Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Valdivian Tower Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne / Inferna Profundus Records Formats: CD / LP Year: 2024 Everyone remotely following the (underground) Black Metal scene or regularly read our pages knows that Lord Valtgryftåke is one of the most…
Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne / Inferna Profundus Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Dependent on what source you check this latest recording by Chilean Mánþiel is either the second full-length album in the span of only around two…
Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne Formats: CD Year: 2024 Although ‘From Lycanthropic Realms Of Sorrow’ was released just a few days before the ‘A Thousand Ornaments Of The Cosmos’-album that I reviewed just before this one, I deliberately…
Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne Formats: CD Year: 2024 After the ‘Vestiges Engraved In Frozen Mysticism’-album and the split with Wampyric Rites, both released in January 2023, it got a bit quiet around this project, run by the…
Artist: Vampyric BloodlustCountry: USALabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 Mördann is one heck of busy guy. Aurora Mortis, Faded Memories, Moonlight Spirit and Vivvaden are all bands that he formed in 2024 (with the latter two in collaboration with band…
Artist: Geatkihaukr / Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 This split tape brings together two of Finland’s finest when it comes to crude-sounding Black Metal, both marching under the flag of River Valley Cult.…
Artist: KinahmiCountry: FinlandLabel: Death MonumentFormats: Cassette tape / CD-RYear: 2024 Unpolished, twisted and atonal. Just a few words to describe the music of the Finnish band Kinahmi. The raw Black Metal that is presented on the debut ‘Birth of the…
Artist: Kūkāʻilimoku / Hakkapeliitta Country: USA / Sweden Label: Forbidden Sonority Formats: Cassette split tape Year: 2024 Although the American one-man Black Metal band Kūka’ilimoku has quite an extensive discography for its relatively short existence, the band has been around…
Artist: Åndutsyn Country: USA Label: Nihtstang Productions Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 The aptly titled ‘Into The Glory Of Violence’ is Åndutsyn’s fourth instalment and follows last year’s great ‘The Epitome Of The End Of The Cavernous Forestry’, which was…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 In many reviews of MBN’s work I have called him a workaholic or a restless soul, most likely, he’s both. But not infrequently, this does lead…
Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: LP Year: 2024 After no less than 2 full-lengths and 18 short players, Canada’s Eerified Catacomb is on its third album. You might wonder where the inspirer behind this band gets…
Artist: Lampir Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Early this same year Perverse Homage, the long-time companions of Lampir, digitally released a second compilation of demo recordings. With the title ‘Demo I – III’ it leaves little…
Artist: Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With Hämärä’s steady working pace you know you have to be on your qui vive, a new Kurjuus release (or that of a related project) is always lurking. And…
Artist: Ruttokosmos Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Ruttokosmos might well be one of the most obscure acts from the deepest forests of the Finnish Black Metal scene. Although never officially disbanded, after only having…
Despite moving to Sweden a few years ago, Volc Vermaledide can still be seen as a Dutch Black Metal band. After all, already formed in 2001, the band has existed on Dutch soil for the most part. Despite now slowly…
Artist: Sanguine Relic Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 ‘Within The Fog Of Fragmented Memory’, Sanguine Relic’s seventh full-length album, was already released some months ago, yet so far only on cassette tape. Like many of…
Artist: Kudlaakh Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: CDr EP Year: 2024 In the great hoopla of Raw and/or Lo-Fi Black Metal bands and releases from around the second half of the 10s, Kudlaakh fell a bit outside the box.…
Artist: Bloodsoaked Visions / Strigoic Curse Country: United Kingdom / Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split EP Year: 2024 This digitally released split EP combines the music of two one-man bands, both of which have featured on these pages before.…
Artist: Owl Country: The Netherlands Label: Zwaertgevegt Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Earlier, in spring this year, Jeroen Putman released a new album with Owl. Although I interviewed him for his previous record, the existence of this new work had…
Artist: Cachot d’Effroi / Wolftower Country: France / Finland Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2024 On this Narbentage Produktionen released split tape two of the most interesting bands out of today’s European Black Metal scene team up…
Artist: Smyrtonos / Skol Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split Year: 2024 While this split release is Smyrtonos’ fifth release of 2024, the partner on this split is rather new. Skol was founded last year and digitally released its…
Artist: KerkerengelCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 With Kerkerengel we witness the birth of another band led by Lord Vrăjitor, the mastermind behind the likes of Warmoon Lord, Old Sorcery and Argenthorns. But while epic and symphonic elements form parts…
Artist: CastrivenianCountry: BrazilLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassete tapeYear: 2024 Castrivenian is a relatively new entity from Brazil that was formed earlier in 2024. The band released their first demo ‘S.H.T.I.’ earlier in April, but with fires of creativity burning brightly, immediately…
Artist: Prehistoric War Cult / Dolchstoß Country: Germany Label: AbArt Corruption / Fucking Kill Records Formats: Split 7″ EP / Split Cassette EP Year: 2024 Although the title of this split might suggest that we are having a Manowar tribute…
Artist: Aznaitin Country: Aznaitin Label: Morken Tapes Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 Aznaitin, an anonymous Spanish entity from the Andalusian region, is a new act entering the Spanish Black Metal firmament. This self-titled demo tape is the band’s first feat,…
Artist: Cloaked Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 With very little info being available of this newly conceived Nashville, Tennessee-based Raw Black Metal band the music on this project’s debut demo should do the majority of the…
Artist: VrkolakCountry: Bosnia and HerzegovinaLabel: Black Gangrene ProductionsFormats: LPYear: 2024 At lot of attention has gone to the Black Metal scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for good reason. Band such as Sulphuric Night and Obskuritatem have garnered wide interest and acclaim and put their…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 With his many bands and projects the ever restless and total workaholic MBN is presenting new music almost every week, and while, of course, not everything…
Artist: Black Fullmoon Country: Puerto Rico Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 A haunting and sinister Dungeon Synth-like track sets the mood for the self-titled demo of this new and anonymous Black Metal entity from Puerto Rico. And their…
Artist: Ancient Necromancy Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Ancient Necromancy, a one-man Black Metal band spawned out of the mind of Eldrinacht, also responsible for such acts as Cult of Thaumiel and Gharmelicht, released one…
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: Xulux / Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Split Cassette Tape / Split CD Year: 2024 Not only do both bands on this split hail from the same Finnish town of Jyväskylä, they are also both one-man bands venturing…
Artist: KrattiCountry: FinlandLabel: Signal RexFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 After releasing one of the best demos of 2023, the Finns in Kratti will return with their first full-length of the band’s carreer. To be released by Signal…
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: Bloodsoaked Visions Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Bloodsoaked Visions is a new musical entity of Vithnagh, who is also behind Blót and in Bartzabel. Apparently Vithnagh was not able to express all his musical…
Artist: Drape Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Only a couple of days after Drape’s debut demo ‘Under The Majestic Black Mist’ the American one-man act returns with its follow-up; the twenty minute clocking and the evocatively…
Artist: Iron Firmament Country: USA Label: Wergild Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 ‘Empyrean Blood’ is Iron Firmament’s second offering, after last July’s debut EP ‘Keepeater’. That EP already introduced us to an interesting piece of Raw Black Metal that sounded…
Artist: Drape Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Drape is a new Black Metal band without any other information than it is apparently coming from the USA. But, since we are here for the music and not…
Artist: Drekavac / Orgy Of Carrion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage / Satanik Requiem Formats: Split Cassette / Split LP Year: 2024 After a quick start in their early career, Orgy Of Carrion produced a considerable amount output of a…
Artist: Viharukous Country: Finland Label: Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 After four demos, recorded in the timeframe between 2018 and 2021, this Finnish duo finally breaks a rather long silence with this latest offering, a 4-track EP (including…
Artist: Loferogh Country: Switzerland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2023 What better way to end a year than to release a compilation of both previous demos. That is what the Black Metal band Loferogh and Unpure Records must…
The reason for this Q&A was the release of Reflet Crépusculaire’s first full-length album that saw the darkness of night last month. Previously, the one-man band released several EPs, all of which intrigued me to such an extent that I…
Artist: Funeral Winds Country: The Netherlands Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although Funeral Winds never officially stopped it went on some sort of hibernation after the ‘Nexion Xul – The Cursed Bloodline’-album from 2007. Hellchrist Xul…
Artist: Black Lycanthropy Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 For those who have delved a little deeper into Black Metal than the interchangeable artists on the Nuclear Blast, Metal Blade, Century Media or even Season Of Mist…
Artist: Gravemoon Country: Puerto Rico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Not so much is known about this Black Metal band from Puerto Rico, yet it is around for at least a year as this second demo, ‘Glare Of…
Artist: MithrandirCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2023 Mithrandir’s debut ‘Towards the Spires of Dol Guldur’ was quite a striking debut. Expertly combining their Finnish Black Metal roots of the likes of Satanic Warmaster and Sargeist with touches of Burzum, Darkthrone…
Artist: Obsidian Grave Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2023 Over the roughly half decade of their existence, American Obsidian Grave have released their music through labels such as Atrocity Altar, Hatework, Perverse Homage and Death Hymns,…
Artist: Order Of Nosferat / Lunar Spells Country: Germany & Finland / Greece Label: Northern Silence Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Because both bands on this Northern Silence presented split LP released full-length albums fairly recently, with Order…
Artist: Chamber of MirrorsCountry: USALabel: Drakkar ProductionsFormats: LP / Tape / CDYear: 2023 On their second album, US-based Chamber of Mirrors presents a well-crafted mix between raw and symphonic Black Metal. Consisting of the sole member Mortem, ‘Moonlight Decay’ follows…
Artist: NoenumCountry: FinlandLabel: Northern Heritage RecordsFormats: 10″ EPYear: 2023 In late 2022 came the unexpected return of the Finnish duo of Noenum after an absence that lasted well over a decade. However, upon the release of their debut full-length album…