Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Fides InversaCountry: ItalyLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 It’s been rather quiet around Fides Inversa, but in late November 2024 the band made their return to the stages, performing at the Unholy Congregation festival in Belgium. To mark that resurfacing,…
Artist: IzrodCountry: Bosnia and HerzegovinaLabel: Signal RexFormats: 12” EP / CD EPYear: 2025 In 2023 Izrod, the latest assembly of gifted Black Metal musicians from the Bosnian Black Plague Circle, presented their debut album ‘Sarajevski Odisej’. In reality, that first recording was born from…
Artist: Nubivagant / Häxenzijrkell Country: Italy / Germany Label: Amor Fati Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 After having embarked on a tour together, this split 7” EP is meant to further strengthen the musical bond between both Nubivagant…
Artist: Mercenario Country: USA Label: Atolinga Records / Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 In a conversation about the recent split up of Morbosidad, my interlocutor reported that Tomas Stench of that band had already got…
Artist: Xulux Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 A few months after the split with Kurjuus, Xulux returns with a new EP and further develops its brand of Finnish Black Metal. The band’s first EP was released…
Artist: Mortem Agmen Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 From the band’s very first step, the ‘Where Life Ends Forever’-demo from April 2023 the German Black Metal band Mortem Agmen has been able to capture my attention.…
Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Before briefly calling it a day, the enigmatic Kiloton released this 20-minute EP, quickly followed by the project’s first and so far only full-length album. While Kiloton has proved…
Artist: Unblessing Country: USA Label: Hooded Demon Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With three demos under its belt from 2017, 2020 and 2022, of which all three saw a reissue via Poland’s Unpure Records, it took Unblessing a few…
Artist: Vampyreign Country: USA Label: Red River Family Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Although ‘Throne Of Sanguine Eclipse’ is said to be already recorded back in 2019, it only saw the dark of night in the dying days of…
Artist: Shadowdances Country: Lithuania Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Life can hit you right in the face in the most wonderful ways at unexpected moments. For me, in these times of war and general polarization, or just…
Artist: Ancient Torment Country: USA Label: Old Pain Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although this freshly released new EP was preceded by an EP, a demo, a split cassette and a compilation tape, the band never really caught enough attention…
Artist: Sabbat / Gruesome Country: Japan / USA Label: Doomentia Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 To add extra lustre to last summer’s European tour, a split 7” EP between Sabbat and Gruesome was released by Doomentia Records. The…
Artist: Razör Forge Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 Although this sort of music is not featured on these pages, it doesn’t mean that we are not fond of a good portion of rough Heavy Metal.…
Artist: Nameless Tomb / Witchcraft Country: Germany / Finland Label: Escafismo Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2023 Virtually simultaneously with the split 7” EP with Behalf Fiend there is also this Witchcraft split 7” EP with Nameless Tomb from…
Artist: Witchcraft / Behalf Fiend Country: Finland / Brazil Label: Brazilian Ritual Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2023 Although I more or less abide by an unwritten rule that keeps me from reviewing releases older than, say, six months,…
Artist: Necromantical Invocation Country: Greece Label: Zombi Danz Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 The ‘Dogme Et Rituel De La Haute Magie’-demo by Necromantical Invocation, originally released in 2021, can definitely be considered a resounding triumph. Not only because it…
Artist: Putridarium / Trollcave Country: Germany / Spain Label: Seven Metal Inches Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 ‘Swallowed By Rottenness’ brings together two of today’s emerging death metal acts. Both Putridarium from Germany and Spanish Trollcave have been…
Artist: Opus Magorum Country: Greece Label: Zombi Danz Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 In a review for a vinyl reissue of an older Opus Magorum demo I already cited that with only releasing demos in rather small quantities the…
Artist: Perfidious Country: Malaysia Label: Zombi Danz Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 The cover artwork alone of this 45RPM 7’ EP released by Zombi Danz Records is already worth a look for those who like Southeast Asian Black/Death Metal.…
Artist: Necroferum Country: Costa Rica Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 While Nuclear Winter Records always stood for impeccable releases of outstanding Death Metal bands, the Greek label particularly seemed to…
Artist: Orkblut / Hertogenwald Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Out of the October 2024 batch of releases of the respected Medieval Prophecy Records, also comes this nice little piece of black wax that…
Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 On the band’s previously released two demos and full-length albums Warslaughter already showed what they were made of. The Spaniards follow much of the country’s tradition in unrelenting…
Artist: Cadaveric Messiah Country: Colombia Label: BlackSeed Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 Formed by two individuals who share a common background in Funeral Vomit , Cadaveric Messiah releases a 15-minute debut EP. Although on first hearing Funeral Vomit and…
Artist: ValkonkantajaCountry: FinlandLabel: Signal Rex / Self-releasedFormats: Cassette EP / CD-R EPYear: 2024 In less than 12 minutes Valonkantaja introduces themselves to the world in the shape of their very first release. On this EP, released on CD-R by the…
Artist: Bastard Priest Country: Sweden Label: D-Takt & Råpunk Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 During the resurgence of Old School-styled Death Metal in the late 00’s, Bastard Priest was a breath of fresh air. Most bands based their sound…
Artist: Morbific Country: Finland Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 After ‘Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm’ an album that seems to share a similar fate as Immolation’s ‘Failures For Gods’, Finland’s Morbific seems to be right back…
Artist: Satanicristo Country: Brazil Label: Sex Desire Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 It’s not exactly every day you see a new release from a new band featuring ex-members of acts like Sarcófago, Mutilator and Holocausto drop by. But that…
Artist: Carnal Tomb Country: Germany Label: Seven Metal Inches Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 Of course, with a cover like this, it is not too difficult to imagine what awaits you on this new 7’ EP from Germany’s Carnal…
Artist: Abysmal Desecration Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With ‘Total Extinction Of Humanity’, this new Argentine band lays their first feat on the table. And if the band name combined with the black, white and red…
Artist: Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With Hämärä’s steady working pace you know you have to be on your qui vive, a new Kurjuus release (or that of a related project) is always lurking. And…
Artist: Kudlaakh Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: CDr EP Year: 2024 In the great hoopla of Raw and/or Lo-Fi Black Metal bands and releases from around the second half of the 10s, Kudlaakh fell a bit outside the box.…
Artist: Temple Of The Beast Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Admittedly, I have missed the self-titled demo that Temple Of The Beast had released two years ago, but in my own…
Artist: Goat Semen Country: Peru Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 When it comes to Latin American Extreme Metal there are obviously a lot of bands that laid down the foundations…
Artist: Bloodsoaked Visions / Strigoic Curse Country: United Kingdom / Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split EP Year: 2024 This digitally released split EP combines the music of two one-man bands, both of which have featured on these pages before.…
Artist: Funeral Vomit Country: Colombia Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Before the Xtreem Music-released ‘Monumental Putrescence’ from late December last year, the Colombians of Funeral Vomit released a demo, two splits and a self-titled…
Artist: Cachot d’Effroi / Wolftower Country: France / Finland Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2024 On this Narbentage Produktionen released split tape two of the most interesting bands out of today’s European Black Metal scene team up…
Artist: MergellandCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Merg & Been / Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 Before Wurgilnõ there was Mergelland. Consanguineus’ musical dedication to the region of Limburg started in 2020 and resulted in an EP and a single. Work started on…
Artist: Svrm Country: Ukraine Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 As stated in a previous Svrm review, I wouldn’t claim that I have heard the entire back catalogue of this Ukrainian band. But it was clear to me that…
Artist: Prehistoric War Cult / Dolchstoß Country: Germany Label: AbArt Corruption / Fucking Kill Records Formats: Split 7″ EP / Split Cassette EP Year: 2024 Although the title of this split might suggest that we are having a Manowar tribute…
Artist: Necromoon Country: Poland Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Following on from the recently released ‘War With Tyranny’ album, Canadian Anti-Human Productions not only releases a split tape with Tarokulith but also this new EP. Six new…
Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Rather shortly after the release of Rotten Tomb’s most recent full-length, the excellent ‘The Relief Of Death’, there is more to enjoy in…
Artist: Sequestrum / Sněť Country: Denmark / Czechia Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Noxious Ruin Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Arriving late to a party might be fashionable, it has its downsides too. Like arriving late to the party that the…
Artist: Acid Mass Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Yes, I have said it before and I will probably mention it again in the future: the advantage of having a one-man band is that you can crank…
Artist: Deteriorot / Rotpit Country: USA / Germany/Sweden Label: Seven Inches Of Metal Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 With the aptly titled ‘We Rot’ Seven Metal Inches Records presents a new 7” that brings together the long-running Deteriorot…
Artist: Slvogh Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 From the ever thriving Danish Death Metal/Grindcore scene comes this new entity called Slovgh. A band that was more or less conceived out of…
Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Down With The Most High Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Prior this new EP Opositor already released about a handful of releases, including a full-length album, all varying greatly in sound quality, but if one…
Artist: Desekryptor Country: USA Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 No, this is not new material from USA’s Desekryptor. Instead this is the vinyl and CD reissue of their Caligari-released EP that surfaced during…
Artist: Impiety Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 While the Singaporean Impiety by far is more well-known than this one from the USA, their musical background is not all that different. Okay,…
Artist: Penis Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This is the day we have all been waiting for. The day that there would finally be a band that would call themselves Penis. Hallelujah! Well, okay, the band…
Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of this project’s debut full-length, not even released a month ago, the ever restless Todorac returns with a new Smyrtonos recording. This time a new…