Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Nidernes Country: Portugal Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 Whether desired or not, Nidernes was part of the exploding (Raw) Black Metal scene of the late 2010s, in which his home country Portugal proved to be an…
Artist: Mystic Veil Country: USA Label: Sinister Shadow Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although ‘What Misery Thou Art Fallen… Taste Of Death But Once’ is mentioned as a compilation LP, it is not much of compilation in the typical sense. Side…
Artist: Deceased Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 2CD Year: 2025 My guess is, since you are reading this, that Deceased is a band that has a special place for you as well. Deceased has never been a trendy…
Arist: Unholy Archangel Country: Greece Label: Profaner Records / Temple Profanator Format: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Unholy Archangel has already been around since the mid- to late 90’s and has a decent number of releases in their back catalogue, yet the band has never been…
Artist: As Serenity Fades / August Moon Country: Finland Label: Personal Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Almost fifteen years ago, in 2011 all the collected work of Finnish gloomy Death Metallers As Serenity Fades was already immortalized on one of those glorious reissues that…
Artist: Edge Of Sanity Country: Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Without wanting to do any wrong to the musical legacy of Edge Of Sanity, this has always been a band that has mostly been appreciated…
Artist: Crucifire Country: Australia Label: Trauma Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Dark Souls Abyss’ is a compilation of the majority of Crucifire’s work, recorded back in the 00’s. Yet, you don’t have to feel ashamed of not having heard any of the material…
Artist: Morbid Moon Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 By definition, Narbentage Produktionen is a label that leads you into the deepest caverns of underground Black Metal. The label’s vast back catalogue is brimming with bands that…
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: Merciless Country: Sweden Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Obviously, Merciless is mainly known for their downright cult debut album. Not only for the musical content and its wide influence on…
Artist: Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: Discos MeCagoEnDios Formats: LP Year: 2024 Within the ranks of Death Metal the early Nunslaughter demos are regarded as real cult items, maybe not as revolutionary or as influential as some of the other demos…
Artist: BehexenCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2025 2016. It’s nearly nine years ago that Behexen released the sledgehammer called ‘The Poisonous Path’, the last release of the band. Never the most productive band, it is by far the longest period…
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,…
Artist: Levifer Country: Peru Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 That Werewolf Records is no longer looking within its own Finnish borders seems more and more a fact, in recent years we have already…
Artist: Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst Formats: CD Year: 2024 In between 2021’s ‘Sinister’ and ‘Earth Penetration’, released in 2022, the prolific one-man unit Hail Conjurer released two demo tapes with the titles ‘Anti-Dualist’ and ‘Lunar Action’. Both…
Artist: Desultory Country: Sweden Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 In a longer series of unearthed demos presented by Darkness Shall Rise Productions from Germany, this summer it was Desultory’s turn for…
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: 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: 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: 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…
Artist: Necromoon Country: Poland Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Within the course of two month Polish Necromoon has released their debut album, an EP and a split. Whether they are going to keep up this insane work…
Artist: Vulvacult Country: Argentina Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 While the band already released a full-length album and a couple of (more recent) split releases, the band is now presenting a cassette tape with the title of…
Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: The Final Return Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of the band’s second album, the Black Noise Committee released ‘Autocombustión’, we are also presented with this tape release that compiles both…
Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Year: 2024 As the title might already suggest, ‘Primaeval Worships’ is a compilation tape of older Opositor tracks that were recorded during the first two years of the band’s existence. To…
Artist: Ancient Necromancy Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Ancient Necromancy, a one-man Black Metal band spawned out of the mind of Eldrinacht, also responsible for such acts as Cult of Thaumiel and Gharmelicht, released one…
Artist: Unleashed Country: Sweden Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Without going too much into the in itself somewhat sad history of Johnny Hedlund’s rather disgraceful tricking out of Nihilist by disbanding the band and…
Artist: Loferogh Country: Switzerland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2023 What better way to end a year than to release a compilation of both previous demos. That is what the Black Metal band Loferogh and Unpure Records must…
Artist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2023 In the wake of bands like Blasphemy, Beherit, early Impaled Nazarene, Archgoat, Profanatica and the likes came a quite a loyal following of both fans and bands…
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: Burning Winds Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Unpure Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Originally this compilation LP was released by the Polish label Unpure Records in Spring of 2021, specialised in…
Artist: Feeble Deity Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions / Forbidden Sonority Formats: CD / Cassette tape Year: 2023 That the Dark Adversary Productions label not only releases the own material of label-owner Azgorh (Drowning The Light, among others) is…
Artist: Abysmal GriefCountry: ItalyLabel: Avantgarde MusicFormats: LPYear: 2023 To celebrate the joyous fact that one of the most obscure Doom Metal bands has found a home with the celebrated quality label Avantgarde Music and as an advance sweetener in anticipation…
Artist: Saram Country: Peru Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP Year: 2023 Despite being officially formed in 1998 in Lima, Peru, Saram’s history goes back many more years. In 1991, the band Neuroparalya was formed which eventually turned into Saram Scivit…
Artist: Sax Country: Czechia Label: I Hate Records Formats: CD Year: 2022 Those who dig deeper and look beyond the usual names from the glossy metal magazines will know that in the mid- to late 80’s and early 90’s there…
Artist: Ruttokosmos Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: CD Year: 2021 Finnish Black Metal bands, more often than not, tend to have miraculous sort of stories to tell. Sometimes they were very short lived but with a remarkably big influence…
Artist: Inferno Requiem Country: Taiwan Label: Elder Blood Productions Formats: CD Year: 2021 Taiwan’s Inferno Requiem began forging a tetralogy with 2019’s ‘Wolf From Onon’ Realm’ EP and finished it with 2021’s ‘Vultures’ EP, now Elderblood Productions scraped all of…
Artist: Morbid Stench Country: Costa Rica / El Salvador Label: Ablaze Productions Formats: CD Year: 2022 Just behind the release of Morbid Stench’s second full-length album, the band also comes out with this collector which features all the material they…
Artist: Paganizer Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Compilation Year: 2022 As if Paganizer’s regular releases don’t follow each other fast enough, we are also treated to a compilation album with great regularity. The content varies, but often overlaps. It…
Artist: Sodom Country: Germany Label: Steamhammer Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Whether you like Heavy Metal or Black Metal, Thrash Metal or Death Metal, there is no way that your favourite bands from each of those genres has not…
Artist: Incarnated Country: Sweden Label: Graveless Souls Records / Grind To Death Records Formats: Cassette tape / CD Year: 2021 From a world as vital, innovative and musically creative as the early Swedish Death Metal scene have sprung many bands…
Artist: Mortuary Country: Serbia Label: Darzamadicus Records / Grom Records / Necrovoid Records Formats: CD Year: 2021 Extreme underground metal has been forged in the most unlikely places of earth, even in the early days of the genre. Yet, many…
Artist: Recipients Of Death Country: USA Label: VIC Records Formats: CD Year: 2022 Halfway the 80’s, the absolute heydays of Thrash Metal, many of the founding fathers of the genre released their iconic and classic albums. But it was also…
Artist: Revenant Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 Between all the violence of the American Death Metal bands of the early 90s, it was difficult to really achieve great (commercial) success, obviously not every band had…
Artist: Striborg Country: Australia Label: Displeased Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 Although the cover looks pretty nice the music is hard to describe, and it is even harder to come up with a decent review and some positive remarks as…
Artist: Striborg Country: Australia Label: Displeased Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 Though quality labels like Southern Lord keep licensing Striborg releases for whatever other editions I still don’t get the buzz around this one-man project from Australia. I have to…
Artist: Nyctophobic Country: Germany Label: Khaaranus Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 This is one of those discography CDs from a grindcore/death metal band. It will be quite a task to count all those CDs that cover a whole career of…
Artist: Deviated Instinct Country: United Kingdom Label: Peaceville Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Peaceville Records started out as label for punk, crust and hardcore and had cult bands like Doom, Axegrinder, Prophecy Of Doom, Electro Hippies and this Deviated Instinct…
Artist: Cock And Ball Torture Country: Germany Label: Obliteration Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 The reason for the release of this boxset is unknown to me, but it has got something to offer, especially for the newer fans who got…
Artist: Sanitys Dawn Country: Germany Label: Power-It-Up Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Sanitys Dawn is one of Germany’s leading grind/death metal acts since their foundation somewhere at the early nineties. They have been spawning the scene with quite some interesting…
Artist: Cannibal Corpse Country: USA Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: CD/DVD Boxset Year: 2003 It was in the late 80’s when Deathmetal was the most active genre in the metalscene. Bands that pushed the boundaries of brutality, aggression and speed…