Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Abbashaitan Country: Finland Label: Worship Tapes Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the band has already been around for a respectable amount of time, Abbashaitan’s first two demos, from 2017 and 2020 respectively, have remained completely under the radar…
Artist: Moulin BanalCountry: CanadaLabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Cassette tapeYear: 2025 Moulin Banal was a Black Metal band that hailed from Montréal in the Canadian province of Quebec. During its 6 -year existence it initially consisted of Carabinier Carignan, and Comte Bergaby (the mind behind acts like…
Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: Breath Of Pestilence Formats: CD Year: 2025 After a good couple of demos, EP’s and a split tape with Geatkihaukr, early this year the Finnish one-man army of Veitsi returns with its first full-length album.…
Artist: Salacious GodsCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Demo TapeYear: 2025 After an extended period without releases, Salacious Gods has turned the tide completely. There was the long-awaited full-length ‘Oaelevluuk’ and the band returned to the stages in 2023. Last year…
Artist: Bluthammer Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 “Fuck Religion, Fuck Politics, Fuck Humanity”. It can only be clear. Bluthammer does not mince words: this is merely about sonic violence and unhinged total hatred. And, of course,…
Artist: Barshasketh Country: New Zealand Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Besides a couple of splits, Barshasketh released no less than five albums in fifteen years, still I am amazed by how little appreciation this band gets.…
Artist: Ninkharsag Country: United Kingdom Label: Vendetta Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Of course, when you have heard something good or “discovered” a new band, you really want nothing but more of it. But personally, I…
Artist: Sathanas Country: USA Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With their 1988 released ‘Ripping Evil’-demo, Sathanas positioned themselves as one of the very first Extreme Metal bands that effectively blended those early elements of both Death-…
Artist: Shadow DungeonCountry: Bosnia and HerzegovinaLabel: GoatowaRexFormats: LPYear: 2024 Shadow Dungeon was one of the many projects of O. (who in this entity goes by The Leper King), the prolific mastermind behind acts such as Sulphuric Night, Obskuritatem, Niteris and Void Prayer. While…
Artist: MatavitatauCountry: BelgiumLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital DemoYear: 2025 From the fertile Black Metal grounds of Belgium hails Matavitatau, an entity that finds its origin in 2021. ‘Numen Nescio’ is their debut demo and contains four tracks of Black Metal, with a rather…
Artist: Void of HopeCountry: FinlandLabel: Avantgarde MusicFormats: LP / CDYear: 2025 A band with members of Moonlight Sorcery and Ondfødt, Avantgarde Music sure knows how to grab my attention. Void of Hope is a new entity that was born during a…
Artist: Lore Liege Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Over the roughly five years that Lore Liege, a one-man Black Metal band from the US, has been around, it has already produced quite a discography. Of that, I…
Artist: HersirCountry: SwedenLabel: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2025 In my review of the 2023 demo ‘Hateful Draugar’ by Hersir, I lauded the heavy pummeling sound, and drew paralels with Behexen mixed with Mayhem, Emperor…
Artist: Wampyric Rites Country: Ecuador Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 ‘Night Winds Of The Tempest’ isn’t a new EP in the true sense of the word. It was already recorded back in 2023, in the same session as…
Artist: Wampyric Rites Country: Ecuador Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Since Wampyric Rites’ latest effort, the ‘The Rites Of The Vampire Inscriptions’-EP from 2023, the band again expanded from a…
Artist: Genocide Kommando Country: France Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tapes / CD Year: 2024 The very short-lived first incarnation of Genocide Kommando (2002-2003) left us only one album, the Moribund Records released ‘Black Metal Supremacy’ from 2002.…
Artist: Ad Hominem Country: France Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Few bands stir up more controversy than France’s Ad Hominem. Even without having heard a note, there are already fans and haters of…
Artist: Vainot Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Honestly, I was planning to review ‘Rituaalikooma’, the first demo the Finnish Black Metal band Vainot. It came out in October last year, but even before I could blink…
Artist: Aspaarn Country: Switzerland Label: Self-Released Formats: LP Year: 2025 ‘Oblation In Atrocity’ is Aspaarn’s fourth album in about as many years, and just like the majority of the band’s earlier work this one too is presented on a self-released…
Artist: FaidraCountry: SwedenLabel: Northern Silence ProductionsFormats: 12″ EP / CD EPYear: 2025 ‘Militant : Penitent : Triumphant’ was a rather impressive record, released by the Swedish one-man act Faidra in late 2023. Basing its atmospheric Black Metal on a straightforward but…
Artist: Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst / Crypt Of The Wizard / Tour De Garde Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Almost simultaneously with the ‘Crude Magick’ double LP, a compilation of the earliest Hail…
Artist: Heathendom Country: USA Label: Sonorous Night Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 ‘The Nightspirit Symphony’ is the debut 2-track demo tape from an anonymous duo from the United States. With a title like this, it might not surprise that the…
Artist: Amargura Country: France / Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Some four years ago this rather enigmatic entity called Amargura debuted with their Altare Productions-released ‘L’astre Mort’ demo tape and while for today’s standards…
Artist: Bronze Hall Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Introducing a new anonymous one-man army from Finland presenting its own debut album digitally via Bandcamp is not necessarily easy. What is there to say about such a project…
Artist: Templum Country: Brazil Label: Galafoice Formats: LP Year: 2024 Brazil is pre-eminently the country with the greatest biodiversity, its immeasurably vast jungles harbouring more than 56,000 plant species, 1,700 bird species, 695 amphibian species, 578 mammal species and 651…
Artist: Atomic Goatcrime Country: Ecuador Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 After the band’s great 2023-released ‘Atomic Goat Exterminium!’-EP, I have kept my binoculars focused on Ecuador to see if there was any movement in the Atomic Goatcrime camp.…
Artist: Azelsglare Country: Spain Label: Diabolical Vitriol Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 ‘When The Purity Of Winter Falls’, ironically released in the middle of the Spanish summer of 2024, may well go down in the books as one of the…
In the summer of 2024, this Canadian duo simultaneously released two cassette tapes, a demo and a rehearsal. The aesthetics of both tapes and the overall image surrounding the band hold pretty little mystery: with their Black/Death Metal laced with…
Artist: Abruptum Country: Sweden Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 Obviously, Abruptum is mostly known for its early work and their affiliation to Euronymous’ Deathlike Silence Productions. The band’s first two records and specially the ‘Obscuritatem Advoco…
Artist: Repúdio Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Not too long ago I read a serious piece of writing in which a fairly seasoned Black Metal fan wondered, while writing, what exactly “Raw Black…
Artist: Sex Messiah Country: Japan Label: Sex Desire Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Without a doubt, Sex Messiah is one of Japan’s finest products of uncompromising Extreme Metal. With a much more Death Metal driven sound in their early stages the band…
Artist: SigonCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-releasedFormats: DigitalYear: 2025 Part two of “Lord Warmoon conquers the world in 2025” is presented in the form of the debut album of Sigon. In this entity, Lord Warmoon, under the pseudonym Magister Salax D’volta in this…
Artist: Mutant Sex DemonCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-releasedFormats: DigitalYear: 2025 2025 has barely started and Lord Warmoon, also featuring in Devil Moon and Kirous and formerly of Morgal, already has two full-length releases under his belt. The first of the two is…
Artist: Wuldorgast Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 At the very end of 2024 Iron Bonehead Productions offered us the debut album of American Black Metal band Wuldorgast, a new entity comprised of two…
Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Primitive Blood Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Demo #2 for Dryas from a series of three rapidly successive demo releases – not in the “right” sequence, though. The Portuguese Black Metal band, which sometimes operates…
Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Asylum Tenebris Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 When I reviewed Dryas’ ‘Monumentos à Eternidade’-demo tape a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t know that was actually their third demo. At the time of writing there…
Artist: Adorior Country: United Kingdom Label: Dark Descent Records / Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Adorior’s ‘Bleed On My Teeth’ already came out in autumn last year, so I am arriving to the party a bit…
Artist: Dysangelium Country: Germany Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 German Black Metal band Dysangelium is not quite what you would say a prolific band. After their solid 2014 debut album ‘Thánatos Áskēsis’ it took the band five…
Artist: Frozen GravesCountry: FinlandLabel: His WoundsFormats: LPYear: 2024 ’Seeding Will’ was the very first release by Frozen Graves, originally stemming from 2015. At that time, the band was still a strictly Finnish affair, consisting of Cosmic Church mastermind Luxixul Sumering…
Artist: Osgraef Country: Uknown Label: Amor Fati Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 At the time of writing, practically nothing is known about this brand-new band that fires their debut album at us out of nowhere with ‘Reveries Of…
Artist: DrudkhCountry: UkraineLabel: Season of Mist Underground ActivistsFormats: LP / Cassette tape /CDYear: 2025 As conflict continues to tear apart their homeland, Roman Saenko and companions relentlessly persist to bring a homage to the landscapes of Ukraine and its history.…
Artist: Alesya Country: Mexico Label: Svart Hat Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Mexican Alesya was born from the minds of two lads each with some experience within the underground Black Metal scene, but in this formation, ‘Hex De Tristesse…
Artist: Genocidal Rites Country: USA Label: Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With a demo and three solid EP’s under their belts, it was about time that this relatively young band went for their…
Artist: Archaic Behest Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although Archaic Behest is a new band, debuting with ‘Lore’ through Iron Bonehead Productions, the musicians behind the band are far from rookies. With an accumulated…
Artist: Blasphamagoatachrist Country: Brazil/Canada Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Those who thought that Blasphamagoatachrist would cease to exist after the deaths of Sabbaoth (2021) and Virrugus (2024) turns out completely mistaken. Of course, it…
Artist: Moonlight Malefice Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Only a week after the release of ‘Demo 2024’ there is this other short demo, also clocking under seven minutes with basically only one song as…
Artist: Moonlight Malefice Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 In the span of just a week, American Moonlight Malefice has delivered two digital demos. Although both demos last only a little over 6 minutes, that…
Artist: Blackdeath Country: Russia Label: End All Life Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Russian Blackdeath has never chosen the easy route. Over their three decades span career they have delivered quite a few records that were either hard…
Artist: Merciless Country: Sweden Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Obviously, Merciless is mainly known for their downright cult debut album. Not only for the musical content and its wide influence on…
Artist: Old Wainds Country: Russia Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With ten years in the making, the unannounced release of ‘Stormheart’ is quite a bit of a surprise. Over the past…