Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
It is newsworthy in itself when a band returns out of the blue from a 20-year hiatus. But it becomes even more interesting when it concerns In Aeternum, a band I have had a soft spot for for about a…
Artist: Vomitory Country: Sweden Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 There is something special about Vomitory. It’s not about their level of sophistication, or how they’re pushing the envelope of Death Metal. it’s the chopping and…
Artist: Execution Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 If I were to start a band (which I’m not going to do, so don’t worry), I’d probably enjoy coming up with song titles and things like that the…
Artist: Suicidal Winds Country: Sweden Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: CD Year: 2025 If you’re a fan of Suicidal Winds you must have some patience. Sure, the band’s early years were relatively prolific, racking up four demos, four full-lengths and a…
Artist: Madom Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 With little to no information about Madom, we, to quote Joe Perry, will let the music do the talking. There’s literally nothing else to say other than that this is a new one-man Raw…
With Vider’s debut on cassette tape, the recent split LP with Bluthammer, and the upcoming album ‘Sounding The Horn Of Obliteration’ under the banner of WolfKult Religion, it is of course curious that this Swedish one-man band has not yet…
Artist: Internal Decay Country: Sweden Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2026 Internal Decay released a demo tape in 1991 and finally their debut album in 1993, right before they threw in the towel. Regardless of…
Artist: In Aeternum Country: Sweden Label: Soulseller Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 In the wake of the greats of the genre such as Sacramentum, Dawn, Naglfar, Necrophobic and, above all, Dissection, countless other bands set sail on the…
Artist: Savage Sword Country: Sweden Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Formed in 2025, this Swedish Heavy Metal band made no time wasted, and we received their debut demo as early as January of this year. A…
Some bands seem to achieve success and widespread acclaim almost effortlessly, while others are less fortunate. To be fair, most successful bands—and how you define success is, of course, open to interpretation—have worked hard to get where they are. However,…
Artist: Templar Country: Sweden Label: Jawbreaker Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 After a well-received demo and an EP as well as a good amount of live shows, Templar from Sweden now strike back with their…
Artist: Venthiax Country: Sweden Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2026 When Venthiax sprang from the shared vision of Wendy, Emil, and Leo, they were still in their mid-to-late teens. Yet nothing stopped them from…
Artist: Bestial Possession Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Despite being around for over twenty-five years, a few months ago I covered the Peruvian band Bestial Possession for the first time. But what we have here though,…
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: Katakomba Country: Sweden Label: Majestic Mountain Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘The Second Death’ is Katakomba’s return after the solid self-titled album from 2022. Albeit nothing really spectacular, that debut album was definitely a tasty slab of…
Artist: Greve Country: Sweden Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2025 If I’m being honest, as time has gone by my opinion on the output of Swartadauþuz has changed. While I certainly appreciate the body of work that he…
Artist: Ofermod Country: Sweden Label: Shadow Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Never a dull moment with Ofermod, that’s for sure. ‘Drakosophia’ was released about two months ago, but it didn’t take many moons for the band to implode…
Artist: Carnal Savagery Country: Sweden Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Over the past few weeks, I have had a number of discussions about the current state of affairs in the world of Death Metal. I have…
Artist: Deranged Country: Sweden Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 This isn’t exactly the first time I’ve shared my surprise and delight at the current Brutal Death Metal re-release frenzy from Hells Headbangers Records. Although I don’t follow…
Artist: Hostilia Country: Sweden Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Personally I had never heard of Hostilia before, but before this debut full-length album for Hammerheart Records they apparently released two EP’s and a couple of digital singles. Yet, even…
Artist: Malakhim Country: Sweden Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With two demos and ‘Theion’, their debut album, released in the timespan between 2017 and 2021, Malakhim from Sweden has been working hard to establish their…
Artist: Atonement Country: Sweden Label: Dying Victims Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Two years ago the Swedish Black/Thrash Metal band Atonement surprised with their debut album ‘Sadistic Invaders’ released through Dying Victims Productions. Well, “surprised”, not so much with…
Artist: Rôtn Country: Sweden Label: Altare Records Formats: CDr Year: 2025 Although I do like some of Magnus “Wagner Ödegård” Eriksson’s work, I always approach his work with a fair amount of scepticism and general caution. You really never know…
Artist: Unleashed Country: Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In some of my previous reviews I already touched upon it, the way how you perceive an album (or a band as a whole) has not only…
Artist: Serpent Gate Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It is true that the things you grow up with always keep a certain charm, no matter your current age. Things tend to make more impact and help…
Artist: Lord Belial Country: Sweden Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Admittedly, my relationship with Lord Belial has not always been one of true love. When I first ran into the band, some quarter of a century…
Artist: Fienden Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Everyone willing to dig just a little deeper than your average Black Metal band gaining their five minutes of fame through Black Metal Promotion, will know that there’s still…
Artist: Protector / Suicidal Winds Country: Germany / Sweden Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Split 7” EP Year: 2025 Thrash Metal aplenty on this split 7″ courtesy of Wolfkult Religion. In one corner we have the once German, now Swedish legends…
Artist: Edge Of Sanity Country: Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Without wanting to do any wrong to the musical legacy of Edge Of Sanity, this has always been a band that has mostly been appreciated…
Artist: Tyrannosatan Country: Sweden Label: Jawbreaker Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Admittedly, I too initially ignored this band because of the somewhat cheesy band name. Tyrannosatan is not the most attractive name, and the album did not come with…
Artist: Armory Country: Sweden Label: Dying Victims Productions / Jawbreaker Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 ‘Mercurion’, Armory’s last full-length album, dated back to 2022, so it’s no luxury that we get a new sign of life from these Swedish…
Artist: Leper Colony Country: Germany / Sweden Label: Testimony Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In hindsight I might have been a bit too positive on Leper Colony’s self-titled debut album from 2023. Since the few spins around the…
Artist: Consumption Country: Sweden Label: Dusktone Formats: CD Year: 2025 After two full-length records for Hammerheart Records in 2020 and 2022, the Swedes of Consumption went for the Como, Italy based Dusktone for their third album. Without knowing any details,…
Artist: Death Pulsation Country: Sweden Label: Caligari Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although Death Pulsation is a new band, debuting with this 3-track demo, in its ranks we do recognize musicians who has earned their stripes in the underground…
Artist: HersirCountry: SwedenLabel: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2025 In my review of the 2023 demo ‘Hateful Draugar’ by Hersir, I lauded the heavy pummeling sound, and drew paralels with Behexen mixed with Mayhem, Emperor…
Artist: FaidraCountry: SwedenLabel: Northern Silence ProductionsFormats: 12″ EP / CD EPYear: 2025 ‘Militant : Penitent : Triumphant’ was a rather impressive record, released by the Swedish one-man act Faidra in late 2023. Basing its atmospheric Black Metal on a straightforward but…
Artist: Abruptum Country: Sweden Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 Obviously, Abruptum is mostly known for its early work and their affiliation to Euronymous’ Deathlike Silence Productions. The band’s first two records and specially the ‘Obscuritatem Advoco…
Artist: Merciless Country: Sweden Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Obviously, Merciless is mainly known for their downright cult debut album. Not only for the musical content and its wide influence on…
Artist: Vider Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 On a miserable, rainy, grey and stormy January day, nothing really fits better than an all-consuming darkness in musical form. For that joyous occasion today, I threw in the debut…
Artist: Mörkvind & Tårfödd Country: Italy & Germany / Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Despite Tårfödd’s impressive output, having released three albums and two EP’s in 2024 alone, the band never crossed my path before. Mörkvind, on the…
Artist: Gnipahålan Country: Sweden Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2024 At the very frayed ends of 2024 the overly-prolific Swartadauþuz comes with yet another record. I haven’t really counted his work this year, but at the beginning of…
Artist: Necrosorcery Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 As a jaded old fart, you rarely get truly impressed by new music (that’s different from enjoying good stuff!), so it’s extra pleasing to come across something that really opens…
Artist: Desultory Country: Sweden Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 In a longer series of unearthed demos presented by Darkness Shall Rise Productions from Germany, this summer it was Desultory’s turn for…
Artist: Carnal Savagery Country: Sweden Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Album #2 for Carnal Savage this year. A trick they have pulled before, as although 2023 passed without any new recordings, the band had also released their first two albums…
Artist: Tyranni Country: Sweden Label: New Era Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Tyranni came to my attention somewhere during the summer of 2019 with the 3-track ‘Baron Av Avoghetens Smärta’-promo tape, which ultimately led to the debut full-length…
Artist: Rotpit Country: Germany / Sweden Label: War Anthem Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 ‘Long Live The Rot’ is Rotpit’s second full-length album and with a few short-players under their belts they can easily be considered a prolific…
Artist: Törnen Country: Sweden Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although prior the release of ‘Under Korpens Visdom’ there was rumour that Swartadauþuz was a part of Törnen, it eventually turned out he was not. Yet,…
Artist: Bastard Priest Country: Sweden Label: D-Takt & Råpunk Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 During the resurgence of Old School-styled Death Metal in the late 00’s, Bastard Priest was a breath of fresh air. Most bands based their sound…
Artist: Bortglömd Country: Sweden Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 ‘Haunting Calls’ is the debut demo of a new Swedish duo with Dutch connections, yet with this 3-track demo tape the band is distinctly sounding more Northern…
Released via Sweden’s I Hate Records this summer, Abysmal Winds’ debut album, ‘Magna Pestiencia’ followed up the ‘Doom Prayer’-demo tape from two years earlier. Those who had the band on their radar back then may have already realised that we…