Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Rotten Moon Country: Finland Label: Ancien Culte Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 2022’s ‘The Endless Church’ demo by Finnish one-man Black Metal band intrigued me quite a bit, the Lo-Fi production and the rough-edged guitars matched perfectly with the…
Artist: Cursed Penetrator Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Early this year I reviewed Cursed Penetrator’s first digital demo, a solid and entertaining exercise of primal and rotten First Wave Black Metal, pretty much in the vein of early…
Artist: Order Of Nosferat Country: Finland / Germany Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 In good Order Of Nosferat tradition, 2024 also brings us two full-length albums, albeit narrowly. ‘The Absence Of Grace’…
Artist: Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst Formats: CD Year: 2024 In between 2021’s ‘Sinister’ and ‘Earth Penetration’, released in 2022, the prolific one-man unit Hail Conjurer released two demo tapes with the titles ‘Anti-Dualist’ and ‘Lunar Action’. Both…
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,…
Anyone who has ever put an ear to the Finnish buddies of Concrete Winds knows that things are not done in a gentle way. The latest, untitled album is no exception: the duo smashes everything they come across. I spoke…
Artist: Vitriolic Country: Finland Label: Dying Victims Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Never judge a book by its cover. This wise statement is always good to keep in mind when browsing through the…
Artist: Geatkihaukr / Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 This split tape brings together two of Finland’s finest when it comes to crude-sounding Black Metal, both marching under the flag of River Valley Cult.…
Artist: FörgjordCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 At the same time as the new album, ‘Perkeleen Weri’, we are served with a piece of Förgjord’s more distant past. Formed in 1995, the band existed under the monikers Brightness of Darkness,…
Artist: FörgjordCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 After a relatively slow start to their career, at least release wise, Förgjord really picked up the pace around 2017. With their 5th full-length in around 7 years, the band definitely is on a…
Artist: Ritus De CruorCountry: FinlandLabel: Altare ProductionsFormats: CD EPYear: 2024 With the release of ‘Vainajain Kammarissa’ we have arrived at the fourth release of Ritus De Cruor, following a demo, an EP and a split with Käärmekristus. On this latest…
Artist: Funerealm Gloom Country: Finland Label: Down With The Most High / Medieval Prophecy Records / Unpure Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After the great and compelling ‘Serpentcraft’ demo tape from 2020, the duo of…
Artist: KinahmiCountry: FinlandLabel: Death MonumentFormats: Cassette tape / CD-RYear: 2024 Unpolished, twisted and atonal. Just a few words to describe the music of the Finnish band Kinahmi. The raw Black Metal that is presented on the debut ‘Birth of the…
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: True Black Dawn Country: Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Taking a look at the current, former and live musicians who are or have been involved with True Black Dawn actually reads like a kind…
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: The Mist From The Mountains Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The Mist From The Mountains’ current line-up includes members of bands such as Diablerie and Black Beast, but during the…
Artist: StutyrCountry: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2024 Stutyr’s previous EP ‘Missä Yö Teidät Kohtaa’ was an interesting slab of music, blending the melody of the Swedish Black Metal scene from the 90’s with a whiff of…
Artist: Nocturnal Sorcery Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2024 Not long after the release of the band’s second album, Nocturnal Sorcery, in conspiracy with Out Of The Dungeon, releases this compilation. ‘War In Heaven, Hell…
Artist: Nocturnal Sorcery Country: Finland Label: Kvlt Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Ay, again I’m arriving a bit late to the party here. But since ‘Captive In The Breath Of Life’ is such a great record, I still decided…
Artist: Dead Flesh StigmaCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 Dead Flesh Stigma is the newest vessel in which v-Khaoz enacts his desire to bring back the glory days of 90’s Black Metal. With Vargrav he was at the forefront of…
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: Ruttokosmos Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Ruttokosmos might well be one of the most obscure acts from the deepest forests of the Finnish Black Metal scene. Although never officially disbanded, after only having…
Artist: AethyrickCountry: FinlandLabel: End All Life ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 After a collaboration giving rise to four full-length albums, a compilation and two EPs, the union of Aethyrick and The Sinister Flame is no more. As the fire of…
Artist: DeimhalCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Last year we saw the appearance of Deimhal on the symphonic Black Metal stage, launching into the scene with their EP ‘The Grand Gathering’. Featuring multiple members of the band Catamenia, the first…
Artist: HornaCountry: FinlandLabel: W.T.C. ProductionsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 At the end of the 18th century, the German romantic poet Novalis (born Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg) finished his poem ‘Hymnen an Die Nacht’. Inspired by the…
Artist: Obscure Anachronism / Horna Country: Austria / Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 Horna, undoubtedly one the ultimate stalwarts of Finnish Black Metal, is not quite a stranger to the concept of split releases. I quickly…
Artist: Sokeus Country: Finland Label: Breath Of Pestilence Formats: CD Year: 2024 With the previous demo ‘Immortal Wisdom’, this Finnish band already showed some fascination for ancient beliefs, philosophy and sages. Those themes are embodied again on ‘Ekpyrosis’, the band’s…
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: Concrete Winds Country: Finland Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After Vorum was laid to rest in 2018, drummer Mikko Josefsson and guitarist/vocalist Jonatan Johansson must have looked at each other and…
Artist: KerkerengelCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 With Kerkerengel we witness the birth of another band led by Lord Vrăjitor, the mastermind behind the likes of Warmoon Lord, Old Sorcery and Argenthorns. But while epic and symphonic elements form parts…
Artist: TaivalCountry: FinlandLabel: Wolfspell RecordsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 ‘Journey to Beyond’ is the debut album of Taival, which saw its release in the early months of the year courtesy of the respected Wolfspell Records. The album is adorned…
Artist: Absolute Key & Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 It is not the first time that the creative Finnish Black Metal extraordinaire Hail Conjurer and the mind-boggling dark noise metal scoundscapist Absolute Key join…
Artist: Torturium Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 The first half of the 00’s were definitely Arttu “War Torech” Pulkkinen’s most prolific years, not only did he record the guitars on an impressive part of Satanic Warmaster’s back…
Artist: Demonic TormentCountry: FinlandLabel: Unpure RecordsFormat: Demo tapeYear: 2024 After playing together in Krusifoitu, Human Animal, Arcanos (here under the pseudonym of Black Nuclear Hellstorm) and Vomit Deprivator thought it was time to combine their powers in a different vessel…
Artist: Clactonian Country: Finland / Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Forged out of the dark visions of a few like-minded folks from both Finland and Italy comes Clactonian. A band that took their name from an old…
Artist: Sepulchral Curse / Ashen Tomb Country: Finland Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 ‘Ashen Curse’ is a part of four 7” EP’s released by the Polish Godz Ov War Productions label and combines two…
Artist: MoonstruckCountry: FinlandLabel: Signal RexFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2024 As if delivering one of the best Finnish Black Metal records of 2024 wasn’t enough, Kratti vocalist Haarniska returns once more in the entity Moonstruck. A different band in which the stage…
Artist: ElementalCountry: FinlandLabel: Final Agony RecordsFormats: 12″ LPYear: 2024 If you though that Kêres plays bareboned and primitive Black Metal, let me introduce Elemental to you. Atvar, the main man behind not only Kêres but also Circle of Ouroborus, Rahu…
Artist: Hellgate Necrosodomy Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Just add it all up: the band name, the Finnish origin, the album’s artwork and the fact that this record is released by Unpure Records… For the seasoned…
Artist: Alkemisti Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 ‘Ajan Ja Tilan Rajamailla’ is the debut recording for a this new Finnish Black Metal band. Loosely translated, the title in Finnish means something like “At The Frontiers Of…
Artist: NightsideCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Last year Nightside returned with the demo ‘Lions’, their first release in 22 years. A glorious return, as the Finnish Black Metal outfit combined an excellent sense of fast-paced Swedish…
Artist: IätönCountry: FinlandLabel: Korpituli ProductionsFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2024 Following the release of their first demo ‘Loitsutulet’ I lauded the Finns in Iätön for delivering harsh and haunting Black Metal in the vein of Barathrum and Korgonthurus mixed with a dash of…
Artist: Witchflame Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: CD Year: 2023 Being released on the 12th of December of 2023, ‘Omen’, the debut album of Finnish Black Metal band Witchflame is not quite the latest of releases from the Werewolf…
Artist: Night Shall Drape UsCountry: FinlandLabel: Season of Mist Underground ActivistsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Night Shall Drape Us certainly managed to garner some interest as soon as the project was announced. Combining artists known for their work in Horna,…
Overall, when you talk about Finnish Black Metal, you are always in for a surprise. It can be as regressive as Azazel or Barathrum, but also as progressive as …And Oceans or genre-defining as Beherit or Horna. But then you…
Artist: Draugnim Country: Finland Label: Naturmacht Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 It was a long wait. Draugnim needed no less than eight years to come up with this fourth full-length album and follow-up of the…
Artist: Xulux / Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Split Cassette Tape / Split CD Year: 2024 Not only do both bands on this split hail from the same Finnish town of Jyväskylä, they are also both one-man bands venturing…
Artist: Regere Sinister Country: Finland Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Regere Sinister, a band comprised of a duo who are also together in Ride For Revenge and Horse Latitudes and further have experience in such bands…