Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Grieving Mirror Country: USA Label: Neuro Plastic Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Either scavenging around on Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify, digging around through distro lists and webshops or following the much appreciated tips and hints from people whose nose for…
Artist: Sarastus Country: Finland Label: Dominance of Darkness Records Format: LP / CD Year: 2025 Five years have passed since the last release by Finland’s Sarastus, even six if you count the time since the last full-length. Time that did…
Artist: Mystic Blood Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 Dark Divinator and Haarniska seem overflowing with ideas. Mystic Blood is their latest cooperation, after also featuring together in the excellent Kerzenlicht alongside their other…
Artist: Abominablood Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 With quite an extensive discography, existing out of several demos, EP’s, split releases and three full-length albums, Argentinian Abominablood has increasingly perfected its take on the Black/Death Metal genre.…
Artist: Serpent Gate Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It is true that the things you grow up with always keep a certain charm, no matter your current age. Things tend to make more impact and help…
Artist: Hibernal Abyss Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Demo MMXXV’ is the first demo of Hibernal Abyss, a new Raw Black Metal band from the United Kingdom that is apparently led by multi-instrumentalist Atavistic Passage,…
Artist: Efermus Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Format: CDR EP Year: 2025 With a considerable output over the past four-and-a-bit years, it might not be surprising that Portuguese Efermus was featured on these pages before. In fact, the last year,…
Artist: Satans Blade Country: Canada Label: Defiled Altar Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 In times when we have become accustomed and spoiled, consciously or not, to the convenience of having all music at our fingertips and receiving our promos digitally,…
Artist: Wisteria Country: USA Label: Lampshade Tapes Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Wisteria, a one-man Black Metal band from Cleveland, Ohio, came to life early 2024 with a debut full-length called ‘Nightfall’. With its serene cover art and expressive title,…
Artist: Witchmoon Country: USA Label: Death Hymns / Lampshade Tapes Formats: LP Year: 2025 Personally I ran into Witchmoon with the split LP’s with Lampir and Hand Of Glory from 2018 and 2019 respectively. Basically the peak of the madness surrounding the Raw/Lo-Fi…
Artist: Satanic Gore Procession Country: USA Label: Nihilistic Mortality Productions / Order Of The Old Flame Productions Formats: Demo Tape / Demo CD Year: 2025 First of all, this is not exactly a brand new demo (or EP), it was originally released…
Artist: Burning Winds Country: USA Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 In these times when everything is readily available and bands release one album after another, when transience and superficiality reign supreme, when attention spans seem to last no longer than…
Artist:Luminous Transfixion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: CDR Year: 2025 Well over four years after the debut album of the somewhat mysterious project of Luminous Transfixion, we are, more or less out of the blue, treated with its successor. Even if you have…
Artist: Mooncitadel Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 Finland’s Mooncitadel has continued to impress me, from their earliest beginnings as Watcher’s Abyss and Empire of Tharaphita to their first recordings with Mooncitadel, and their most…
Artist: Grand Bewitchment Country: USA Label: Damnation’s Edge Productions Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 After having put out a demo tape and a split tape in 2021 and 2023 respectively, both released through the band’s own Damnation’s…
Artist: …and Oceans Country: Finland Label: Season of Mist Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 When I first ran into …and Oceans, sometime around the turn of the millennium, I was completely blown away with the band’s debut album, ‘Dynamic…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 After the monumental achievement of releasing no less than five full-length albums at once, Azghor again found some spare time to record a new EP, entitled ‘Viscera Of The…
Artist: Mystic Veil Country: USA Label: Sinister Shadow Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although ‘What Misery Thou Art Fallen… Taste Of Death But Once’ is mentioned as a compilation LP, it is not much of compilation in the typical sense. Side…
Artist:Smyrtonos / Vagabond Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 After no less than five new releases in 2024, including the debut album, this year so far was remarkably quiet for Bulgarian Raw Black Metal act Smyrtonos (or Смъртонос), but…
Artist: Nihilvm Country: Poland Label: Malignant Voices / Terratur Possessions Formats: CD Year: 2025 The first release of the Polish Nihilvm was not what I expected. Released on the respected Black Metal label Malignant Voices, the pulverising formula of their…
Artist: Auriel’s Bow Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Not something I like to admit, but when I started the reviewing in the first years of the 00’s I used to be the youngest in every crew, now I am…
Artist: Spellgate Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 From Finland hails the entity of Spellgate, a rather mysterious band of which we know that E.P. runs the entire show and that their debut eponymous album has just been…
Artist: Anthropomantic Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette Tape / CDR Year: 2025 Anthropomantic is the latest project of a 18-year old musician from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Although ‘Blasphemous Decree’ is just the band’s debut album, it seems that Boyan…
Artist:Mania / Natürgeist Country: USA Label: Electric Assault Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Honestly, I was never impressed by any of Mania’s previous output and Natürgeist’s sole demo, also reissued on a 7” EP, was more hype than anything else. Without wanting…
Artist: Fulgorious Country: Ecuador Label: Nebulavaho Records Formats: 7″ EP / Demo Tape Year: 2025 Spawned from the mind of S.S comes Fulgorious, a new Black Metal band from the fertile Ecuadorian Black Metal grounds. While the country has a couple of well-known…
Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘The Black Serpents Lament’ is the first demo of a new entity roaming the North American Raw Black Metal realms. Within its ranks we find Fallen Warrior, who already left a certain…
Artist: Azathoth’s Dream Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In 2023 Azathoth’s Dream debuted with an impressive debut called ‘Nocturnal Vampyric Bewitchment’. Maybe not completely out of the blue as it was preceded by a demo tape a…
Artist: Moonfall Country: Finland Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After a split LP with Regere Sinister and two demo tapes released prior, with the first one dating back to 2010, this obscure Finnish act finally comes out with their…
Artist: Profanação / Teufelsdom Country: Portugal / Russia Label: Altare Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 This split tape comes rather hot on the heals of both band’s latest releases. Teufelsdom released their second two-track demo last May and Profanação’s second full-length album, also…
Artist: Knüth Country: Russia Label: Unholy Wormhole Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 Ever since the band’s foundation back in 2018, this duo has been spawning demos, at least one per year. With this latest one they arrived at their tenth…
Artist: Carved Cross / Native Glow Country: Australia Label: Solar Wind Productions Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2025 The otherwise prolific output of Carved Cross suddenly and unexpectedly came to a halt in 2023. Whereas we had previously struggled to…
Artist: Lord Belial Country: Sweden Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Admittedly, my relationship with Lord Belial has not always been one of true love. When I first ran into the band, some quarter of a century…
Artist: Fienden Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Everyone willing to dig just a little deeper than your average Black Metal band gaining their five minutes of fame through Black Metal Promotion, will know that there’s still…
Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Hot on the heals of this project’s debut demo, Occult Mountain is already back with another. ‘Winter Invocations’ was a particularly charming demo that showcased a great balancing…
Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Simultaneously released with the ‘Liquidation Of Souls’-demo tape, Eerified Catacomb treats you on yet another sinister demo recording. While both demos have a similar cover art and…
Artist: Devil Pig Country: South Korea Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although for a few seconds I thought I was dealing with a solo project by the singer of Embrace Of Thorns who uses this same pseudonym, this…
Artist: Profanatorium Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Profanatorium, a new and rather obscure entity from Spain. Well, Spain… I am aware of the fact that people from Gran Canaria usually do not want to be called…
Artist: Reich Der Geister Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although this French one-man operation already released two demos and a split tape before this latest offering, it never popped up on my radar. But now…
Artist: Abhorrent Execration Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 After two demos and an EP, the French duo that is Abhorrent Execration returns with yet another EP that, for now, is only digitally available through the band’s…
Artist: Nubivagant Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Just like the other releases of Nubivagant featured on these pages, I have filed this one under “Black Metal”. Yet, anyone familiar with the band knows that Nubivagant isn’t…
Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Sordid Realm Of Apparition’ and the split tape with Gnawed Chrisom, Eerified Catacomb returns with two new demo tapes. ‘Liquidation Of Souls’ is…
Artist: Mystic Circle Country: Germany Label: Rock Of Angels Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Over the past few years German Black Metal outlaws Mystic Circle has been on a quest for rehabilitation. Not only with rapidly releasing two new…
Artist: Acherontas (Αχεροντας) Country: Greece Label: III Damnation Productions / Zazen Sounds Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 There was a time that Greek Black Metal band Acherontas had gained some momentum; more or less at the…
Artist: Ancient North Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 After a blitzing start with firing away one recording after another, over time Ancient North has been taking on a slower pace. Still, you can’t be surprised that Forlorn…
Artist: Sanguine Relic / Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 This little piece of vinyl brings together two of the USA’s most popular Raw Black Metal bands, with Sanguine Relic being an…
Artist: Sepulchral Lamentations Country: Austria Label: TSC Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Sepulchral Lamentations is a new one-man project from Austria, helmed by Stephan “Shathrazhul” Homschek who started creating music under this moniker only this year. Although he has some…
Artist: Moon Oracle Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst Formats: CD Year: 2025 With only a few years behind them as a band, the trio that forms Moon Oracle is not only a seasoned company with precious experience in bands such…
Artist: Uhritulet Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 Blame it on old age, or perhaps I simply prophetised this in my review of the Uhritulet debut album. But the observation that ‘Uhritulet’ didn’t manage to stand out…
Artist: Cénotaphe Country: France Label: Ancien Culte / Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ossuaire Records Format: LP / CD Year: 2025 Things moved fast for Cénotaphe. Born out of their time together in Nécropole, instrumentalist Fog and vocalist Khaosgott started…
Artist: Galghe Country: Belgium/The Netherlands Label: Zwaertgevegt Format: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Less than two months after the release of debut ‘Bloed Eed’ have passed, but Galghe has already struck again. Their EP ‘Stiers Wreedheid en Andere Nare Vertellingen’ is…