Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Seance In Darkness To Shake The Firmament / Orgy Of Carrion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Split CD Year: 2025 Although Perverse Homage is a label that might primarily be associated with cassette tape releases, the label now…
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: Fessus / Kill The Lord Country: Austria / Germany Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 This split LP brings together two new Death Metal acts which Darkness Shall Rise Productions has set its eyes on.…
Artist: Misantropical Painforest / W.A.I.L. Country: Finland Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 Under the title ‘Dare To Venture Down To Earth, Father! Perish Into Nothingness’ Nuclear War Now! Productions releases a very special split LP.…
Artist: Tormentador / Sex Messiah Country: Brazil / Japan Label: Sex Desire Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 This release may be a bit older, but as a fan of the 7” EP format and the underground qualities of…
Artist: Drowning The Light / Forbidden Citadel Of Spirits Country: Australia Label: Winterreich Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 Just before the release of the five new Drowning The Light albums, this split LP was released, right at the end of…
Artist: Nubivagant / Häxenzijrkell Country: Italy / Germany Label: Amor Fati Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 After having embarked on a tour together, this split 7” EP is meant to further strengthen the musical bond between both Nubivagant…
Artist: Cultus / Pest Country: The Netherlands / Germany Label: Heidens Hart Records / Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 With strong ties between bands and labels, with multi-instrumentalist Arjan being found in Cultus as well as Pest and…
Artist: Sanctvs / Sotherion Country: Canada / France Label: Sepulchral Productions Formats: Split CD Year: 2025 Not all too long after Sotherion’s debut full-length, released last year by W.T.C. Productions, the French one-man band seemed to have started working on new material…
Artist: Regnum Tenebrarum / Hertogenwald Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Split LP / Split CD Year: 2024 As a part of the batch of the Medieval Prophecy Records releases from October 2024, came this split LP between two…
Artist: Sabbat / Gruesome Country: Japan / USA Label: Doomentia Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 To add extra lustre to last summer’s European tour, a split 7” EP between Sabbat and Gruesome was released by Doomentia Records. The…
Artist: Nameless Tomb / Witchcraft Country: Germany / Finland Label: Escafismo Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2023 Virtually simultaneously with the split 7” EP with Behalf Fiend there is also this Witchcraft split 7” EP with Nameless Tomb from…
Artist: Witchcraft / Behalf Fiend Country: Finland / Brazil Label: Brazilian Ritual Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2023 Although I more or less abide by an unwritten rule that keeps me from reviewing releases older than, say, six months,…
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: Nocturnal Deviancy / Drowning The Light Country: USA / Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: Split CD Year: 2024 Besides Drowning The Light’s split CD with Azgorh’s own Harvest, there’s also this split release with Nocturnal Deviancy. Although Azgorh…
Artist: Harvest / Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: Split CD Year: 2024 While waiting for newest album of Australia’s most prolific Black Metal titan, Drowning The Light, we were surprised by no less than three…
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: Tenebro / Mortuary Ghoul Country: Italy / USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Split Cassette EP Year: 2024 This is one of those splits that you knew that was eventually going to happen. It is no surprise that Tenebro-chief…
Artist: Morbid Rituals / Dungeon Keeper Country: Germany Label: Fucking Kill Records Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 Probably prompted by the idea that it would be a shame for the demos of both Dungeon Keeper and Morbid Rituals to be limited to the…
Artist: Orkblut / Hertogenwald Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Out of the October 2024 batch of releases of the respected Medieval Prophecy Records, also comes this nice little piece of black wax that…
Artist: Chaotian / Deiquisitor Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Night Shroud Formats: Split LP / Split Tape / Split CD Year: 2024 Anyone who has been keeping an eye on the ever-thriving and ever-lively Danish Death Metal scene…
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: Nocturnal Deviancy / Chasmic Filth Country: USA Label: Ancient Horror Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 Although this split was already digitally released in Spring of this same year, it took until last summer for a physical edition to…
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: Obscure Anachronism / Horna Country: Austria / Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 Horna, undoubtedly one the ultimate stalwarts of Finnish Black Metal, is not quite a stranger to the concept of split releases. I quickly…
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: Sadomortuary / In League With Satan Country: Italy Label: Non Resurgam Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 This split cassette tape is quick to follow up on Sadomortuary’s first full-length album that was released only two months prior. This…
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: 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: Tarokulith / Necromoon Country: Canada / Poland Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 As the title already suggests, this Anti-Human Productions release combines Tarokulith and Necromoon, two entities that like to thumb their noses at things like…
Artist: Sequestrum / Sněť Country: Denmark / Czechia Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Noxious Ruin Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Arriving late to a party might be fashionable, it has its downsides too. Like arriving late to the party that the…
Artist: Schrecken / Erzfeynd Country: Germany Label: Urtod Void Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 This split between two German Black Metal bands was actually already released digitally by both bands on their respective Bandcamp pages in November 2023 and it…
Artist: Deteriorot / Rotpit Country: USA / Germany/Sweden Label: Seven Inches Of Metal Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 With the aptly titled ‘We Rot’ Seven Metal Inches Records presents a new 7” that brings together the long-running Deteriorot…
Artist: Sepulchral Curse / Ashen Tomb Country: Finland Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 ‘Ashen Curse’ is a part of four 7” EP’s released by the Polish Godz Ov War Productions label and combines two…
Artist: Black Ceremonial Kult / Shambles Country: Chile / Thailand Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 In the latest batch of Godz Ov War Productions’ releases there are four 7” EP’s, a format I am…
Artist: Perversion / Pyromancer Country: USA Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 This new split 7” EP combines two Black/Death Metal bands from the USA. Perversion on the A-side has already released a significant amount…
Artist: Drengskapur / Häxenzijrkell Country: Germany Label: Amor Fati Productions / The Cosmic Pillars Formats: Split LP / Split Tape / Split CD Year: 2024 On this split release, presented by Amor Fati Productions (with The Cosmic Pillars taking care…
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: Kalmankantaja / Somber WindsCountry: FinlandLabel: Misantropia RecordsFormats: Split CDYear: 2024 Shortly after the release of reimagined tracks from the 2014-2016 period, Kalmankantaja returns to the release front with the first new material of 2024 (although technically it was already…
Artist: Coffins / Gravavgrav Country: Japan Label: Lycanthropic Chants Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 For the revered Japenese Death Metal band Coffins is this split 7” EP the latest chapter in a long tradition of splitting EP’s, this time…
Artist: The True Werwolf / As Sahar Country: Finland / Malaysia Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Finnish Black Metal stalwart The True Werwolf started 2024 with two split 7” EP’s, a tradition that the band holds…
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: Cursed Excruciation / Funerealm Gloom Country: Brazil / Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split 10” EP / Split Tape / Split CD Year: 2023 Unpure Records, a label that is always bringing the best of the worst. The label…
Artist: Podridão / Convulsive Country: Brazil Label: Iron Fortress Records / Iron, Blood And Death Corporation Formats: Split Tape / Split CD Year: 2024 ‘Convulsively Rotteness’ brings together two of Brazil’s finest Death Metal bands that operate in the more…
Artist: Aberration / Diabolic Oath Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Ever since I started to get into extreme music, split 7” EP’s have intrigued me. Through many of them I discovered a lot…
Artist: Infernathan / Necro Ritus Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2023 The ones in the knowing that when a band like Infernathan teams up with the Polish Unpure Records label, that certainly you are in for a treat.…
Artist: Abrahamic Liars / Grafjammer Country: Belgium / The Netherlands Label: Smeerenburgh Grammofoon Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2023 Grafjammer, hailing from Utrecht, the Netherlands, is not a band that likes to sit still. Although formed back in 2007 and…
Artist: Funeral Fullmoon / Nocturnal Prayer Country: Chile / Canada Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2023 Not too long after the band’s second full-length album, Chilean Funeral Fullmoon returns with some new work. Despite not having expected new…
Artist: Hellevaerder / Duindwaler / Schavot / Asgrauw Country: The Netherlands Label: Zwaertgevegt Formats: LP Year: 2023 If the ‘Verloren Vertellingen’ LP proved anything, it is that, even in the deepest caverns of underground Black Metal, you can create some…
Artist: Ancestors Blood / Heimdalls Wacht Country: Finland / Germany Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: Split LP / Split CD Year: 2023 On the verge of the end of winter and the beginning of spring this year, Heidens Hart Records…