Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Deathhammer Country: Norway Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 When Deathhammer started to emerge from the underground, right after the release of the demos and with the first EP, ‘Forever Ripping Fast’…
Artist: Nuctemeron Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 In recent years, German Black/Speed Metal band Nuctemeron has worked hard to build a solid reputation, and it’s almost impossible not to have come across their name somewhere…
Artist:Blasfemator / Sepulcral Country: Greece / Colombia Label: Murder Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I am never keeping a very close eye on Murder Records. There’s no particular reason, it’s just that this label’s releases aren’t usually my cup of tar. But,…
Artist: Protector / Suicidal Winds Country: Germany / Sweden Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7” EP Year: 2025 Thrash Metal aplenty on this split 7″ courtesy of Wolfkult Religion. In one corner we have the once German, now Swedish legends…
Artist: Sexmag Country: Poland Label: Destruktion Records / Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Over the past few years Sexmag has been growing into what you might call the “underground next big thing”. Not only just…
Artist: Hammer Country: Brazil Label: Poserkiller Records Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sprung out of the mind of ‘Kadu Necro Defunto’, Hammer is just one of the many projects of this ever-restless man from Brazil. And while with most of…
Artist: Bestial Possession Country: Peru Label: Aberration Records / Black Legion Records / Tyrants Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Although Bestial Possession has been around for quite a few years, over two decades…
Artist: Hellcrash Country: Italy Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With ‘Inferno Crematörio’ the Italian trio known as Hellcrash delivers its third full-length instalment, and, frankly, this is a logical continuation of what the band has…
Artist: Tyrannosatan Country: Sweden Label: Jawbreaker Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Admittedly, I too initially ignored this band because of the somewhat cheesy band name. Tyrannosatan is not the most attractive name, and the album did not come with…
Artist: Nithe Country: Norway Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 After a digitally released demo in 2021 the Norwegian Black/Death Metal band released a very strong EP in the form of ‘Night Of The Ghoul’, of which I…
Artist: Gallower Country: Poland Label: Dying Victim Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 The current stream of bands playing a Punk-ish, Heavy Metal-tinged sort of Black/Thrash Metal seems endless. And in such situations it is rather hard to stand…
With ‘Demon Steel,’ Finnish Urn delivers its sixth album, for which Season Of Mist was exchanged for the also French Osmose Productions. Prior to this, most of the older albums were re-released by Osmose Productions as well as a compilation…
Artist: Urn Country: Finland Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 One of the bands relentlessly kept in the dark shadows of the Finnish Extreme Metal underground is definitely Urn. A combination of wrong choices,…
Artist: Phantom Country: Mexico Label: High Roller Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Phantom’s debut record, ‘Handed To Execution’, was one of the absolute highlights of 2023 and consequently ended up in my personal top 5…
Artist: Inferior Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Even without having a clue who is exactly behind the band, Inferior isn’t making a secret of their musical direction. The cover art for ‘Wrath’ already gives away a bit,…
Artist: HellAvenger Country: Chile Label: Death Division Rituals / Destruktion Records / Dynamite Records / El Abismo / Holycaust Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 ‘The Primordial Fire’, the debut full-length of this Santiago, Chile based…
Artist: Necrochakal Country: Greece Label: Floga Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Since the band’s formation some 12 years ago, Necrochakal from Athens, Greece, has tormented the ears of followers of the Extreme Metal underground. Yet they have done so by…
Of the past year, we can certainly count Abhorration’s debut record, ‘Demonolatry’, as one of the best. In terms of originality, it may not be startling, but the execution of Morbid Angel-inspired Death Metal leaves nothing to complain about. The…
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: Urn Country: Finland Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 A release that you knew it would come, sooner or later. A compilation of all non-album tracks by one of the most underrated Finnish Extreme Metal bands,…
About two years ago I accidentally stumbled upon the Mexican band Necrohammer, because I have a deeply rooted adoration for old and ramshackle 80’s metal, from Venom and Hellhammer to Living Death and Sodom, it was love at first sight.…
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…
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: 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: Vitriolic Country: Finland Label: Dying Victims Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Never judge a book by its cover. This wise statement is always good to keep in mind when browsing through the…
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: Witchtrap Country: Colombia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The past few weeks I have featured quite a few Latin American bands, a continent that has a metal scene that is a…
Artist: Mayhemic Country: Chile Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The “Toba catastrophe theory” posits that the evolution of the human race was significantly influenced by an eruption of the Toba super volcano…
Artist: Phantom Country: Mexico Label: Doomentia Records / Headsplit Records / Inframetal Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Although the band had already released a couple of short players, Phantom from Mexicon only came…
Artist: Penis Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This is the day we have all been waiting for. The day that there would finally be a band that would call themselves Penis. Hallelujah! Well, okay, the band…
Artist: Necrohammer Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Two years ago I stumbled upon this Mexican band playing a vintage sort of Black/Speed Metal that was inspired by all things old and extreme: Venom, Hellhammer, Sodom, Sarcófago…
Artist: Sadistic Goatmessiah Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 As the title already suggests, this demo was actually the demo the band presented last year. That first version was recorded and released in October of 2023 and…
Artist: Hellbutcher Country: Sweden Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 While Nifelheim’s official status is unclear, it is most likely that the band died a slow death in the past decade. With only the occasional sign…
A little over a decade since their previous album, Cruel Force comes back to bring the power back into the Metal. With their latest scorching album ‘Dawn of the Axe’ the band once again professes their adoration for the glory…
Artist: Cruel ForceCountry: GermanyLabel: Shadow Kingdom RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette / CDYear: 2023 If you hadn’t heard about Cruel Force before, chances are you missed out. Between 2010 and 2011 the band released two rather stellar albums with ‘The Rise…
Despite leaving behind only a very modest discography, the German band Old managed to leave a solid impression in the Black/Thrash Metal scene. So much so that the band’s only full-length album, 17 years on, is widely regarded as a…
Artist: Leather Brigade Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2023 From Romania comes this four-piece that are releasing their 5-track debut EP ‘Pray To The Knife’. I think that a quick look at both the band name/EP title…
Artist: Proselytism Country: Norway Label: Duplicate Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 After the 2020 released debut ‘Blood Of The Deceivers’, the Norwegian duo of Proselytism returns with their sophomore album, again through Duplicate Records. Those who have heard…
Artist: Satanika Country: Italy Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 ‘Horde Of Disgust’ is the fifth album for the Italian Black/Thrash Metal band Satanika. Although the band has been releasing their albums and EP’s through a wide…
Artist: Sex Messiah Country: Japan Label: Austral Holocaust Records / Nuclear War Now! Productions / Sex Desire Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2022 I once read an article that Japanese would be the most…
Artist: WitchmasterCountry: PolandLabel: Agonia RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 It was during the early 00’s that I first ran into the Polish Black/Thrash Metal band Witchmaster. I am not entirely sure, but at one time I got…
Artist: Exordium MorsCountry: AustraliaLabel: Praetorian Sword RecordsFormats: LPYear: 2022 When New Zealand is mentioned many people think of those great mountain landscapes in which Peter Jackson filmed his Lord Of The Rings trilogy. But it also has a small but…
Artist: Necromutilator Country: Italy Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 In the 1968 Hammer Horror movie ‘The Devil Rides Out’, Duc Richleau tries to rescue his late friend’s son and his girlfriend from the…
Artist: Necrohammer Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2022 Old School bestial Blackened Speed Metal fans of the world, rejoice! After a 2020 demo tape and a split CD (Bestial Possession, Profanación Sepulcral and Goatslaught) a year later,…
Artist: Mayhemic Country: Chile Label: Awakening Records Formats: CD Year: 2022 This Chilean Thrash Metal band, formed in 2018, released several demos and EP’s over the past few years. However, none of these releases reached my ears before, so for…
Artist: Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû Country: USA Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2021 One of America’s most iconic Black Metal bands is undoubtedly Absu. The multi-headed monster that originally emerged from several previous incarnations and…
Artist: Krushhammer Country: Brazil Label: Hellprod Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 I do love the simple things in life. I am just fine when things are predictable. Admitted, I also like to have a musical surprise every now…
Artist: Wömit AngelCountry: FinlandLabel: Godz Ov War ProductionsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With ‘Sadopunk Finland’, the Finnish (d’oh) Wömit Angel, which was formed in 2010, already delivers their fifth album. So although the band already has a reasonable track…
Artist: Motörpenis / Black Torment Country: Portugal / Mexico Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2009 This is the first release for Iron Bonehead Productions in 2009, a split record between Motörpenis from Portugal and Mexican Black Torment.…
Artist: Shackles Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2009 After releasing two demos (one being re-released on CD on Kneel Before The Masters Throne) and a 7” EP these Australians were ready for their first…