Mithridatum – Harrowing

Artist: Mithridatum Country: Italy / USA Label: Willowtip Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Mithridatum is a new band, founded last year, of a trio with their origin in both the USA as well as Italy,…

Hellcrash – Demonic Assassinatiön

Artist: Hellcrash Country: Italy Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 In the review for Hellcrash’s debut album, ‘Krvcifix Invertör’ our chief-editor Ricardo got flabbergasted by the sheer Venom-worship of their music, so I…

Maze Of Sothoth – Extirpated Light

Artist: Maze Of Sothoth Country: Italy Label: Everlasting Spew Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 With ‘Extirpated Light’, this Italian foursome is on its second album. After a good demo and a successful debut album, expectations are high;…

Necrotombs – Collectible Human Bodies

Artist: Necrotombs Country: Italy Label: Dark United Media Formats: Digital Year: 2022 With ‘Collectible Human Bodies’, Italian one-man band Necrotombs is already on its fourth full-length album. Musically, it brings little that is exciting, fairly standard and mid-tempo Old School…

Satanika – Horde Of Disgust

Artist: Satanika Country: Italy Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 ‘Horde Of Disgust’ is the fifth album for the Italian Black/Thrash Metal band Satanika. Although the band has been releasing their albums and EP’s through a wide…

Slug Gore – Extraterrestrial Gastropod Mollusc [EP]

Artist: Slug Gore Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape/ CD Demo Year: 2023 The slug-themed EP/demo ‘Extraterrestrial Gastropod Mollusc’ of Italian based Death Metal/Grindcore combo Slug Gore, is the band’s first outing. And apparently, with all their sluggishness, they…

Nubivagant – The Wheel And The Universe

Artist: Nubivagant Country: Italy Label: Amor Fati Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 It was in 2020 that Gionata “Omega” Potenti (Darvaza, Frostmoon Eclipse, Chaos Invocation, ex-Acherontas, ex-Blut Aus Nord, ex-Fides Inversa a.o.) surprised the world with a stunningly…

Evilspell – Padre Vostro

Artist: EvilspellCountry: ItalyLabel: Blasphemous RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2021 Seven years after their last sign of life, the Italian Black/Thrash Metal band Evilspell returned to the front in 2021, with their third full-length ‘Padre Vostro’, which, if Google Translate is not fooling…

Necrodeath – Singin’ In The Pain

Artist: Necrodeath Country: Italy Label: Time To Kill Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 We’re writing early 2023 and I think we already have a strong contender for the corniest album title of the year. Seriously, what were they…

Assumption – Hadean Tides

Artist: AssumptionCountry: ItalyLabel: Everlasting Spew RecordsFormats: LP, CDYear: 2022 The 2018 released album ‘Absconditus’ from the Italian Doom/Death Metal band Assumption was described by a VM-Underground colleague as Doom/Death effort that has a lot to offer and compared it to bands like diSEMBOWELMENT, Winter and…

Xeper – Ad Numen Satanae

Artist: XeperCountry: ItalyLabel: Soulseller RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2021 Xeper, now operating out of Stavanger, Norway, but originally founded in Italy, released their fourth album last year through Dutch Soulseller Records. Though ‘Ad Numen Satanae’ is indeed the band’s fourth…

Liber Null – For Whom Is The Night

Artist: Liber Null Country: Italy / The Netherlands Label: Immortal Frost Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Liber Null, for those who are not familiar with the band, is another band that has one of Black Metal’s most prolific…

Shrieking Demons – Diabolical Regurgitations [EP]

Artist: Shrieking Demons Country: Italy Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2021 Formed in 2021 in Italy, Death Metal band Shrieking Demons needed very little time to record their first EP, ‘Diabolical Regurgitations’, which was released…

Morbus Grave – Lurking Into Absurdity

Artist: Morbus Grave Country: Italy Label: Chaos Records Formats: CD Year: 2022 After having released a handful of demos and two split releases, the Italian Death Metal band Morbus Grave felt ready for a full-length album, which was recently released…

Morbus Grave – Promo ’21 [Demo]

Artist: Morbus Grave Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2021 At VM-Underground we already shined our light on Morbus Grave’s compilation of two of the band’s early demos (‘Throne Of Disgust’ from 2016 and ‘Awakening Of The Dead’…

Tenebro – Carne Umana [EP]

Artist: Tenebro Country: Italy Label: Xtreem Music Formats: Digital EP Year: 2022 About six months after this Italian horror-drenched Death Metal combo released their debut full-length, they return with a new digital EP. While I did like that first album…

Darvaza – Ascending Into Perdition

Artist: DarvazaCountry: Italy / NorwayLabel: Terratur PossessionsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Darvaza, formed back in 2015 by two elusive figures in the international Black Metal scene, released three critically acclaimed EP’s through Black Metal elitist label Terratur…

Pyra – Pyra [EP]

Artist: Pyra Country: Italy Label: Immortal Frost Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Founded in 2020, this Italian Black/Death Metal three-piece released a couple of digital singles in prelude to the official release of their self-titled debut EP through…

Frostmoon Eclipse – Rustworn [EP]

Artist: Frostmoon Eclipse Country: Italy Label: Immortal Frost Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2022 As one of Italy’s longest running Black Metal bands, with their roots dating all the way back to 1994, and having released quite an impressive string…

Tundra – Eclipse Of Blood [EP]

Artist: TundraCountry: ItalyLabel: Staring Into DarknessFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2022 It might be the COVID-19 pandemic, or maybe something else, but for the Italian Black Metallers of Tundra 2021 was a striking prolific year, with no less than seven singles and…

Necromutilator – Oath Of Abhorrence

Artist: Necromutilator Country: Italy Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 In the 1968 Hammer Horror movie ‘The Devil Rides Out’, Duc Richleau tries to rescue his late friend’s son and his girlfriend from the…

Wolfswut – Highest Honor

Artist: WolfswutCountry: ItalyLabel: ASRAR / Atrocity Altar / Signal RexFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 It can be me, but it seems like there’s getting more and more one-man acts in Black Metal these days. The American Wolfswut,…

Tenebro – L’inizio Di Un Incubo

Artist: Tenebro Country: Italy Label: Xtreem Music Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 After a demo tape (reissued on 7” vinyl by Seven Metal Inches) and a 3-track debut EP which was initially only released on cassette…

Fides Inversa – Historia Nocturna

Artist: Fides InversaCountry: ItalyLabel: World Terror CommitteeFormats: LP / CDYear: 2020 The Italian Black Metal band Fides Inversa doesn’t exactly work at a high pace, but they have consistently improved their craft since the formation in 2006. Their first album…

Monumentum – In Absentia Christi [Re-Release]

Artist: Monumentum Country: Italy Label: Displeased Records Formats: CD Year: 2009 It remains a mystery to me why Monumentum never gained a wider following. This is their 1995 debut, which was originally intended for release on Euronymous’ (Mayhem) cult label…

Malfeitor – Unio Mystica Maxima

Artist: Malfeitor Country: Italy Label: Scarlet Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 Malfeitor is the brainchild of M. Fabban who has been a member of the industrialized black metal band Aborym for many years. Aborym changed quite a bit over the…

The Foreshadowing – Days Of Nothing

Artist: The Foreshadowing Country: Italy Label: Candlelight Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 For some reason it is usually very easy to say where a band is from, most of the times the sound or approach to a certain genre reveal…

Necrodeath – 100% Hell

Artist: Necrodeath Country: Italy Label: Scarlet Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 This Italian band will certainly ring a bell to old school metallers as they have been a part of a very lively underground scene in the eighties. Having their…

Hate Profile – Opus I: The Khaos Hatefile

Artist: Hate Profile Country: Italy Label: Cruz Del Sur Music Formats: CD Year: 2005 This Italian Hate Profile is a band consisting out of two members who made some of their fame in Hortus Animae, which has Grom in the…

Forgotten Tomb – Springtime Depression

Artist: Forgotten Tomb Country: Italy Label: Adipocere Records Formats: CD Year: 2003 If you talk about the real black metal of today, you will certainly tell about the enormous amounts of bands emerging the scene with their raw and blaspheme…

Eviscerate – Eviscerate [Demo]

Artist: Eviscerate Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo CDR Year: 2001 This Italian band started as many others, back in 1997 the band began to cover bands like Metallica, Slayer, Pantera and Iron Maiden. Than the band began working on…

Aemeth – Aemeth [Demo]

Artist: Aemeth Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo CDr Year: 2002 Everything on this demo make you think of raw blackmetal. The black front cover, the Crowleyan pentagram on the back and it seems that occultism and ancient cultures fascinate…