Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Blood / IncantationCountry: Germany / USALabel: Hells Headbangers RecordsFormats: Split 7″ EPYear: 2022 This is the sort of split EP that you knew was coming, I can imagine the chuckle the label and bands had when working out the…
Artist: AbradedCountry: USALabel: Aggressively Uninterested / Maggot StompFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 Although this album was released by the very end of last year (on both cassette tape and CD by Maggot Stomp), it seems to be getting some…
Artist: Mangled Torsos Country: Germany Label: Morbid Classics Formats: LP Year: 2021 Though I was not exactly there at that exact time, because of my age, I always loved the atmosphere and feeling of those early 90’s demo tapes and…
Artist: Concrete WindsCountry: FinlandLabel: Sepulchral Voice RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2021 At the end of last year Concrete Winds treated us to a new album of extreme violence. I can imagine that you are still recovering from 2019’s ‘Primitive Force’,…
Artist: Blood / IncantationCountry: Germany / USALabel: Hells Headbangers Records / VIC RecordsFormats: Split LP / Split CDYear: 2022 This is a split that you knew that would happen one day. Both bands never made a secret for their mutual…
Artist: BloodCountry: GermanyLabel: VIC RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2022 When talking about Blood, you are talking about German cult metal. I remember collecting all of their 7” EP during the late 90’s and early 00’s, digging through distros and mailing lists to…
Artist: ExhumedCountry: USALabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Even though you’ve just started reading this, I’m sure you’re not really curious about how this new Exhumed album sounds. After all, you already know that. Ever since the band’s…
Artist: Human Corpse Abuse Country: USA Label: Caligari Records / Dark Descent Records / Obliteration Records / Selfmadegod Records Formats: Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 Human Corpse Abuse is a new band hailing from, as they say themselves, the…
Artist: Naked Whipper Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Once in a while Iron Bonehead Productions digs up something from the German underground, earlier we saw for example Ungod, Baxaxaxa, Moonblood and Fulgor. With…
Artist: Naked Whipper Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Together with the re-issue of the bands’ first and only album, ‘Painstreaks’, Iron Bonehead Productions releases this compilation of both the ‘Moloch-Acid Orgy’ 12″ (1995,…
Artist: Headless Dawn Country: The Netherlands Label: Into It Records / Meat 5000 Records Formats: Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 “16 Tearjerkers For The Woke Generation” is what the promo sheet accompanying this EP says. That does not promise…
Artist: TerrorizerCountry: USALabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: 10″ EPYear: 2020 During the second half of the 80’s Terrorizer, along with peers like Repulsion, Carcass and Napalm Death propelled extreme music into whole new levels extremity by pushing the boundaries that were thought…
Artist: Coffins / DepressionCountry: Japan / GermanyLabel: Hells Headbangers Records / Headsplit RecordsFormats: Split LP / Split cassette tape / Split CDYear: 2020 Two of Death Metal’s most prolific bands teaming up on one split release. What can possibly go…
Artist: Agathocles Country: Belgium Label: Displeased Records Formats: CD Year: 2008 Second album from these longlasting Belgians on Displeased Records, which means that Agathocles is, for the first time in their twenty-year-plus career, widely available in record stores and almost…
Artist: Japanische Kampfhörspiele Country: Germany Label: Bastardized Recordings Formats: LP / CD Year: 2007 Though this German band has one of the least inviting band names ever, they are not as bad as their name would suggest. But, that means…
Artist: Impetigo Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2007 There are not many bands that were as influential and amazingly infectious as Impetigo. Like Carcass, Repulsion and Napalm Death they had litterily thousands of followers, bands trying…
Artist: Agathocles Country: Belgium Label: Displeased Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 Agathocles is probably most known for its huge amount of releases, and holds the record alongside acts as Nunslaughter, Unholy Grave, Sabbat. Though Agathocles’ primitive sound is easy to…
Artist: Inhume Country: The Netherlands Label: Osmose Productions Formats: CD Year: 2007 After a wait of over one year and a half, Inhume’s third album finally sees the light of day. To give you an indication, I first heard this…
Artist: Blood I Bleed / Sounds Like Shit Country: The Netherlands / Japan Label: Fast & Furious Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2007 This is another split EP for Blood I Bleed and Sounds Like Shit on Blood I…
Artist: Machetazo / Total Fucking Destruction Country: Spain / USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2007 This is the first edition of the Slimewave Series, it’s a bit like a McDonalds concept, but if you collect all six…
Artist: Cripple Bastards / Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition Country: Italy / France Label: Relapse Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2007 Number two in the Relapse Records Slimewave Series, this time Italy’s fastest grindcore veterans Cripple Bastards team up with the same…
Artist: Leng Tch’e Country: Belgium Label: Relapse Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 Belgium’s Leng Tch’e return with their fourth album, and second with Dutch cesspool-throated Boris the Bastard. They have entitled it ‘Marasmus’, a term used to describe the downfall…
Artist: Nyctophobic Country: Germany Label: Khaaranus Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 This is one of those discography CDs from a grindcore/death metal band. It will be quite a task to count all those CDs that cover a whole career of…
Artist: Axegrinder Country: United Kingdom Label: Peaceville Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 In the early days of Peaceville there has been some truly worthwhile releases that somehow faded into oblivion and are totally unknown to most of the new-school metalheads…
Artist: Butcher ABCCountry: JapanLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: CDYear: 2006 Japanese grindcore/death metal act Butcher ABC are preparing a new mini CD and wanted to promote that release on their trip to the prestigious Maryland Deathfest earlier this year. It is very unlikely…
Artist: TerrorizerCountry: USALabel: Century MediaFormats: CD / LPYear: 2006 For all the well-known reasons it took Terrorizer 17 (!!) years to come-up with a follow-up of one of the most influential albums in grindcore history, “World Downfall” from 1989. And…
Artist: Last Days Of Humanity Country: The Netherlands Label: Bones Brigade Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 This was an album I have been waiting for for over one year and a half for sure, as soon as I got to…
Artist: Meatyard / Maggots Country: New Zealand / The Netherlands Label: No Escape Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2006 This split CD is the first No Escape Records CD that kind of disappointed me. Meatyard is a grindcore band that…
Artist: Putrescence Country: Canada Label: No Escape Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 These Canadians surprised quite some people with their “Mangled, Hollowed Out And Vomit Filled” from 2004, right after the release of their debut they announced its follow-up, yet…
Artist: Ingrowing Country: Czechia Label: Obscene Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 After the rather succesful “Sunrape” album from 2003 they have put themselves on the global grindcore/death metal market with even a vinyl release on Autopsy Stench Records, after a…
Artist: Embalming TheatreCountry: SwitzerlandLabel: Power-It-UpFormats: CDYear: 2006 What we’ve got here is a re-release for Embalming Theatre’s second album “Sweet Chainsaw Melodies” from 2003 which was originally released by top-notch always-on-top Razorback Records (the vinyl version was put out by…
Artist: Cock And Ball Torture Country: Germany Label: Obliteration Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 The reason for the release of this boxset is unknown to me, but it has got something to offer, especially for the newer fans who got…
Artist: Sanitys Dawn Country: Germany Label: Power-It-Up Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Sanitys Dawn is one of Germany’s leading grind/death metal acts since their foundation somewhere at the early nineties. They have been spawning the scene with quite some interesting…
Artist: DisgorgeCountry: MexicoLabel: Obliteration RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 Let’s get first clear that this is the Mexican death metal/grindcore band and not one of the other 666 bands with the same name from whatever corner of the world. And what we…
Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Mortician Records Formats: CD Year: 2004 It might be a little late, but when I got this CD in the mail the other day I thought it still deserved a review at our beloved magazine.…
Artist: Fleshless Country: Czechia Label: Obscene Productions Formats: CD Year: 2003 Forgetting the splits and the demos this is already the fourth album by the death metallers from the Czech Republic. I heard quite some songs over the years but…
Well, some bands don’t need an introduction anymore. Exhumed is one of them. They just’ve released a new album “Anatomy Is Destiny”, a revolting good album. Things have changed since that time, so it was time for a update with…
Artist: Fuck… I’m Dead / Engorged Country: Australia / USA Label: No Escape Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2002 Terror grind! Two extreme death grind bands share this CD. Fuck… I’m Dead from Australia and Engorged from the US. Together…
Artist: Regurgitate Country: Sweden Label: Relapse Records / Restrain Records Formats: CD / LP Year: 2003 It remains a tricky job, writing a review about bands like Regurgitate. After all, what should you write about such a band? An introduction…
Artist: ExhumedCountry: USALabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2003 This is without any doubt one of the CDs I’ve been looking for since the first day of this year. The new Exhumed, goddamnit! I’ve been following the band for a…
Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: CD Year: 2003 You have brute, more brutal and most brutal. And Mortician doesn’t really even fit into the latter category. Mortician is therefore a band that is hardly unknown to any…
Artist: Kringspiertyfus Country: The Netherlands Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo CD Year: 2002 Kringspiertyphus, well… what to make of such a band? Not taking it all too seriously seems to be the message. After having heard the disc once, I still…