Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Arzhaabat Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 After a demo tape, a single released on cassette and a full-length album, the prolific MBN returns with another Arzhaabat recording. This time an almost 24-minute EP that fits, at…
Artist: Therianthropophagus Country: Canada Label: Serpents Head Reprisal Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 This new Black/Death Metal band from Canada debuts with an EP that clocks just under 20 minutes, but musically leaves very little to the imagination. In the right Canadian…
Artist: Adversaire Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This new 20-minute EP follows quickly after the release of this Canadian’s previous ‘Froid’-EP. With less than two weeks between them, I assume that all tracks on both releases were written and recorded…
Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Daedric Chamber’s ‘Black Marsh Eternal’, the band’s fourth full-length album, felt like a prime example of the ‘new generation’ of contemporary (American) Black Metal. It portrayed the band,…
Artist: Amorphous Dominion Country: Thailand Label: Self-released Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 After having released a debut demo tape in 2022, the Thai Black Metal band Amorphous Dominion returns with its follow-up in the form of this self-released EP. That…
Artist: Drakorathos Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 The number of Romanian Black Metal bands is rather sparse, although most people don’t get much further than the (magnificent!) Negură Bunget we haven’t had a whole lot more…
Artist: Drape Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Only a couple of days after Drape’s debut demo ‘Under The Majestic Black Mist’ the American one-man act returns with its follow-up; the twenty minute clocking and the evocatively…
Artist: Coffins / Gravavgrav Country: Japan Label: Lycanthropic Chants Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 For the revered Japenese Death Metal band Coffins is this split 7” EP the latest chapter in a long tradition of splitting EP’s, this time…
Artist: Front Beast Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 Anyone who has been following the underground Black Metal scene in the last quarter of a century must at least once have stumbled upon Germany’s Front Beast,…
Artist: The True Werwolf / As Sahar Country: Finland / Malaysia Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Finnish Black Metal stalwart The True Werwolf started 2024 with two split 7” EP’s, a tradition that the band holds…
Artist: Ectospire Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Almost exactly a year ago I came across Ectospire’s debut demo, a tape that stuck with me a for a while because of a vital mix of both European…
Artist: Black Hurst Country: USA Label: Ixiol Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 In my review of the band’s 2023 demo tape I compared Black Hurst mainly with the occult sort of Black Metal of the likes of Varathron and…
Artist: Puteraeon Country: Sweden Label: Emanzipation Records Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Personally I have always categorized Puteraeon as one of the more interesting Swedish Death Metal bands that do no belong to the classics from the early 90’s. Don’t ask…
Artist: Viharukous Country: Finland Label: Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 After four demos, recorded in the timeframe between 2018 and 2021, this Finnish duo finally breaks a rather long silence with this latest offering, a 4-track EP (including…
Artist: Övervåld Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 I am sure you recognize it. Sometimes it feels inevitable to use Google Translate to clear something, but when you see the outcome, it makes so much sense that you…
Artist: BergsvridenCountry: SwedenLabel: Self-releasedFormat: Digital EPYear: 2023 When Trollmania formed Bergsvriden in 2013, he was soon joined by fellow Midvintersblot members Trollpung and Öltomten. Not entirely abandoning the Folk Metal sound of their other band, with Bergsvriden they aimed for…
Artist: Nuclearhammer Country: Canada Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2023 Not counting the 90-minute compilation that was released in 2018 (and reissued in 2021 and 2022 on a double cassette release and double CD respectively), ‘Xaos…
Artist: Maul Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 After having recorded a large amount of demos and (split) EP’s, the success of Maul’s debut album, ‘Seraphic Punishment’, didn’t come quite as a surprise. The bands…
Artist: Dripping Decay Country: USA Label: Satanik Royalty Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Dripping Decay’s ‘Watching You Rot’-demo from 2021 was received well by fans who like their Death Metal dirty and old school, it had…
Artist: Ignis MortisCountry: FinlandLabel: Hammer of Hate RecordsFormats: MCDYear: 2024 The origins of Ignis Mortis lie in Evil Might, a Helsinki based band formed in 2019. While it is unclear what the current status of the band is, the departure…
Artist: Dead Head Country: The Netherlands Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 If Dead Head has proven anything over their extensive career it definitely is that keeping your musical course straight can be very much…
Artist: Atomic Goatcrime Country: Ecuador Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 Atomic Goatcrime is a new one-man band from Ecuador, it presents its first effort, ‘Atomic Goat Exterminium!’ through Canadian label of all things perverted, Anti-Human Productions. Four…
Artist: Orgy Of Carrion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Commonly regarded as being one of the flag bearers of the resurgence of the Raw Black Metal scene from the second half of the 10’s, Orgy…
Artist: Lore Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released / Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Cassette Tape / 12″ EP Year: 2023 Of course, a cover with a winter scene of trees on a mountain is not very unique; ever since Ulver’s debut…
Artist: Nocturnal Terror Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 After a couple demos Brazilian Black Metal band Nocturnal Terror self-released their debut album in October of 2023 and for those who heard these first recordings know that…
Artist: Scab Hag Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 Although Scab Hag’s self-released debut EP from 2021 was reissued on cassette tape by two different labels in the months following up to its original CD release (Cemetery…
Artist: Genocidal Rites Country: USA Label: 18 Is 9 Records And Tapes Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 Last year I reviewed ‘Exsanguination Of The Gods’, a tape-only release by Genocidal Rites. It was a short but sweet EP, presented by…
Artist: Malicious Country: Finland Label: Invictus Productions Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2023 Invictus Productions always had a nose for some top notch bands operating on that wavery tipping point between Black Metal and Death Metal. In the past they have…
Artist: Wolftower Country: Finland Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 Ever since the early 20’s Finnish one-man band Wolftower have been firing away one release after the other, yet none of them ever featured on these pages. Strange…
Artist: Aberration / Diabolic Oath Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Ever since I started to get into extreme music, split 7” EP’s have intrigued me. Through many of them I discovered a lot…
Artist: Demoncy Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2023 Hot on the heals off the band’s sixth full length album, Demoncy also releases this new 12” EP (also released on cassette…
Artist: Tenebro Country: Italy Label: Xtreem Music Formats: Digital EP Year: 2023 Just five weeks after the release of the band’s second full-length album, Italian gore lords Tenebro are back with another (digital only) EP, their fourth in total. This…
Artist: Hellmoon Country: Canada Label: Forbidden Keep Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 The Canadian Black Metal musician known as Plääg (although his mother knows him as Cavan Rian Hoover) is quite a busy man, not only is he active…
Artist: Nigromancia Country: Chile Label: Black Legions Records / Rawforce Productions / Sacred Tomb Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 On the very last day of 2023 Chilean Nigromancia releases their second EP, ‘Vortex Of Existence’. It follows up the in 2021…
Artist: Mörkvind Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 ‘Hypnotiskt Vanvett Av Skogens Irrgångar’ is the the fifith release of this one-man project, it is following up on two previously released full-length albums as well as two EP’s. The…
Artist: Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2023 Not too long ago I spent a few words on the ‘Korven Muuttumaton, Erehtymätön Laki’ demo from this Finnish one-man act, which in fact marked already the third release…
Artist: Demonized Country: Mexico Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 The term “Blast From The Past” seems to be fitting to Demonized like no other. Exactly 20 years after their one and only full-length album the band…
Artist: Frostnatt Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2023 The sum of the title of this EP, ‘I Det Høye Nord’, which from Norwegian translates to ‘In The High North’, and the appetizing cover artwork gives pretty much…
Artist: Neverlight Horizon Country: Belgium Label: Self-Released Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 Once upon a time… twenty years ago, almost 21 even… there was this young, juvenile little fellow that reviewed a fine demo from a Belgian Death Metal band…
Artist: SiimesCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2023 Siimes from Joensuu, Finland, is not your typical Finnish Black Metal band. At least not in terms of musical formula. Rather than basing their style on influential compatriots such as Beherit, Satanic Warmaster,…
Artist: Wampyric Rites Country: Ecuador Label: Signal Rex Formats: 12” EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2023 Although the band was only formed in 2019, Ecuadorian Wampyric Rites is one of the most eye-catching bands from the thriving…
Artist: Shithammered Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2023 Despite the fact that the Chris Moyen-like black/red-with-goat cover might make you expect a serving of Ross Bay Cult Bestial Black/Death Metal, the music of this American duo is…
Artist: Black Edifice Country: Norway Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 When I first read the name of this new Norwegian band, my thoughts immediately went to Dream Death, this American cult band has a song of…
Artist: Deathwinds Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2023 No less than nine years after the band’s last release, Deathwinds returns with a new EP, ‘Ripping Annihilation’. And yes, they have chosen this title very appropriately, this Canadian…
Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 Hot on the heels on the in August released two EP’s, Australia’s most prolific Black Metal band, Drowning The Light, returns with a yet another…
Artist: Wolves In The Throne Room Country: USA Label: Relapse Records / Century Media Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2023 As with many bands that are dealt with a certain hype in their careers this phenomenon comes with…
Artist: ÜbelkeitCountry: ChileLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2023 A German word for a band name that translates to Nausea: you are forgiven if you didn’t guess that the entity behind the name Übelkeit hails from Chile and plays dissonant Black Metal. …
Artist: Tenebro Country: Italy Label: Seven Metal Inches Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2023 To celebrate the band’s first ever live appearance on this year’s edition of the NRW Deathfest in Germany, Tenebro joined forces (again) with Seven Metal Inches…
Artist: Rapid Country: Finland Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2023 Finnish Speed Metal combo Rapid came to my attention through their 2017 released 7” single (Svart Records) that my partner in…
Artist: Necrogore Country: Italy Label: Wrong Disk Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 Necrogore from Italy is a new band on the block of its country’s Death Metal scene, but while the band might be a new acquisition to the…