Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Invoketh Country: France Label: Obscurity Of Error Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Hell’s Black Vomit’ is the second demo tape of the French Blackened Death Metal band Invoketh. Back in the summer of 2025, this trio really made an impression on…
Artist: Krolok Country: Slovakia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2026 Five years after the band released ‘Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky’ on Osmose Productions, Krolok returns with yet another album. On this third full-length…
Artist: De Vermis Mysteriis Country: Belgium Label: Altare Productions Formats: CD Year: 2026 By the time that you read this review, the main actor in this story, De Vermis Mysteriis, is no more. Now I know I’m a bit of…
Artist: Empty Chalice Country: Canada Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2026 Empty Chalice is not exactly a new band, as they have been around for six years already and ‘Majesty of Sin’ is their sixth release so far.…
Artist: Orgy Of Carrion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 There’s no denying that the hype surrounding Lo-Fi Black Metal has completely faded. The few years during which one could speak of a peak are now…
Artist: Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst / Crypt Of The Wizard / Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 This Finnish one-man band is certainly not one where you have to wait long for new…
Artist: Nathrath Country: Spain Label: Diabolical Blood Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Rexurdimento’ is the fourth release under the name Nathrath, whose first demo came out in March this year. That means that in less than half a year, we’ve already been treated…
Artist: Blasphegenocidic Sadowar Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Not much is known yet about this Russian band, which recently made its debut with ‘Icon Of Carnage’. I am unaware of exactly who is in the band…
Artist: Gvozdena Nychta Country: Serbia Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 About a year and a half after the debut EP from this enigmatic duo known as Gvozdena Nychta, they’ve given a new sign of life.…
Artist: Adverso Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 The Portuguese band Adverso released three demos in the late 2010s (the last of which came out in 2020), the first two being released via the now-defunct Purodium…
Artist: Efermus Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Format: CDR EP Year: 2026 Although the spotlight usually falls on bands such as Black Cilice and Candelabrum when we talk about Portuguese Raw Black Metal, this enigmatic one-man band is also making…
Artist: Thornhammer Country: Bulgaria Label: Hellvetic Carnage Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although I wasn’t entirely sure, of course, I was fairly certain that Thornhammer was yet another offshoot of Todorac. Bulgarian Raw Black Metal isn’t something I run…
Artist: Matavitatau Country: Belgium Label: Altare Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 Quite a bit has happened since we last covered the band Matavitatau. At that time, the band’s first demo ‘Numen Nescio’ had just been released, a release that…
Artist: Archgoat Country: Finland Label: Debemur Morti Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 I’ll have to admit that I was somewhat surprised to find out that it’s already five years ago since Archgoat released their previous full-length album ‘Worship…
Artist: Wampyric Rites / Oath of Malignancy Country: Ecuador Label: Wolfkult Religion / Massacre Productions Formats: Split 7” EP Year: 2026 ‘The Oath’ is a double feature of Ecuadorian Black Metal bands, with Wampyric Rites on one side and Oath…
Artist: Vināyakas Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 A couple of key musicians that become the face of a genre: that certainly can be said for a country like Finland, with iconic musicians like Shatraug, Werwolf…
Artist: Onheilsprofeet Country: The Netherlands Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 At face value there’s plenty of similarities between the Black Metal bands Onheilsprofeet and Bløtskål. Not only were both bands founded in 2025, they also simultaneously released…
Artist: Flame Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Flame fans are always called upon to be patient. This Finnish band isn’t exactly known for its brisk pace of work; there are usually many years between the few releases…
Artist: Doodswens Country: The Netherlands Label: Svart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 I’d go so far as to say that, given all the touring and the mild hype surrounding Doodswens, I was, if anything, surprised that the band took five years to…
Artist: Weresatan Country: Canada Label: Defiled Altar Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From the ever-thriving Canadian Extreme Metal scene, here’s yet another new band that adds to the country’s metal landscape. Canada may well be the only civilised country in…
Artist: Nuclearhammer Country: Canada Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2026 Three years after the release of Nuclearhammer’s last sign of life, the ‘Xaos Tenawas’ demo, released on Nuclear War Now! Productions, the illustrious duo…
Artist: Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: CDR Year: 2026 ‘Uneen Eksynyt’ is already the second full-length release that the prolific Finnish one-man band Kurjuus has unleashed on us this year. Yet in almost every conceivable respect, this release is…
Artist: Alliberant Country: Spain Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Although Alliberant officially operates under the Spanish flag, the two gentlemen behind this relatively new band will not appreciate this geographical classification. Like many Black Metal bands from…
Artist: Bloodgargling Country: Germany Label: Astral Nightmare Productions / Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Non-Scandinavian bands that do go for Scandinavian band names and titles don’t usually stand out for their originality. Black Metal bands from the northern…
Artist: Diabolic Oath Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: 12″ EP /Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 I must admit that, despite being very familiar with Diabolic Oath’s previous work, I found this new EP, released by Sentient…
Artist: Horn Country: Germany Label: Northern Silence Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Although Horn do not follow the same musical path as the pioneers of the pagan strand of metal, and are therefore not comparable to bands such as Bathory, Thyrfing or Falkenbach,…
Artist: Moonfall / Cult Of Eibon Country: Finland / Freece Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Split LP / Split CD Year: 2026 Although the brief text accompanying this split mentions that it follows in the tradition of classic, cult split…
Artist: Primordial Intolerance Country: Canada Label: Green Matter Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 When listening to ‘Antipodean Evasion Tactics’, Primordial Intolerance’s debut demo tape, and knowing that they are from Quebec, Canada, it’s not unreasonable to think first of…
Artist: Vafurlogi Country: Iceland Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli / Oration Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 ‘Gneisti af eldi Guðs’, the sophomore album of Vafurlogi, arrives just two years after the debut ‘Í Vökulli Áþján’. Since then, the Icelandic…
Artist: Unholy Black Pentagram Country: Spain Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 While perhaps historically not the most active outside some stoic stalwarts keeping the banner high, one can certainly speak of quite a productive time for the…
Artist: Blótskål Country: The Netherlands Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 The Blótskål originates from the old Norse words blót and skál, and joined together translates to something like sacrificial bowl. It was central to the blót, a…
Artist: Funeral Moon / Gaalvan Country: Germany Label: Crimson Reign Records Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Just as on previous occasions, we haven’t had to wait long for new work from Gaalvan; just three months after the release of…
Artist: Necro Ritus Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo tape Year: 2026 ‘Born by Evil Blood’ combines the ‘Beast Unleashed’ and ‘Temple of Fornication’ demos, the first two Necro Ritus releases, onto one Cassette. This band was spawned in…
Artist: Chamber Of Unlight Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 That a new Chamber of Unlight album was inbound comes as no surprise, as the band already teased a new track in 2023 in the…
Artist: Sadistic Evil Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo tape Year: 2026 Sadistic Evil is one of the many outlets of Behemoth, a gentleman that has made his mark on Finnish Black Metal since 1991 in bands such as…
When we talk about French Black Metal, we quickly end up discussing bands such as Mütiilation, Deathspell Omega, and Antaeus, for example, but in a previous interview, I already mentioned that excellent bands such as Merrimack and Hell Militia sometimes…
Artist: Thy Killing Hand Country: Poland Label: End All Life Productions / Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Thy Killing Hand is a relatively new Polish band that after two demos now releases their debut full-length album…
Artist: Inferno Country: Czechia Label: Debemur Morti Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2026 For a discography marked by radical change, one that transitioned from crude Black Metal to a sophisticated and enveloping listening experience over the…
Artist: Witchcraft / BlackStream Country: Finland / Italy Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split 12” LP Year: 2026 Capping off a set of Witchcraft releases on WolfKult Religion is ‘House of Sacrilege’, a split release that was already launched in January…
Artist: Twilight Stronghold Country: France Label: The Weeping Kingdom Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Although Twilight Stronghold released their first demo back in 2021, followed by three split releases and a compilation featuring those tracks, I can imagine that for…
Artist: Riena Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 ‘Miekka Ja Varjo’ is the first sign of battle of Finland’s Riena. The band harbors the talents of Draghn and Woewerb, the latter who you…
Artist: Piołun Country: Poland Label: Malignant Voices Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 ‘Exolvuntur’ represents the second chapter in the discography of the Polish Black Metal band Piołun. That journey started in 2019 and led in 2022 to the debut…
Artist: Horns Of Abomination Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 The cover art of this debut demo of Horns Of Abomination might not necessarily look evil, but musically this new band definitely has something to offer for those…
Artist: Hermetic Subjugator Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Hermetic Subjugator might be a new band, but the duo behind it are by no means rookies. Both gents have earned their stripes in the Spanish underground scene with such acts…
Artist: Haavrun Country: Bulgaria Label: Caligo Arcanum Productions / Hellvetic Carnage Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 With ‘Total Demolition Of Feeble Souls’, the Bulgarian band Haavrun have now released their third demo tape. It’s always an exciting moment, because…
Artist: Necro Blade Country: USA Label: Goat Throne Records Formats: Demo CD Year: 2026 Admittedly, I missed this band’s debut demo from 2024, also released by Goat Throne Records, but I ran into this one and the combination of the…
Artist: Kerkerengel Country: Finland Label: Wizard’s Hat Publications Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2026 It’s been a year since the latest Warmoon Lord record surfaced, but main man Lord Vrăjitor did not waste time since to revisit one of his more…
Artist: Arckanum Country: Sweden Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2026 Johan S. Lahger began his career in metal in 1988, taking his place behind the drum kit in a band formed with three childhood friends, which they called Grotesque. Although…
Artist: Kalmankantaja Country: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 Recent years have marked a rather diverse soundscape for Kalmankantaja, continuously enriching their atmospheric Black Metal discography with ever-expanding escapades towards Doom Metal territories. But while that always felt…
Artist: Mayhem Country: Norway Label: Century Media / Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 More than any other Black Metal scene, the Norwegians have shown that it not only comprises a large group…