Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Nihil Invocation / Irae Country: USA / Portugal Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2023 ‘Evil Storm Of Haunting Recollections’ is a collaboration of two individuals who have drilled down the Black Metal genre to its very primal essentials. Both…
Artist: Nunslaughter / Fluids Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: Split 7″ EP / Split Tape EP Year: 2022 A split 7″ EP/cassette tape between two bands to who the concept of sharing a release is not exactly strange:…
Artist: Eternal Rot / CoffinsCountry: Poland / JapanLabel: Behind The MountainFormats: Split LP / Split cassette tape / Split CDYear: 2021 Coffins should require no introduction, not only have they released a couple of outstanding full-length album, they also left…
Artist: Weregoat / Eggs Of Gomorrh Country: USA / Switzerland Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Split LP / Split Cassette EP / Split CD Year: 2022 Simultaneously with the release of Weregoat’s ‘The Devil’s Lust’ 12″ EP, Iron Bonehead Productions…
Artist: Pukewraith / Intestinal Hex Country: Canada Label: Gurgling Gore Formats: Split Cassette EP Year: 2022 On this Gurgling Gore presented split tape we get two Canadian one-man Death Metal acts, each presenting three tracks. Both musicians have been featured…
Artist: Lolth / Bloodfeather Country: USA Label: Cult Of Oblivion Recordings Formats: Digital Split EP Year: 2022 With a title like ‘Hymns For A Blackened Forest’ you might archive this one directly amongst all those other forest dwelling bands, taking…
Artist: Sauron / Lugubre Country: The Netherlands Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2022 As an avid youngster, I plunged myself into the world of Black Metal towards the end of 1999. As anyone of that age does,…
Artist: Reveler / Necrotum Country: Romania/USA / Romania Label: Brutal Insanity Records / Morbid Chapel Records Formats: Split Tape / Split CD Year: 2022 In the ever-growing discography of Romanian Death Metal band Necrotum, we now add this split release…
Artist: Altar / CartilageCountry: Sweden / FinlandLabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: Split LP /Split cassette tape / Split CDYear: 2022 Despite the fact that the original material from this cult split LP had already been reissued by Xtreem Music in 2015, it…
Artist: Chevallier Skrog / Dracul’s GraspCountry: Sweden / CanadaLabel: Pant Y MeddygonFormats: Cassette split tapeYear: 2022 The fairly large flow of releases indicates the healthy work ethics of the Czech/Swedish Chevallier Skrog. We have covered this intriguing one-man act before…
Artist: Phlegethon’s Majesty / Gouffre Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2022 Belgian Black Metal has been on the rise in recent years. The times when we could only name Ancient Rites and Enthroned are…
Artist: Self Execration / Suicidechain Country: USA Label: War Ritual Records Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2022 I recently encountered Self Execration’s first demo, released last September, and that’s also how I came upon this split release that saw the light…
Artist: Kūka’ilimoku / Chevallier SkrogCountry: USA / SwedenLabel: Pant Y MeddygonFormats: Cassette split tapeYear: 2022 This split tape is a collaboration between US-based Kūka’ilimoku, of which I have previously reviewed some releases and Czech Chevallier Skrog, who now operate out…
Artist: Hekseblad / Vér / Nachtheir Country: USA / USA/ Canada Label: Wilt-Shine Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2022 Last year the American underground label Wilt-Shine released a three-way split tape with the name ‘Abattoir Dust Vol. 1’ and had Oppressive…
Artist: Kūka’ilimoku / AarkanneCountry: USA / ChileLabel: Inferna Profundus RecordsFormats: Split LPYear: 2022 ‘Ele’abyssus’ is the title of a split LP between two rather stripped down Black Metal acts, Kūka’ilimoku from the USA and Aarkanne from Chile. Earlier releases by…
Artist: Oppressive Descent / HellGoat Country: USA / Sweden Label: Corrupted Flesh Records / Feral Age Records / Jems Label / TormentRex Formats: Split LP / Split CD Year: 2021 ‘Death Knell Of A Dying World’ is a split LP…
Artist: Graveland / Commander Agares Country: Poland / Finland Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: Split LP / Split cassette / Split CD Year: 2022 About a year after Graveland’s latest opus, ‘Hour of Ragnarok’ (Inferna Profundus Records, 2021) they return…
Artist: Coffins / DepressionCountry: Japan / GermanyLabel: Hells Headbangers Records / Headsplit RecordsFormats: Split LP / Split cassette tape / Split CDYear: 2020 Two of Death Metal’s most prolific bands teaming up on one split release. What can possibly go…
Artist: Motörpenis / Black Torment Country: Portugal / Mexico Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2009 This is the first release for Iron Bonehead Productions in 2009, a split record between Motörpenis from Portugal and Mexican Black Torment.…
Artist: Nocturnal / Pagan Rites Country: Germany / Sweden Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2008 This is, of course, one of those 7” EP’s that can’t be missed and is a definite must-have for anyone into…
Artist: Bestial Summoning / HereticCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Deathstrike RecordsFormats: Split 12″ EP Year: 2008 The Dutch underground black metal scene, as with any other country, has had its ups and downs over the last two decades. Some bands seems to…
Artist: Misery Index / Mumakil Country: USA / Switzerland Label: Power-It-Up Records Formats: Split 7″ EP / Split CD Year: 2008 Misery Index seems to have a very nice and productive year, 2007 have brought them several releases and a…
Artist: Nunslaughter / Destructor Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2007 The old school death metallers of Nunslaugther are slowly going to end up like Japanese Unholy Grave or Sabbat and Belgian Agathocles in terms…
Artist: Blood I Bleed / Sounds Like Shit Country: The Netherlands / Japan Label: Fast & Furious Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2007 This is another split EP for Blood I Bleed and Sounds Like Shit on Blood I…
Artist: Machetazo / Total Fucking Destruction Country: Spain / USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2007 This is the first edition of the Slimewave Series, it’s a bit like a McDonalds concept, but if you collect all six…
Artist: Cripple Bastards / Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition Country: Italy / France Label: Relapse Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2007 Number two in the Relapse Records Slimewave Series, this time Italy’s fastest grindcore veterans Cripple Bastards team up with the same…
Artist: Meatyard / Maggots Country: New Zealand / The Netherlands Label: No Escape Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2006 This split CD is the first No Escape Records CD that kind of disappointed me. Meatyard is a grindcore band that…
Artist: Agathocles / Bloodred Bacteria Country: Belgium / Germany Label: Crimes Against Humanity Records / First Blood Family / Raw Noise Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2003 This split 7″ has got some strange story to it, it has…
Artist: Deep Vein / Bloody Sign / OppressionCountry: France / France / SwedenLabel: Nihilistic HolocaustFormats: Split cassette tapeYear: 2004 Another tape from the Nihilistic Holocaust label, an old school label that is specialized in releasing old fashioned tape releases. Can…
Artist: Discard / Agathocles Country: Belgium Label: Agnostic Record Formats: Split Tape Year: 2004 Yet another Agathocles release, this time on tape – yeah, they are still being released every once in a while. It was released through a little…
Artist: Agathocles / Godstomper Country: Belgium / USA Label: Haunted Hotel Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2004 And? Yet another swap of new Agathocles releases have been spawned. This time it is a split EP with Finish punk hardcore…
Artist: Agathocles / Kadaverficker Country: Belgium / Germany Label: Power It Up / N:C:U Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2004 The latest in a row of Agathocles 7″ EPs (though, the new one (with Rot In Pieces) is already on…
Artist: Front Beast / Agathocles Country: Germany / Belgium Label: Deathstrike Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2003 Although Agathocles is such a band which is able to surprise with every new release and you know you can practically expect…
Artist: Agathocles / Godstomper Country: Belgium / USA Label: Haunted Hotel Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2002 Last year a few split 7″-es with Agathocles featured on one of the sides have been released. One of those EP’s is…
Artist: Leviathan / Iuvenus Country: USA / Poland Label: No Colours Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2003 Wintertime, hmmm, that means blackmetal for me. And to be precise, the raw kind of blackmetal. When it’s getting colder and darker outside…
Artist: Svarrogh / Ravenclaw Country: Bulgaria / Lithuania Label: Atlantida Productions Formats: CD Year: 2003 A split release of two acts, one being Ravenclaw the other being Svarrogh. Both presented by Atantida Productions from Lithuania. I can’t supply you with…
Artist: Zyklon / Red Harvest Country: Norway Label: Nocturnal Art Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2003 A nice looking split release between two Norwegian bands, being Zyklon and Red Harvest. Both don’t need any introduction. Both acts are represented…
Artist: Inner Helvete / Necrocult Country: Portugal / Brazil Label: Hell War Productions / Sacrilegious Warfare Productions Formats: Split Demo Tape Year: 2001 While digging around through my tapes, I came across another effort of the Portuguese culthordes Inner Helvete.…
Artist: Darkest Hate / Black Winter Night Country: Brazil Label: Christcrusher Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2002 This is a co-operation between two great Brazilian blackmetal hordes. Well, I can’t tell you anything about their background actually, I haven’t got…