Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Revenant Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 Between all the violence of the American Death Metal bands of the early 90s, it was difficult to really achieve great (commercial) success, obviously not every band had…
Artist: Coffins / DepressionCountry: Japan / GermanyLabel: Hells Headbangers Records / Headsplit RecordsFormats: Split LP / Split cassette tape / Split CDYear: 2020 Two of Death Metal’s most prolific bands teaming up on one split release. What can possibly go…
Artist: Macabre Country: USA Label: Nuclear Blast Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2020 Macabre has always been a band that is unique in so many ways. Not only because of the obvious, their characteristic sound and lyrical content, but…
Artist: Massacre Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 What we’ve got here is the third EP in the “10 Inches Of Deathcult” series, in which Xtreem Music presents a slap of legendary early recordings from groundbreaking…
Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Xtreem Records Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 This 10” EP is the second installment in the “10 Inches Of Deathcult”-series, in which the first one was Sinister’s “Perpetual Damnation”-demo pressed onto 10 inches of wax.…
Artist: Rotting Christ Country: The Netherlands Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 Xtreem Music has launched a new series of old recordings by (semi) legendary Death Metal bands on 10” vinyl records. The list of announced bands to…
Artist: BenedictionCountry: UKLabel: Nuclear BlastFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2020 May 2019 marked the moment that vocalist Dave Hunt left Benediction to concentrate on his PhD studies and his other band Anaal Nathrakh. For many of the dedicated…
Artist: Houwitser Country: The Netherlands Label: Sevared Records Format: CD Year: 2010 After Houwitser broke up in 2004, all band members went their separate ways, resulting in such bands as Blastcorps and Hail Of Bullets. Guitarist Michel Alderliefsten, however, felt he had some unfinished…
Artist: Pandemia Country: Czechia Label: War Anthem Records Formats: CD Year: 2009 German label War Anthem Records signed Czech band Pandemia, or perhaps they were stuck with them when they took over Morbid Records. If the latter is the case, then they can be…
Artist: Magnanimus Country: Chile Label: Blood Harvest Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2008 The metal scene in Chile never fails to amaze, really. There’s some really great band on basically every style of extreme metal. Magnanimus definitely is no exception. Judging…
Artist: Bombs Of Hades Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2008 I should’ve known better, really. I had this 7” EP here for quite some time before I started listening to it, the cover artwork for this…
Artist: AutopsyCountry: USALabel: Peaceville RecordsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2009 These are actually the most critical releases. Bands that always claimed not to go for any reunion and then … out of the blue, come up with new material. Still it is…
Artist: DoomVSCountry: SwedenLabel: Firedoom MusicFormats: CDYear: 2008 Since 2004 the rather strangely named project Doom:VS is Johan Ericson’s way to keep himself busy. Besides his main band, Draconian, he finds the time to get his solo project going as well. And with “Dead Words…
Artist: Godless Country: Chile Label: Blood Harvest Formats: Double 7″ Year: 2008 This band, Godless, is another great addition to the, again, evergrowing amount of bands that try to recreate the vibe of old school, evil sounding, metal. Some people…
Artist: Hooded Menace Country: Finland Label: Doomentia Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2008 It was about a year ago when I first heard from Hooded Menace through Razorback Records, one of the most important players in the market of filthy…
Artist: Bloody SignCountry: FranceLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2008 Though I always thought that these French guys of Bloody Sign weren’t the best in their genre, they still know how to get their music spread. Numerous splits and underground releases are available and are actually…
Artist: Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: Autopsy Kitchen Records / Battle Kommand Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2008 This is another one from the ‘Hell On…’-series, it is rumoured that this is the last one to be released, so, finally the…
Artist: Obituary Country: USA Label: Candlelight Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2008 Obituary’s new one is a four-track EP (not counting the video-track for ‘Evil Ways’, taken from their last album) which will most likely closes the gap between the…
Artist: God Macabre Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: LP Year: 2008 As with many other great Swedish death metal releases, “The Winterlong” by God Macabre was a bit overlooked at the time of its release and failed to get…
Artist: BloodstoneCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: LPYear: 2008 As every death metal fan from the very first days or any vinyl collector would confirm, old school Swedish death metal is be experienced on vinyl exclusively. But, unfortunately not all great albums have been issued on the…
Artist: Magnus Country: Poland Label: Blood Harvest Formats: LP Year: 2007 Sometimes you walk into something that you never heard of and surprises you in a pleasant way. This was the case when I got a package through the post…
Artist: Necrovation Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: LP / CD Year: 2008 For the true followers of the Swedish death metal scene the name of Necrovation will definitely ring a bell. The band already released a cool demo-tape, a…
Artist: Japanische Kampfhörspiele Country: Germany Label: Bastardized Recordings Formats: LP / CD Year: 2007 Though this German band has one of the least inviting band names ever, they are not as bad as their name would suggest. But, that means…
Artist: ColosseumCountry: FinlandLabel: Firedoom MusicFormats: CDYear: 2007 With Colosseum Firebox seem to have returned to their heaviest roots, and that is something that I embrace with pure joy – as far doom goes hand-in-hand with such a word. Though the…
Artist: Nunslaughter / Destructor Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2007 The old school death metallers of Nunslaugther are slowly going to end up like Japanese Unholy Grave or Sabbat and Belgian Agathocles in terms…
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…