Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Nightfall Country: Greece Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / CD Year: 2021 Within the enigmatic Greek Black Metal scene Nightfall has always been a little of an outcast, both in terms of personnel as in the way they…
Artist: Grave Infestation Country: Canada Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Old School, rotten, infectious Death Metal from the grave, that’s what this four-piece Canadian band is offering you. And if you have been reading VM-Underground for…
Artist: Grave Infestation Country: Canada Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP Year: 2022 To commemorate the release of Grave Infestation’s first full-length album, Invictus Productions also released this compilation LP (so far only released on vinyl) of the Canadian’s first two…
Artist: Blood / IncantationCountry: Germany / USALabel: Hells Headbangers RecordsFormats: Split 7″ EPYear: 2022 This is the sort of split EP that you knew was coming, I can imagine the chuckle the label and bands had when working out the…
Artist: Eye Of Purgatory Country: Sweden Label: Transcending Obscurity Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2021 Just when I thought I had reviewed enough of Rogga Johansson’s releases this year, having spent quite some words on a fair share of…
Artist: CatacombCountry: FranceLabel: XenoKorpFormats: 12″ EP / Cassette tape EP / CD EPYear: 2022 One of my favourite early 90’s 7” EP’s is ‘In The Maze Of Kadath’ of the French Death Metal band Catacomb. Their doom-laden, almost hallucinating kind of Death Metal…
Artist: Lucifericon Country: The Netherlands Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 After releasing three EP’s and one full-length album, the Dutch Black/Death Metal combo Lucifericon is ready to strike again with a new full-length…
Artist: Disgusting PerversionCountry: GermanyLabel: Black SunsetFormats: CDYear: 2022 Judging by the album title you’d almost expect an album in some mid 90’s Doom or Gothic Metal style, but you couldn’t be more wrong. Disgusting Perversion brings you unadulterated Old School…
Artist: Tchornobog / AbyssalCountry: USA / United KingdomLabel: Lupus Lounge / Vigor DeconstructFormats: Split LP / Split tape / Split CDYear: 2022 Lupus Lounge is presenting a very interesting split LP (also released on CD and on cassette tape by…
Artist: AbradedCountry: USALabel: Aggressively Uninterested / Maggot StompFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 Although this album was released by the very end of last year (on both cassette tape and CD by Maggot Stomp), it seems to be getting some…
Artist: ChasmdwellerCountry: CanadaLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2022 Canadian Chasmdweller again only needed a few months to come up with new music already. This time it’s a 25-minute EP, ‘Festering In Aural Trauma’, that we get to dwell…
Artist: CryptivoreCountry: AustraliaLabel: Awakening Records / Bitter Loss RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 The first demo of Australian one-man band Cryptivore was already received with great enthusiasm on our pages. My colleague was shocked by the quality the band had…
Artist: Atomic WitchCountry: USALabel: Redefining Darkness RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 After having released a couple of singles/EP’s, Atomic Witch releases their first full-length album with ‘Crypt Of Sleepless Malice’, graced in a horrendously nuclear sort of artwork. And after having heard the album…
Artist: Black CommunionCountry: ColombiaLabel: Dunkelheit ProduktionenFormats: LP / CDYear: 2020 From Colombia came this Black/Death band, which folded not too long after releasing ‘Miasmic Monstrosity’. With current and ex-band members sporting names like Necro Pervertor, Blasphemer Goatpriest of Virgin’s Impalement, Sadistik Offender and A.C.M Six…
Artist: Slaughterday Country: Germany Label: Defying Danger Records / F.D.A. Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 In the wake of the Old School Death Metal revival that happened around 2010, many a new Death Metal band…
Artist: In Pain Country: Sweden Label: Southcoast Productions / To The Death Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Being amongst the bands that were in the first batch of Swedish Death Metal bands from around the 90’s, In Pain…
Artist: Shrieking Demons Country: Italy Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2021 Formed in 2021 in Italy, Death Metal band Shrieking Demons needed very little time to record their first EP, ‘Diabolical Regurgitations’, which was released…
Artist: Ancient DeathCountry: USALabel: Rotter RecordsFormats: CD EPYear: 2022 This relatively new Walpole, Massachusetts, USA based Death Metal band released their debut EP last summer. ‘Sacred Vessel’ is a 26 minute clocking slab of modern sounding Old School Death Metal…
Artist: Denouncement PyreCountry: AustraliaLabel: Agonia RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With Denouncement Pyre’s 20th anniversary approaching and a brand new album under its belt, this is a perfect time to give this underrated band some well-deserved praise. Because although the band has…
Artist: Body Asphyxiation ScienceCountry: United KingdomLabel: Gurgling GoreFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2022 Early this year UK Cosmic Death Metal duo Body Asphyxiation Science released a pretty good split tape with Trench Foot, but also this ‘Gravitational Blood Art’ cassette tape EP.…
Artist: Ritual Necromancy / Fossilization Country: USA / Brazil Label: Everlasting Spew Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Earlier this year Everlasting Spew Records presented a split release by two nice Death Metal bands: Ritual Necromancy, a former Dark…
Artist: Phlebotomized Country: The Netherlands Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2022 One of the most original bands that helped shape the ‘famous’ Dutch Death/Doom Metal scene was certainly Phlebotomized. With their 1992 ‘Devoted To God’-demo tape…
Artist: WargeistCountry: GermanyLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2022 Not much is known about this new band called Wargeist, except the fact that they are from Germany and recently digitally released their first EP, ‘Altar Of Genocide’. So, instead of digging into…
Artist: DesecresyCountry: FinlandLabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Originally started out as a duo, Desecresy was brought back to a one-man Death Metal playground for Jarno Nurmi, who previously gained some fame in the otherwise quite…
Artist: VoidCeremonyCountry: USALabel: 20 Buck SpinFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2022 The exact purpose of this demo is unclear to me, the Californian based VoidCeremony already released their debut album ‘Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel’ in 2017 through the same label, 20…
Artist: Vile RitesCountry: USALabel: Desert Wastelands ProductionsFormats: Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2022 At the beginning of the year, the recently formed band Vile Rites from Santa Rosa, California, USA, released their first EP with ‘The Ageless’. Graced with some…
Artist: EctoplasmaCountry: GreeceLabel: Memento Mori / Rotted Life RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Having been founded exactly ten years ago, Ectoplasma from Greece, have been quite an active band. They have managed to crank out quite a…
Artist: TeitanbloodCountry: SpainLabel: Norma Evangelium DiaboliFormats: LPYear: 2022 Originally released in 2011 as a single-sided 12” EP, ‘Purging Tongues’ recently got a reissue in a new cover and with the etched B-side being replaced for a different take of the…
Artist: Septicflesh Country: Greece Label: Chaos Reigns / Nuclear Blast / Shinigami Records / Ward Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 When the band fell apart in 2003 and arose again four years later, they not…
Artist: Faceless BurialCountry: AustraliaLabel: Dark Descent Records / Desiccated Productions / Me Saco un Ojo RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With ‘Speciation’, the Australian Death Metallers shook off their early-stage darker branded Death Metal, not much was…
Artist: Molder Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records / Prosthetic Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 Illinois pusheads Molder released their sophomore album, ‘Engrossed In Decay’, last summer. The bands’ debut album for Prosthetic Records, who took…
Artist: DemigodCountry: FinlandLabel: Svart RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 The Finnish Death Metal scene is a quirky one. Not only did it crystalize somewhat late, it also formed quite independently from the exploding US and Swedish scenes…
Artist: Revolting Country: Sweden Label: Xtreem Music Formats: CD Year: 2022 Album number eight for Revolting, one of the many Rogga Johansson starring bands. What can be said that hasn’t been said about Johansson and any of his musical endeavours?…
Artist: DesultoryCountry: SwedenLabel: Floga RecordsFormats: LPYear: 2022 Founded as early as 1989, Desultory was one of the first Swedish Death Metal bands, but unlike many of their contemporaries, they opted for a different take on the genre. While most other…
Artist: DesultoryCountry: SwedenLabel: Floga RecordsFormats: LPYear: 2022 With the bands’ first album, the Metal Blade released ‘Into Eternity’ from 1993, Desultory firmly cemented their (then) original take on Swedish Death Metal into the collective brains of every Death Metal fan.…
Artist: ChaotianCountry: DenmarkLabel: Dark Descent Records / Extremely Rotten Productions / Me Saco un Ojo RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 When I was thrown the demos compilation LP ‘Festering Excarnation’ by VM-Underground’s VincentP, I had quite a…
Artist: Phlebotomized Country: The Netherlands Label: Hammerheart Records / Petrichor Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2021 Being one of the bands that helped shape the Dutch underground metal scene, many eyes were on Phlebotomized after it was announced…
Artist: Bastard Grave / Graveyard GhoulCountry: Sweden / GermanyLabel: Lycanthropic ChantsFormats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2021 On this split 7”, released by Germany’s great underground label Lycanthropic Chants, Swedish Bastard Grave and Graveyard Ghoul from Germany team up for some…
Artist: AltarsCountry: AustraliaLabel: Everlasting Spew RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Following the bands’ debut album, the great Blood Harvest Records released ‘Paramnesia’ from 2013, Altars mostly lay dormant for about a decade. That means that having the band returned to…
Artist: Mangled Torsos Country: Germany Label: Morbid Classics Formats: LP Year: 2021 Though I was not exactly there at that exact time, because of my age, I always loved the atmosphere and feeling of those early 90’s demo tapes and…
Artist: NihilvmCountry: PolandLabel: Malignant VoicesFormats: CD EPYear: 2022 Poland’s Nihilvm was formed in 2020, but that’s about all the information that’s out there. Well, that and that the band was signed to the highly esteemed Malignant Voices label, which has…
Artist: Eternal Rot / CoffinsCountry: Poland / JapanLabel: Behind The MountainFormats: Split LP / Split cassette tape / Split CDYear: 2021 Coffins should require no introduction, not only have they released a couple of outstanding full-length album, they also left…
Artist: Ceremonial OathCountry: SwedenLabel: Floga RecordsFormats: LPYear: 2022 If you take any old Swedish extreme metal demo, EP or debut album and look at the line-up, list of external contributions or even thank lists, you are basically diving into a…
Artist: Concrete WindsCountry: FinlandLabel: Sepulchral Voice RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2021 At the end of last year Concrete Winds treated us to a new album of extreme violence. I can imagine that you are still recovering from 2019’s ‘Primitive Force’,…
Artist: OcculsedCountry: USALabel: Everlasting Spew RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2021 When I first saw the amazing cover art of ‘Crepitation of Phlegethon’ and the old school red logo of Occulsed, I first thought this was one of those early 90’s…
Artist: Blood LossCountry: USALabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: Digital demoYear: 2022 Not too long ago I was poring over the ‘Visions Of A Darker World’-demo, which came out early this January, and now for the second time this year I have the honour to say a few words…
Artist: Morbus Grave Country: Italy Label: Chaos Records Formats: CD Year: 2022 After having released a handful of demos and two split releases, the Italian Death Metal band Morbus Grave felt ready for a full-length album, which was recently released…
Artist: Blood Of The WolfCountry: USALabel: Horror Pain Gore Death ProductionsFormats: CDYear: 2022 The title of ‘IV: The Declaration Of War Eternal’ implies that there were (at least) three chapter preceding this latest album by American Death Metallers Blood Of The Wolf. And while I…
Artist: ConsumptionCountry: SwedenLabel: Hammerheart RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Consumption is a band that was formed two years ago by Håkan Stuvemark of Wombbath fame and two fellow musicians with experience in a wide range of different bands. They didn’t…
Artist: Blood / IncantationCountry: Germany / USALabel: Hells Headbangers Records / VIC RecordsFormats: Split LP / Split CDYear: 2022 This is a split that you knew that would happen one day. Both bands never made a secret for their mutual…