Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Violator Country: Brazil Label: High Roller Records / Kill Again Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Thrash Metal is not something that pops up on our pages on a daily basis, it is definitely a genre that is…
Artist: Evilcult Country: Brazil Label: Awakening Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 After an EP and two full-length albums, Evilcult is slowly starting to be an established name in the Speed/Thrash/Black Metal scene. Maybe that is not too difficult, as that…
Artist: Impurity / Goat Semen Country: Brazil / Peru Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Chapter two of Wolfkult Religion’s South American assault is here, with a joining of forces of Impurity from Brazil and Goat Semen…
Artist: Messe Mortuaire / Trance Of The Undead Country: France / Brazil Label: Angel Of Cemetery Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 ‘Funeral Mass For The Undead’ is a split 7” EP combining one track of both Messe Mortuaire…
Band: Impurity / Satanicristo Country: Brazil Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Extreme Metal from Brazil that heavily leans on the legendary sound of the 80’s. That is what Wolfkult Religion is set to offer with a…
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: Whipstriker Country: Brazil Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although Whipstriker feels like they are around since forever, ‘Cry Of Extinction’ is only the band’s fifth full-length album. Their tendency to bombard…
Artist: Chemical Death Country: Brazil Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Zombi Danz Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Those who delved very deep into the Extreme Metal scene of Brazil from around the turn of the 90’s, might have read…
Artist: Trance Of The Undead Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Format: Demo tape Year: 2024 ‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’ was the second demo tape (or EP) from the Brazilian Black/Death Metal band Trance Of The Undead, helmed by the person…
Artist: Bode Maldito Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Format: Demo tape Year: 2024 Although ‘Sodomizing Christ’ was already released digitally by the band itself around the summer of last year, it took a few more months before a physical version…
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: 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: Pentacrostic Country: Brazil Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 While Pentacrostic’s debut album, ‘The Pain Tears’ from 1992, is generally regarded as the band’s finest hour – even a bit of a cult album in the…
Artist: Tormentador / Sex Messiah Country: Brazil / Japan Label: Sex Desire Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 This release may be a bit older, but as a fan of the 7” EP format and the underground qualities of…
Artist: Evokthum Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Someone even half-versed in the wonderful world of the Bestial Black/Death Metal scene will have no difficulty in already getting some idea of where this is going to, simply…
Artist: A Dead PoemCountry: BrazilLabel: Personal RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 You can’t accuse the Brazillian band A Dead Poem of hiding their inspirations. And indeed, it was Marlon Combat’s aim all along when he formed the band in 2023 to create…
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: 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: 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: CastrivenianCountry: BrazilLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassete tapeYear: 2024 Castrivenian is a relatively new entity from Brazil that was formed earlier in 2024. The band released their first demo ‘S.H.T.I.’ earlier in April, but with fires of creativity burning brightly, immediately…
Artist: Sextrash Country: Brazil Label: I Hate Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 Many a review on early Extreme Metal releases out of the South American scene start with the appreciation for those early works of Sepultura and Sarcófago or the…
Although I missed out on both 2021 released demos, ‘Arcane Diabolism’, released through Iron Bonehead Productions on LP and Unpure Records on tape, definitely piqued my interest. Cursed Excruciation blends all the best elements of those great occult sounding Black…
Artist: Infamous Glory Country: Brazil Label: Black Hole Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Although Infamous Glory has been around already for quite a few years, in fact they are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, I wouldn’t be surprised if…
Artist: Cursed Excruciation / Funerealm Gloom Country: Brazil / Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split 10” EP / Split Tape / Split CD Year: 2023 Unpure Records, a label that is always bringing the best of the worst. The label…
Artist: Podridão / Convulsive Country: Brazil Label: Iron Fortress Records / Iron, Blood And Death Corporation Formats: Split Tape / Split CD Year: 2024 ‘Convulsively Rotteness’ brings together two of Brazil’s finest Death Metal bands that operate in the more…
Artist: Lullaby Country: Brazil Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2023 Back in the mid-80’s to the early 90’s the American Wild Rags Records label was one of the leading institutes for extreme metal, especially within the borders…
Artist: Nocturnal Terror Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 After a couple demos Brazilian Black Metal band Nocturnal Terror self-released their debut album in October of 2023 and for those who heard these first recordings know that…
Artist: The KryptikCountry: BrazilLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: CDYear: 2023 In a genre where nostalgia reign supreme, bold statements can set things off on the wrong foot. It’s at the very least a striking claim to suggest an album might be…
Artist: AutrestCountry: BrazilLabel: Northern Silence ProductionsFormats: Digital / CDYear: 2023 A view from a snowclad forest, with mountainsides reaching beyond where the eye can see. Hardly a scenery that you associate with the country Brazil, but this is exactly the…
Artist: MotherwoodCountry: Brazil, GermanyLabel: Low Noise ProductionsFormats: Cassette TapeYear: 2023 The origins of Motherwood lie in Brazil, where both of its band members, Yuri Camargo and Guilherme Malosso, originate from. Somewhere after their self-titled debut album saw its release in…
Artist: AnarkhonCountry: BrazilLabel: Debemur Morti ProductionsFormats: LP, CDYear: 2023 Although the band has never been much of a standard gory styled Death Metal band, the Brazilians of Anarkhon have come quite a long way. The band was already founded back…
Artist: Cursed ExcruciationCountry: BrazilLabel: Angel of Cemetery Records / Iron Bonehead Productions / Unpure RecordsFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2023 After two demos tapes, released in 2021, Cursed Excruciation’s sole member, Trance Of The Undead, started forging his ancient steel into something…
Artist: EvilcultCountry: BrazilLabel: Awakening RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2023 When it comes to old school sounding Black/Thrash Metal the country of Brazil has a rich history. Not only because of the obvious relation to that of the early Sepultura records and the…
Artist: Outlaw Country: Brazil Label: Art Of Propaganda Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 This Brazilian Black Metal band releases their third full-length with ‘Reaching Beyond Assiah’, but due to the low distribution of their previous works, this album will…
Artist: Selvageria Country: Brazil Label: I Hate Records Formats: LP Year: 2023 That Brazilians can Thrash, of course, we have known for several decades. Usually, however, this is in combination with Death Metal or Black Metal, but the foursome that…
Artist: WolflustCountry: BrazilLabel: Hammer Of DamnationFormats: Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2022 The Brazilians of Wolflust have come out with their second EP, ‘Endless War’, which, with some 16 minutes of material, presents us with a modest bite of unbridled…
Artist: Outlaw Country: Brazil Label: Drakkar Productions – South American Division Formats: CD EP Year: 2021 Outlaw is an international band made up of band members from at least Brazil and Finland who, despite this EP being my first introduction…
Artist: Ritual Necromancy / Fossilization Country: USA / Brazil Label: Everlasting Spew Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Earlier this year Everlasting Spew Records presented a split release by two nice Death Metal bands: Ritual Necromancy, a former Dark…
Artist: ConvulsiveCountry: BrazilLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2022 The Brazilian four-piece of Convulsive released a pretty convincing Death Metal album at the very start of this year, but already returns this fall with a self-released digital demo. If I am correctly…
Artist: ConvulsiveCountry: BrazilLabel: Ablaze Productions / Death Metal Industry / Rat Covenant / Sewer Rot RecordsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Mixing standard Old School Death Metal with elements of Paradise Lost’s 1990’s ‘Lost Paradise’-album, in a to the max…
Artist: Poisonous Country: Brazil Label: Ablaze Productions / Morbid Ways To Die Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2022 The Brazilians of Poisonous may be toxic, but it is a slow-acting poison. After their 2010 debut, ‘Perdition’s Den’, Poisonous…
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: Krisiun Country: Brazil Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Some certainties make life easy and enjoyable, that’s how you know that in addition to the sun rising every day, there is a political crisis in Italy…
Artist: VampireaCountry: BrazilLabel: Depressive Illusions Records / Floppy Tales RecordsFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2022 Obscurity is the keyword here. Vampirea Spawned out of the mind of its sole member (Giuliano Paulin). Started in 2022 and presenting its first self-titled 3-track demo…
Artist: Mutilator Country: Brazil Label: Hellven Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2021 When you talk about classic Brazilian Thrash Metal albums, you automatically end up with Sarcófago’s ‘INRI’, Sepultura’s ‘Morbid Visions’ and Mutilator’s ‘Immortal Force’. Of course, they were…
Artist: Inner Helvete / Necrocult Country: Portugal / Brazil Label: Hell War Productions / Sacrilegious Warfare Productions Formats: Split Demo Tape Year: 2001 While digging around through my tapes, I came across another effort of the Portuguese culthordes Inner Helvete.…
Artist: Darkest Hate / Black Winter Night Country: Brazil Label: Christcrusher Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2002 This is a co-operation between two great Brazilian blackmetal hordes. Well, I can’t tell you anything about their background actually, I haven’t got…