Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Messe Mortuaire / Trance Of The Undead Country: France / Brazil Label: Angel Of Cemetery Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 ‘Funeral Mass For The Undead’ is a split 7” EP combining one track of both Messe Mortuaire…
Artist: Nefarious Scorn Country: Canada Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 At the waning moments of last year the German label of all things unpolished, Narbentage Produktionen, released a new demo tape from the Canadian entity called Nefarious Scorn. With only…
Artist: Plegaria Maldita Country: Costa Rica Label: Zombi Danz Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although I missed the actual release date of this demo, most sources date it from 2024, but it does not seem to have surfaced until around the spring months…
Artist: Charogne Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Rance Moelle / Accoutumanc’ is the one-track follow-up demo of ‘Bourbe’ and ‘Liturgia Horarum’, two demos that saw the light of day at the end of 2024 and very…
Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It could be a very good slogan to sell more copies of your demo: “so good, it’s not allowed on Metal-Archives”. While many of the unfathomable choices of…
Artist: Iron Division Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / IYY Blitzkrieg Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the Danish Extreme Metal scene and the Danish Extremely Rotten Productions label are mostly known for their Autopsy and Incantation-influenced Death Metal…
Artist: Empalamento Country: Portugal Label: Self-released / Haloran Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 / 2025 Even though I consider myself rather well-versed in the underground Extreme Metal scene, I sometimes tend to miss out on rather…
Artist: Eerified Catacomb / Gnawed Chrisom Country: Canada / Andorra Label: Under The Dark Soil Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Although I’ve seen the name of Gnawed Chrisom before, I never had the opportunity to check this project out musically.…
Artist: Thromvosis Country: Greece Label: Death’s Ovasions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 ‘Black Signs Of Bestiality’ is the follow-up recording to 2023’s ‘Proclamation Of The Smegmatic Warcult’, a record that I have reviewed and spent only a few hands full…
Band: Impurity / Satanicristo Country: Brazil Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Extreme Metal from Brazil that heavily leans on the legendary sound of the 80’s. That is what Wolfkult Religion is set to offer with a…
Artist: Azazel Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: CD Year: 2025 33 years and still going, Azazel returns with their latest full-length ‘Ave Dominus Luciferi’. Released on, how could it be any differently, the 6th day of the 6th month…
Artist: Medico Peste Country: Poland Label: Malignant Voices Formats: CD Year: 2025 Five years have passed since the last album by the Polish band Medico Peste. A time in which a lot has happened. For one, a drastic change in…
Artist: Crown Of The Usurper Country: Italy Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Profaner Records isn’t exactly known for its refined taste in art. In fact, when their releases my digital desk I am in for a treat…
Artist: Vampirska Country: USA Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With one demo, three full-length albums and six split releases in about six years, Vampirska is definitely a band that prefers the fast lane – not to…
Artist: Eternal Ice / Yūrei Country: Japan / Greece Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Eternal Ice from Nagano, Japan wastes no time. This split tape with Yūrei is one of their five releases this year and second one that…
Artist: Evil Deceiver Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Rather hot on the heels of the band’s self-titled demo that was released in the very waning days of 2024, Evil Deceiver returns with yet another demo. In…
Artist: Black Offal Messiah / Burning Winds Country: USA Label: Sexmord Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 This split 7” EP is actually not really new. In fact, about a year old now, but it took me quite some…
Artist: Sexmag Country: Poland Label: Destruktion Records / Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Over the past few years Sexmag has been growing into what you might call the “underground next big thing”. Not only just…
Artist: Profanação Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 From the ever-fertile Portuguese soil comes Profanação, a band that already released two demo tapes through M.D.M. in 2022 and an Altare Productions-released full-length album on cassette tape.…
Artist: Konfus Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Besides a one-track demo that was digitally released about a year ago, ‘Rabenlieder’ is the first offering from this relatively new German one-man band called Konfus. That one song that was previously released…
Artist: Grave Of God Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions / Final Agony Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although I tend to keep a close eye on the Portuguese Black Metal scene and Grave Of God already released a split tape, a full-length album and a 7”…
Artist: Funeral Fire Country: Japan Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Originally ‘Demo’ was first available in summer last year as a self-released demo tape, but early 2025 it saw its reissue through Germany’s Menschenfeind Propaganda. A collaboration that is not too surprising,…
Artist: Vengeance Sorcery Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although ‘Demo MMXXIV’ has been released under the Vengeance Sorcery banner, it is the sole product of Deathwalker (also Nihil Invocation). On this recording he is responsible for…
Artist: Eternal Ice / Spiralen Country: Japan / Germany Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Only a couple of weeks ago I reviewed Eternal Ice’s ‘Curse In The Sky’ EP, released by Elff Eggs, an EP that followed shortly after the band’s debut…
Artist: Ichors Glaive Country: USA Label: Parasyte Curse Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 Hot on the tail of their warmly received debut demo, Ichors Glaive returns with ‘Jörmungandr’. Released in March of 2025 on tape by Parasyte Curse, it can…
Artist: Ichors Glaive Country: USA Label: Medieval Prophecy Records /Blud Auk Tapes Formats: 12” Demo / Demo tape Year: 2024 Medieval Propehcy Records is certainly a label that has the spotlights of the underground Black Metal community honed in on…
Artist: Nebelfaust Country: Germany Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Nebelfaust is the brain child and solo act of German multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Zinkruwahn, who formed the band some years ago. That resulted in the band’s first demo ‘Finsternisse’, which…
Artist: Under The Moon Country: Spain Label: Crimson Tide Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Crimson Tide Productions is not a very prolific label, but if they decide to dedicate some time and money to something, it surely is something…
While in essence there is nothing wrong with so many other bands in the genres that claim to lean on the principles of paganism, the number of bands that really feel a deep connection to it is scarce. This becomes…
Artist: Hammer Country: Brazil Label: Poserkiller Records Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sprung out of the mind of ‘Kadu Necro Defunto’, Hammer is just one of the many projects of this ever-restless man from Brazil. And while with most of…
Artist: Bestial Possession Country: Peru Label: Aberration Records / Black Legion Records / Tyrants Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Although Bestial Possession has been around for quite a few years, over two decades…
From one thing comes another. A while back I interviewed Blackstream, and like things sometimes go, you continue the conversation and other bands come up. Orgiastic Pleasures, in this case. Like Blackstream, this band also appears to have been around…
Artist: Hellcrash Country: Italy Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With ‘Inferno Crematörio’ the Italian trio known as Hellcrash delivers its third full-length instalment, and, frankly, this is a logical continuation of what the band has…
Artist: Finngálkn Country: Iceland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Just a few years before Icelandic Black Metal exploded into the international scene with Misþyrming, Sinmara and Svartidauði as most prominent exponents, the Icelandic Black Metal scene was largely…
Artist: Azzagrat Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Again, completely out of the blue there’s another new Finnish Black Metal band. The duo behind Azzagrat for now remains anonymous, but felt confident enough to go straight for the…
Artist: Ërhatiüurä Country: France Label: Realm And Ritual Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Weltnacht’ is the first feat of Ërhatiüurä, a new and anonymous band from France, that will see its physical release on May 30th through the always interesting…
Artist: Tyrannosatan Country: Sweden Label: Jawbreaker Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Admittedly, I too initially ignored this band because of the somewhat cheesy band name. Tyrannosatan is not the most attractive name, and the album did not come with…
Artist: Nortt Country: Denmark Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although ‘Endeligt’ is not commonly seen as Nortt’s best or most compelling album, yet for me this 2017-released piece of work was monumental. For…
Artist: Hexenshade Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Hexenshade from Argentina, formed in May 2024, is a relatively new one-man band. Yet, with ‘The Revelation Of Doom……’ the project is already delivering its second full-length album, in addition…
Black Metal and a certain form of mysticism and individualism are part of the same thing. The sinister-eyed gritty one-man bands are popping up like mushrooms, but rarely are these core values conveyed as convincingly as by Switzerland’s Aspaarn. Not…
Artist: Feral Howl Country: Norway Label: Breath Of Pestilence / Howling Fury Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Back in 2022 Feral Howl released two demos, of which the second was an instrumental full Dark Ambient/Dungeon Synth-like recording, but the…
Artist: Wulfgraf Country: USA Label: Temple Fan Wolven Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Wulfgraf’s name is one of those that I had written down quite a few times on many of those little papers laying here next to my laptop.…
Artist: Nithe Country: Norway Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 After a digitally released demo in 2021 the Norwegian Black/Death Metal band released a very strong EP in the form of ‘Night Of The Ghoul’, of which I…
Artist: Draugaskógur Country: Serbia Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 From the Inferna Profundus Records stables comes this new Serbian one-man project called Draugaskógur and with ‘Fullmoon Hypnotic Ritual’ it goes right for the full-length album, skipping…
Artist: The Satan’s Scourge Country: Colombia Label: Triumvirate Of Evil Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although The Satan’s Scourge, hailing from Bogota, Colombia, has already been around for over two decades, ‘Abhorrent Spear Of Vengeance’ is only the band’s second…
Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Kos is yet another concoction of the person behind such bands as Red Right Hand Of Plague, Great Tribulation and Thirsting Ampoule and the one running the Elf…
Artist: Haavrun Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Transcendental Eclipse Of Inner Darkness’ is the debut demo tape of Haavrun, a new Bulgarian Raw Black Metal combo that sprung out of the minds of vocalist…
Artist: Vrëdehexen Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 From Tampere, Finland hails the duo of Vrëdehexen who in April of this year, the band released their debut demo, ‘Omen of Evil’. And even though it clocks in…
Artist: Skoj Country: International Label: Self-released Formats: Cassette EP / Digital EP Year: 2025 Skoj is a new entity of international origin, and the band name is short for “Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije”, which translates to “League of Communist Youth of…
Artist: Infernal Mantle Country: United Kingdom Label: Diabolical Vitriol Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Sometimes, or even most of the times, musical comparisons or other references made by a label to promote or describe their newest release are far from…