Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As a fan of Veitsi’s take on the Black Metal genre, I never have to wait too long before there’s new material to wrap my ears around. ‘Fenno-Ugrilainen Yliherruus’, the band’s last…
Artist: Krucifixion Woods Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 While Veitsi has enough punk vibes going on, I think Krucifixion Woods, one of the other bands of M.K., has a way stronger punk connotation. Honestly,…
Artist: Kêres Country: Finland Label: His Wounds Formats: LP Year: 2025 While Kêres amassed an impressive number of demos in the earliest years of its existence, the last few years main man Atvar has been churning out a respectable number…
Artist: Clandestine Blaze Country: Finland Label: Northern Heritage Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Despite the band’s rather modest start with a couple of bit too standard releases, Clandestine Blaze’s rise to underground fame started with 2002’s ‘Fist Of The…
Artist: Flail Country: Finland Label: Gramschap Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Despite that the band has existed since 2018, the Finnish Flail was unknown to me up til very recently. With members that are part of Kiira, Celestial Grave…
Artist: Geatkihaukr Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 Although the band already released two demo tapes and a 7” EP through Out Of The Dungeon in 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively, I only ran into…
Artist: Blisterous Country: Finland Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Grotesque Prosection’ is the debut EP from a new Finnish band that was released on cassette tape, CD and as a nice…
Artist: Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid Country: Finland / USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Split 7” EP’s are basically seen in every style of extreme music, but with their roots in Punk and Hardcore it…
Artist: Gorewinter Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Gorewinter is one of those bands that have been mentioned only once in a while in discussions about the early sparks that ignited the Finnish Black Metal revolution. As long…
Artist: White Rune Country: Finland Label: Hammer Of Hate Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With another gorgeous cover, it is hard to miss there’s a new White Rune album out. And in the current musical constellation that seems…
Artist: Mausoleum Gate Country: Finland Label: Cruz Del Sur Music Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Ever since Mausoleum Gate introduced themselves into the scene, they have made an impact. At first, it wasn’t even so much their music, but…
Artist: Kalmankantaja Country: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 While the band has been active on other fronts, 2025 in comparison seems like a rather modest year for Kalmankantaja in terms of new albums. Only two albums were…
Artist: Matru-Zebu Country: Finland Label: Ancien Culte Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 To say that the Matru-Zebu demo released earlier this year impressed me is a gross understatement. The mash-up of first wave, Hellenic and Finnish Black Metal from the…
Artist: Dark Divination Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Earlier in 2025 Dark Divination made their first appearance on Signal Rex with the release of the ‘Unforgotten’. With that EP, the band consisting of sole…
Artist: Hautaveri Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although it is yet unclear who’s behind this new solo-project, but it is highly unlikely that Hautaveri is this musician’s first attempt of making music. It might not be the…
Artist: White Baroness Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 What do you get when members of Morgal, Sigon and Devil Moon get together in the same room? No doubt a deranged Heavy…
Artist: Cursed Penetrator Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Format: CD Year: 2025 After two demos, of which the first one was reissued as part of a split CD with Black Offal Messiah, ‘Invocation’ marks the band’s further deepening of the…
Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After the ‘Perikato’-full length album that was released on the second day of this year, one-man band Veitsi is back with a new recording in the form of a demo tape.…
Artist: Victimarum Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Iätön, Kratti, Moonstruck, Valonkantaja, Kerzenlicht, Dark Divination, Devil Moon. The contingent of Finnish Black Metal bands on Signal Rex is rapidly expanding. And that’s a good thing,…
Artist: Deathfuckingwound Country: Finland Label: Iron Corpse Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Void MMXXV’ is the debut demo from a Finnish duo that got together somewhere earlier this year, but seemingly they didn’t need much time to wrap their first…
Artist: Ritualhammer Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Ritualhammer is the result of a musical collision coming from a couple of Finnish musicians with past and present experience in such bands as Wömit Angel, Nachtgnawer,…
Artist: Sexlucifer Country: Finland Label: Kymijoen Levyt Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Ah, yes. You can leave it up to the Finnish to come up with some utterly deranged shit. Take this new band called Sexlucifer for instance, the combination of…
Artist: Black Cum Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Usually, when Unpure Records hits the market with a new release, you know you have to fasten your seatbelts. Not necessarily because of the speedy music of their…
Artist: Insane Apollyon Country: Finland Label: Final Agony Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Not too long ago I spent a few words on a vinyl compilation from unreleased early tracks from Sacellum Luciferi, a rather obscure Black Metal band from…
Artist: Sargeist Country: Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Format: CD Year: 2025 Yes, we are late to the party. After all, the latest Sargeist record was already released at the end of May of this year. Obviously, this wasn’t a record…
Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Year: 2025 After two demos, Dark Divinator feels it’s time to take his project Remains of Ash to the next level. With ‘Ikuisuuden Keskellä’, which translates to something as ‘In…
Artist: Sacellum Luciferi Country: Finland Label: Satanik Requiem / Vermines Pestifera Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Finland is home to a great treasure trove of ridiculously obscure Black Metal. The true connoisseur of underground Black Metal is always served…
Artist: Silent Millenia Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 If you came here because the artwork of ‘Celestial Twilight (Beyond the Scarlet Veil)’ reminded you of Odium and Limbonic Art, then I’m happy to tell you: you’ve come…
Artist: Venus Star Country: Finland Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Earlier this year Terratur Possessions released ‘Smokeless Fire’, Venus Star’s sixth album, presented in an attractively designed cover. An album that ends a five-year silence of…
Artist: Sarastus Country: Finland Label: Dominance of Darkness Records Format: LP / CD Year: 2025 Five years have passed since the last release by Finland’s Sarastus, even six if you count the time since the last full-length. Time that did…
Artist: Mystic Blood Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 Dark Divinator and Haarniska seem overflowing with ideas. Mystic Blood is their latest cooperation, after also featuring together in the excellent Kerzenlicht alongside their other…
Artist: Mooncitadel Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 Finland’s Mooncitadel has continued to impress me, from their earliest beginnings as Watcher’s Abyss and Empire of Tharaphita to their first recordings with Mooncitadel, and their most…
Artist: …and Oceans Country: Finland Label: Season of Mist Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 When I first ran into …and Oceans, sometime around the turn of the millennium, I was completely blown away with the band’s debut album, ‘Dynamic…
Artist: Spellgate Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 From Finland hails the entity of Spellgate, a rather mysterious band of which we know that E.P. runs the entire show and that their debut eponymous album has just been…
Artist: Moonfall Country: Finland Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After a split LP with Regere Sinister and two demo tapes released prior, with the first one dating back to 2010, this obscure Finnish act finally comes out with their…
Artist: Moon Oracle Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst Formats: CD Year: 2025 With only a few years behind them as a band, the trio that forms Moon Oracle is not only a seasoned company with precious experience in bands such…
Artist: Uhritulet Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 Blame it on old age, or perhaps I simply prophetised this in my review of the Uhritulet debut album. But the observation that ‘Uhritulet’ didn’t manage to stand out…
Arist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 Together with the rehearsal demo ‘Shaitan’, Wolfkult Religion re-released the Witchcraft rehearsal demo ‘Belphegor’ in June 2025. Also stemming from 2024, this rehearsal is a little different than…
Arist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 ‘Shaitan’ is one of two rehearsal tapes of the Finnish maniacs of Witchcraft that were recently re-released by Wolfkult Religion. With both rehearsals originally appearing in 2024, this…
Artist: Azazel Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: CD Year: 2025 33 years and still going, Azazel returns with their latest full-length ‘Ave Dominus Luciferi’. Released on, how could it be any differently, the 6th day of the 6th month…
Artist: As Serenity Fades / August Moon Country: Finland Label: Personal Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Almost fifteen years ago, in 2011 all the collected work of Finnish gloomy Death Metallers As Serenity Fades was already immortalized on one of those glorious reissues that…
Artist: Azzagrat Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Again, completely out of the blue there’s another new Finnish Black Metal band. The duo behind Azzagrat for now remains anonymous, but felt confident enough to go straight for the…
Artist: Vrëdehexen Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 From Tampere, Finland hails the duo of Vrëdehexen who in April of this year, the band released their debut demo, ‘Omen of Evil’. And even though it clocks in…
With ‘Demon Steel,’ Finnish Urn delivers its sixth album, for which Season Of Mist was exchanged for the also French Osmose Productions. Prior to this, most of the older albums were re-released by Osmose Productions as well as a compilation…
Artist: Urn Country: Finland Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 One of the bands relentlessly kept in the dark shadows of the Finnish Extreme Metal underground is definitely Urn. A combination of wrong choices,…
Artist: Warloghe Country: Finland Label: Northern Heritage Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Despite its release in 2021, the preceding Warloghe album ‘Three Angled Void’ was originally written between 2003 and 2007. Much closer to the recordings of the band’s first…
Artist: Combat Shrine Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 The all-knowing Metal-Archives filed Combat Shrine under “Grindcore”. Although that is not entirely out of touch with reality, you’re doing this Finnish band short quite a bit. And…
Artist: Iätön Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After two highly enjoyable demos released on Altare Productions and Korpituli Records respectively, it is now time for the debut of Finnish Black Metalers Iätön. For that…
Artist: Warmoon Lord Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 While debut album ‘Burning Banners of the Funereal War’ certainly gained some traction in the underground, it was arguably their sophomore record ‘Battlespells’…
Artist: Matru-zebu Country: Finland Label: Ancien Culte Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 Ancien Culte presents the debut demo tape of Matru-Zebu, what appears to be a new band from Finland. Spawned in the illustrious Elemental Cavern in Finland, the entities…