Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Spectrum Mortis Country: Spain Label: Bloody Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 When, out of the blue, Spectrum Mortis debuted with their ‘Blasphemare Nomen Eius’ 12” EP in 2016, I was pretty impressed with what these Spaniards were able…
Artist: Opositor / Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Split Cassette / Split CD Year: 2025 Although originally intended as a split 7” EP, this split between two contemporary Spanish descendants of the greats from their homeland has now…
Artist: Infernaculum / Secret Tongues Country: Spain / Germany Label: Profaner Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 From the ever-prolific HQ’s of Profaner Records from Spain, comes this new split tape that unites the obscure Spanish Black/Death Metal band Infernaculum…
Artist: Blight Psalm Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Blight Psalm seems to be the result of the involved musicians’ desire to do something different from Death Metal-oriented music. These Spaniards are also active in bands…
Artist: Cerebral Curse Country: Spain Label: Rotted Life Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Promo ‘25’ is the first feat of this Spanish duo, who have already been featured on these pages before in their other bands like Rotten Cavern, Siegehammer and Blight Psalm.…
Artist: Profanatorium Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Profanatorium, a new and rather obscure entity from Spain. Well, Spain… I am aware of the fact that people from Gran Canaria usually do not want to be called…
Artist: Under The Moon Country: Spain Label: Crimson Tide Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Crimson Tide Productions is not a very prolific label, but if they decide to dedicate some time and money to something, it surely is something…
While in essence there is nothing wrong with so many other bands in the genres that claim to lean on the principles of paganism, the number of bands that really feel a deep connection to it is scarce. This becomes…
Artist: Eclipsed Moon Apparitions Country: Spain Label: En Claustere Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Eclipsed Moon Apparitions is a new Black Metal project that sprung from the minds of M.W. (Manel Woodcutter) and S.M. (Sanguinous Moth), two individuals who are…
Artist: Teitanblood Country: Spain Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With especially the band’s first two albums, Teitanblood rose to true underground fame. Their sense for combining utter musical barbarity and impeccable song writing as well…
Artist: Haemorrhage Country: Spain Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Haemorrhage’s roots go as deep as to 1990 and have ever since been a band that’s been amongst the leading acts when it comes…
Artist: Great Tribulation Country: Spain / USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After the 1-track demo/promo from early January this year, the Spanish/American trio that together makes up Great Tribulation is back already with their debut album.…
Artist: Stygian Storm Country: Spain Label: Abyssal Spectra / Escafismo Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Usually, when it comes to reviewing, I like to stick with releases of a few weeks old, couple of months maximum. Otherwise…
Artist: Darkera / Nigromancer Country: Finland / Spain Label: Escafismo Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Next up in line from the 7” EP’s released by Escafismo Records is this one that teams up Darkera from Finland and the…
Artist: Vastago Country: Spain Label: Elf Eggs / Profaner Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although the tape version of ‘Hexagnosis’ was already released digitally in October of last year, this second EP of Spanish Black/Death Metal band Vastago didn’t see…
Artist: Lugubrious Country: Spain Label: Discos MeCagoEnDios Formats: LP Year: 2024 Out of the deepest pits of the Spanish Extreme Metal underground comes Lugubrious, a four-piece Death Metal band that never got beyond one demo tape in 1993 – besides…
Artist: Azelsglare Country: Spain Label: Diabolical Vitriol Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 ‘When The Purity Of Winter Falls’, ironically released in the middle of the Spanish summer of 2024, may well go down in the books as one of the…
Artist: Itxinako Atxak Country: Spain Label: Altare Productions Format: Demo tape Year: 2024 From the ever-elusive stables of Altare Productions comes this new Spanish acts Itxinako Atxak. Although I believe they prefer to be seen as Basques, an issue that…
Artist: Putridarium / Trollcave Country: Germany / Spain Label: Seven Metal Inches Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 ‘Swallowed By Rottenness’ brings together two of today’s emerging death metal acts. Both Putridarium from Germany and Spanish Trollcave have been…
Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 On the band’s previously released two demos and full-length albums Warslaughter already showed what they were made of. The Spaniards follow much of the country’s tradition in unrelenting…
Artist: Siegehammer Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 You can already tell from the title of this demo that we are dealing with a reissue of these recordings. We are now a year on, but Profaner…
Artist: Infernaculum Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 The one and only demo of the Spanish Infernaculum, ‘Esperma De Satanás’, was actually already released in the very first month of 2023 in a small quantity of…
Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: The Final Return Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of the band’s second album, the Black Noise Committee released ‘Autocombustión’, we are also presented with this tape release that compiles both…
Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Black Noise Committee / Headsplit Records / Ixiol Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 After two demos and a full-length album in about three years the band decided to throw in the towel…
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: NecroracleCountry: SpainLabel: Triangulum Ignis / Nuclear Winter RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 The Spanish Death/Black Metal scene might not be the most active, but when a band releases an album, you know it’s worth your attention. That certainly applies…
Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Down With The Most High Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Prior this new EP Opositor already released about a handful of releases, including a full-length album, all varying greatly in sound quality, but if one…
Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Year: 2024 As the title might already suggest, ‘Primaeval Worships’ is a compilation tape of older Opositor tracks that were recorded during the first two years of the band’s existence. To…
With two good demo tapes under their belt, Spanish outfit Vomit Messiah have proven, as far as I am concerned, to be a more than worthy continuation of what we can safely call the “Spanish Tradition” in Bestial Black/Death Metal.…
Artist: Siegehammer Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Only formed last year, this Spanish Death Metal band had already released a demo tape in the waning days of December 2023 and now arrived to its second release:…
Artist: Rotten Cavern Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Rotten Cavern is a new band from the Catalonia region of Spain, formed by a duo that is also found in the equally great Siegehammer. However, their…
Artist: Messe De Minuit Country: Spain Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Born from the spirits of the trinity of Eosforos, Crucifier and Lucifogo, they collectively lay their first feat on the table: ‘Invocation’. A 1-track demo…
Artist: Vomit Messiah Country: Spain Label: In Pulverem Mortis Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Last autumn, Spain’s Vomit Messiah had already caught my attention with their self-titled demo tape that was brimming with unbridled savage barbarism. Deliciously unoriginal and…
Artist: Cryfemal Country: Spain Label: Immortal Frost Productions Formats: CD Year: 2023 In the current Black Metal constellation where there are as many types of Black Metal or sub-subgenres as there are musicians active, it can be a breath of…
Artist: VoidescentCountry: SpainLabel: Avantgarde MusicFormats: LP / CDYear: 2023 While Voidescent (what’s in a name) isn’t exactly a new band, it might be more likely that the previous incarnation of the band is better known. As Andhord, the Spanish quartet…
Artist: Vomit Messiah Country: Spain Label: In Pulverem Mortis Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 Just as the band needed remarkably few words to title this debut demo, it can sometimes be as easy to write a review. This brand-new…
Artist: Avulsed Country: Spain Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP / CD EP Year: 2023 One of Spain’s longest running bands is back with this new two-track EP, which is actually the first new material since the 2017 released split…
Artist: EstenosisCountry: SpainLabel: Escafismo RecordsFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2023 ‘Orgía Necrofílica’ is Estenosis’ third demo and just like the two preceding tapes, this one has quite an impressive tracklist of no less than 18 tracks. Tracks that are brimming with some…
Artist: YskelgrothCountry: SpainLabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: CDYear: 2023 Dave Rotten’s influence and contribution to the (extreme) metal scene is huge, especially in his homeland Spain, his importance is almost without equal. Especially with his label Xtreem Music (and its predecessors, Drowned…
Artist: DoomorderCountry: Finland / SpainLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: DigitalYear: 2022 After a short promo in 2016, which was released as a part of a split 7” (pressed on a clear lathe disc) in 2017 the duo behind Doomorder returns with a self-released digital full-length album. The…
Artist: Jade Country: Germany / Spain Label: Pulverised Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 The German/Spanish Melodic Death Metal band released a demo in 2018 but went silent afterwards, it wasn’t until the very end of 2022 that the…
Artist: Putrevore Country: Spain / Sweden Label: Xtreem Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2021 Putrevore is the collaboration of two of Death Metal’s most prolific veterans, Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader, Revolting among many others) and Dave…
Artist: Lie In Ruins / Graveyard Country: Finland / Spain Label: War Anthem Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2022 The German label War Anthem Records has spawned a considerable amount of nice Old School Death Metal split 7” EP’s…
Artist: CruzCountry: SpainLabel: Nuclear Winter RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Spain has proven to be a good purveyor of Death Metal over the past decade-plus. Whereas at first the scene was a bit limited to Avulsed and…
Artist: Muert Country: Spain Label: Immortal Frost Productions Formats: CD Year: 2022 Though most people know the Spanish Canary Islands only from their nice sunny holidays, the islands too have a very dark side. Its unpredictable and evil, volcanic character…
Artist: TeitanbloodCountry: SpainLabel: Norma Evangelium DiaboliFormats: LPYear: 2022 Originally released in 2011 as a single-sided 12” EP, ‘Purging Tongues’ recently got a reissue in a new cover and with the etched B-side being replaced for a different take of the…
Artist: AtaraxyCountry: SpainLabel: Dark Descent Records / Me Saco un Ojo Records Formats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Anyone who has followed the development of this Spanish Death Metal band will speak confidently of a particularly successful transformation. On 2010’s 5-track ‘Rotten Shit’ demo, the band…
Artist: Proclamation Country: Spain Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ross Bay Cult Formats: LP / CD Year: 2020 After the break-up of Proclamation, the band members formed a new band, Sacrificio, that leans a bit more towards Black Metal…
Artist: Proclamation Country: Spain Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ross Bay Cult Formats: LP / CD Year: 2020 While bands like Blasphemy, Beherit and in a lesser extent Sarfcófago defined a viciously suffocating brutal sound in the late 80’s…
Artist: Proclamation Country: Spain Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ross Bay Cult Formats: LP / CD Year: 2020 Whether it is due to the limitations of the Blasphemy-based Black/Death Metal or simply to the unbridled commitment of these Spaniards,…