Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Malignancy Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Next chapter of Hells Headbangers Records’ quest to reinstate some of Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore classics is Malignancy’s ‘Intrauterine Cannibalism’. A record that indeed fits just perfectly with more…
Artist: Mortal Decay Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although Europe as well as other places on earth also had their heroes when it comes to Brutal Death Metal, and I don’t want to sell anyone…
Artist: Rotting Country: Canada Label: Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 While Hell’s Headbangers is primarily known for its released out of the Black/Death/Thrash Metal pond (preferably a mixture of all that), the people behind the label do have…
Artist: Tenebro / Mortuary Ghoul Country: Italy / USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Split Cassette EP Year: 2024 This is one of those splits that you knew that was eventually going to happen. It is no surprise that Tenebro-chief…
Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Not even a year after the band’s debut album, Death Metal one-piece Mortuary Ghoul returns with its follow-up. An album that is obviously based…
That I have a knack for some nice and swampy Death Metal might not be a secret, but reality is that in the Death Metal scene of today there is not so much going on that really triggers me enough…
Artist: Scab Hag Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 Although Scab Hag’s self-released debut EP from 2021 was reissued on cassette tape by two different labels in the months following up to its original CD release (Cemetery…
Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 After some first small releases, an EP and a split EP, Matt N. (also active in a whole slew of other bands), the godfather…
Artist: Flesher Country: USA Label: Redefining Darkness Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Admitted, on more than one occasion I have labelled Redefining Darkness Records as a thoroughly mediocre label spawning huge amounts of interchangeable Death Metal records of…
Artist: Lividity Country: USA Label: Grinder Cirujano Records / Sindrome Productions Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2022 ‘Rejoice In Morbidity’ was Lividity’s first EP, originally released on cassette tape back in 1996 on the short-lived Immortal Records (which,…
Artist: Mortem Country: Russia Label: Coyote Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 In the wake of the re-release of Mortem’s first album, ‘Amputator’ (originally released in 1993), Coyote Records continues on its path, now also re-releasing 2000’s ‘Filicide’.…
Artist: Gorgasm Country: USA Label: Brutal Mind Formats: CD Year: 2022 When it comes to the more brutal sort of Death Metal with a distinct technical slant, there are very few bands that come close to the ingenuity of Gorgasm…
Artist: Barbarity / PaganizerCountry: Russia / SwedenLabel: Coyote RecordsFormats: Split 7″ EPYear: 2021 On this split 7″ EP we find a collaboration between Russia’s Barbarity and the Swedish workaholics of Paganizer. Both bands each contribute a song on this EP…
Artist: Mortem Country: Russia Label: Coyote Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 Reviewing this treasure is a bit of a little party for myself. In the early years of my ‘metal career’, I was lucky enough to buy…
Artist: Severe Torture Country: The Netherlands Label: Season Of Mist Formats: CD EP Year: 2022 Dutch Death Metal is mainly linked to the more classic bands from around the 90’s. Of course, bands like Pestilence, Sinister and Gorefest have been…
Artist: Meatyard / Maggots Country: New Zealand / The Netherlands Label: No Escape Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2006 This split CD is the first No Escape Records CD that kind of disappointed me. Meatyard is a grindcore band that…
Artist: DisgorgeCountry: MexicoLabel: Obliteration RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 Let’s get first clear that this is the Mexican death metal/grindcore band and not one of the other 666 bands with the same name from whatever corner of the world. And what we…
Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Mortician Records Formats: CD Year: 2004 It might be a little late, but when I got this CD in the mail the other day I thought it still deserved a review at our beloved magazine.…
Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: CD Year: 2003 You have brute, more brutal and most brutal. And Mortician doesn’t really even fit into the latter category. Mortician is therefore a band that is hardly unknown to any…
Finally, here it is, the interview with the Belgian Death Metallers Neverlight Horizon. After reviewing their demo ‘Perfection in Murder’s Art’ I thought it was about time we had a little chat with this great band. And after two months…
Artist: Neverlight Horizon Country: Belgium Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Demo Year: 2003 Another great grind influenced Death Metal band. This style seems to have their golden years, bands keep coming, and the average quality level is surprisingly high. This is…