Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Bestial RaidsCountry: PolandLabel: Bird Of Ill Omen Recordings / Nuclear War Now! ProductionsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2007 Bestial Raids from Poland are not a very exceptional band in terms of a ‘black metal career’. They have released a couple of…
Artist: CauterizerCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2007 This Swedish death metal band may be long forgotten, yet Blood Harvest didn’t. And lucky us, really, as this is some of the better Swedish death metal that came to my ears. I honestly have…
Artist: BlaspherianCountry: USALabel: Blood Harvest Formats: 12″ EPYear: 2007 Though not really a well-known band (yet) they get their stuff released by labels as Hell’s Headbangers and Blood Harvest Records. That is what I call an achievement, as these two…
Artist: Impetigo Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2007 There are not many bands that were as influential and amazingly infectious as Impetigo. Like Carcass, Repulsion and Napalm Death they had litterily thousands of followers, bands trying…
Artist: In Aeternum Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest / Pulverised Records Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2007 With varying succes Swedish band In Aeternum have spawned records on mankind, through various labels and with an ever changing line-up.…
Artist: Decaying FormCountry: USALabel: Dan’s Crypt RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 This Australian trio, though recorded as a duo, comes up with their debut album through Spanish underground label Dan’s Crypt Records and shows exactly the down side of modern recording techniques……
Artist: Inhume Country: The Netherlands Label: Osmose Productions Formats: CD Year: 2007 After a wait of over one year and a half, Inhume’s third album finally sees the light of day. To give you an indication, I first heard this…
Artist: Nocturnal Vomit / Bestial RaidsCountry: Greece / PolandLabel: Morbid Moon RecordsFormats: Split 7″ EPYear: 2006 Underground force Morbid Moon Records comes forth with a great split 7” EP featuring two of the best underground metal acts of today, Greek…
Artist: Blood I Bleed / Sounds Like Shit Country: The Netherlands / Japan Label: Fast & Furious Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2007 This is another split EP for Blood I Bleed and Sounds Like Shit on Blood I…
Artist: Machetazo / Total Fucking Destruction Country: Spain / USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2007 This is the first edition of the Slimewave Series, it’s a bit like a McDonalds concept, but if you collect all six…
Artist: Cripple Bastards / Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition Country: Italy / France Label: Relapse Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2007 Number two in the Relapse Records Slimewave Series, this time Italy’s fastest grindcore veterans Cripple Bastards team up with the same…
Artist: ThanatosCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Areadeath ProductionsFormats: CD BoxsetYear: 2007 Thanatos is one of the oldest still active (death) metal bands from The Netherlands and therefore has got a rather rich history. This boxed set is a fine lesson in history…
Artist: Leng Tch’e Country: Belgium Label: Relapse Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 Belgium’s Leng Tch’e return with their fourth album, and second with Dutch cesspool-throated Boris the Bastard. They have entitled it ‘Marasmus’, a term used to describe the downfall…
Artist: Ribspreader Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2007 After a rather quick start this Swedish death metal act got a bit of a stranger in the scene. The band called its quits pretty much right after…
Artist: Nyctophobic Country: Germany Label: Khaaranus Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 This is one of those discography CDs from a grindcore/death metal band. It will be quite a task to count all those CDs that cover a whole career of…
Artist: Necroccultus Country: Mexico Label: Blood Harvest Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2006 At the time this 7” EP was released the band already split up, or not very long after. So these Mexicans will never come much further then an…
Artist: TribulationCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 Though there are two different bands from Sweden with the name Tribulation, this is the alive and kicking one. It might be a little confusing as Blood Harvest also releases a lot…
Artist: Karnarium Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2006 This underground Swedish death metal band has released a handful of demos before getting to releasing this 7” EP through the Swedish, underground praising Blood Harvest Records. Ever…
Artist: Axegrinder Country: United Kingdom Label: Peaceville Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 In the early days of Peaceville there has been some truly worthwhile releases that somehow faded into oblivion and are totally unknown to most of the new-school metalheads…
Artist: Deviated Instinct Country: United Kingdom Label: Peaceville Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Peaceville Records started out as label for punk, crust and hardcore and had cult bands like Doom, Axegrinder, Prophecy Of Doom, Electro Hippies and this Deviated Instinct…
Artist: VominationCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 This Swedish Vomination are throwing in some old school material on some old school format. That is how you can make me smile, some raw and obscure black, death, thrash or grindcore…
Artist: Butcher ABCCountry: JapanLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: CDYear: 2006 Japanese grindcore/death metal act Butcher ABC are preparing a new mini CD and wanted to promote that release on their trip to the prestigious Maryland Deathfest earlier this year. It is very unlikely…
Artist: Last Days Of Humanity Country: The Netherlands Label: Bones Brigade Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 This was an album I have been waiting for for over one year and a half for sure, as soon as I got to…
Artist: Meatyard / Maggots Country: New Zealand / The Netherlands Label: No Escape Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2006 This split CD is the first No Escape Records CD that kind of disappointed me. Meatyard is a grindcore band that…
Artist: Putrescence Country: Canada Label: No Escape Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 These Canadians surprised quite some people with their “Mangled, Hollowed Out And Vomit Filled” from 2004, right after the release of their debut they announced its follow-up, yet…
Artist: Ingrowing Country: Czechia Label: Obscene Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 After the rather succesful “Sunrape” album from 2003 they have put themselves on the global grindcore/death metal market with even a vinyl release on Autopsy Stench Records, after a…
Artist: AlchemistCountry: AustraliaLabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 This might be the most dull-sounding name for a band ever, yet Alchemist is one of the longest running bands from downunder and are gaining little by little the recognition they – are…
Artist: Ceremonial ExecutionCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 Before I read Blood Harvest was going to release this 7” EP I never heard of this Swedish band called Ceremonial Execution, so I didn’t know what to expect. Well, I…
Artist: Embalming TheatreCountry: SwitzerlandLabel: Power-It-UpFormats: CDYear: 2006 What we’ve got here is a re-release for Embalming Theatre’s second album “Sweet Chainsaw Melodies” from 2003 which was originally released by top-notch always-on-top Razorback Records (the vinyl version was put out by…
Artist: Cock And Ball Torture Country: Germany Label: Obliteration Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 The reason for the release of this boxset is unknown to me, but it has got something to offer, especially for the newer fans who got…
Artist: Sanitys Dawn Country: Germany Label: Power-It-Up Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Sanitys Dawn is one of Germany’s leading grind/death metal acts since their foundation somewhere at the early nineties. They have been spawning the scene with quite some interesting…
Artist: Indesinence Country: United Kingdom Label: Goat Of Mendes Formats: CD Year: 2006 As their “Ecstatic Lethargy” demo from 2003 and 2006’s EP “Neptunian” already promised, Indesinence would come up with an astonishing debut album. Yet they surprised me with…
Artist: DisgorgeCountry: MexicoLabel: Obliteration RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 Let’s get first clear that this is the Mexican death metal/grindcore band and not one of the other 666 bands with the same name from whatever corner of the world. And what we…
Artist: Indesinence Country: United Kingdom Label: Weird Truth Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2006 Just before releasing their debut album the English doomsters of Indesinence released an EP through the Japanese Weird Truth Productions label to save some extra recordings…
In the last few months I ‘discovered’ quite some interesting bands, one of the best will definitely be Nominon. I saw their name come by quite some times already, but I never came to the point of actually listening to…
Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Mortician Records Formats: CD Year: 2004 It might be a little late, but when I got this CD in the mail the other day I thought it still deserved a review at our beloved magazine.…
Artist: Nominon Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest / Deathgasm Records / Konqueror Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2005 Recremation? That means that you will be set on fire twice when you are dead, to be sure you are more…
Artist: Deep Vein / Bloody Sign / OppressionCountry: France / France / SwedenLabel: Nihilistic HolocaustFormats: Split cassette tapeYear: 2004 Another tape from the Nihilistic Holocaust label, an old school label that is specialized in releasing old fashioned tape releases. Can…
When it comes to old school death metal from Sweden one of the nicest new bands will definitely be Necrovation, a young band that has the same kind of attitude like the ancestors of the infamous Swedish death metal bands…
Artist: Avulsed Country: Spain Label: Metal Age Productions Formats: CD Year: 2005 Avulsed is to me one of the best examples of a band that started out rather slow but surely got themselves a status within the death metal world,…
Artist: Nocturnal Vomit Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2003 Nocturnal Vomit is some kind of a strange band. I’m not entirely sure, but the band is said to have its roots in Australia, where it was founded…
Artist: Fleshless Country: Czechia Label: Obscene Productions Formats: CD Year: 2003 Forgetting the splits and the demos this is already the fourth album by the death metallers from the Czech Republic. I heard quite some songs over the years but…
Artist: Necrophagia Country: USA Label: Displeased Records / Red Stream Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2004 Metalheads who aren’t familiar with Necrophagia … Are there any? This is a band that has an enormous historical value when you…
When I met Paul Speckmann on the Obituary tour – Master opened up for them all around Europe – we talked a bit about Master and labels and stuff. That reminded me that I wanted to interview him after the…
Artist: Necrovation Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2004 The red line through this demo-tape by Swedish Death Metallers is definitely the word “old school”. Everything this demo breathes is just old school, when was the last time…
What should I say to introduce Acheron? I guess everything that needs to be said has been said over a thousand times. Though, with an eye on their past three releases (all on the Greek Black Lotus Records label) and…
Artist: DismemberCountry: SwedenLabel: Karmageddon Media / Vinyl CollectorsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2004 Finally, after five years a new Dismember album. It was like waiting for the apocalypse, it never seem to come. But now it finally surfaced, and while listening…
Artist: Cannibal Corpse Country: USA Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: CD/DVD Boxset Year: 2003 It was in the late 80’s when Deathmetal was the most active genre in the metalscene. Bands that pushed the boundaries of brutality, aggression and speed…
Fancy yourself walking around on some big festival, at an Amon Amarth show and then… You walk into a guy with a baseball cap and a real awesome Messiah-hoody. You ask the man where got that thing, and then he…
Artist: Akercocke Country: United Kingdom Label: Earache Records Formats: CD Year: 2003 Due to the great hype around this band I think most of the people know about this band. From their first release “Rape Of The Bastard Nazarene” album…