Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Cultus / Pest Country: The Netherlands / Germany Label: Heidens Hart Records / Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 With strong ties between bands and labels, with multi-instrumentalist Arjan being found in Cultus as well as Pest and…
Artist: Bortglömd Country: Sweden Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 ‘Haunting Calls’ is the debut demo of a new Swedish duo with Dutch connections, yet with this 3-track demo tape the band is distinctly sounding more Northern…
Despite moving to Sweden a few years ago, Volc Vermaledide can still be seen as a Dutch Black Metal band. After all, already formed in 2001, the band has existed on Dutch soil for the most part. Despite now slowly…
The Dutch Heidens Hart Records simultaneously released two strong Pagan Black Metal albums earlier this year, ‘Tir Nan Og’ being one of them: the latest album by the one-man band Drunemeton, originally from Russia. Although the album is overtly based…
Everyone of a certain age who reads this has some kind of starting point somewhere, a few months in his or her life that determined the development of musical taste and perspective on the cultural phenomenon of “Extreme Metal”. Mine…
Artist: Drunemeton Country: Russia Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 The man behind Drunemeton, who is from Russian origin but currently resides in Serbia, Europe, has had all of his previous releases done by a wide range of…
Artist: Drevorod Country: Russia Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Over the last twenty or so years, the Eastern regions of Europe and Russia have increasingly developed itself as a true hotbed for Pagan Black Metal. Maybe not…
Artist: Ancestors Blood / Heimdalls Wacht Country: Finland / Germany Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: Split LP / Split CD Year: 2023 On the verge of the end of winter and the beginning of spring this year, Heidens Hart Records…
Formed as early as 1997, we can definitely say that Burning Winds is a band that more than deserves the term ‘Cult Band’. Although always at the ultimate underground level, the band has undoubtedly contributed heavily to what we now…
Artist: Wyvern Country: The Netherlands Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 After the two demo tapes from 2019 and 2020, both of which saw the light of day via Tour de Garde and Zwartkunst Smederij, the mysterious…
Artist: Burning WindsCountry: USALabel: Heidens HartFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2023 Aside from a sporadic release as a demo CDR, a split LP, a compilation LP and a split 7″, Burning Winds’ entire (impressive) output has been released on cassette tape, so…
Artist: Cirith GorgorCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Heidens Hart Records / Ketzer RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Almost like no other Black Metal band from the Dutch scene, Cirith Gorgor turned out to be the child of its time. When they put…
Artist: WanklankCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Heidens Hart RecordsFormats: LPYear: 2021 Put in a plain sleeve, black with only the somewhat scratchy logo on it very large, with no info or extras, this vinyl-only album by the obscure Black Metal band, Wanklank…
Artist: TheudhoCountry: BelgiumLabel: Heidens Hart RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2022 Founded as early as 2002, Theudho is currently one of the longest running Belgian Black Metal bands, and with its rather impressive output, the (now) one-man project left quite a mark on…
Artist: Sauron / Lugubre Country: The Netherlands Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2022 As an avid youngster, I plunged myself into the world of Black Metal towards the end of 1999. As anyone of that age does,…
Artist: Kjeld Country: The Netherlands Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2021 Northern Netherlands-based Kjeld is not a band in a big hurry. On the contrary. The band was formed back in 2003, but it took them…
Artist: Sagenland Country: The Netherlands Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2021 Despite the fact that Sagenland has been around since the early 00’s, 2021’s ‘Oale Groond’ is only their first album. Earlier, in…
Artist: Затемно (Zatemno)Country: RussiaLabel: Heidens HartFormats: CDYear: 2022 After its debut EP via Russian Death Knell Records, this avant-garde ensemble found shelter with the never-conventional Aesthetic Death on which the first full-length album, ‘В петле’ (‘In The Noose’), was released…
Artist: Orewoet Country: The Netherlands Label: Amor Fati Productions / Heidens Hart Records Formats: LP Year: 2021 Originally released in 2016, it took the band and labels up to 2021 to get this album out on vinyl as well. But…
Artist: BottenbergCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Heidens Hart RecordsFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2022 Unearthed from the soil of the Dutch Twente-region comes Bottenberg. A new one-man Black Metal band, led by the illustrious figure who calls himself De Bottenboer. For non-Dutch readers: Bottenberg…
Artist: Cultus Country: The Netherlands Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2004 People who like the Dutch underground metal scene know this guy named Arjan for sure. He’s the owner of the Heidenshart distro/label, a steady force in…