Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Abhorration Country: Norway Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 With the release of ‘Demonolatry’ at the end of 2024, Abhorration’s name buzzed through the underground. And not without reason: the album was a highlight in Extreme Metal in…
Artist: Tempest Country: Mexico Label: Chaos Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Tempest’s first outing, ‘Unending Torment’, was a very enjoyable debut album, but in all honesty, there was a clear lack of a determined vision. Like a lose canon…
Artist: Deathwinds Country: Canada Label: Headsplit Records / Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 When the ‘Ripping Annihilation’-EP was released back in autumn of 2025, it was quite a bit of a surprise. After…
Artist: Lecherous Country: USA Label: Self-Released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 After a digital demo and two rather low-profile split releases (of which one was also only released digitally), the USA-based Bestial Black/Death Metal band Lecherous published another digital demo…
Artist: Sepulchral Witchcraft Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Although Sepulchral Witchcraft is a (new) band from Russia, there’s musically nothing that seems to tie the band to their native scene – or at least what we usually associate with Russian Black…
Artist: Coscradh Country: Ireland Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2026 I know, nothing is forever. But still, it was somewhat of a surprise to see that the new Coscradh album is not released…
Artist: Sulphuric Deity Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although this demo seems to have been in the works for quite some time, this is still a new band for most people. Only those who regularly visit Reddit or Instagram may…
Artist: Genocidal Sodomy Country: Thailand Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Thai Bestial Black/Death Metal band Genocidal Sodomy first came to my radar with the split 7” EP with Savage Necromancy that was released in 2020, but even…
Artist: Hideous Mangleus Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Even if Hideous Mangleus released a 7” EP through the French Thrash (Records) back in 1990, I have always felt that the band’s popularity was…
Artist: Bestial Warlust Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette / CD Year: 2026 Although bands like Impaled Nazarene, Blasphemy and Beherit were already blending the ferocity and darkness of Black Metal with the blunt brutality of…
Artist: Bestial Abyss Country: USA Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 In the latest series of releases by Unpure Records, there was also this re-release of the compilation of the first two digital demos by Bestial Abyss, originally…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Vomit Country: Ukraine Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Originally this split tape was already released in 2022 by Bathöryhead, a rather obscure label from Ukraine that seems to focus primarily on bands from…
Artist: Goatcorpse / Gotthammer Country: USA / Canada Label: WolfKult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 By no means do I have the illusion that in my role of a reviewer I have any other purpose than to just…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Abyss Country: Ukraine / USA Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 At the Unpure Records HQ, they must have devised a good way to start the year. And what better way to kick off…
Artist: Bestial Abyss / Bestial Temple Country: USA / Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split Year: 2025 No Nostradamus needed for this case, with such band names and the title this digital split was given, it is crystal clear what…
Artist: Archont Country: Austria Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although there is very little known about this band, it is most likely that Archont is from Austria as they are claimed to be part of the Symbolismus…
Artist: Inquisition / Demonical Country: USA / Sweden Label: Agonia Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 What we have here is a split 7” EP with a title that inspires little enthusiasm. This “Deadly Alliance” offers two bands from…
Artist: Oraculum Country: Chile Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP/ CD Year: 2026 Formed in 2011, Oraculum from Chile features members of amongst others Wrathprayer and Deathwards. Very early on they struck a union with Invictus Productions from Ireland, a collaboration…
Artist: Bezdan Country: Croatia Label: I Hate Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although the band’s roots go as deep as 2009, ‘Upon The Altar’ is only Bezdan’s first full-length album. The first years of their existence the band…
Artist: Trance Of The Undead Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Now that Cursed Excruciation seems to have entered a somewhat quieter period, the sole musician behind this band has turned his attention…
Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 The exact idea of and the meaning behind this one-track promo is a bit unclear to me. This sole track seems to be part of a longer rehearsal set…
Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Abbatoir Prods. / Fehexenheit Prod. Formats: Demo CDr Year: 2025 Besides the black/white/red artwork that reveals just about everything of what to expect musically, it was this band’s name that attracted my attention. A German…
Artist: Death Sentence Country: USA Label: Smuggler Tapes Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although the only four officially released tracks of Death Sentence, originally recorded and released in 1985, has been widely spread in the underground since they came out,…
Artist: Seraphic Castration Country: Canada Label: Spiritual Warfare / War Vellum Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From the ashes of Gotthammer and the extremely fertile Canadian underground, not only did the recently resurfaced Melth rise again, but now Seraphic Castration…
Artist: Execrated Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 When I stumbled upon Occultor a couple of days ago, I also found out that three of them were also in a Death Metal band called Execrated and were…
Artist: Occultor Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 With a cover art like this, strongly resembling Chris Moyen’s, with two goats watching the moon fall apart with a dissected person on their table, it is clear that we…
Artist: Devilpriest Country: Poland Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 To be honest, I wasn’t much impressed with Devilpriest’s early output. While it was nothing really bad, I thought it overall lacked a bit of that…
Artist: Mortual Country: Costa Rica Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although Mortual has its roots back in 2015, starting out as Sepulchrated, and the band had already released two short players and…
Artist: Behemoth Country: Poland Label: Mystic Production / Nuclear Blast Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 This review is a bit late. Somewhat deliberately. Releases by the bigger bands in the Extreme Metal genres are usually…
Artist: Blood Altar Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2025 Blood Altar is a new band that, at least for the most part, hails from Germany – but at least has some international component in their line-up. The exact…
Artist: Baneful Tongue Country: Norway Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Baneful Tongue is the brainchild of S.B.E., the one and only member of the band. When exactly the band was formed is not entirely clear, but S.B.E. has quite…
Artist: Katakomba Country: Sweden Label: Majestic Mountain Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘The Second Death’ is Katakomba’s return after the solid self-titled album from 2022. Albeit nothing really spectacular, that debut album was definitely a tasty slab of…
Artist: Barbaric Horde / Goatsmegma Country: Portugal / Estonia Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split LP / Split Cassette Year: 2025 With both bands having a long-standing relationship with Godz Ov War Productions as well as being two of…
Artist: Death Invoker Country: Peru Label: Primitive Devil Worship Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Death Invoker was founded two decades ago and although the band has never released a full-length, it is highly unlikely you’ve never heard of the band…
Artist: Nachash Country: Norway Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Somehow Nachash escaped me entirely. Despite it featuring a member of two of my favorite Terratur Possessions bands, Knokkelklang and Askeregn. And the connections of the three…
Artist: Sathanas / Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Considering they both have existed since the 80’s, they have expansive discographies and the sheer number of splits released by both bands, it’s nothing short…
Artist: Clavis Inferni Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape / 7″ EP Year: 2025 Clavis Inferni, a one-man project sprung from the mind of Trance Of The Undead, mostly known for his two other projects Cursed Excruciation and…
Artist: Acheron Country: USA Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: 7” EP Year: 2025 Acheron and its main member Vincent Crowley really shouldn’t require any introduction, and therefore I will blatantly assume you went straight for the juicy info on this release.…
Artist: Blisterous Country: Finland Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Grotesque Prosection’ is the debut EP from a new Finnish band that was released on cassette tape, CD and as a nice…
Artist: Purulent Remains Country: Spain Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Although the band had already released two demo tapes (or cassette EP’s) in 2022 and 2023 and both were featured on the Bringer Of Gore-released ‘Worm-Eaten Corpse’…
Artist: Death Yell Country: Chile Label: Seven Metal Inches Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Those who thought they were in for a treat, having been presented with a new full-length album (freshly released by Hells Headbangers Records) as well…
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: Mortify Country: Japan Label: Sewer Stench Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 With titles like ‘Grotesque Buzzsaw Defilement’ and ‘Buzzsaw Sickness’ in their back catalogue, you might already have a clue where this is heading. And you are quite…
Artist: Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid Country: Finland / USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Split 7” EP’s are basically seen in every style of extreme music, but with their roots in Punk and Hardcore it…
Artist: Lord Gore Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 It’s not exactly the first time I’ve said that I’m not really interested in contemporary Grindcore, Death/Grind or related genres, but I do have a soft spot…
Artist: Funeral Vomit Country: Colombia Label: Xtreem Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With an album and the re-release of an earlier EP, Funeral Vomit has already proven itself to be by far the most interesting…
Artist: Wargoat Country: Greece Label: Angel Of Cemetery Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Originally released on cassette tape in 2023 by the same label, Angel Of Cemetery Records now presents Wargoat’s ‘Mysteries Of Primitive Damnation’ on a 7” EP.…
Artist: Kamra Country: Slovenia Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Kamra’s previous effort, ‘Cerebral Alchemy’ from 2022, was quite a stunning debut album. While all of the involved musicians have other or previous experience, none of these…