Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Infernaculum Country: Spain Label: Rex Diaboli Formats: CD Year: 2026 The Spanish band Infernaculum has already featured twice before on these pages. On both occasions, these were cassette releases on the Spanish label Profaner Records: a reissue of their…
Artist: Temple Nightside Country: Australia Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 It’s still an astonishing thought that Australia is not only a country but also a continent with a population just 50% larger than that of…
Artist: Deconsekrated Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Without wishing to take anything away from the Mexican label Iron, Blood and Death Corporation, after listening to ‘Ascension In The Altar Of Condemned’,…
Artist: Casket Dweller Country: Greece Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 Honestly, I missed the band’s digital 1-track single from 2023, but even without knowing much about Casket Dweller, you know you are in for a treat if…
Artist: Genocide Hammer Country: Mexico Label: Panzercavsst Records Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Although this Mexican trio formed back in 2024, they have only been operating under the name Genocide Hammer since 2025; nevertheless, the band has already released three…
Artist: Mortify Country: Japan Label: Obliteration Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 With nearly ten years and just as many releases under their belt, Mortify is, of course, no longer a new name to the seasoned Death/Grind fan. The Japanese band…
Artist: Azatoth Country: Finland Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 The Finnish Death Metal band Azatoth has come a long way. The band was formed by musicians who were around 14 and 15…
Artist: Master Country: USA Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Some bands are difficult to describe, either in terms of themselves or their music. What, for example, do you make of a band like…
Artist: Sépulcre Country: France Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 With a demo entitled ‘Ascent Through Morbid Transcendence’, the French band Sépulcre made their debut on the scene in 2020, backed by the Irish quality label Invictus…
Artist: Miscreance Country: Italy Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 In a Death Metal scene that was almost completely stagnant, ‘Convergence’ by the Italian band Miscreance was a real breath of fresh air. It’s not as…
Artist: Invoketh Country: France Label: Obscurity Of Error Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Hell’s Black Vomit’ is the second demo tape of the French Blackened Death Metal band Invoketh. Back in the summer of 2025, this trio really made an impression on…
Artist: Empty Chalice Country: Canada Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2026 Empty Chalice is not exactly a new band, as they have been around for six years already and ‘Majesty of Sin’ is their sixth release so far.…
Artist: Obsequial Sceptre Country: Cyprus Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Cyprus isn’t exactly a country that’s flooding us with any particular style of metal; in fact, I didn’t get much further than Necrosadist and Temple Of Evil, two Black Metal bands…
Artist: Sakrifixion Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Sakrifixion may well be a new band, but the musicians involved have been active in the German underground scene for decades. Their track records boast names such as Abythic, Lunar Chalice, Mysteria Mystica…
Artist: Severe Torture Country: The Netherlands Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: 12” LP Year: 2026 When we think about Dutch Death Metal, inevitably the names of Asphyx, Pestilence and Sinister will enter the conversation And understandably so, as they were part…
Artist: Blasphegenocidic Sadowar Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Not much is known yet about this Russian band, which recently made its debut with ‘Icon Of Carnage’. I am unaware of exactly who is in the band…
Artist: Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: Wolfkult Religion / Massacre Productions Formats: 7” EP Year: 2026 I think we can cut right to the chase when it comes to a Nunslaughter release. For about four decades the band has been playing…
Artist: Vināyakas Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 A couple of key musicians that become the face of a genre: that certainly can be said for a country like Finland, with iconic musicians like Shatraug, Werwolf…
Artist: In Obscurity Revealed Country: Mexico Label: Personal Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 The Mexican band In Obscurity Revealed have been making a name for themselves for over ten years now and, following a number of EPs and their debut album…
Artist: Weresatan Country: Canada Label: Defiled Altar Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From the ever-thriving Canadian Extreme Metal scene, here’s yet another new band that adds to the country’s metal landscape. Canada may well be the only civilised country in…
Artist: Nuclearhammer Country: Canada Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2026 Three years after the release of Nuclearhammer’s last sign of life, the ‘Xaos Tenawas’ demo, released on Nuclear War Now! Productions, the illustrious duo…
Artist: Cenotafio Country: Chile Label: Demoniac Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Anyone who, for the last decade or so, has followed the Death Metal scene even a little, will undoubtedly have come across Cenotafio at some point. Despite…
Artist: Diabolic Oath Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: 12″ EP /Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 I must admit that, despite being very familiar with Diabolic Oath’s previous work, I found this new EP, released by Sentient…
Artist: Necrotesque Country: The Netherlands Label: Grotesque Metal Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Personally, I’m not usually very optimistic about the state of the current Death Metal scene. There really is far too much run-of-the-mill stuff and, on top of that, not…
Artist: Primordial Intolerance Country: Canada Label: Green Matter Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 When listening to ‘Antipodean Evasion Tactics’, Primordial Intolerance’s debut demo tape, and knowing that they are from Quebec, Canada, it’s not unreasonable to think first of…
Arist: Old Curse Country: Paraguay Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Old Curse from Paraguay have been around since 2018, and quite quickly after their conception released their debut EP ‘Solve et Coagula’. Whether it was due to…
Artist: Fosse Septique Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Me Saco Un Ojo Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2026 Although these pages focus primarily on Black and Death Metal, that is certainly not the intention per se.…
Artist: Abhorrent Execration Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 In just a few years, Abhorrent Execration was founded in 2022, this French duo has built up quite a discography. Starting with two demos, the band is now…
Artist: Arise From Worms Country: USA Label: Church Road Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Although the formation of Arise From Worms had already been announced a little earlier, the release of their self-titled 3-track 12″ back in 2022…
Artist: Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: BLKIIBLK Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 For a band that has been around more or less since 1985 and is known as the metal band with the most releases, it is perhaps…
Artist: Devourment Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2026 Brutal Death Metal doesn’t feature on these pages all that often, but that doesn’t mean we’re not up for it. Certainly not when it comes to Devourment. Like…
Artist: Horns Of Abomination Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 The cover art of this debut demo of Horns Of Abomination might not necessarily look evil, but musically this new band definitely has something to offer for those…
Artist: Vastago Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 After two EP’s, also compiled on a CDr released by an Argentinean label specialised in the format, the Spanish Vastago felt ready for the next step and serves us with their very…
Artist: Necro Blade Country: USA Label: Goat Throne Records Formats: Demo CD Year: 2026 Admittedly, I missed this band’s debut demo from 2024, also released by Goat Throne Records, but I ran into this one and the combination of the…
Artist: Asphyxiater Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 After having spent some time operating under the moniker of Suicidal Preacher, this band changed their name to Asphyxiater in 2025 and then quickly released a digital 3-track demo. All…
Artist: Bestial Catacombs Country: Thailand Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 If the word ‘bestial’ features in both your band name and the title of your debut EP, it’s not particularly difficult to guess what musical direction this Thai…
Artist: Gouge Country: Norway Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 Although Gouge did play at the renowned Danish Death Metal festival Killtown Deathfest in 2014, I’ve always felt that they entered…
Artist: Spiritual Healing Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 As a Death Metal band, calling yourselves ‘Spiritual Healing’ is a bit of a tricky business. Being compared to one of Death’s finest albums is, of course, inevitable,…
Artist: Immolation Country: USA Label: Nuclear Blast Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 You could spend hours discussing Immolation. There are Death Metal fans who aren’t particularly keen on them, and there are people who have been devoted fans since the…
Artist: Fleshcrawl Country: Germany Label: Reigning Phoenix Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 From the very first moment I heard Fleshcrawl, which was in 2000, with the band’s ‘As Blood Rains From The Sky… We Walk The Path Of Endless…
Artist: Venomous Invokation Country: USA Label: Crow’s Nest Records / Funeral Moon Records Formats: Demo Tape / Demo CD Year: 2026 Although Venomous Invokation already released three short players (and a compilation CD with those earlier tracks), this Knoxville, Tennessee (USA)…
Artist: Goatkraft Country: Norway Label: Deathrune Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 I said it before, not everything from Norway sounds like Borknagar, Arcturus or Ulver. Not quite. With ‘Barbed Wire Doctrine’, Goatkraft’s latest offering and follow-up to 2023’s ‘Prophet…
Artist: Consecration Country: United Kingdom Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 In their 15+ year career this British Death/Doom Metal band has amassed a respectable discography. Besides a couple of short players, this…
Artist: Godless Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 I have said before and I will say it again, and probably will repeat myself another countless after this one: there must be…
Artist: Mangled Recrement Country: Poland Label: Caligari Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although this band consists of a trio of musicians who have already gained some experience in bands such as Toughness and Leucotome, Mangled Recremant has only been…
Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Although it’s been the case ever since the early days of Extreme Metal, in recent years you can certainly count on the…
Artist: Beast Majesty Country: Peru Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Beast Majesty might be a new band in the Extreme Metal scene, but the only person behind it is far from a newcomer. The wild child helming this…
Artist: Ancient Entity Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 With Ancient Entity, Oskar Brahn his fifth band, but this time he’s doing it all by himself. But although all those other bands also fall within the Death…
Good things tend to take time. I wouldn’t necessarily compare Abominator to an exquisite wine or anything of that nature, but apparently it’s quite common for the finer wines to be left to age for ten years. That’s exactly how…
Artist: Blood Serpent Country: Vietnam Label: House Of Ygra Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 After a good debut album back in 2023 and an enjoyable split CD with Iron Bludgeon in 2025, both released by the enigmatic House Of Ygra label, the Vietnamese noise mongers…