Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Hatenoir Country: Unknown Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2026 Earlier this year, Hatenoir released their debut album ‘Blasphemy Of The Souls’, and now, less than a year later, we already have the follow-up in our hands. Admittedly, the…
Artist: Orgy Of Carrion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 There’s no denying that the hype surrounding Lo-Fi Black Metal has completely faded. The few years during which one could speak of a peak are now…
Artist: Nathrath Country: Spain Label: Diabolical Blood Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Rexurdimento’ is the fourth release under the name Nathrath, whose first demo came out in March this year. That means that in less than half a year, we’ve already been treated…
Artist: Gvozdena Nychta Country: Serbia Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 About a year and a half after the debut EP from this enigmatic duo known as Gvozdena Nychta, they’ve given a new sign of life.…
Artist: Adverso Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 The Portuguese band Adverso released three demos in the late 2010s (the last of which came out in 2020), the first two being released via the now-defunct Purodium…
Artist: Efermus Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Format: CDR EP Year: 2026 Although the spotlight usually falls on bands such as Black Cilice and Candelabrum when we talk about Portuguese Raw Black Metal, this enigmatic one-man band is also making…
Artist: Thornhammer Country: Bulgaria Label: Hellvetic Carnage Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although I wasn’t entirely sure, of course, I was fairly certain that Thornhammer was yet another offshoot of Todorac. Bulgarian Raw Black Metal isn’t something I run…
Artist: Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: CDR Year: 2026 ‘Uneen Eksynyt’ is already the second full-length release that the prolific Finnish one-man band Kurjuus has unleashed on us this year. Yet in almost every conceivable respect, this release is…
Artist: Alliberant Country: Spain Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Although Alliberant officially operates under the Spanish flag, the two gentlemen behind this relatively new band will not appreciate this geographical classification. Like many Black Metal bands from…
Artist: Funeral Moon / Gaalvan Country: Germany Label: Crimson Reign Records Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Just as on previous occasions, we haven’t had to wait long for new work from Gaalvan; just three months after the release of…
Artist: Twilight Stronghold Country: France Label: The Weeping Kingdom Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Although Twilight Stronghold released their first demo back in 2021, followed by three split releases and a compilation featuring those tracks, I can imagine that for…
Artist: Riena Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 ‘Miekka Ja Varjo’ is the first sign of battle of Finland’s Riena. The band harbors the talents of Draghn and Woewerb, the latter who you…
Artist: Haavrun Country: Bulgaria Label: Caligo Arcanum Productions / Hellvetic Carnage Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 With ‘Total Demolition Of Feeble Souls’, the Bulgarian band Haavrun have now released their third demo tape. It’s always an exciting moment, because…
Artist: Kerkerengel Country: Finland Label: Wizard’s Hat Publications Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2026 It’s been a year since the latest Warmoon Lord record surfaced, but main man Lord Vrăjitor did not waste time since to revisit one of his more…
Artist: Mesnada Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Admittedly, I had missed Mesnada’s untitled debut demo that was released earlier this year, as well as the two short releases that were put out in 2025 under the…
Artist: Babylonian War Chant Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 This monochromatic cover with the large logo is quite a departure from Babylonian War Chant’s earlier output. All previous releases featured a cover depicting Assyrian, Mesopotamian or Babylonian engravings or scenes,…
Artist: Clementis / Eternal Ice Country: France / Japan Label: A Clockwork Apple Production Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 The ever-prolific Japanese Black Metal duo known as Eternal Ice is back with a new split. This time on CD through…
Artist: Teñvalded Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Teñvalded debuted last April with a self-titled demo tape that contains a mix of both Dark Ambient and Dungeon Synth. Although it leaned more towards the latter and therefore…
Artist: Talvi Country: Finland Label: Forest Gloom Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From Finnish, “Talvi” translates to “Winter”, a very befitting name for a band from Finland, a country known for its harsh winter. Therefore it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there’s two bands…
Artist: Nathrath / CelticHammer Country: Spain Label: Bundushathûr Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2026 ‘Décadas De Represión’ is a short split tape that brings together Nathrath and CelticHammer, two bands from the Gallaecia Kommando, a circle of bands from the Galicia region in…
Artist: Crévüre Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 With ‘Le Dernier Messie’, the French one-man band Crévüre has already released its third demo tape within the relatively short span of four months. Whilst Crévüre’s Raw Black Metal may not be of the…
Artist: Kūkāʻilimoku Country: USA Label: Goatowarex / Nithstang Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Over the past years, basically since this solo-project’s inception in 2019, Kūka’ilimoku has been attracting attention from underground Black Metal fans from various directions.…
Artist: Black Cilice Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions / Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 When Black Cilice hit the underground scene with their first two albums in the first half of the 10s,…
Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Fallen Warrior, the only musician behind Occult Mountain, is one of such people who seem to have more hours in a day and more days in a week…
Artist: Mordberg Country: Germany Label: Sturmglanz Black Metal Manufaktur Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 As I write this, the temperature is almost at 30 degrees, and I’m trying to do as little as possible and keep the…
Artist: Gaalvan Country: Germany Label: Crimson Reign Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 In the introduction part of my review of ‘Geschworener Hass’, the previous demo of Gaalvan, I already cited that many one-man Black Metal bands do not beat…
Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Anyone who regularly visits these pages has likely come across Veitsi before. Not counting the other projects and bands associated with Veitsi, this is already the seventh time we’ve dedicated a few…
Artist: Night’s Embrace Country: France Label: Starless Industries Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although L.S., also known as Lila Starless, has been active in countless bands and projects, she has only appeared on these pages once before. That was with…
Artist: Madom Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 With little to no information about Madom, we, to quote Joe Perry, will let the music do the talking. There’s literally nothing else to say other than that this is a new one-man Raw…
Artist: Nefarious Scorn Country: Canada Label: Pain Chain Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Not even that long after the release of Nefarious Scorn’s second full-length album, that saw the light of day in December 2025, the duo is now back with a…
Artist: Solar Cross Country: USA Label: Ixiol Productions Format: 7″ EP / Demo Tape Year: 2026 Originally ‘The Herald Of The Lightning And The Sun’ was released on a very limited cassette tape for Solar Cross’ appearance at the Cascadian Usurpation Festival in autumn…
Artist: Vorgalen Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 ‘Winds Of The Downed Mire’ is the debut demo of a new German Black Metal band called Vorgalen. And that’s about it when it comes to the information that’s…
Artist: Coldfall Country: United Kingdom Label: Forbidden Keep Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Not so long ago, I reviewed two recent releases by Fields Of Agony and Pragha, two bands from the increasingly interesting British black metal scene. Although…
Artist: Hingriden Fortress Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Hingriden Fortress is another endeavor by the remarkably prolific multi-instrumentalist Wandering Shade, whose work with several of his other projects has already been featured here, including Ërhatiüurä, Hiemal Atavism, Par-delà le…
Artist: Crévüre Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Five weeks ago, on March 17th to be precise, the debut demo tape of Crévüre was released and it is clear that Sanglant, the sole member of the project, doesn’t intend to waste much…
Artist: Pragha Country: United Kingdom Label: Mystic Rites Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 It would be a bit too much to call it a trend, but in recent years there certainly has been a modest growth in the number of…
Artist: Faerie Magic Country: USA/Australia Label: Black Omen Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 What we have here is a new band making its debut with ‘Upon The Black Soil’. But while Faerie Magic is a new band, the three musicians…
Artist: Spellblade Country: Unknown Label: Crucifixion Wounds Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Without any information to go on, we’ll have to rely primarily on the music itself when discussing ‘Citadel’, Spellblade’s debut demo. Just as there is no information available…
Artist: Goat Orgy Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 If you’ve never heard of Goat Orgy, you’re forgiven. Although this obscure Bulgarian Black Metal band has recorded and released a few demos and splits since…
Artist: Vhünkhobeltràkh Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Lately, it seems like choosing the strangest and most unpronounceable band names has become a way to score points for being obscure. I get that a lot of names…
Artist: Funeral Vultures Country: Brazil Label: Moon Rites Productions / Reliquaire Hérétique Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Dread Cenotaph’ is the first release for this one-man Black Metal from Brazil, but while it was first distributed digitally through Moon Rites…
Artist: Ald Weald Country: Unknown Label: Forlorn Majesty Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 This is yet another Black Metal band that is trying hard to be as obscure as possible. Although I do acknowledge that a bit of anonymity…
Artist: Gaalvan Country: Germany Label: Crimson Reign Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Gaalvan is a rather new one-man Black Metal project from Germany, solely helmed by Dark Tormentor (also in Asmodeum). As is more often the case with one-man…
Artist: Aürc Country: Spain Label: Diabolical Vitriol Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 One-man Black Metal project Aürc, hailing from Catalonia, Spain, debuted with a digital demo called ‘Autumn Fires’ by the end of 2021, yet it remained largely unnoticed. Yours…
Artist: Grieving Mirror Country: USA Label: Neuro Plastic Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 In summer last year, Grieving Mirror debuted with ‘Opulence And Grandeur’, a very interesting demo tape that showed the multifaceted character of this one-man project, led by…
Artist: Crévüre Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Whether Sanglant is also involved with other bands or projects, I do not know, but either way, ‘En Rase Campagne’ is the debut demo tape of Crévüre. As one might expect, judging by…
Artist: Fegefeuer Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: LP Year: 2026 Narbentage Produktionen, the label behind this vinyl reissue of the only recording Fegefeuer ever made, is based in the village of Ralingen, a town situated right on the Luxembourg…
Artist: Nathrath Country: Spain Label: Narbentage Produktionen Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 For an old soul like me, it’s still nice to actually hear a demo on cassette tape, especially a first one. In fact, I have nothing against demos being made available digitally,…
Artist: Wanterkraaft Country: Luxembourg Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: LP Year: 2026 Given that Luxembourg has a population of less than 700,000, it is hardly surprising that it is not a major supplier of Extreme Metal. However, when I think of…
Artist: Verdigris / Crève-Gorge Country: France Label: Starless Industries Formats: Split Tape Year: 2026 Although I am familiar with Veins Like Vines, I had missed the existence of this project by Septembre. About a year ago, he released his debut…