Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Moospirscher / Grundhyrde Country: Germany / USA Label: NIthstang Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2026 What we have here is a split tape that is quite a bit out of the ordinary. Grundhyrde is one of the many musical…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog / Moospirscher Country: Czechia / Germany Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Although there are actually two split releases between these two enigmatic one-man acts, this is the first, which was released on cassette…
Artist: Tenebroso Country: Brazil / Japan Label: A Clockwork Apple Production Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 One of the latest additions in what seems to be an endless stream of Eternal Ice releases is this split CD with Tenebroso from…
Artist: Average Misanthropy / Eternal Ice Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split Year: 2025 As part of the latest run of Eternal Ice releases, is this digitally released split with Average Misanthropy, a fellow Black Metal act from Japan.…
Artist: Autumn Mountains / Witchlike Star Cones Country: Japan / Israel Label: Rat Covenant Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 ‘The Land Where Light And Sky Will Wither’ is the title of a split tape that brings together Autumn Mountains from…
Artist: Asiratic Lithomancy / Eternal Ice Country: USA / Japan Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Although I have pretty much covered all of Eternal Ice’s material so far, I somehow failed to review this split tape with Asiratic Lithomancy. Time…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Vomit Country: Ukraine Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Originally this split tape was already released in 2022 by Bathöryhead, a rather obscure label from Ukraine that seems to focus primarily on bands from…
Artist: Goatcorpse / Gotthammer Country: USA / Canada Label: WolfKult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 By no means do I have the illusion that in my role of a reviewer I have any other purpose than to just…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Abyss Country: Ukraine / USA Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 At the Unpure Records HQ, they must have devised a good way to start the year. And what better way to kick off…
Artist: Bestial Abyss / Bestial Temple Country: USA / Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split Year: 2025 No Nostradamus needed for this case, with such band names and the title this digital split was given, it is crystal clear what…
Artist: Inquisition / Demonical Country: USA / Sweden Label: Agonia Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 What we have here is a split 7” EP with a title that inspires little enthusiasm. This “Deadly Alliance” offers two bands from…
Artist:Witchlike Star Cones / Eternal Ice Country: Israel / Japan Label:Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 In the what seems to be endless stream of Eternal Ice releases, being either short players or split tapes, this is the next chapter: a split…
Artist: Barbaric Horde / Goatsmegma Country: Portugal / Estonia Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split LP / Split Cassette Year: 2025 With both bands having a long-standing relationship with Godz Ov War Productions as well as being two of…
Artist: Human Corpse Abuse / Mortify Country: USA / Japan Label: Dark Descent Records / Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 An old school split 7” EP, this is something that always cheers me up! This particular…
Artist: Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid Country: Finland / USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Split 7” EP’s are basically seen in every style of extreme music, but with their roots in Punk and Hardcore it…
Artist: Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré Country: USA Label: Cranial Blast Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With one name even harder to pronounce than the other, this is definitely a split tape for enthusiasts. Which enthusiasts, you may ask. But those who…
Artist: Orgy Of Carrion / Vulnakkthra Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Split CDR Year: 2025 Over the years Orgy Of Carrion has always been a bit of an enigma when it comes to their musical identity. While always dwelling…
Artist: Tormentador / Goat Semen Country: Brazil / Peru Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 A split LP with one of Brazil’s heaviest and Peru’s foulest. This is one of those records where you don’t really…
Artist: Pillagery / Goatscrote Country: Canada Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With names like Pillagery and Goatscrote and a cover featuring goat heads and bullet belts, you don’t need to have an awful lot of imagination to…
Artist: Goat Semen / Bestial Rites Country: Peru Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Two portions of Peruvian perversion, that is what we’re treated with on this split between Goat Semen and Bestial Rites. In one corner,…
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: Red Right Hand Of Plague / Warslaughter Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 After the release of the ‘Descent.Parasite.Abominator’ 7” EP that was released earlier this year and the ‘His Womb’-demo a few months…
Artist:Blasfemator / Sepulcral Country: Greece / Colombia Label: Murder Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I am never keeping a very close eye on Murder Records. There’s no particular reason, it’s just that this label’s releases aren’t usually my cup of tar. But,…
Artist:Smyrtonos / Vagabond Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 After no less than five new releases in 2024, including the debut album, this year so far was remarkably quiet for Bulgarian Raw Black Metal act Smyrtonos (or Смъртонос), but…
Artist:Mania / Natürgeist Country: USA Label: Electric Assault Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Honestly, I was never impressed by any of Mania’s previous output and Natürgeist’s sole demo, also reissued on a 7” EP, was more hype than anything else. Without wanting…
Artist: Profanação / Teufelsdom Country: Portugal / Russia Label: Altare Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 This split tape comes rather hot on the heals of both band’s latest releases. Teufelsdom released their second two-track demo last May and Profanação’s second full-length album, also…
Artist: Carved Cross / Native Glow Country: Australia Label: Solar Wind Productions Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2025 The otherwise prolific output of Carved Cross suddenly and unexpectedly came to a halt in 2023. Whereas we had previously struggled to…
Artist: Sanguine Relic / Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 This little piece of vinyl brings together two of the USA’s most popular Raw Black Metal bands, with Sanguine Relic being an…
Artist: Messe Mortuaire / Trance Of The Undead Country: France / Brazil Label: Angel Of Cemetery Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 ‘Funeral Mass For The Undead’ is a split 7” EP combining one track of both Messe Mortuaire…
Artist: Eerified Catacomb / Gnawed Chrisom Country: Canada / Andorra Label: Under The Dark Soil Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Although I’ve seen the name of Gnawed Chrisom before, I never had the opportunity to check this project out musically.…
Artist: Eternal Ice / Yūrei Country: Japan / Greece Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Eternal Ice from Nagano, Japan wastes no time. This split tape with Yūrei is one of their five releases this year and second one that…
Artist: Black Offal Messiah / Burning Winds Country: USA Label: Sexmord Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 This split 7” EP is actually not really new. In fact, about a year old now, but it took me quite some…
Artist: Eternal Ice / Spiralen Country: Japan / Germany Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Only a couple of weeks ago I reviewed Eternal Ice’s ‘Curse In The Sky’ EP, released by Elff Eggs, an EP that followed shortly after the band’s debut…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog / Åndutsyn Country: Czechia / USA Label: Nithstang Productions Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Here we have another split release from the ever-prolific MBN (also in Arzhaabat, Ärschlings, Blau Blut, CEP and a handful more) with his…
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…