Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Mortal Decay Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although Europe as well as other places on earth also had their heroes when it comes to Brutal Death Metal, and I don’t want to sell anyone…
Anthropomorphia has been among my favorite Dutch metal bands for years. The records the band released after their resurrection in 2009 are extraordinarily good, simply overwhelming. And when I saw them perform once at the Netherlands Deathfest years ago, the…
Artist: Antropomorphia Country: The Netherlands Label: Testimony Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 For me, Dutch Death Metal veterans Antropomorphia are a textbook example of one of the most underrated bands, not only on the international stage but maybe…
Artist: Nithe Country: Norway Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 After a digitally released demo in 2021 the Norwegian Black/Death Metal band released a very strong EP in the form of ‘Night Of The Ghoul’, of which I…
Artist: The Satan’s Scourge Country: Colombia Label: Triumvirate Of Evil Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although The Satan’s Scourge, hailing from Bogota, Colombia, has already been around for over two decades, ‘Abhorrent Spear Of Vengeance’ is only the band’s second…
Artist: Imprecation Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In my recent musings on Teitanblood’s latest album, I already addressed the fact that there are levels in everything. There might be hundreds…
Artist: Woundead Country: Italy Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Just about five months after ‘Breeding Depravity’, the band’s second demo, Death Metal band Woundead already returns with a new demo tape. With three demos in less than a year, these…
Artist: Crucifire Country: Australia Label: Trauma Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Dark Souls Abyss’ is a compilation of the majority of Crucifire’s work, recorded back in the 00’s. Yet, you don’t have to feel ashamed of not having heard any of the material…
Artist: Clactonian Country: Italy Label: Prehistoric Sounds Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Dea Madre’ was the short debut demo of this Italian Black/Death Metal band and displayed the steps of a decent, yet not completely convincing band. Their aim was…
Artist: Leper Colony Country: Germany / Sweden Label: Testimony Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In hindsight I might have been a bit too positive on Leper Colony’s self-titled debut album from 2023. Since the few spins around the…
Artist: Serpent Mass Country: Belgium Label: De Pankraker Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Serpent Mass hails from Ghent, Belgium, and saw its formation in 2016. At that time, Kosmokrator members J. Witchfvkker and J. Deathhammerer joined forces in a different…
Artist: Combat Shrine Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 The all-knowing Metal-Archives filed Combat Shrine under “Grindcore”. Although that is not entirely out of touch with reality, you’re doing this Finnish band short quite a bit. And…
Artist: Abysmal Decay Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 ‘Abysmal Decay’ is the first feat for these four lads from Glasgow, Scotland. But although this is a short 2-track debut demo, these guys certainly are no…
Artist: Teitanblood Country: Spain Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With especially the band’s first two albums, Teitanblood rose to true underground fame. Their sense for combining utter musical barbarity and impeccable song writing as well…
Artist: Bestial Rites Country: Peru Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 From Peru comes Bestial Rites, a band that has been around for over a decade but only now releases their first feat. Within its ranks we can…
Artist: Spektrum Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Out of one of the world’s major hotbeds for Extreme Metal, the Chilean Death Metal underground scene, comes Spektrum. A relative new band that was initially founded under the…
Artist: Chaos Insignia Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Probably prompted by the current popularity of the virtuous Antichrist Siege Machine, who have a song titled Chaos Insignia, these Romanians enter the field of chaotic Black/Death Metal…
Artist: Haemorrhage Country: Spain Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Haemorrhage’s roots go as deep as to 1990 and have ever since been a band that’s been amongst the leading acts when it comes…
Artist: Sectarium Country: Cuba Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Extreme Metal might have been the most popular in some European, North and South American countries, but the long arms of the genre stretched to the most unlikely…
Artist: Inferior Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Even without having a clue who is exactly behind the band, Inferior isn’t making a secret of their musical direction. The cover art for ‘Wrath’ already gives away a bit,…
Artist: Crepuscule Country: Italy Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Among the set of demo tapes recently re-released by La Caverna Records is also this single demo from Crepuscule. This Italian band was formed by the duo Raff…
Artist: High Speed Death Country: Italy Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 The Bogotá, Colombia based label La Caverna Records decided to take a really deep dive into someone’s old tapes collection. At least, so it seems, as…
Artist: Worm Altar Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After the release of the band’s ‘Astral Scourge’-EP from Summer 2023, it was rather quiet around Worm Altar. Usually one-man bands tend to release one demo or EP…
Artist: Corrosives Country: Canada/USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 How this trio came together is something that you should ask them, but regardless of how their individual paths crossed, this Canadian/American collective surely knows how to make some…
Artist: Septicflesh Country: Greece Label: Nuclear Blast Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2025 In the running up to Septicflesh’s new album, that should appear somewhere in the next couple of months, the Greek masters of bombastic metal presents us with an…
Artist: Corpus Offal Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 “Bring in that debut album”. With these words I closed my review on Corpus Offal’s 2-track demo tape that was released in…
Artist: Great Tribulation Country: Spain / USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After the 1-track demo/promo from early January this year, the Spanish/American trio that together makes up Great Tribulation is back already with their debut album.…
Artist: Trench Foot Country: United Kingdom Label: Cavernous Records / Iron Fortress Records / Macho Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 It hasn’t been since 2022, with the release of the ‘Moral Obscenity’ EP since we last…
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: Ligament Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Yes, I can be a sour old guy for whom things are not easily good enough, but there are times when the young boy in me awakens. Just say “this…
Artist: Galgeberg Country: Norway Label: Aftermath Music / Our Ancient Future Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 To start off with a confession, I always approach this sort of bands with extreme precaution and an unhealthy dose of scepticism. New…
Artist: Bidirna Dhamani Country: India Label: Goatowarex / Kaliyuga Konspiracies Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Have you ever wondered what Morbid Angel would sound like if they were a Black Metal band? Of course you did. And we have…
Artist: Crucifixion Ritual Country: USA Label: Invictus Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although the band’s line-up is somewhat shrouded in mists, it seems to at least be comprised of musicians who have had past and present activities in bands…
Artist: Chemical Death Country: Brazil Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Zombi Danz Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Those who delved very deep into the Extreme Metal scene of Brazil from around the turn of the 90’s, might have read…
Artist: Darkera / Nigromancer Country: Finland / Spain Label: Escafismo Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Next up in line from the 7” EP’s released by Escafismo Records is this one that teams up Darkera from Finland and the…
Artist: Mephitic Corpse Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records / 625 Thrash! Formats: Vinyl / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With the band’s debut, the ‘Immense Thickening Vomit’ demo tape from 2019, Mephitic Corpse managed to…
Perhaps because ‘Tormented Souls’ has only been released on cassette tape via Hells Headbangers Records and on CD via the somewhat smaller Atolinga Records, it may be that this debut from Mercenario has been slightly less noticed. But based on…
Artist: Trance Of The Undead Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Format: Demo tape Year: 2024 ‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’ was the second demo tape (or EP) from the Brazilian Black/Death Metal band Trance Of The Undead, helmed by the person…
Artist: Vastago Country: Spain Label: Elf Eggs / Profaner Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although the tape version of ‘Hexagnosis’ was already released digitally in October of last year, this second EP of Spanish Black/Death Metal band Vastago didn’t see…
Artist: Morbific Country: Finland Label: Headsplit Records / Me Saco un Ojo Records / Memento Mori Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 If you happen to be a fan of Morbific you never have to really wait…
Artist: Consumption Country: Sweden Label: Dusktone Formats: CD Year: 2025 After two full-length records for Hammerheart Records in 2020 and 2022, the Swedes of Consumption went for the Como, Italy based Dusktone for their third album. Without knowing any details,…
Artist: Warhammer Country: Germany Label: Ván Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 If you would have told me some twenty-five years ago that Warhammer would release their sixth full-length album in 2025 on a label like Ván Records, widely…
Artist: Bluthammer Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 “Fuck Religion, Fuck Politics, Fuck Humanity”. It can only be clear. Bluthammer does not mince words: this is merely about sonic violence and unhinged total hatred. And, of course,…
Artist: Tales Of Blood Country: France Label: Great Dane Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Although French Death Metal band Tales Of Blood, in one form or another has been around since the early 1990’s, the band was totally unknown to…
Artist: Sathanas Country: USA Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With their 1988 released ‘Ripping Evil’-demo, Sathanas positioned themselves as one of the very first Extreme Metal bands that effectively blended those early elements of both Death-…
Artist: Death Pulsation Country: Sweden Label: Caligari Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although Death Pulsation is a new band, debuting with this 3-track demo, in its ranks we do recognize musicians who has earned their stripes in the underground…
Artist: Sadist Country: Italy Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Originally debuting as one of the first bands on the cult but sometimes criticized Obscure Plasma Records label, that would later evolve into Avantgarde…
Artist: Noroth / Grave Infestation Country: USA / Canada Label: Carbonized Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 For fans of uncomplicated but effective old school Death Metal that doesn’t sound all too ancient, the Americans of Noroth and Grave…
Artist: Venefixion Country: France Label: Iron Bonehead Productions / Obscurity Of Error Records / Spikekult Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 Quite some time has passed since we heard from Venefixion, one of the best and most…
Of the past year, we can certainly count Abhorration’s debut record, ‘Demonolatry’, as one of the best. In terms of originality, it may not be startling, but the execution of Morbid Angel-inspired Death Metal leaves nothing to complain about. The…