Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Efermus Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Format: CDR EP Year: 2025 With a considerable output over the past four-and-a-bit years, it might not be surprising that Portuguese Efermus was featured on these pages before. In fact, the last year,…
Artist: Profanação / Teufelsdom Country: Portugal / Russia Label: Altare Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 This split tape comes rather hot on the heals of both band’s latest releases. Teufelsdom released their second two-track demo last May and Profanação’s second full-length album, also…
Artist: Empalamento Country: Portugal Label: Self-released / Haloran Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 / 2025 Even though I consider myself rather well-versed in the underground Extreme Metal scene, I sometimes tend to miss out on rather…
Artist: Profanação Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 From the ever-fertile Portuguese soil comes Profanação, a band that already released two demo tapes through M.D.M. in 2022 and an Altare Productions-released full-length album on cassette tape.…
Artist: Grave Of God Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions / Final Agony Formats: LP Year: 2025 Although I tend to keep a close eye on the Portuguese Black Metal scene and Grave Of God already released a split tape, a full-length album and a 7”…
Artist: Amargura Country: France / Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Some four years ago this rather enigmatic entity called Amargura debuted with their Altare Productions-released ‘L’astre Mort’ demo tape and while for today’s standards…
Artist: Repúdio Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Not too long ago I read a serious piece of writing in which a fairly seasoned Black Metal fan wondered, while writing, what exactly “Raw Black…
Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Primitive Blood Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Demo #2 for Dryas from a series of three rapidly successive demo releases – not in the “right” sequence, though. The Portuguese Black Metal band, which sometimes operates…
Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Asylum Tenebris Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 When I reviewed Dryas’ ‘Monumentos à Eternidade’-demo tape a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t know that was actually their third demo. At the time of writing there…
Artist: Irae Country: Portugal Label: Signal Rex Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Just a few years ago, we might have started a review of a Portuguese Black Metal band by saying that this sunny country by exception…
Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although Dryad could have several meanings, based on the song titles and mainly the wintry music, it seems to be derived from the term that divides the last…
Artist: Efermus Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Format: Demo tape Year: 2024 Just a few months after the release of the band’s first full-length album, ‘A Ira Do Tempo’ (Altare Productions), Efermus returns with something new. This time it is…
Artist: Templum Supra Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although ‘Criptam Ostium’ is the debut demo tape from this new Portuguese Black Metal band Templum Supra, there is a bit of a background story to tell.…
Artist: Repúdio Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Over the past decade or so the Portuguese Black Metal scene has spawned an incredible amount of quality Black Metal, Raw Black Metal to be exact. Without wanting…
Artist: Chapel Of Samhain Country: Portugal Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Spawned from the minds of Black Onyx and Phoros, Chapel Of Samhain is one of the latest monsters to come from…
Artist: Black Cilice Country: Portugal Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Founded back somewhere at the end of the 00’s, Black Cilice’s rise to fame (for Black Metal standard at least) came after the…
Artist: Candelabrum Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Two years after the release of ‘Nocturnal Trance’ through Hells Headbangers, the Portuguese flagship of Lo-Fi Black Metal returns with their fourth full-length album. Before we dive into a deeper analysis of the…
Artist: NethermancyCountry: PortugalLabel: Helldprod RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2023 The roots of Nethermancy dig deep into the Portuguese Black Metal scene, having been formed over 25 years ago and with some of its members commited to the local Black Metal scene since…
Artist: Raw Vomit Country: Portugal Label: Enfermo Distro Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 From the deepest pits and sewers from Portugal comes Raw Vomit, a band that has absolutely no sense for subtlety or melody. In fact, the soul or…
Artist: Hate Propaganda Country: Italy Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2022 An anonymous band from Portugal delivering some relentless raging Black/Thrash Metal with a sharp grinding edge, that’s what Hate Propaganda is all about. Back in 2019…
Artist: Irae Country: Portugal Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Last year marked the 20th anniversary of the Portuguese Black Metal act Irae, the brainchild of its sole member, Vulturius. In those two decades he has been really…
Artist: Nihil Invocation / Irae Country: USA / Portugal Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2023 ‘Evil Storm Of Haunting Recollections’ is a collaboration of two individuals who have drilled down the Black Metal genre to its very primal essentials. Both…
Artist: Ruach Raah Country: Portugal Label: Signal Rex Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2022 Ruach Raah, which translates to something ‘Spirit Of Evil’ from Hebrew, has been around for about a decade now and continues to release their stripped down Black…
Artist: Corpus ChristiiCountry: PortugalLabel: Immortal Frost ProductionsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 One of the longest running and active Black Metal acts from Portugal is Corpus Christii. Their almost quarter century in the Black Metal scene has taken…
Artist: DecayedCountry: PortugalLabel: Lusitanian MusicFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 The veterans of the Portuguese Black Metal scene, Decayed, are back from never having been away. This is their 14th album from an otherwise bulging discography and with that it…
Artist: CandelabrumCountry: PortugalLabel: Hells Headbangers RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 When the mid-10’s were rocked by an unexpected resurgence of raw, primitive and often quite low-fi Black Metal, introduced mainly by a handful of bands from an equally unexpected corner of the…
Artist: Nidernes Country: Portugal Label: Black Gangrene Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 When it comes to Black Metal, Portugal has never been much of a fertile breeding ground. Apart from bands like (very) early Moonspell…
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: Inner Helvete / Necrocult Country: Portugal / Brazil Label: Hell War Productions / Sacrilegious Warfare Productions Formats: Split Demo Tape Year: 2001 While digging around through my tapes, I came across another effort of the Portuguese culthordes Inner Helvete.…
Artist: Inner Helvete Country: Portugal Label: Ordealis Records / Hell War Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2002 I like to start of with saying this isn’t really new anymore, since it was released somewhere at the end of…