Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Hjemsøkt Country: Norway Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Time is a fickle. A couple of years ago I intended to write up my thoughts on ‘Mystikk & Mørke’, an EP released by the Norwegians…
Artist: Greve Country: Sweden Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2025 If I’m being honest, as time has gone by my opinion on the output of Swartadauþuz has changed. While I certainly appreciate the body of work that he…
Artist: Sad Country: Greece Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 This year marks the twentieth anniversary for Sad, and what better way to celebrate that than with a brand new album. But while ‘Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening’…
Artist: Redenção Pelas Chamas Country: Portugal Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2025 It’s not really the first time I’ve expressed my not always mild aversion to overly smooth-and-simple or downright interchangeable Black Metal. Some musicians are just cranking…
Artist: Gnipahålan Country: Sweden Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2024 At the very frayed ends of 2024 the overly-prolific Swartadauþuz comes with yet another record. I haven’t really counted his work this year, but at the beginning of…
Artist: Order Of Nosferat Country: Finland / Germany Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 In good Order Of Nosferat tradition, 2024 also brings us two full-length albums, albeit narrowly. ‘The Absence Of Grace’…
Artist: NightsideCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Last year Nightside returned with the demo ‘Lions’, their first release in 22 years. A glorious return, as the Finnish Black Metal outfit combined an excellent sense of fast-paced Swedish…
Artist: Order Of Nosferat Country: Finland / Germany Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 As enchanting and confusing the shapeshifting entity of a vampire can be, the same can be said about this…
Artist: Immortal Hammer Country: Slovakia Label: Hexencave Productions / Murderous Music Production / Purity Through Fire / Werewolf Promotion Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 / 2024 Somewhere around the early to mid-00’s I developed a bit…
Artist: Granitader Country: Germany Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2024 As an analyst and close follower of the Black Metal scene in the past quarter of a century or so, it pleases me that, in recent years, I…
Artist: Bergrizen Country: Ukraine Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Ukrainian Bergrizen has released no less than two albums in 2023. ‘Orathania’ from September last year almost entirely comprised of Ambient/Dark Folk-music with which it is…
Artist: UhrituletCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: CDYear: 2023 Even though Uhritulet hails from Finland, the band consisting of sole member VP doesn’t exactly sound like your run of the mill Finnish act. Perhaps the bareboned midtempo basis of groove along…
Artist: Nachtgnawer feat. WulfseerCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: CD EPYear: 2023 Nachtgnawer’s ‘Eternal Curse of the Blood’ still stands as one of my favorite demos of last year. Taking a familiar Finnish formula of earlier Satanic Warmaster but by adding…
Artist: Wooden ThroneCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: CDYear: 2023 Mikko Lehto isn’t exactly a stranger to atmospheric Black Metal. Since the inception in 2001, he has released six full-length albums with October Falls, initially as a solo project but since…
Artist: KvadCountry: NorwayLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: CDYear: 2023 A raw and suffocating type of Black Metal with a cold atmosphere that mixed classic American Black Metal with an Eastern European sound. That is the description that my writing partner in…
Artist: The KryptikCountry: BrazilLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: CDYear: 2023 In a genre where nostalgia reign supreme, bold statements can set things off on the wrong foot. It’s at the very least a striking claim to suggest an album might be…
Artist: SieluhaaskaCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: CD EPYear: 2023 A melancholic piercing riff, an ever so subtle background hum of the keyboards, rumbling bass and raspy cries upon a midpace drum rhythm: Sieluhaaska doesn’t waste time to introduce what they…
Artist: NightsideCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: Demo CDYear: 2023 When Nightside was formed in Turku, Finland in 1996, there wasn’t so much of a Finnish Black Metal scene as we know it today. Sure, bands like Beherit, Impaled Nazarene, Archgoat…
Artist: Order Of NosferatCountry: Finland / GermanyLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: LP, CDYear: 2022 The previous album by this international Black Metal band was a good and organic album in which the loneliness of existence as a vampire clearly shone through.…
Artist: Order Of NosferatCountry: Finland / GermanyLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: LP, CDYear: 2022 When a band chooses a name that leaves so little to the imagination, it can only do its best to fully and completely live up to the…
Artist: GreveCountry: SwedenLabel: Mysticism Productions / Purity Through FireFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Those with a weak spot for Black Metal will undoubtedly have heard one or more bands featuring the Swedish multi-instrumentalist Swartadauþuz, who also runs Ancient Records and Mysticism Productions.…
Artist: Sacrificium CarmenCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 For the Tampere, Finland based Black Metal band Sacrificium Carmen, ‘Nekrognosis – Avain Varjoihin’ is their third album. Formed in 2009, the band took a few…
Artist: Vampyric TyrantCountry: GermanyLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: CD EPYear: 2022 Only a few months after the German Black Metal band’s debut album, released earlier in 2022, Vampyric Tyrant returns with a new EP, ‘Zorn Und Hass’. This new EP was…
Artist: Vampyric TyrantCountry: GermanyLabel: Into Endless Chaos Records / Mortal Rite Records / Purity Through FireFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 After the 2021 released ‘Das Schwert der Sterne’ EP, the German Black Metal band Vampyric Tyrant returns,…
Artist: RiivausCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: LP / CDYear: 2021 Riivaus is the solo project of Hoath Daemnator, who under a few different pseudonyms is also active in a number of other bands of which Sacrificium Carmen is probably the…
Artist: Bekëth NexëhmüCountry: SwedenLabel: Amor Fati ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2021 About a year ago the multi-talented and multi-instrumentalist Swartadauþuz presented a new album with Bekëth Nexëhmü, one of his most prolific projects. And if he does something, he does…
Artist: Bekëth NexëhmüCountry: SwedenLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 The full-length albums of Swedish Black Metal act Bekëth Nexëhmü follow each other in rapid succession. Just after the previous work, the one filled with mostly old demo material,…
Artist: Licht Des UrteilsCountry: FinlandLabel: Purity Through FireFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 From Tampere, Finland hails the five-piece of Licht Des Urteils. The band was formed in 2018 and quickly released a self-titled demo in 2019, before starting to work…