Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Alesya Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Not too long ago I stumbled upon Alesya’s marvellous ‘Hex De Tristesse Et Peste’-demo that was released by Mexico’s underground label Svart Hat Productions. The almost 20-minute demo brought together…
Artist: Alesya Country: Mexico Label: Svart Hat Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Mexican Alesya was born from the minds of two lads each with some experience within the underground Black Metal scene, but in this formation, ‘Hex De Tristesse…
About two years ago I accidentally stumbled upon the Mexican band Necrohammer, because I have a deeply rooted adoration for old and ramshackle 80’s metal, from Venom and Hellhammer to Living Death and Sodom, it was love at first sight.…
Artist: Nigrum Country: Mexico Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After two EP’s, a demo and the ‘Elevenfold Tail’-debut album from 2022, the Mexican Black Metal outfit Nigrum was able to take things a step further…
Artist: Stenched Country: Mexico Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Me Saco Un Ojo Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 As a sign that something good was going on, ‘Gorging On Mephitic Rot’, Stenched’s demo from last…
Artist: Phantom Country: Mexico Label: Doomentia Records / Headsplit Records / Inframetal Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Although the band had already released a couple of short players, Phantom from Mexicon only came…
Artist: Necrohammer Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Two years ago I stumbled upon this Mexican band playing a vintage sort of Black/Speed Metal that was inspired by all things old and extreme: Venom, Hellhammer, Sodom, Sarcófago…
Artist: Abject Mentor Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 About a year ago I reviewed the debut album of Abject Mentor, a Mexican Death Metal band that was formed back in 2020 and previously released a handful…
Artist: Demonized Country: Mexico Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 The term “Blast From The Past” seems to be fitting to Demonized like no other. Exactly 20 years after their one and only full-length album the band…
Artist: Phantom Country: Mexico Label: Inframetal Records Formats: CD Year: 2023 Ever since their inception in 2021 this young Mexican Speed/Black Metal band has been cranking out demos with utterly raw and rowdy material that is worthy of the old…
Artist: Tempest Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2023 Under the moniker Tempest, this trio, admittedly with modest experience in extreme metal, puts out a thoroughly enjoyable first EP. ‘Unending Torment’, a self-released 4-tracker with a total length…
Artist: Stenched Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2023 There was a time when all muddy Death Metal would be gobbled up like sweet pie by me, around the transition from the 00’s to the 10’s, all over…
Although Infernal Conjuration is not the most prolific band from Mexico’s rich underground scene, the band’s sparse work is emblematic of what that Mexican metal has to offer. Their last album, ‘Infernale Metallum Mortis’ dates back to 2019, but, singer…
Artist: Abject MentorCountry: MexicoLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: DigitalYear: 2023 From the ancient city of Aguascalientes, once founded by the first Spanish families to settle on the even much older Chichimeca Indian territories, comes this Death Metal band who present us with their…
Artist: Thornspawn / MaledictvsCountry: USA / MexicoLabel: Inhuman Assault Productions / Werewolf RecordsFormats: Split cassette tape / Split CDYear: 2021 A split between Thornspawn and Maledictvs is actually a split featuring two sides of the creative duo of Blackthorn (drums, guitars)…
Artist: HaborymCountry: MexicoLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: LPYear: 2020 Werewolf Records is beyond doubt one of the most interesting labels when it comes to releasing high quality Finnish Black Metal. But every now and then the label looks beyond the borders of…
Artist: Necrohammer Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2022 Old School bestial Blackened Speed Metal fans of the world, rejoice! After a 2020 demo tape and a split CD (Bestial Possession, Profanación Sepulcral and Goatslaught) a year later,…
Artist: Fumes Country: Mexico Label: MVIRecs / Sentenced In Hellfire Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2022 From Mexico City comes this new four-piece Death/Black Metal band who are releasing their first EP with ‘Stellar Murders Upwards’. However, the four musicians…
Artist: AtlatCountry: MexicoLabel: CDFormats: DigitalYear: 2022 Metal has always been a genre that has been heavily involved in (local) historical topics. Already in the early days of Iron Maiden, the genre has skilled amateur historians, but it is mainly the Black Metallers who have…
Artist: Motörpenis / Black Torment Country: Portugal / Mexico Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2009 This is the first release for Iron Bonehead Productions in 2009, a split record between Motörpenis from Portugal and Mexican Black Torment.…
Artist: DenialCountry: MexicoLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2007 This Mexican band are definitely different from the ongoing, rather crappy, grindcore scene over there. The cover of this 7” EP already shows they are digging from the old school death metal…
Artist: Necroccultus Country: Mexico Label: Blood Harvest Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2006 At the time this 7” EP was released the band already split up, or not very long after. So these Mexicans will never come much further then an…
Artist: DisgorgeCountry: MexicoLabel: Obliteration RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 Let’s get first clear that this is the Mexican death metal/grindcore band and not one of the other 666 bands with the same name from whatever corner of the world. And what we…