Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
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…
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: Gravavgrav / Bastard Grave Country: Japan / Sweden Label: Behind The Mountain Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2023 As a fan of the split 7″ EP format for its (often) musical variety and the 7″ EP in general, it…
Artist: Drowning The Light / Ghosts Of Oceania Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: Split CD Year: 2023 Those of you who tend to follow Azgorh’s musical steps in general and that of Drowning The Light in particular, will…
Artist: Galvanizer / MorbificCountry: FinlandLabel: Iron CorpseFormats: Split cassette tapeYear: 2023 To add some lustre to their joint tour, these Finnish bands are releasing a split tape where, in a pretty pink and yellow cover, they want to show off…
Artist: Kalmankantaja / Hadak Ura Country: Finland / USA Label: Death Hymns / Wolfspell Records Formats: Split Cassette / Split CD Year: 2022 Although Kalmankantaja beats Hadak Ura in terms of volume, both acts are quite prolific and dish out…
Artist: Stench Collector / Seep Country: USA Label: Gurgling Gore Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2023 This very short split EP, released on cassette tape, is the latest offering of both Stench Collector and Seep. Two bands haunting the gurgling and…
Artist: Mánþiel / Wampyric Rites Country: Chile / Germany / Ecuador Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Split LP Year: 2023 With ‘Ensomhet (Shattered Memories From A Distant Past)’ the admired Lithuanian Black Metal label Inferna Profundus Productions present two of…
Artist: Depraver / VrenthCountry: USALabel: Seed Of DoomFormats: Split LPYear: 2022 This split release between two Californian Death Metal acts, Depraver and Vrenth, was originally released in 2021 on both cassette tape (Nero One Records) and CD (Cavernous Records) and…
Artist: Old Castles / Winterstorm Country: Chile / Chile/Ecuador Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Split LP / Split CD Year: 2023 The Lithuanian label Inferna Profundus Records apparently is increasingly becoming the home for South American Raw Black Metal. With…
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: Cult Of EibonCountry: GreeceLabel: Iron Bonehead ProductionsFormats: Split LP / Split CDYear: 2022 At the very end of 2022 Iron Bonehead Productions treats us with one of the label’s best releases of the year. While both bands might not…