Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Stangarigel Country: Slovakia Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 It’s a great time for those that appreciate Slovakian Black Metal. A new Malokarpatan is due in 2026, KroloK has been hard at…
Artist: Ichors Glaive Country: USA Label: Medieval Prophecy Records /Blud Auk Tapes Formats: 12” Demo / Demo tape Year: 2024 Medieval Propehcy Records is certainly a label that has the spotlights of the underground Black Metal community honed in on…
Artist: Ablazen Winds Country: USA Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Originally self-released in a small run of 15 copies for a local show, ‘Burning Scripture Of War’ now sees a slightly larger release through Belgium’s revered…
Despite both lads rightly claiming below that Hertogenwald is not a Belgian band per se, as two of the three band members are French, Hertogenwald is still considered part of the increasingly interesting and improving Belgian Black Metal scene. The…
Artist: Draugheimen Country: Unknown Label: Bloodthorn Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 The so far mostly very mysterious Draugheimen, whose background and origins are currently shrouded in mists, unleashed a fine self-titled demo on humanity at the end of last year.…
Artist: Regnum Tenebrarum / Hertogenwald Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Split LP / Split CD Year: 2024 As a part of the batch of the Medieval Prophecy Records releases from October 2024, came this split LP between two…
Artist: Funerealm Gloom Country: Finland Label: Down With The Most High / Medieval Prophecy Records / Unpure Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After the great and compelling ‘Serpentcraft’ demo tape from 2020, the duo of…
Artist: Pamorak Country: Belarus Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Many bands that have emerged from the soil roughly east of the Polish border have a rather unique and elusive sound. Something in those bands binds them,…
Artist: Törnen Country: Sweden Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although prior the release of ‘Under Korpens Visdom’ there was rumour that Swartadauþuz was a part of Törnen, it eventually turned out he was not. Yet,…
Artist: Orkblut / Hertogenwald Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Out of the October 2024 batch of releases of the respected Medieval Prophecy Records, also comes this nice little piece of black wax that…
Artist: Phlegethon’s Majesty Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Simultaneously with the release of the eagerly awaited debut album of Phlegethon’s Majesty, the band also releases a compilation CD with both of the band’s demos as…
Artist: Phlegethon’s Majesty Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 This first full-length album of Phlegethon’s Majesty is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated Black Metal records out of the amazingly fertile Belgian soil. Through…
Artist: Nartvind Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Nartvind is not quite the band that is firing away releases at Drowning The Light-speed, but when they do have something new for you, you can…
Artist: Gouffre Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 After two great demo tapes released in 2019 and 2021 and the 2022-released split 7” EP with their compatriots of Phlegethon’s Majesty the band returned to the…
Artist: StangarigelCountry: SlovakiaLabel: Medieval Prophecy RecordsFormats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2023 After a stunning debut album, Stangarigel returns with their latest EP ‘Metafyzika Barbarstva’. Still strongly influenced by the earliest works of Satyricon and Ulver, the band…
Artist: Regnum Tenebrarum Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2023 After the 2020 ‘Des Enfers’ EP, also released via Medieval Prophecy Records, things went quiet for a while around Regnum Tenebrarum, who hail…
Artist: Moenen Of Xezbeth Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2023 Hot on the heals of the band’s debut 7” EP, ‘Forever Rotting Winter’ in 2017, Moenen Of Xezbeth also released this 5-track demo tape (including…
Artist: EnthronedCountry: BelgiumLabel: Medieval Prophecy RecordsFormats: LPYear: 2021 Enthroned is without a glimmer of a doubt one of the most important bands of the Belgian extreme metal scene. Though being formed back in 1993, in those very thriving formative years…
Artist: Gouffre Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP Year: 2022 At the very end of 2022 Medieval Prophecy Records released this compilation LP that contains both Gouffre demos, 2019’s ‘1: Grim Spirit’ and ‘Crawling Death’ from 2021. The…
Artist: Niaisny Country: Belarus Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2022 The Belarussian band Niaisny released their first demo tape in 2021, just like this second one also through Medieval Prophecy Records. On that first offering they presented…
Artist: Perverted Ceremony Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2021 We at VM-Underground have given ourselves quite a bit of Belgian Black Metal to review over the past few months, not infrequently I have personally stood…
Artist: Phlegethon’s Majesty / Gouffre Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2022 Belgian Black Metal has been on the rise in recent years. The times when we could only name Ancient Rites and Enthroned are…
Artist: Necromantical Invocation Country: United Kingdom Label: Helter Skelter Productions / Medieval Prophecy Records / Regain Records / Zombi Danz Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2021 Despite the fact that Necromantical Invocation saw the light of…
Artist: Diabolical FullmoonCountry: PolandLabel: Medieval Prophecy RecordsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2022 Contrary to what you might expect, this is not an Immortal cover band, nor does it have much to do musically with Norwegian Black Metal. For me, Diabolical Fullmoon’s previous…
Artist: Forbidden Temple Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2022 Formed in 2017, this Belgian Black Metal duo has already treated us to a fairly extensive discography; a large amount of demo and rehearsal tapes, a…