Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Pandemia Country: Czechia Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 During the late 90’s and first years of the 00’s eastern Europe had a rather vibrant Death Metal scene, a scene that went very well with the region’s ever-thriving Grindcore tradition. It…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog / Åndutsyn Country: Czechia / USA Label: Nithstang Productions Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Here we have another split release from the ever-prolific MBN (also in Arzhaabat, Ärschlings, Blau Blut, CEP and a handful more) with his…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Who has been reading these pages regularly might have seen the name of Chevallier Skrog pass by more than once. MBN, who is also known for projects…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 In many reviews of MBN’s work I have called him a workaholic or a restless soul, most likely, he’s both. But not infrequently, this does lead…
Artist: Sequestrum / Sněť Country: Denmark / Czechia Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Noxious Ruin Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Arriving late to a party might be fashionable, it has its downsides too. Like arriving late to the party that the…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 With his many bands and projects the ever restless and total workaholic MBN is presenting new music almost every week, and while, of course, not everything…
Artist: Arzhaabat Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 After a demo tape, a single released on cassette and a full-length album, the prolific MBN returns with another Arzhaabat recording. This time an almost 24-minute EP that fits, at…
Artist: Arzhaabat Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2023 After a demo and a single, both released on cassette tape in early 2023, the prolific MBN (or Vaérmiyr), who is also known for Blau Blut, Svor, CEP and the…
Artist: Master Country: USA Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 It has been more than 20 two decades since I have reviewed my first Master release, at the time I started with ‘Unreleased 1985…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Sweden Label: Legion Blotan / Pant Y Meddygon Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 The ever-productive MBN is not always making life easy for us; while it is of course pleasing not to have to wait long…
Artist: Sněť / Grave InfestationCountry: Czechia / CanadaLabel: Me Saco Un OjoFormats: Split 7″ EPYear: 2023 Two of the current scene’s most revered underground Death Metal bands are sharing this piece of black wax of 7 inches in diameter, released by Me Saco Un Ojo.…
Artist: BjesCountry: Czech RepublicLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2023 For the Czech band Bjes, the self-released EP ‘Prázdnota’ is their first release. With a release title that translates to ‘Emptiness’ you might be tempted to think the tone of the band’s…
Artist: Cult Of FireCountry: CzechiaLabel: Doomentia RecordsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2023 The recently resurrected Doomentia Records returns with a few new records. The label started with the reissue of Fata Morgana’s ‘Kremace Dábla’ demo from 1992 (with great artwork from Rok).…
Artist: PanychidaCountry: Czech RepublicLabel: Folter RecordsFormats: CD EPYear: 2022 The release of the ‘Gabreta Aeterna’ album in 2020 marked the fifth full-length in the history of the Czech band Panychida. Having taken three to four years between each album so…
Artist: PanychidaCountry: Czech RepublicLabel: Evil Horn Records / Folter Records / Nasphyr RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2020 Ever since 2004, the Czech band Panychida have been spreading their Pagan Metal to the world. The creative core of…
Artist: Ravenoir Country: Czechia Label: Gothoom Productions Formats: CD Year: 2022 Ravenoir from the Czech Republic was founded in 2020 by two members who were then still part of the legendary Root. Their new band was supposed to fill the…
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: Symbtomy Country: Czechia / United Kingdom Label: Souls Of Underworld Records Formats: Demo Tape / Demo CD Year: 2022 With a logo in which a guitar pedal is depicted and above which it reads ‘Old School HM-2 Death Metal’,…
Artist: Svor Country: Czechia / United Kingdom Label: Legion Blotan / Pant Y Meddygon Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2022 Svor is a new international band by G.P. (George Proctor) from the UK and MBN from the Czech Republic but residing…
Artist: Szmej Country: Czechia Label: Pant Y Meddygon Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2022 The Pant Y Meddygon-stables only produce intriguing acts, in which the musical boundaries fade somewhat and actually turn out to be of little importance. Several releases from…
Artist: InfernoCountry: Czech RepublicLabel: Bile Noire / Debemur Morti ProductionsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 Those only familiar with the earliest Inferno albums might be surprised at how the band sounds anno 2021. The Czechs released numerous albums…
Artist: Svardenvyrd Country: Czechia Label: Far Horizon Music Formats: Digital EP Year: 2021 Svardenvyrd’s origin dates back to as early as 2002 and already released two demo’s, a split CD and one album in the first half of the 00’s…
Artist: Ingrowing Country: Czechia Label: Obscene Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 After the rather succesful “Sunrape” album from 2003 they have put themselves on the global grindcore/death metal market with even a vinyl release on Autopsy Stench Records, after a…
Artist: Fleshless Country: Czechia Label: Obscene Productions Formats: CD Year: 2003 Forgetting the splits and the demos this is already the fourth album by the death metallers from the Czech Republic. I heard quite some songs over the years but…