Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Black Offal Messiah / Burning Winds Country: USA Label: Sexmord Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 This split 7” EP is actually not really new. In fact, about a year old now, but it took me quite some…
Artist: Nortt Country: Denmark Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although ‘Endeligt’ is not commonly seen as Nortt’s best or most compelling album, yet for me this 2017-released piece of work was monumental. For…
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…
Whatever label you want to file this band under, ever since their formation during the turn of the millennium, Pantheist has kept Doom Metal aficionados spellbound. In that quarter-century of darkness, the band surrounding founder and vocalist/keyboardist Kostas Panagiotou released…
Artist: Mournful Congregation Country: Australia Label: Osmose Productions / 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 We live in a time where everything happens so fast, where all contacts seem fleeting and there seems to…
Artist: Khazad-Dûm Country: United Kingdom Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP Year: 2022 Deep down under the Misty Mountains lies an ancient kingdom of the dwarfs of Durin’s Folk, that kingdom is also known as Moria or Khazad-Dûm. That hidden and…
Artist: Skepticism Country: Finland Label: Svart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2021 One of the longest running extreme Doom Metal bands definitely is Skepticism. Together with their Finnish compatriots and peers of Thergothon, Skepticism singlehandedly helped shape the Funeral…
Artist: Stabat Mater Country: Finland Label: Northern Heritage Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2021 One of the leading and most prolific figures of the Finnish underground extreme metal scene is definitely Mikko Aspa. With his anti-Semitic views and expressions,…
Artist: ExhumationCountry: SpainLabel: Pesta Negra RecordsFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2022 For many listening to a Funeral Doom Metal record is, and fair enough, a gruelling ride; it may even seem a form of self-flagellation. To fully grasp the painfully slow music,…
Artist: Mournful Congregation Country: Australia Label: Osmose Productions / 20 Buck Spin Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2022 The extreme Doom Metal scene has always been a small one, since the first notes ever sounded…
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: DoomVSCountry: SwedenLabel: Firedoom MusicFormats: CDYear: 2008 Since 2004 the rather strangely named project Doom:VS is Johan Ericson’s way to keep himself busy. Besides his main band, Draconian, he finds the time to get his solo project going as well. And with “Dead Words…
Artist: Funeral Moth Country: Japan Label: Weird Truth Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2022 Already released as a two-track demo-tape, this Japanese ultra-slow funeral doom act got its first official release with this two-tracks mini CD. Though Japan is not…
Artist: Regnum Tenebrarum Country:France Label: Totalrust Music Formats: CD Year: 2005 This duo from France (though Carline van Roos sounds as Dutch as Gouda cheese) recently released their debut CD through the interesting Israelian Total Rust label. I missed their…
Artist: Pantheïst Country: United Kingdom Label: Serpent’s Lair Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2005 Just after the release of the well received Amartia at the end of the summer of 2005 Pantheist returns with an EP with the well-fitting name…