Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: FesterDecay Country: Japan Label: Relapse Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 I can’t remember the last time I reviewed two good albums from Relapse Records in such a short space of time as the latest…
Artist: Mortal Dread Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2026 Of course, there is every reason for a label to provide a release with some words of praise as part of its promotional work. Often, however,…
Artist: Pus Excretor Country: Mexico Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Me Saco Un Ojo / Templum Obscenum Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Pus Excretor is a Mexican one-man Death Metal/Grindcore band that released…
Without wishing to disparage this band or anyone involved with it, I think anyone who has been around for a while knows the feeling of having a certain fondness for a particular CD without really having a good reason for…
Artist: Bloody Vengeance Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Format: 12″ EP Year: 2026 Although the band has been around for about fifteen years, it is only in the last few years that Bloody Vengeance has started to gain traction. Perhaps this is…
Artist: Septic Fumes Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 ‘Mucilaginous Sewage’ first saw the light of day almost a year ago, but only in the form of a cassette…
Artist: Exhumed Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Although the band also has a few serious misses and some negligible EPs under its belt, Exhumed is still the institution that sets the…
Artist: Trance Of The Undead / Chaos Perversion Country: Brazil / Chile Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 Judging by the recording information, this split must have been in the works for some time. The first…
Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 After a demo and two digital singles (both actually more or less the same song in a different version), all released in 2025, Zweihander quickly strikes again with a…
Artist: Void Meditation Cult Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2026 When I got my hands on Sperm Of Antichrist’s ‘Blight And Darkness’ demo in 2009, I was truly blown away. Although it was clearly based…
Artist: Incandescence Country: Canada Label: Profound Lore Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Although ‘Hors Temps’ is best translated to ‘Timeless’, the music of Incandescence is definitely not of that ilk. At least, in the sense that it has…
Artist: Abysmal Decay Country: United Kingdom Label: Goreture Rex / Old Skull Productions Formats: 7″ / Demo tape Year: 2025 After the solid self-titled demo tape that was issued earlier in 2025, UK Death Metal band Abysmal Decay released a…
Artist: Abysmal Descent Country: Belgium Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Abysmal Descent is a new band, the four musicians involved have been active in the Belgian underground scene for some time. A quick glance at the lineup…
Artist: Bestial Possession Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Despite being around for over twenty-five years, a few months ago I covered the Peruvian band Bestial Possession for the first time. But what we have here though,…
Artist: Cadaveric Messiah Country: Colombia Label: Entropy Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 In 2024 this Colombian band debuted with a 2-track 7” EP ‘Into The Putrid Fumes Of The Abyss’, which offered us a thunderous and thoroughly regressive piece…
Artist: Terrorshroud Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Terrorshroud is a new Black/Death Metal band rising from the ever-fertile Greek underground scene. But while the individual band members only go by their initials and with blurred-out photos, it is at least known…
Artist: Bluthammer / Vider Country: Germany / Sweden Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split 12” LP Year: 2026 Relentless, menacing, uncompromising. Just some words that come to mind when playing this split between Bluthammer and Vider. Joined by their same home…
Artist: Verwándlung Country: Australia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although a physical cassette tape version has been announced, this debut demo by Australian band Verwándlung, recorded in separate sessions between 2024 and mid-2025, is only available digitally via…
Artist: Warfare Noise Country: Paraguay Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Even though Warfare Noise has been around for almost fifteen years already and has a considerable discography, they never landed on these pages before. Not even with the…
Artist: Lugubrious Garment Country: Italy Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: Demo Tape / CD Demo Year: 2025 Honestly, if this demo tape wasn’t released on Nuclear Winter Records, I am pretty sure I would’ve never heard it. Maybe it’s short-sighted…
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…