Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Human Corpse Abuse / Mortify Country: USA / Japan Label: Dark Descent Records / Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 An old school split 7” EP, this is something that always cheers me up! This particular…
Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Strychnos has always been a band that intrigued me. Admittedly, I wasn’t an instant fan. But over the years I have for sure started to really appreciate…
Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 This 7” EP is the twin of ‘Sig Nærmer Døden’, the other EP that was simultaneously released by Dark Descent Records. Both EP’s are a natural continuation…
Artist: Qrixkuor Country: United Kingdom Label: Dark Descent Records / Invictus Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 ‘The Womb of the World’ may only be the second album of Qrixkuor, but the band has taken immense…
Artist: Grave Infestation Country: Canada Label: Dark Descent Records / Invictus Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 The last couple of years Grave Infestation has evolved into a rather smooth rolling Death Metal machine. If you’d listen back to…
Artist: Adorior Country: United Kingdom Label: Dark Descent Records / Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Adorior’s ‘Bleed On My Teeth’ already came out in autumn last year, so I am arriving to the party a bit…
Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Denmark’s thriving Death Metal scene has spawned many a great band, the majority of them following a rather similar path of (sometimes Grindcore-fuelled)…
Artist: Adversarial Country: Canada Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Admittedly, after the band’s first few releases I kind of lost track of Adversarial. In the early 10’s I did pick up the…
In the first month of the year the Dark Descent Released ‘Altered Realities’, the debut album of the Norwegian band Sovereign, really knocked me off my feet. Its genuine blend of Death Metal and Thrash Metal, the late 80’s way,…
Artist: Sovereign Country: Norway Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Apart from a few old-school bands like Cadaver, Mortem and later on, for instance, Zyklon and Blood Red Throne, Norway is not exactly…
Artist: Demoncy Country: USA Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 If anything, Demoncy is a band that seems to work in short and unexpected outbursts of creativity. In their early days since their…
Artist: UndergangCountry: DenmarkLabel: Dark Descent Records / Extremely Rotten Productions / Me Saco Un Ojo RecordsFormats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2023 Upon death, the human body undergoes a process called Pallor Mortis where it becomes pale,…
When Imprecation announce a new album, you can unquestionably count on the fact that we will be dealing with another monumental piece of Blackened Death Metal. And, yes, with ‘In Nomine Diaboli’, the Texas veterans once again fulfil all expectations.…
For a long time, the Death Metal genre seems to have been a fairly static affair. Apart from a few exceptions in the form of bands like Atheist, Cryptopsy and, of course, Death, most of it has been mostly of…
Artist: Desolate ShrineCountry: FinlandLabel: Dark Descent RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 My first encounter with Desolate Shrine was with their second album, ‘The Sanctum Of Human Darkness’. The band’s dense Death Metal had such a dark and…
Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 Honestly, Danish Black/Death Metal band Strychnos never really did much to me with the bands’ early (and sparse) releases over the course of…
Artist: Faceless BurialCountry: AustraliaLabel: Dark Descent Records / Desiccated Productions / Me Saco un Ojo RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With ‘Speciation’, the Australian Death Metallers shook off their early-stage darker branded Death Metal, not much was…
Artist: ChaotianCountry: DenmarkLabel: Dark Descent Records / Extremely Rotten Productions / Me Saco un Ojo RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 When I was thrown the demos compilation LP ‘Festering Excarnation’ by VM-Underground’s VincentP, I had quite a…
Artist: Grave Miasma Country: United Kingdom Label: Black Hearts Records / Dark Descent Records / Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2021 In the Death Metal scene of the recent years, one of the most…
Artist: ImprecationCountry: USALabel: Dark Descent RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Although Imprecation’s history goes all the way back to the heyday of (American) Death Metal of the early 90’s, the band has always remained a bit more in the background. An underground…
Artist: AtaraxyCountry: SpainLabel: Dark Descent Records / Me Saco un Ojo Records Formats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Anyone who has followed the development of this Spanish Death Metal band will speak confidently of a particularly successful transformation. On 2010’s 5-track ‘Rotten Shit’ demo, the band…
Artist: Human Corpse Abuse Country: USA Label: Caligari Records / Dark Descent Records / Obliteration Records / Selfmadegod Records Formats: Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 Human Corpse Abuse is a new band hailing from, as they say themselves, the…
Artist: CorpsessedCountry: FinlandLabel: Dark Descent RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With Death Metal bands like Abhorrence, Amorphis, Demilich, Demigod, Purtenance, Funebre and Convulse the Finns do have quite a legacy, but around the turn of 2010 a…
Artist: Faceless BurialCountry: AustraliaLabel: Dark Descent Records / Desiccated Productions / Me Saco un Ojo RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With their debut album, ‘Grotesque Miscreation’ from 2017 and its follow-up EP that appeared a year later,…