Life Productions. Having only released…
Artist: Medieval Demon Country: Greece Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although I already had seen the name of Medieval Demon mentioned here and there a few times before, I hadn’t actually heard them until a few years ago. I don’t…
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…
Artist: Deathfuckingwound Country: Finland Label: Iron Corpse Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Void MMXXV’ is the debut demo from a Finnish duo that got together somewhere earlier this year, but seemingly they didn’t need much time to wrap their first…
Artist: Valturn Country: Puerto Rico Label: The Black Candles Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Whether or not Valturn was a product of the raging COVID pandemic or not, but this Puerto Rican Black Metal project was founded during these turbulent…
Artist: Nema Country: Germany Label: Northmoon Zephyr Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Nema was a German Black Metal band that by now has been dead and buried many times longer than it was actually alive. In their short lifespan…
Artist: Atavistic Passage Country: United Kingdom Label: Manifest Of Hate Creations Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 About a year ago the first demo of Atavistic Passage appeared and captivated me with its raw and hypnotic power. I absolutely loved the…
Artist: Red Right Hand Of Plague Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 With a demo tape and an EP in 2024 and a split 7” EP with Warslaughter earlier this year, the sonic assault that is…
Artist: Hate Forest Country: Ukraine Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With three EP’s and albums since Hate Forest’s return in 2020, we can safely say that Roman Saenko is not yet done with…
Artist: Effroi Country: Belgium Label: Amor Fati Productions / Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 All right, time to get through that pile of records I still have lying around here and that are crying out to…
Artist: Affliction Vector Country: Italy Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘Contra Hominem’ is the follow-up of Affliction Vector’s ‘Death Comes Supreme’-EP, released through the Dutch Argento Records five years ago. My guess is that some…
Artist: Storming Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Iron Bonehead Productions announced ‘Celestial Clear Moonlit’ as the “highly anticipated” second album of this one-man Black Metal band from the USA. To be honest, I…
Artist: Abominator Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After what seemed like taking forever, Abominator, one of the unsung heroes of Australian wild musical barbarism, is finally back. Again, the Aussies…
Artist: Desaster Country: Germany Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Some bands need no introduction. And thank goodness, because what else is there to write about Desaster these days? The Germans are undoubtedly one of the…
Artist: Hulder Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Hulder started out as a good, yet considerably predictable and rather unoriginal Black Metal band, but over the course of this band’s existence the music progressed and developed tremendously.…
Artist: Spiculum Iratus Country: USA Label: Into Extinction Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although they have existed since 2005, Spiculum Iratus is a new band to me. Perhaps that in part is caused by the fact that this Black Metal…
Artist: Celestial Call Country: Unknown Label: Mercury Chalice Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Celestial Call is a completely anonymous act with absolutely zero information to work on, not even their origin is known at this point, but it did manage…
Artist: Goat Semen / Bestial Rites Country: Peru Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Two portions of Peruvian perversion, that is what we’re treated with on this split between Goat Semen and Bestial Rites. In one corner,…
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: Sexlucifer Country: Finland Label: Kymijoen Levyt Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Ah, yes. You can leave it up to the Finnish to come up with some utterly deranged shit. Take this new band called Sexlucifer for instance, the combination of…
Artist: Evilcult Country: Brazil Label: Awakening Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 After an EP and two full-length albums, Evilcult is slowly starting to be an established name in the Speed/Thrash/Black Metal scene. Maybe that is not too difficult, as that…
Artist: Geheimnisvoll Country: USA Label: Nithstang Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although not overly prolific, Geheimnisvoll has steadily been building a rather impressive reputation for being one of the absolute flagships of the “new wave” of American Raw Black Metal bands.…
Artist: Babylonian War Chant Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Although the all-knowing algorithms tend to taunt me with their suggestions of bands that I don’t give a dime about, sometimes they bring up something rather interesting. Such as…
Artist: Valac Country: USA Label: Black Gangrene Productions Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 Although Valac has been around for quite some time now, being formed in 2019, none of its rather extensive back-catalogue has been featured on these pages yet. Time to…
Artist: Black Discharge Country: USA Label: Death’s Radiance Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Under the banner of Death’s Radiance, an obscure label that already brought us such great acts as Firmament and especially Kudlaakh, comes the debut of Black Discharge. Apart…
Artist: Black Cum Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Usually, when Unpure Records hits the market with a new release, you know you have to fasten your seatbelts. Not necessarily because of the speedy music of their…
Artist: Spectrum Mortis Country: Spain Label: Bloody Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 When, out of the blue, Spectrum Mortis debuted with their ‘Blasphemare Nomen Eius’ 12” EP in 2016, I was pretty impressed with what these Spaniards were able…
Artist: Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: LP Year: 2025 Not too long ago Gates Of Dawn treated us with a cassette tape in the form of ‘III – Promo 2025’ and as well as with a…
Artist: Penance In Blood Country: Unknown Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Two years after the release of the self-titled debut demo, this enigmatic entity called Penance In Blood returns with a new demo. In that time not much…
Artist: Versteck / Geheimnisvoll Country: Indonesia / USA Label: Ancient Horror Records / Nithstang Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Albeit originating from different parts of the world, both Versteck (Indonesia) and Geheimnisvoll (USA) have amassed a considerable following within…
Artist: Ceremonial Incantations Country: USA Label: Northmoon Zephyr Productions / Sin For Belial Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although ‘Messengers Ov Sathanas’ is already the third full-length offering from Ceremonial Incantations, you don’t have to feel very ashamed…
Artist: Thäurnox Country: Puerto Rico Label: The Black Candles Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although Puerto Rico isn’t the first country you think of when you’re talking about Black Metal, there’s quite a few interesting acts to discover. One of…
Artist: Insane Apollyon Country: Finland Label: Final Agony Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Not too long ago I spent a few words on a vinyl compilation from unreleased early tracks from Sacellum Luciferi, a rather obscure Black Metal band from…
Artist: Destruction Ritual Country: France / USA Label: End All Life Productions / Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Four years ago, Destruction Ritual presented their self-titled demo. That by itself may not be all too noteworthy,…
Artist: Sargeist Country: Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Format: CD Year: 2025 Yes, we are late to the party. After all, the latest Sargeist record was already released at the end of May of this year. Obviously, this wasn’t a record…
Artist: Koreltsak Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Those who tend to keep an eye on today’s Raw Black Metal underground, must at least have stumbled upon the name of Koreltsak, an American entity that spawns…
Artist: Caveau Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Canada, to the outside world, always seems a country full of peaceful people doing smart things, keeping their country well-organised. But underneath that surface lies a rebellious character, at…
Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Year: 2025 After two demos, Dark Divinator feels it’s time to take his project Remains of Ash to the next level. With ‘Ikuisuuden Keskellä’, which translates to something as ‘In…
Artist: Odenwald Country: Germany Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 With having exactly zero information to work with, I can’t say anything else then that ‘Felsenmeer’ is the debut EP (or demo, if you prefer) from this German…
Artist: Stangarigel Country: Slovakia Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 It’s a great time for those that appreciate Slovakian Black Metal. A new Malokarpatan is due in 2026, KroloK has been hard at…
Artist: Gvozdena Nychta Country: Serbia Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Gvozdena Nychta (“Iron Night” in English) is the new brainchild of Vinka Mrtvaluć, who recently put his previous project Dreg K to rest. The exact reasons for…
Artist: Herzsklave Country: USA Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I am not too much into Depressive Black Metal myself. Most of the times I think it is rather pretentious and it is hard to take seriously,…
Artist: Necrohammer Country: Mexico Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 What there to say about Necrohammer than hasn’t already been mentioned by FelixS in his reviews of ‘Unholy Black Steel’ and ‘Ancient Metal Holocaust’? Uptempo Black Metal from…
Artist: Silver Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Year: 2025 After two demos, released in 2022 and 2024 that were both compiled on a cassette tape earlier this year, this American one-man Black Metal project is back with…
Artist: Obscentum Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 While its inception dates back a few years, ‘From Black Blood To Occult Flames’ is only the first recording that was publicly released by Obscentum, yet another musical outlet for Terrance…
Artist: Sacellum Luciferi Country: Finland Label: Satanik Requiem / Vermines Pestifera Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Finland is home to a great treasure trove of ridiculously obscure Black Metal. The true connoisseur of underground Black Metal is always served…