Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Hideous Mangleus Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Even if Hideous Mangleus released a 7” EP through the French Thrash (Records) back in 1990, I have always felt that the band’s popularity was…
Artist: Bestial Warlust Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette / CD Year: 2026 Although bands like Impaled Nazarene, Blasphemy and Beherit were already blending the ferocity and darkness of Black Metal with the blunt brutality of…
Artist: Deranged Country: Sweden Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 This isn’t exactly the first time I’ve shared my surprise and delight at the current Brutal Death Metal re-release frenzy from Hells Headbangers Records. Although I don’t follow…
Artist: Death Yell Country: Chile Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape CD Year: 2025 If you’re talking about old Latin American Extreme Metal, it is categorically impossible to skip Death Yell. For the majority of the people…
Artist: Perdition Temple Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Format: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Without being sure what the reason was behind Perdition Temple’s previous album, ‘Merciless Upheaval’, that only had the A-side filled with new…
Artist: Exploding Zombies Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 It is not quite the first time I have lauded Hells Headbangers Records for their recent series of Brutal Death Metal re-releases. In recent weeks,…
Artist: Destruktor Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Like probably everyone else who has been around for a while, my introduction to Destruktor was through their “Brutal Desecration” 7″ EP, released by the sadly defunct Decius…
Artist: Medieval Demon Country: Greece Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although I already had seen the name of Medieval Demon mentioned here and there a few times before, I hadn’t actually heard them until a few years ago. I don’t…
Artist: Regurgitation Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 We usually focus our reviews on new releases and largely ignore the huge number of reissues that keep coming our way. And, as a whole, I try to…
Artist: Abominator Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After what seemed like taking forever, Abominator, one of the unsung heroes of Australian wild musical barbarism, is finally back. Again, the Aussies…
Artist: Desecration Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Honestly, when I first ran into Desecration, I wasn’t all too impressed with the band from Newport, Wales. Perhaps it was my mindset at the time, the setting in which they…
Artist: Burial Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In its quest for unearthing some unsung genre highlights of late 90’s and early 00’s Brutal Death Metal, Hells Headbangers Records already crossed paths with a few undeniable…
Artist: Deathhammer Country: Norway Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 When Deathhammer started to emerge from the underground, right after the release of the demos and with the first EP, ‘Forever Ripping Fast’…
Artist: Deceased Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 2CD Year: 2025 My guess is, since you are reading this, that Deceased is a band that has a special place for you as well. Deceased has never been a trendy…
Artist: Malignancy Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Next chapter of Hells Headbangers Records’ quest to reinstate some of Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore classics is Malignancy’s ‘Intrauterine Cannibalism’. A record that indeed fits just perfectly with more…
Artist: Mortal Decay Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although Europe as well as other places on earth also had their heroes when it comes to Brutal Death Metal, and I don’t want to sell anyone…
Artist: Haemorrhage Country: Spain Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Haemorrhage’s roots go as deep as to 1990 and have ever since been a band that’s been amongst the leading acts when it comes…
Artist: Whipstriker Country: Brazil Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although Whipstriker feels like they are around since forever, ‘Cry Of Extinction’ is only the band’s fifth full-length album. Their tendency to bombard…
Artist: Profanatica Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Phrases like “band X requires no further introduction” are used all the time. In most cases that is highly debatable, at least in terms…
Artist: Goreaphobia Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Along with bands like Incantation, Rottrevore, Deceased and Immolation, Goreaphobia is a band that is frequently credited for being one of the most influential bands in USA’s underground…
Artist: Caustic Phlegm Country: United Kingdom Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Without any question, Caustic Phlegm’s 2022 debut demo was definitely one of the highlights of that year. Consequently, the three-song ‘Putrefying Flesh’ ended…
Artist: Genocidal Rites Country: USA Label: Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With a demo and three solid EP’s under their belts, it was about time that this relatively young band went for their…
Artist: Mercenario Country: USA Label: Atolinga Records / Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 In a conversation about the recent split up of Morbosidad, my interlocutor reported that Tomas Stench of that band had already got…
Artist: Armoured Angel Country: Australia Label: Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 Before the band would go on and gain some cult status as one of Australia’s first Extreme Metal bands with quite some demos that influenced the first generation of…
Artist: Rotting Country: Canada Label: Hell’s Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 While Hell’s Headbangers is primarily known for its released out of the Black/Death/Thrash Metal pond (preferably a mixture of all that), the people behind the label do have…
Some things are worth waiting for. You can use some clichés here about cheese and wine that get better if you leave them for a while, but we are talking about Australian Black/Death Metal with a touch of Thrash: Destruktor.…
A new Deceased album is always something to be excited about. Although Deceased has long since ceased to be a pure Death Metal or Death/Thrash Metal band and an increasing amount of Heavy Metal has gradually crept into the band’s…
Artist: Destruktor Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 While Destruktor is not exactly at the top of lists of the most obvious Australian bands out of the Extreme Metal spectrum, for…
Although ‘Fuck Christ’ is not the long-awaited second album, we can still say that this nearly 20-minute new EP can be seen as a prelude to what should be the successor to 2015’s ‘Ego Svm Satana’. I spoke to founder…
Artist: Deceased Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Some bands still arouse a kind of youthful enthusiasm in me. But, honestly, there are fewer and fewer of them. That may have…
Artist: Goat Semen Country: Peru Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 When it comes to Latin American Extreme Metal there are obviously a lot of bands that laid down the foundations…
Artist: Skelethal Country: France Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Probably recognisable to most readers: there are those bands that keep falling off your radar time and again unintentionally and for no apparent…
Artist: Witchtrap Country: Colombia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The past few weeks I have featured quite a few Latin American bands, a continent that has a metal scene that is a…
Artist: Impiety Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 While the Singaporean Impiety by far is more well-known than this one from the USA, their musical background is not all that different. Okay,…
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: Cemetery Urn Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 It has always been somewhat of a mystery to me why a band like Cemetery Urn has never received any more attention…
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Australia-based Denouncement Pyre, a band that I feel does not always get the credit it does deserve based on its music. Last year, the band released their fourth album with ‘Forever Burning’ through…
Artist: Profanatica Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2022 When it comes to American Black Metal or Black Metal of the most depraved kind, Profanatica is a band to be reckoned with. Ever since their first…
Artist: Genocidal Rites Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 With one demo and one EP, both originally only released digitally by the band themselves and the latter one also been issued on cassette tape by…
Artist: Nocturnal Departure Country: Canada Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2022 In the current and ongoing Black Metal rejuvenation, the name of Nocturnal Departure was dropped more than once as one of the genre highlights. The…
Artist: Manticore Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 One of Hells Headbangers earliest releases was Manticore’s debut album, ‘Bowels Of The Holy Anoint Us In Evil’. Together with a few other of those…
Artist: Pharmacist Country: Japan Label: Bizarre Leprous Production / Hells Headbangers Records / Sevared Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 Formed in 2020, these Japanese Carcass-worshippers have been really prolific, with this second album, ‘Flourishing Extremities…
Artist: Nunslaughter / Fluids Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: Split 7″ EP / Split Tape EP Year: 2022 A split 7″ EP/cassette tape between two bands to who the concept of sharing a release is not exactly strange:…
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: 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: Nile Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2022 Although ‘Festivals Of Atonement’ was actually Nile’s second release, originally unleashed in 1995, and came before the ‘Ramses Bringer Of War’-demo from 1996, Hells…
Artist: Nile Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2022 Before Nile took the Death Metal scene by storm with its debut album ‘Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka’ in 1998 and their sophomore album…
Artist: Perversion / Pyromancer Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 “Dies irae, dies illa. Solvet saeclum in favilla“. The first words in the Latin Dies Irae, the Day Of Wrath, they…
Artist: DeathhammerCountry: NorwayLabel: Hells Headbangers RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Norway’s Deathhammer have taken the Metal world by storm, crushing the masses with their intense Thrash/Speed Metal mix that blends in some of their Norwegian Black Metal…
Artist: Druid LordCountry: USALabel: Hells Headbangers RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 When Druid Lord first hit the scene around 2010 with quite a few releases in only a span of like three years, it was expected that the guys would…