Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst / Signal Rex Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 In case you have never heard of this illustrious one-man Black Metal act from Finland, in spite of the band’s…
Artist: White RuneCountry: FinlandLabel: Hammer Of Hate RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2022 At the same time as the release of White Rune’s debut album, Hammer Of Hate also releases this compilation containing both demo tapes from 2021 (both originally released by Cycle…
Artist: White RuneCountry: FinlandLabel: Hammer Of Hate RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2022 From the ever impressive Finnish Black Metal scene comes this new band, formed in 2021. With two demos under their belt, their first full-length album has now been released via…
Artist: VultyriumCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2022 The first chance for the greater audience to be exposed to the sound of Finland’s Vultyrium was with the release of their 2020 split album with the fellow countrymen of Warmoon Lord. A…
Artist: MorgalCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 One of the interesting aspects of reviewing albums is diving into the musical history of a band, going back to the earliest material, and comparing how a band…
Artist: AzazelCountry: FinlandLabel: Primitive ReactionFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 When you list the originators of the Finnish Black Metal scene, names like Beherit, Impaled Nazarene, Archgoat and Barathrum are inevitable. You would almost forget Azazel was right…
Artist: Olio Tähtien TakanaCountry: FinlandLabel: Avantgarde MusicFormats: LP / CDYear: 2021 The first band that people are most likely to recognize from the list of acts that v-KhaoZ features in is Vargrav, whose stellar debut `Netherstorm’ caused quite a stir upon release (not in the…
Artist: Norfulthing Country: Finland Label: Frozen Screams Imprint Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2022 Helsinki based Death Metal band Norfulthing released two digital single tracks before this same-titled full demo, of which the revenues are donated to a charity that focusses…
Artist: ArchgoatCountry: FinlandLabel: Debemur Morti ProductionsFormats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2022 In the review of `Worship the Eternal Darkness’ I mentioned how Archgoat sounds recognisable yet they have added slight touches to their sound over time.…
Artist: ArchgoatCountry: FinlandLabel: Debemur Morti Productions / InCoffin ProductionsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 Amidst a changing Black Metal landscape, there is one constant: Archgoat will always sound like Archgoat. They will play their brand of primitive Black…
Artist: Satanic WarmasterCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CD singleYear: 2022 Since Satanic Warmaster’s formation, now almost a quarter of a century ago, the band has been one of the leading Black Metal acts from Finland. With each new album, Werwolf, for…
Artist: Torture KillerCountry: FinlandLabel: The Other RecordsFormats: 12″ EP / CD EPYear: 2022 The Finnish counterpart of Six Feet Under strikes back, this time with a 3-track EP released on both CD and 12″ vinyl (with the same tracks on…
Artist: Serpent Noir / SargeistCountry: Greece / FinlandLabel: W.T.C. ProductionsFormats: Split LP / Split CDYear: 2022 While split releases can be stellar, they often lack a sense of coherence when two bands just do their thing on their respective sides…
Artist: Graveland / Commander Agares Country: Poland / Finland Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Split LP / Split cassette / Split CD Year: 2022 About a year after Graveland’s latest opus, ‘Hour of Ragnarok’ (Inferna Profundus Records, 2021) they return…
Artist: Wömit AngelCountry: FinlandLabel: Godz Ov War ProductionsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With ‘Sadopunk Finland’, the Finnish (d’oh) Wömit Angel, which was formed in 2010, already delivers their fifth album. So although the band already has a reasonable track…
Artist: CorpsessedCountry: FinlandLabel: Dark Descent RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With Death Metal bands like Abhorrence, Amorphis, Demilich, Demigod, Purtenance, Funebre and Convulse the Finns do have quite a legacy, but around the turn of 2010 a…
Artist: SarvekasCountry: FinlandLabel: Soulseller RecordsFormats: 12″ EP / CD EPYear: 2020 AA and JL formed Sarvekas in late 2018 and at the dusk of 2020 their first EP release ‘Of Atavistic Fury and Visions’ saw the light through the Dutch…
Artist: AdramelechCountry: FinlandLabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: 10″ EPYear: 2020 Finnish Death Metal, or ‘Finndeath’ as they like to call it, always had something special compared to bands from other countries who had a lively Death Metal scene. They often had a…
Artist: Deathspell OmegaCountry: SwedenLabel: Norma Evangelium DiaboliFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 You can safely say that Deathspell Omega is one of the most prolific bands in the current Black Metal scene. Initially releasing more standard, but very good, Black Metal…
Artist: Shape Of Despair Country: Finland Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Originally formed in 1995 (then under the name of Raven), Shape Of Despair is one of the longest running Funeral Doom bands. Debuting in…
Artist: Moonlight Sorcery Country: Finland Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2022 At some point in the history of Black Metal it was something that was laughed at exclusively: melodic Black Metal, or symphonic Black Metal…
Artist: Jumalhämärä Country: Finland Label: Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions Formats: CD Year: 2010 ‘Progression’ is a dirty word in combination with black metal. Bands like Satyricon have already struggled (unsuccessfully) with it. The art lies in combining primitive aesthetics and innovative…
Artist: Armour Country: Finland Label: Anger Of Metal / Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2008 Together with Anger Of Metal the German advocate for real metal Iron Bonehead Productions comes with a very noble looking gatefold 7” EP…
Artist: Kivimetsan Druidi Country: Finland Label: Century Media Formats: CD Year: 2008 In every scene that gets more popular by the day the record labels tend to sign every fart recorded that might sell. We saw that happening over two…
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: The Puritan Country: Finland Label: I Hate Records Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2008 This Finnish band was quickly started after the folding of one of doom’s greatest, Reverend Bizarre. Albert Witchfinder, here under his own name, brought back his…
Artist: Jumalhämärä Country: Finland Label: Hammer Of Hate Records Formats: LP / CD EP Year: 2007 This band with its unpronounceable name (for non-Finnish people though) from Finland has been moving through the underground pretty much unnoticed. Which is actually…
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: AzaghalCountry: FinlandLabel: Avantgarde MusicFormats: CDYear: 2022 Finnish black metal kings of releases Azaghal return with their sixth album in just over ten years “Luciferin Valo” (which is something like their 22nd release in total). It might be clear that…
Artist: Fall Of The Idols Country: Finland Label: I Hate Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Everyone who saw Fall Of The Idols live on their short tour with Centurions Ghost last April will certainly remember the apathetic and rather schizophrenic…
Artist: Karelian Warcry Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2005 Somewhere last year I already reviewed the first demo of the Finnish band Karelian Warcry. A demo that managed to impress me by the quality of the songs because…
Some days ago I got this demo from a Finnish band called Karelian Warcry, I was really surprised by the quality of the band. Some kind of great mixture of raw black metal mingled with folk music, this led to…
Artist: Karelian Warcry Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo CDr Year: 2004 The northern countries are still a huge breeding place for metal bands, and Finland is getting more and more known with its quality metal bands. This Karelian Warcry…
Artist: Agathocles / Godstomper Country: Belgium / USA Label: Haunted Hotel Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2004 And? Yet another swap of new Agathocles releases have been spawned. This time it is a split EP with Finish punk hardcore…
Artist: Sargeist Country: Finland Label: Moribund Records Formats: CD Year: 2003 How, in Satan’s name, is it possible that I am able to fully enjoy this pure blasphemic black art in this incredible ongoing heat wave? Outside it’s about 34…