Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Lucifer’s Child Country: Greece Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Reviewing music is, just as listening to music, by definition about opinions and overall subjectivity. Although you might try to be as objective…
Artist: Yoth Iria Country: Greece Label: Edged Circle Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 All good things must come to an end. Heroes will die and empires will fall… Although Yoth Iria’s ‘As The Flame Withers’…
A year ago I was blown away by the first demo of the then totally unknown to me Haan Valar. Not because of its brutality, heaviness or speed, but because of the authenticity that ‘Devotion To Xemzara’ exhibited. Much closer…
Artist: Necromantical Invocation Country: Greece Label: Zombi Danz Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 The ‘Dogme Et Rituel De La Haute Magie’-demo by Necromantical Invocation, originally released in 2021, can definitely be considered a resounding triumph. Not only because it…
Greece’s Likno recently released its self-titled album via WolfKult Religion on cassette tape, and while this undoubtedly looks somewhat like shameless self-promotion, I think Likno’s music stands on its own. With their strong sense of melody, the duo mercilessly weaves…
Among the many releases hurled into the world via Germany’s renowned Iron Bonehead Productions, you would almost miss out on Ophidian’s ‘Descent into the Labyrinth’, which appeared only on cassette tape last summer. And that would be more than a…
A lot of metal hearts beat faster when Kawir arrives at the front with a new album under its arm. The band has been at the top of Greek Black Metal for about three decades, but unlike many of its…
Artist: Ophidian Country: Greece Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Like many others, I have an unquenchable thirst for Greek Black Metal, so not only the obvious bands of the past, but certainly also the newer acts…
Funeral Storm’s second album, ‘Chthonic Invocations’ is another triumphant display of the Greek Black Metal sound, delving deep into the mystique of that distinctly recognizable atmosphere with its sinister and incantatory melodies and rhythms. This way the band is, slowly…
Artist: Messe De Minuit Country: Spain Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Born from the spirits of the trinity of Eosforos, Crucifier and Lucifogo, they collectively lay their first feat on the table: ‘Invocation’. A 1-track demo…
Artist: Kawir Country: Greece Label: Soulseller Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although we were already offered a sneak peak with the digital-only EP ‘War Of The Giants’ from 2022, mainly a fundraiser for the treatment of Kawir main…
Artist: Haan Valar Country: USA Label: Mamzer Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Apart from the big commercial success of Rotting Christ, that mythical sound of Greek Black Metal has always been loved, it was mostly appreciated by a small…
Artist: Varathron Country: Greece Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 For the lovers of the Hellenic sound, Varathron will always remain something that sparks a feeling of magical enthusiasm. Not only were they amongst the very…
Artist: Drakon Ho MegasCountry: GreeceLabel: Floga RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2023 At the very beginning of this year Drakon Ho Megas’ sophomore album was released through Floga Records. ‘Έλευσις Αντίχριστου’, ‘Coming Of The Antichrist’ in English, is the follow-up to the 2021 released great…
Artist: DeviserCountry: GreeceLabel: Hammerheart RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2023 Many of my reviews have started with the remark that there is more to the Greek Black Metal scene than your standard Rotting Christ, Varathron and SepticFlesh. Which, by no means…
Artist: Cult Of EibonCountry: GreeceLabel: Iron Bonehead ProductionsFormats: Split LP / Split CDYear: 2022 At the very end of 2022 Iron Bonehead Productions treats us with one of the label’s best releases of the year. While both bands might not…
Artist: Cult Of EibonCountry: GreeceLabel: Azermedoth Records / Regain RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2022 For those who like Cult Of Eibon, or Greek Black Metal in general, but are not into collecting vinyl, this compilation CD is godsend. Because although the ‘Lycan…
Artist: Caedes CruentaCountry: GreeceLabel: Helter Skelter RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 The Greek Black Metal scene has never been as flooded by bands and releases as the Norwegian or Swedish scenes. Those Scandinavian scenes had so many…
Artist: VarathronCountry: GreeceLabel: Agonia RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2020 In its very lengthy career, Greek forebearers of the so much beloved Hellenic Black Metal sound, Varathron, never released a live album before. So, when the band embarked on a trip…
Artist: Katavasia Country: Greece Label: Iron Bonehead Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2022 Katavasia was formed in 2014 by Varathron mastermind Stefanos ‘Necroabyssious’ Karasavvas, undoubtedly one of the founding fathers of the famous Hellenic Black Metal sound. And although not…
Artist: Kawir Country: Greece Label: Pagan Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 When talking about Greek Black Metal, the conversations will most likely be first about Rotting Christ, Varathron, Septicflesh, Thou Art Lord and Necromantia, only then about the…
Artist: Varathron / UngodCountry: Greece / GermanyLabel: Iron Bonehead ProductionsFormats: Split 7″ EPYear: 2022 Both Greek Varathron and German Ungod have been around for over three decades in the Black Metal scene and each of them have a rich history…
Artist: Yoth IriaCountry: GreeceLabel: Pagan RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 Though Yoth Iria introduced themselves with a great EP (released on 10” and 12” vinyl formats, as well as on CD and cassette) and a split 7”…
It took the band seven goddamn years to come back with a new album, and now its out I can’t conclude anything else than that it is an album to be proud of. An album, that is rather different than…