Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Fleshless Rots Country: Indonesia Label: Self-Released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2026 What we have here is the very first offering from Fleshless Rots, a new band from Indonesia. Whether this is due to the increasingly strict regulations imposed by the Indonesian authorities or simply…
Artist: Sentencia Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Formed in 2024, Sentencia is a relatively new band coming from the ever-fertile grounds of Chile. After a bit of changes in personnel, the band eventually felt ready to record their first…
With Vider’s debut on cassette tape, the recent split LP with Bluthammer, and the upcoming album ‘Sounding The Horn Of Obliteration’ under the banner of WolfKult Religion, it is of course curious that this Swedish one-man band has not yet…
Artist: Criminal Christ Country: Japan Label: Smuggler Tapes Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Bands like Venom and Celtic Frost influenced hundreds of bands in Europe and the USA, in fact they ignited a true explosion of bands who went in…
Artist: Necromorbid Country: Italy Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 The Italian band Necromorbid has never been one to work hard and churn out releases at a rapid pace. You could say…
Artist: Evokthum Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Formats: Digitaal Year: 2026 When I reviewed Evokthum’s debut demo, ‘Majesty Blood Vomiter’, back on the first day of 2025 it was still a one-man operation. But now, several releases on, Evokthum has become a duo.…
Artist: Mortuary Country: Mexico Label: Horror Pain Gore Death Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 For many, the return of Mortuary, one of the best Death Metal bands Mexico has ever produced, was something eagerly anticipated. Maybe not entirely comparable, but Mexico…
Artist: Internal Decay Country: Sweden Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2026 Internal Decay released a demo tape in 1991 and finally their debut album in 1993, right before they threw in the towel. Regardless of…
Artist: Ignobleth Country: Italy Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 If you make your debut with a digital single titled ‘Bestial Witchery’, you leave no doubt as to where your musical ambitions lie. These were realised…
Artist: Evil Ejaculation Country: Bolivia Label: Rex Diaboli Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Evil Ejaculation was formed back in 2019 in the city of Cochabamba, one of the major cities of Bolivia. It arose from the creative minds of two…
Artist: Bras d’Honneur Country: Ukraine Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 There’s no end in sight to Roman Saenko’s creative output; while over the past few years we’ve already been treated to a number of new releases…
Artist: Corpus Offal / Undergang Country: USA / Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2026 Following the split 7“ EP between Cadaveric Incubator and Cardiac Arrest for their joint European tour, the Danish label Extremely Rotten…
Artist: Barbaric Oath Country: Germany Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 Honestly, I had missed the ‘Attack Attack Attack!’-demo tape from 2024, even though it was released by the Dutch label Night Terrors Records. After…
Artist: Nocturnal Damnation Country: South Korea / Thailand Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Nocturnal Damnation is a band that has always been a bit hard to catch. Not so much for the musical identity, but even more…
Artist: Jehovah Lashing Country: USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 With only an 18 minute playing time Jehovah Lashing’s debut album was the longest of the band’s two albums, hardly worth calling a “full-length”. In that regard,…
Artist: Black Cum Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 With Black Cum, Niko “Behemoth” Thomasson (known for his work in and relation with such acts as Cursed Penetrator, Aske, Necro Ritus, Sadistic Evil and Azazel) explores the most foul regions…
Artist: DET Country: Finland Label: Cruel Gates Records / Dying Victims Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 While DET is not quite a very appealing name for a band, it stands for “Destructive…
Artist: Morbosatan Country: Peru Label: Ablaze Productions / Fallen Temple / Goat Eyaculation Records / Iconoclasm Conquest / Southern Soundclash Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 ‘Morbo, Coca, Satán’, Morbosatan’s third full-length album, was originally released about a…
Artist: Necroblasphemer Country: Italy Label: Post Mortem Nihil Est Prod. Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Back in 2023 the Black/Death Metal band Necroblasphemer, hailing from the Emilio-Romagna region in Italy, debuted with a demo called ‘Smell Of Death’. Although the…
Artist: Rito Profanatorio / Dethroner Country: Peru / Italy Label: Destruktion Records / Morbid Oath Records / Evil Prevailz / Hell Awaits / Sacrifice Records / Nuclear Winter Zine / Ocstanian Noise Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2026 This split…
Artist: Necrogore Country: Italy Label: Awakening Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 With two EPs (or demos) and an appearance on a compilation CD under their belt, the Italian band Necrogore made their debut album with Chinese label Awakening Records. A…
Artist: Liturgy Of Desecration Country: Greece Label: Fallen Temple Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 After three demos, or EPs as they are often called these days, the unholy duo known as Liturgy Of Desecration are now back with a proper…
Artist: Fulminate Country: USA Label: Acid Redux Productions / Septic Aroma Of Reeking Stench Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Even without the earlier digital release of the ‘3 Traxxx’ promo, we actually already had a pretty good idea of what to expect…
Artist: Orlok’s Plague Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2026 Maybe it’s because I’m an old fart, but even without having listened to a single track, I’ve got a fair bit of respect for a band like this that does things…
Artist: Cadaveric Incubator / Cardiac Arrest Country: Finland / USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2026 To mark their joint European tour, Extremely Rotten Productions is releasing this split 7″ EP on which both bands perform two songs each, which, to…
Artist: Bloodsoaked Necrovoid Country: Costa Rica Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 With a considerable discography under their belts, with which they collaborated with labels such as Caligari Records, Blood Harvest and Iron Bonehead Productions, Bloodsoaked Necrovoid…
Artist: Goatspear Country: Canada Label: Pain Chain Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Goatspear is a relatively new one-man project by the multi-instrumentalist who is also a member of Nefarious Scorn and Pillagery, and performs here under the name The…
Artist: Triumph Country: USA Label: Black Plague Records / Pagan Fury Records Format: CD Year: 2026 Slowly but surely Evan “Immolator” Richardson is building quite a name for himself in the realm of Bestial Black/Death Metal. While not being specifically…
Artist: Vomit Mass Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Anyone who has read some of my reviews before may have noticed that I can be quite critical when it comes to Death Metal. I’m tired of mid-tempo, boring Death Metal, and passion…
Artist: Putridarium Country: Germany Label: Night Terrors Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2026 After a series of demos, a compilation of demos, two split releases and a full-length album, Germany’s Putridarium returns with a new EP called ‘Natvm Ad Mortem’. Honestly, the demos were…
Artist: Cryptworm Country: United Kingdom Label: Extremely Rotten Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 At the very tail-end of 2023 marked the return of one of the UK’s most celebrated…
Artist: Hammerthrone Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Hammerthrone is a new band that emerged from the ideas of a few like-minded musicians from Austin, Texas, USA, who are also active in other bands playing different musical…
Artist: Cadaverno Country: Chile Label: Cadaverismo Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 It’s probably not quite a good sign when you’re starting to have conversations about how good the times were when you were young. Most likely it means that you’re…
Artist: Podridão Country: Brazil Label: Iron Fortress Records / Kill Again Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 ‘Coffin Of The Corrupted Dead’ is this band’s fourth album, but even with the rather impressive back catalogue of Podridão, most…
Artist: Omegavortex Country: Germany Label: Third Eye Temple Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although I knew there was a new Omegavortex album in the works, I only learned that it was released in December 2025 because…
Artist: Fulminate Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Fulminate, a one-man project from the US that combines Goregrind and Death Metal in a thoroughly old school way, was founded in 2022 and has since built up a…
Artist: Szmrdt Country: Czechia Label: Filth Junkies Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 It will come as no surprise that, even more than the artwork and the logo, it was the title of this debut demo tape that caught my…
Artist: Abhorvm Country: Scotland Label: Death Revelations Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Abhorvm is the newest addition to the ranks of Death Revelations, a label that has been churning out stellar underground releases lately by Triumphal Vengeance, Hæksenhamer and Sacris…
Artist: Mughtasib Country: Spain Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 This second demo tape by Mexican one-man band Mughtasib, which translates to “Violator”, is simply called ‘Invictus’ and continues the path chosen about two years ago when…
Artist: Monstrosity Country: USA Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Monstrosity’s career got off to a promising start with an excellent 7″ single on Relapse Records in 1991 and, a year later, an even better debut album on Nuclear Blast Records—the…
Artist: Possession Country: Belgium Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Some ten years ago, Possession was the top focus of the Belgian extreme Metal world. Obviously, the country has produced some fine Black Metal over the…
Artist: Ejecutor Country: Chile Label: Chaos Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 Although Ejecutor was already founded back in 1999 and seen their name pop up every now and then, I honestly never really paid any real attention to them. And…
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…