Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Templum Supra Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although ‘Criptam Ostium’ is the debut demo tape from this new Portuguese Black Metal band Templum Supra, there is a bit of a background story to tell.…
Artist: Repúdio Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Over the past decade or so the Portuguese Black Metal scene has spawned an incredible amount of quality Black Metal, Raw Black Metal to be exact. Without wanting…
Artist: Regnum Tenebrarum / Hertogenwald Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Split LP / Split CD Year: 2024 As a part of the batch of the Medieval Prophecy Records releases from October 2024, came this split LP between two…
Artist: Sabbat / Gruesome Country: Japan / USA Label: Doomentia Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 To add extra lustre to last summer’s European tour, a split 7” EP between Sabbat and Gruesome was released by Doomentia Records. The…
Artist: Nameless Tomb / Witchcraft Country: Germany / Finland Label: Escafismo Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2023 Virtually simultaneously with the split 7” EP with Behalf Fiend there is also this Witchcraft split 7” EP with Nameless Tomb from…
Artist: Witchcraft / Behalf Fiend Country: Finland / Brazil Label: Brazilian Ritual Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2023 Although I more or less abide by an unwritten rule that keeps me from reviewing releases older than, say, six months,…
Artist: Necromantical Invocation Country: Greece Label: Zombi Danz Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 The ‘Dogme Et Rituel De La Haute Magie’-demo by Necromantical Invocation, originally released in 2021, can definitely be considered a resounding triumph. Not only because it…
Artist: Opus Magorum Country: Greece Label: Zombi Danz Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 In a review for a vinyl reissue of an older Opus Magorum demo I already cited that with only releasing demos in rather small quantities the…
Artist: Perfidious Country: Malaysia Label: Zombi Danz Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 The cover artwork alone of this 45RPM 7’ EP released by Zombi Danz Records is already worth a look for those who like Southeast Asian Black/Death Metal.…
Anyone who has ever put an ear to the Finnish buddies of Concrete Winds knows that things are not done in a gentle way. The latest, untitled album is no exception: the duo smashes everything they come across. I spoke…
Artist: Necromaniac Country: United Kingdom Label: Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With the band’s 2015-released ‘Morbid Metal’ demo tape and the ‘Subterranean Death Rising’ 7” EP from 2018 Necromaniac already released some snippets…
Artist: Vindalf Country: Chile Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although Lord Valtgryftåke, with several albums and other output per year, might be Chile’s most prolific Black Metal musician the award for most intriguing…
Artist: Nocturnal Deviancy / Drowning The Light Country: USA / Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: Split CD Year: 2024 Besides Drowning The Light’s split CD with Azgorh’s own Harvest, there’s also this split release with Nocturnal Deviancy. Although Azgorh…
Greece’s Likno recently released its self-titled album via WolfKult Religion on cassette tape, and while this undoubtedly looks somewhat like shameless self-promotion, I think Likno’s music stands on its own. With their strong sense of melody, the duo mercilessly weaves…
Artist: Harvest / Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: Split CD Year: 2024 While waiting for newest album of Australia’s most prolific Black Metal titan, Drowning The Light, we were surprised by no less than three…
Artist: Jehovah Lashing Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 With only 18 minutes, Jehovah Lashing’s debut album from 2023 was a rather short affair. However with 16 tracks and plenty of sonic violence, there was a lot…
Artist: Jehovah Lashing Country: USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Originally released in 2023, the self-titled debut album by Jehovah Lashing first only had a digital version available, yet since a few days, more or less around…
Artist: Valdivian Tower Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne / Inferna Profundus Records Formats: CD / LP Year: 2024 Everyone remotely following the (underground) Black Metal scene or regularly read our pages knows that Lord Valtgryftåke is one of the most…
Artist: Aptorian DemonCountry: NorwayLabel: Kyrck Productions & ArmourFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Trondheim has been one of the main strongholds in the Norwegian Black Metal scene, essentially from day one. It started in the early nineties with pioneering band Thorns and…
Artist: Luring Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After having been quite impressed by Luring’s sophomore album, and first one through Iron Bonehead Productions, I was eagerly awaiting the band’s third offering. That follow-up…
Artist: Black Curse Country: USA Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Apart from those who saw the band live in its earliest stages and/or were able to obtain a copy of the advance…
Artist: Wrathprayer Country: Chile Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 If we’re not counting the split LP with fellow Chileans Force Of Evil from 2017 (also Nuclear War Now! Productions) ‘Enkoimeterion’ is…
More and more interesting bands are emerging from the ever-expanding German Extreme Metal scene. Although Sadistic Goatmessiah have been around for more than a decade, their name is popping up with increasing frequency. Following the recently released compilation CD containing…
Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne / Inferna Profundus Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Dependent on what source you check this latest recording by Chilean Mánþiel is either the second full-length album in the span of only around two…
Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne Formats: CD Year: 2024 Although ‘From Lycanthropic Realms Of Sorrow’ was released just a few days before the ‘A Thousand Ornaments Of The Cosmos’-album that I reviewed just before this one, I deliberately…
Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne Formats: CD Year: 2024 After the ‘Vestiges Engraved In Frozen Mysticism’-album and the split with Wampyric Rites, both released in January 2023, it got a bit quiet around this project, run by the…
Artist: Vampyric BloodlustCountry: USALabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Sure, I’m not the fastest writer, but in the time between adding the first Vampyric Bloodlust EP ‘Midnight Slaughter’ to my review list and the actual review, sole band member Mördann managed to…
Artist: Vampyric BloodlustCountry: USALabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 Mördann is one heck of busy guy. Aurora Mortis, Faded Memories, Moonlight Spirit and Vivvaden are all bands that he formed in 2024 (with the latter two in collaboration with band…
Artist: Abhorration Country: Norway Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 That Norwegian’s are not exclusively tied to their trademarked Norwegian Black Metal is of course not exactly a secret, yet the non-Black Metal bands from the Scandinavian…
Artist: Nigrum Country: Mexico Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After two EP’s, a demo and the ‘Elevenfold Tail’-debut album from 2022, the Mexican Black Metal outfit Nigrum was able to take things a step further…
Artist: Demstervold Country: The Netherlands Label: New Era Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After the impressive ‘Den Svartne Spökerii’ demo tape from 2017, which was released through Jeroen’s own then resurrected Black Abyss Productions, we were treated with…
Artist: Geatkihaukr / Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 This split tape brings together two of Finland’s finest when it comes to crude-sounding Black Metal, both marching under the flag of River Valley Cult.…
Artist: Tyranni Country: Sweden Label: New Era Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Tyranni came to my attention somewhere during the summer of 2019 with the 3-track ‘Baron Av Avoghetens Smärta’-promo tape, which ultimately led to the debut full-length…
Artist: FörgjordCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 At the same time as the new album, ‘Perkeleen Weri’, we are served with a piece of Förgjord’s more distant past. Formed in 1995, the band existed under the monikers Brightness of Darkness,…
Artist: FörgjordCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 After a relatively slow start to their career, at least release wise, Förgjord really picked up the pace around 2017. With their 5th full-length in around 7 years, the band definitely is on a…
Artist: Ritus De CruorCountry: FinlandLabel: Altare ProductionsFormats: CD EPYear: 2024 With the release of ‘Vainajain Kammarissa’ we have arrived at the fourth release of Ritus De Cruor, following a demo, an EP and a split with Käärmekristus. On this latest…
Artist: Funerealm Gloom Country: Finland Label: Down With The Most High / Medieval Prophecy Records / Unpure Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After the great and compelling ‘Serpentcraft’ demo tape from 2020, the duo of…
Artist: Pamorak Country: Belarus Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Many bands that have emerged from the soil roughly east of the Polish border have a rather unique and elusive sound. Something in those bands binds them,…
Artist: Dungeon Keeper Country: Germany Label: Fucking Kill Records / Iconoclasm Conquest / Lower Class Kids Records Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 Germany’s Dungeon Keeper took me by surprise with their debut demo ‘Fortress Of Evil’, released last year through Kellerrassel Records. Their blend…
Artist: Morbid Rituals / Dungeon Keeper Country: Germany Label: Fucking Kill Records Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 Probably prompted by the idea that it would be a shame for the demos of both Dungeon Keeper and Morbid Rituals to be limited to the…
Artist: DoedsmaghirdCountry: NorwayLabel: Peaceville RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Pushing boundaries. It was that attitude that drove the second wave of Black Metal in Norway, pushing the genre into new extremities. Dødheimsgard is synonym with this future-minded way of thinking, never comfortable with the familiar…
Artist: Törnen Country: Sweden Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although prior the release of ‘Under Korpens Visdom’ there was rumour that Swartadauþuz was a part of Törnen, it eventually turned out he was not. Yet,…
Artist: KinahmiCountry: FinlandLabel: Death MonumentFormats: Cassette tape / CD-RYear: 2024 Unpolished, twisted and atonal. Just a few words to describe the music of the Finnish band Kinahmi. The raw Black Metal that is presented on the debut ‘Birth of the…
Artist: Forgotten Tomb Country: Italy Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Okay, let’s throw the cat among the pigeons. Forgotten Tomb is, hands down, the best Italian metal band. That indeed includes the respected…
Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Denmark’s thriving Death Metal scene has spawned many a great band, the majority of them following a rather similar path of (sometimes Grindcore-fuelled)…
Artist: Orkblut / Hertogenwald Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Out of the October 2024 batch of releases of the respected Medieval Prophecy Records, also comes this nice little piece of black wax that…
Artist: Vengeance Horde Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Stygian Black Hand / Deathrash Armageddon Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After the short but convincing and self-titled debut EP, released on cassette tape and…
Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 On the band’s previously released two demos and full-length albums Warslaughter already showed what they were made of. The Spaniards follow much of the country’s tradition in unrelenting…
Artist: Cadaveric Messiah Country: Colombia Label: BlackSeed Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 Formed by two individuals who share a common background in Funeral Vomit , Cadaveric Messiah releases a 15-minute debut EP. Although on first hearing Funeral Vomit and…
Artist: ValkonkantajaCountry: FinlandLabel: Signal Rex / Self-releasedFormats: Cassette EP / CD-R EPYear: 2024 In less than 12 minutes Valonkantaja introduces themselves to the world in the shape of their very first release. On this EP, released on CD-R by the…