Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Eternal Ice Country: Japan Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although Eternal Ice already released a demo tape in autumn of last year, the band didn’t caught my attention yet. But even though that demo was only distributed in extremely…
Artist: Sex Messiah Country: Japan Label: Sex Desire Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Without a doubt, Sex Messiah is one of Japan’s finest products of uncompromising Extreme Metal. With a much more Death Metal driven sound in their early stages the band…
Artist: Tormentador / Sex Messiah Country: Brazil / Japan Label: Sex Desire Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 This release may be a bit older, but as a fan of the 7” EP format and the underground qualities of…
Artist: Sabbat / Gruesome Country: Japan / USA Label: Doomentia Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 To add extra lustre to last summer’s European tour, a split 7” EP between Sabbat and Gruesome was released by Doomentia Records. The…
Artist: Parasitario Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2024 After the well-received F.D.A. Records and Obliteration Records released ‘Everything Belongs To Death’ debut album, the Japanese Death Metal trio returns with a new demo. It is scheduled for a…
Artist: Immortal Death Country: Japan Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Just as the name of this Japanese Death Metal band holds some contradiction, this re-release is also not devoid of surprises. Werewolf Records is not exactly…
Artist: Sabbat Country: Japan Label: Evil Horn Records / Iron Pegasus Records / Nuclear War Now! Productions / Old Library Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 As one of the stalwarts of the First Wave of…
Artist: Coffins Country: Japan Label: Relapse Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although ‘Sinister Oath’ is the band’s sixth full-length and I have picked up quite a few of their smaller releases over the years, it…
Artist: Anatomia / Eternal Rot Country: Japan / Germany/United Kingdom Label: Behind The Mountain / Gurgling Gore Formats: Split LP / Split Cassette / Split CD Year: 2024 While Anatomia might forever be regarded as Coffins’ little brother, they have…
Artist: Coffins / Gravavgrav Country: Japan Label: Lycanthropic Chants Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 For the revered Japenese Death Metal band Coffins is this split 7” EP the latest chapter in a long tradition of splitting EP’s, this time…
Artist: Mortify Country: Japan Label: Headsplit Records / Horror Pain Gore Death Productions / Obliteration Records / Psychocontrol Records / Red Truth Production / Septic Aroma Of Reeking Stench Formats: CD EP Year: 2022 Mortify’s ‘Grotesque Buzzsaw Defilement’, originally released…
Artist: FesterdecayCountry: JapanLabel: Everlasting Spew RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2023 The infamous ‘Gods Of Grind’ tour in 1992, featuring Confessor, Cathedral, Entombed and Carcass, turned out to be an event of great prophetic value. Not so much…
Artist: Parasitario Country: Japan Label: F.D.A. Records / Obliteration Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 The Japanese Death Metal band Parasitario sounds anything but Japanese. Well, if there is a distinct Japanese sound to begin with, it certainly is…
Artist: Sigh Country: Japan Label: Peaceville Records / Ward Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2022 Last year, Japan’s most enigmatic metal band, Sigh, now signed to the British Peaceville Records label, returned from a five-year silence. Its latest feat, ‘Heir…
Artist: Sex Messiah Country: Japan Label: Austral Holocaust Records / Nuclear War Now! Productions / Sex Desire Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2022 I once read an article that Japanese would be the most…
Artist: Necrophile Country: Japan Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2021 The Japanese extreme metal scene has always been rather limited in the amount of bands, but they always tended to bring something different to the table. The Japanese…
Artist: Sigh Country: Japan Label: Deathheadz Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2022 From such a populous country as Japan, there are remarkably few extreme metal bands. Yet a lively metal scene has existed there since the 1980s, at least, it seems.…
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: Pharmacist Country: Japan Label: Bizarre Leprous Production / Black Hole Productions / Grindfather Productions / Gurgling Gore / Sevared Records Formats: 10″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2022 Over the past two plus decades I have…
Artist: CutthroatCountry: ChinaLabel: DeadheadzFormats: Cassette tapeYear: 2022 Cutthroat were a Japanese ‘all-star’ band, with members of Abigail, Barbatos and Sigh, featuring genre legends such as Yasuyuki Suzuki (Abigail and Barbatos) and Mirai Kawashima (Sigh, Necrophagia). In the years between 1998…
Artist: Eternal Rot / CoffinsCountry: Poland / JapanLabel: Behind The MountainFormats: Split LP / Split cassette tape / Split CDYear: 2021 Coffins should require no introduction, not only have they released a couple of outstanding full-length album, they also left…
Artist: Funeralizer Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2022 We’ve known for years that Swedish Death Metal doesn’t necessarily have to be Swedish. In the meantime, some pretty good clones have come out of all parts of the…
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: Funeral Moth Country: Japan Label: Weird Truth Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2022 Already released as a two-track demo-tape, this Japanese ultra-slow funeral doom act got its first official release with this two-tracks mini CD. Though Japan is not…
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: BarbatosCountry: JapanLabel: Agonia RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2005 Remind yourself, when was the last time you bought an album and noticed on the band pictures in the booklet (or the inlay in the case it was a vinyl record, which is…