Vindalf – Ancient Spell Of Darkness

Artist: VindalfCountry: ChileLabel: Signal RexFormats: CDYear: 2022 After having released a couple of singles/EP’s Vindalf released its debut album in 2021 and sees its return a year later with no less than two albums that saw the dark of night…

Ründgard – Ulvmonddomānen

Artist: Ründgard Country: Chile Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2023 Multi-instrumentalist and ultimate blackaholic Lord Valtgryftåke has released quite an impressing slew of releases over the last couple of months. Amongst his latest offerings we do find the…

Mánþiel – Vestiges Engraved In Frozen Mysticism

Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile / Germany Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2023 This new Mánþiel (or Mantiel, if you prefer an easier version of their band name) album is one that will only have a vinyl release, done…

Frozen Blood – Revenge [Demo]

Artist: Frozen Blood Country: Chile Label: Adirondack Black Mass / Dry Cough Records / Excarnation Records Formats: 12″ LP / Demo tape / Demo CD Year: 2023 It might have taken a bit more time than initially expected, as the…

Siniestral – Contemplando el Abismo [Demo]

Artist: SiniestralCountry: ChileLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital DemoYear: 2023 Siniestral is the brainchild of the Chilean multi-instrumentalist Victor L. Zamarca, who had previously released Thrash Metal recordings with his other bands Deathrone and Ectoplasma. With this entity he threads into new territories,…

Atomic Aggressor – Bloody Ceremonial [Reissue]

Artist: Atomic AggressorCountry: ChileLabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: 10″ EPYear: 2021 Long before the Chilean extreme metal scene would really explode into hundreds of more than interesting Black Metal, Death Metal and Thrash Metal bands, there were a few individuals paving the way for what would…

Sepulchral Rites – Death And Bloody Ritual [EP]

Artist: Sepulchral Rites Country: Chile Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2022 Last year the Chilean, all-female Sepulchral Rites released their debut EP ‘Death And Bloody Ritual’ through Germany’s Dunkelheit Produktionen, and with their regressive sort…

Grymmstalt – Endlichkeit [Demo]

Artist: Grymmstalt Country: Chile / Ecuador Label: Mahamvantara Arts Formats: Demo tape Year: 2022 Grymmstalt is yet another band of the ever-prolific Lord Valtgryftåke. This time the Chilean multi-instrumentalist teamed up with Ecuadorian vocalist Wampyric Strigoi, who also tends to…

Grymmstalt – Anthems Of Mournful Despondency

Artist: Grymmstalt Country: Chile / Ecuador Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 Not too longer after the release of the band’s single demo tape, they are presenting their first full-length album through Signal Rex.…

Old Castles – Sacrophagical Lament Of The Past

Artist: Old Castles Country: Chile Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 After no less than eight demos and a split release with Moon’s Veneris (yes, Moon’s Veneris, not Mons Veneris), and I am not even counting…

Apostasy – Death Return

Artist: ApostasyCountry: ChileLabel: Hammerheart Records / Sentient Ruin LaboratoriesFormats: LP, CDYear: 2022 First appeared in 2021 on both cassette tape and CD formats (by Cabalist Records and Fallen Temple respectively), this third album by Chilean cult thrashers got another run of releases in 2022 by…

Hellish – Dreamlike Fears/Goddess Of Death [EP]

Artist: Hellish Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2022 As an appetizer for their upcoming album, ‘The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents’ which is set for a release on December 16th of this year through Dying Victims Records,…

Triumphal Vengeance – Atavistic Darkness [EP]

Artist: Triumphal VengeanceCountry: Chile / GermanyLabel: Born For Burning Productions / Urtod VoidFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2022 This new one-man act, founded by an anonymous figure who goes under the name of Nebel, has its roots in Chile but now operates…

Hellish – The Vermis Mysteriis

Artist: Hellish Country: Chile Label: Dissonant Death Records / Unspeakable Axe Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2021 It was early in the year 2015 when I first heard of this Chilean Thrash Metal band called Hellish, through…

Mayhemic – The Darkest Age [Compilation]

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…

Hetroertzen – Phosphorus, Vol. I

Artist: HetroertzenCountry: Chile / SwedenLabel: Listenable RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 My first introduction into the art of the Chilean band Hetroertzen came upon the release of `Exaltation of Wisdom’. The band, that still features founding members Frater D and…

Vilespawn – Rotting Apparitions [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: VilespawnCountry: ChileLabel: Noxious RuinFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2022 This new two-piece Death Metal band from Chile released their first three track-demo last summer independently via their digital platforms. Now it also got a physical release through the American-based Noxious Ruin…

Oldeath – Mortuarial Meditation

Artist: Oldeath Country: Chile Label: Oratorivm Records Formats: CD Year: 2022 It’s almost inevitable, but every few days I write a review about a release of a Chilean Black Metal band. It is amazing how many Black Metal comes out…

Funeral – Llamada Funebre

Artist: Funeral Country: Chile Label: Burning Coffin Records Formats: Cassette Year: 2022 Although I don’t know exactly how old this Chilean Black Metal band is, I always wonder how it is possible that the creative minds of musicians can’t come…

Kūka’ilimoku / Aarkanne – Ele’abyssus [Split LP]

Artist: Kūka’ilimoku / AarkanneCountry: USA / ChileLabel: Inferna Profundus RecordsFormats: Split LPYear: 2022 ‘Ele’abyssus’ is the title of a split LP between two rather stripped down Black Metal acts, Kūka’ilimoku from the USA and Aarkanne from Chile. Earlier releases by…

Frozen Blood – Revenge [Promo]

Artist: Frozen Blood Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital single Year: 2022 Frozen Blood is a new Old School Death Metal duo from Chile who will be releasing their debut demo tape by the end of this year through Diabolical…

Aarkanne – Revelatio

Artist: AarkanneCountry: ChileLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2022 Aarkanne from Chile got a review here on VM-Underground for their full-length, ‘Mysterii’, that was released last year through Ars Negative on CD, Soul Reaper on cassette tape and on vinyl through Inferna…

Vesthangarth – Doomed Blood Concatenation [Demo]

Artist: VesthangarthCountry: ChileLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital demoYear: 2022 That Chilean metal is on the rise is something we have known for years. After an impressive rise of Chilean Death Metal, in recent years the Black Metal scene has also been flooded…

Mezexis – Demo 1

Artist: Mezexis Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2022 After the Big Wave Of Chilean Death Metal that started about 15 years ago, it now seems there’s coming more and more Black Metal from this South American hotspot…

Lord Valtgryftåke – Buried Under The Carved Runes

Artist: Lord Valtgryftåke Country: Chile Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: CD Year: 2022 Not long after the release of Lord Valtgryftåke’s ‘Renaissance From A Bitter Twilight’-demo, digital and on tape-format through Mahamvantara Arts Records, the Lithuanian Inferna Profundus Productions picked…