Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
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…
Artist: Division 52 Country: Germany Label: Rat Covenant / Southern Soundclash Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 This is an EP I’ve been looking forward to for a while. ‘Total War’ is the debut release from the German duo who perform…
Artist: Pharmacist Country: Japan Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 From the moment the band burst onto the scene, Pharmacist became an absolute crowd-pleaser for anyone who considered themselves a fan of the…
Artist: Savage Country: The Netherlands Label: Milkcow Records Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2026 Savage is a new Death Metal band from the north of The Netherlands and while there’s still not so much known about the band, at least it…
Artist: Antichrist Siege Machine Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Within the Bestial Black/Death Metal genre, few bands are currently as popular as the American group Antichrist Siege Machine. Although the band has been around for over…
Artist: Jungle Rot Country: USA Label: Unique Leader Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Debuting into the international Death Metal scene in 1996, at a moment that hardly anyone still cared about Death Metal, is actually pretty symbolic of…
Artist: Vomitory Country: Sweden Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 There is something special about Vomitory. It’s not about their level of sophistication, or how they’re pushing the envelope of Death Metal. it’s the chopping and…
Artist: Execution Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 If I were to start a band (which I’m not going to do, so don’t worry), I’d probably enjoy coming up with song titles and things like that the…
Artist: Goatoimpurity Country: Chile Label: Acta Nefanda Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 It might be fair to say that even people who enjoyed Chilean Black/Death Metal band Goatoimpurity around the time their full-length album came out might have forgotten about them. This trio released…
Artist: Diabolical Vengeance Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 I don’t know who lies behind the pseudonyms Pyromaniak and Decimator, but together they form the new Finnish duo that, under the name Diabolical Vengeance, is making its mark on the slowly…
Although we Europeans initially remembered Death Yell primarily as “that other band” on the split 7″ EP with Beherit, these Chileans were of great importance in the development of Extreme Metal in South America at the end of the 1980s.…
Artist: Hexorcist Country: USA Label: Angel Of Cemetery Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 This is Hexorcist, the Death Metal band from the USA. They were formed back in 2019 and released a demo tape before properly entering the scene with their…
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…