Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Chaos InvocationCountry: GermanyLabel: AOP RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 I’ll admit it, I didn’t see it coming that the newest Chaos Invocation record would be released by any other label than W.T.C. Productions. After four albums and a split, the…
Artist: Phlegethon’s Majesty Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Simultaneously with the release of the eagerly awaited debut album of Phlegethon’s Majesty, the band also releases a compilation CD with both of the band’s demos as…
Artist: Phlegethon’s Majesty Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 This first full-length album of Phlegethon’s Majesty is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated Black Metal records out of the amazingly fertile Belgian soil. Through…
Artist: Givre Country: Canada Label: Eisenwald Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Black metal is a primarily male-dominated sport where female interference is not always welcomed with open arms. Although there are ladies like Onielar from Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult or…
Artist: True Black Dawn Country: Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Taking a look at the current, former and live musicians who are or have been involved with True Black Dawn actually reads like a kind…
Artist: Kūkāʻilimoku / Hakkapeliitta Country: USA / Sweden Label: Forbidden Sonority Formats: Cassette split tape Year: 2024 Although the American one-man Black Metal band Kūka’ilimoku has quite an extensive discography for its relatively short existence, the band has been around…
Artist: Nocturnal Deviancy / Chasmic Filth Country: USA Label: Ancient Horror Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 Although this split was already digitally released in Spring of this same year, it took until last summer for a physical edition to…
Artist: Nubivagant Country: Italy Label: Amor Fati Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With three records in exactly four years, you might wonder how much time goes into a 24-hour period for Gionata ‘Omega’ Potenti. Because besides Nubivagant, the…
Artist: Feeble Deity Country: USA Label: Keepers Of The Flame Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Last year’s ‘Compendium Opus’ was Feeble Deity’s first release that was spread slightly wider than the previously released limited cassette tapes. That compilation, released on…
Artist: Åndutsyn Country: USA Label: Nihtstang Productions Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 The aptly titled ‘Into The Glory Of Violence’ is Åndutsyn’s fourth instalment and follows last year’s great ‘The Epitome Of The End Of The Cavernous Forestry’, which was…
Artist: The Mist From The Mountains Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The Mist From The Mountains’ current line-up includes members of bands such as Diablerie and Black Beast, but during the…
Artist: Bortglömd Country: Sweden Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 ‘Haunting Calls’ is the debut demo of a new Swedish duo with Dutch connections, yet with this 3-track demo tape the band is distinctly sounding more Northern…
Artist: Ars VeneficiumCountry: BelgiumLabel: Immortal Frost ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 2024 sees the return of Ars Veneficium after a four years absence since their last album, ‘Usurpation of the Seven’ was released. Now S. and Ronarg return, accompanied by…
Artist: Endless Loss Country: Australia Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After a demo, a digitally available live set and an EP, the Australian Black/Death Metal band Endless Loss felt it was time to unleash…
Artist: Satanicristo Country: Brazil Label: Sex Desire Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 It’s not exactly every day you see a new release from a new band featuring ex-members of acts like Sarcófago, Mutilator and Holocausto drop by. But that…
Artist: StutyrCountry: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2024 Stutyr’s previous EP ‘Missä Yö Teidät Kohtaa’ was an interesting slab of music, blending the melody of the Swedish Black Metal scene from the 90’s with a whiff of…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 In many reviews of MBN’s work I have called him a workaholic or a restless soul, most likely, he’s both. But not infrequently, this does lead…
Artist: Arkona Country: Poland Label: Debemur Morti Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although I have heard Arkona a few times prior to the release of the band’s 2016 ‘Lunaris’-album, they were never much more than a solid band…
Artist: LiknoCountry: GreeceLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassette tapeYear: 2024 At first glance, very little about Likno would suggest we are listening to a Hellenic band. Certainly not from the cover, depicting an icy landscape. Or from the first full opening track…
Among the many releases hurled into the world via Germany’s renowned Iron Bonehead Productions, you would almost miss out on Ophidian’s ‘Descent into the Labyrinth’, which appeared only on cassette tape last summer. And that would be more than a…
Artist: 1349Country: NorwayLabel: Season of MistFormats: LP / Cassette / CDYear: 2024 You could say that 1349 came at the right place at the right time. Formed in 1997, the band wasn’t quite there when the Norwegian Black Metal creativity…
Artist: Morbid Inovcation Country: Germany Label: Sect Entropy Formats: Tape Year: 2024 Without having felt the urge to record some demos or other short players first, this hitherto unknown duo goes straight for the full-length. Although, it is not actually…
Artist: Death Like MassCountry: PolandLabel: Terratur PossessionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Death Like Mass, the collective harbouring musicians from amongst others Cultes Des Ghoules, Lucifyre, Sodality and Nightbringer is ready to unveil its firstborn ‘The Lord of Flies’ through the…
Artist: Wrahha Country: Germany Label: AbArt Corruption / Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 After the break-up of Lihhamon, singer/guitarist M. (here as BRSRKR) decided to try again with a different line-up. The exact reason for the predecessor’s…
Artist: Shaarimoth Country: Norway Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 In many ways Norwegian Death Metallers Shaarimoth are a rare breed. Not only do they come from a massively Black Metal dominated country with little to no…
Artist: Abominablood Country: Argentina Label: Anti-Human Productions / Putrid Cult Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After a whole string of demos, EP’s, splits, compilations and a full-length album, Argentina’s Abominablood have reached its second album. Although the band…
Artist: Bestialgoat Country: Brazil Label: Brasilis Produções / Unpure Records Formats: Cassette tape / CD Year: 2024 With a back catalogue consisting of releases with black/white/red tones on the cover and titles of which the words are separated.by.dots. it is…
Artist: Destruktor Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 While Destruktor is not exactly at the top of lists of the most obvious Australian bands out of the Extreme Metal spectrum, for…
Artist: Black Funeral Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Ever since Drowning The Light’s spiritual father Azgorh took his place in Black Funeral in 2015, the band’s sound has taken a markedly different turn and his…
Artist: Abysmal Desecration Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With ‘Total Extinction Of Humanity’, this new Argentine band lays their first feat on the table. And if the band name combined with the black, white and red…
Artist: Winterfyllth Country: United Kingdom Label: Candlelight Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although Winterfylleth has become more or less synonymous with everything sounding safe, slick and accessible in Black Metal over the past few years, the English collective…
Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: LP Year: 2024 After no less than 2 full-lengths and 18 short players, Canada’s Eerified Catacomb is on its third album. You might wonder where the inspirer behind this band gets…
Although ‘Fuck Christ’ is not the long-awaited second album, we can still say that this nearly 20-minute new EP can be seen as a prelude to what should be the successor to 2015’s ‘Ego Svm Satana’. I spoke to founder…
Artist: VafurlogiCountry: IcelandLabel: Norma Evangelium Diaboli / Oration RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Þórir Garðarsson can rightfully be regarded as one of the prominent members of the icelandic Black Metal scene, standing at the basis of both Svartidauði and Sinmara (and…
A lot of metal hearts beat faster when Kawir arrives at the front with a new album under its arm. The band has been at the top of Greek Black Metal for about three decades, but unlike many of its…
Artist: GjendødCountry: NorwayLabel: Osmose ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Gjendød have been out for nearly a decade now to relive the glory days of 90’s Norwegian Black Metal. From the slow and threatening sound of ‘Nedstigning’ to the brutality of…
Artist: Nocturnal Sorcery Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2024 Not long after the release of the band’s second album, Nocturnal Sorcery, in conspiracy with Out Of The Dungeon, releases this compilation. ‘War In Heaven, Hell…
Artist: Nocturnal Sorcery Country: Finland Label: Kvlt Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Ay, again I’m arriving a bit late to the party here. But since ‘Captive In The Breath Of Life’ is such a great record, I still decided…
Artist: Lampir Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Early this same year Perverse Homage, the long-time companions of Lampir, digitally released a second compilation of demo recordings. With the title ‘Demo I – III’ it leaves little…
Artist: Dead Flesh StigmaCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 Dead Flesh Stigma is the newest vessel in which v-Khaoz enacts his desire to bring back the glory days of 90’s Black Metal. With Vargrav he was at the forefront of…
Artist: NahtrunarCountry: AustriaLabel: Altare ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Following up ‘Wolfsstunde’ is quite a tall order, as Nahtrunar delivered a stellar atmospheric Black Metal record that could match itself with their fantastic debut ‘Symbolismus’ and their genre peers. Yet…
Artist: Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With Hämärä’s steady working pace you know you have to be on your qui vive, a new Kurjuus release (or that of a related project) is always lurking. And…
Artist: Ruttokosmos Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Ruttokosmos might well be one of the most obscure acts from the deepest forests of the Finnish Black Metal scene. Although never officially disbanded, after only having…
Artist: AethyrickCountry: FinlandLabel: End All Life ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 After a collaboration giving rise to four full-length albums, a compilation and two EPs, the union of Aethyrick and The Sinister Flame is no more. As the fire of…
Despite moving to Sweden a few years ago, Volc Vermaledide can still be seen as a Dutch Black Metal band. After all, already formed in 2001, the band has existed on Dutch soil for the most part. Despite now slowly…
Artist: Volc VermaledideCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2024 The Dutch band Volc Vermaledide finds its origins in 2001, and is the brainchild of Satanael M Raben, formerly in Cirith Gorgor and Walpurgisnacht and currently also in Asregen. After…
Artist: Ignobleth Country: Italy Label: Masked Dead Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Despite these three blokes from the Northern region of Italy being said to be in their mid-teens, they know their craft damn well. Being formed somewhere in…
Artist: Sanguine Relic Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 ‘Within The Fog Of Fragmented Memory’, Sanguine Relic’s seventh full-length album, was already released some months ago, yet so far only on cassette tape. Like many of…
Artist: Kudlaakh Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: CDr EP Year: 2024 In the great hoopla of Raw and/or Lo-Fi Black Metal bands and releases from around the second half of the 10s, Kudlaakh fell a bit outside the box.…
Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: CDYear: 2024 ‘Nuclear Conquest’ is the tale of Turbo Sodomizer, Hammer Commander and Sonic Reducer, who together as Gotthammer have set out to turn the world to ash with their downtuned savagery. This compilation is a…