Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Black Metal and a certain form of mysticism and individualism are part of the same thing. The sinister-eyed gritty one-man bands are popping up like mushrooms, but rarely are these core values conveyed as convincingly as by Switzerland’s Aspaarn. Not…
Artist: Aspaarn Country: Switzerland Label: Self-Released Formats: LP Year: 2025 ‘Oblation In Atrocity’ is Aspaarn’s fourth album in about as many years, and just like the majority of the band’s earlier work this one too is presented on a self-released…
Artist: Ungfell Country: Switzerland Label: Eisenwald Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 In recent years the phenomenon of Ungfell has been all over the place if you are into folky and creative Black Metal. With their splendid sense for dramatique…
Artist: Loferogh Country: Switzerland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2023 What better way to end a year than to release a compilation of both previous demos. That is what the Black Metal band Loferogh and Unpure Records must…
Artist: AaraCountry: SwitzerlandLabel: Debemur Morti ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2023 In 1820 the Irish playwright finished his gothic novel ‘Melmoth the Wanderer’. In this tale, the lead character Melmoth is a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in…
Artist: Eggs Of GomorrhCountry: SwitzerlandLabel: Godz Ov War ProductionsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Of all the bands that uphold the Ross Bay Cult tradition, I have never found Swiss Eggs Of Gomorrh very convincing. Throughout their career,…
Artist: PureCountry: SwitzerlandLabel: Obscure Abhorrence Productions / Onism Productions / Satanath RecordsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 Despite a fairly lengthy history that started in 2013 and brought forth four full-length albums, the Swiss one-man band Pure mostly spent the early years of its existence…
Artist: AteiggärCountry: SwitzerlandLabel: EisenwaldFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 With the band’s first offering, the ‘Us d’r Höll Chunnt Nume Zyt’ EP from 2019, Switzerland’s Ateiggär surprised us with a fiery brand of Black Metal with its roots firmly in the Norwegian scene from the mid…
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: 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: Embalming TheatreCountry: SwitzerlandLabel: Power-It-UpFormats: CDYear: 2006 What we’ve got here is a re-release for Embalming Theatre’s second album “Sweet Chainsaw Melodies” from 2003 which was originally released by top-notch always-on-top Razorback Records (the vinyl version was put out by…
Fancy yourself walking around on some big festival, at an Amon Amarth show and then… You walk into a guy with a baseball cap and a real awesome Messiah-hoody. You ask the man where got that thing, and then he…