Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Morbikon Country: USA Label: Tankcrimes Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 The downside of reviewing music is that you “have” to do that in a rather short amount of time and since we are being flooded with new…
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: Unapproachable Light Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Unapproachable Light sprung from the mind of Tom “Obscurum” Kapsalis, who used to be one of the impetuses of Cult Of Daath, one of the…
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: Blood Curse Country: Unholy Trinity Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Blood Curse is a trio that has been around for about a decade and released a good few of short players as well as a full-length album in 2018 (released through Stormspell…
Artist: Evoken Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 I vividly remember my first brush with Evoken. It was late 2002, and my friends and I had called for the help of a local Doom Metal…
Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 In no time at all, the musician behind Occult Mountain and Chalice Of Eden has released an impressive number of demos, sometimes with only a few days in between. That is generally…
Artist: Parasite Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 I’ve probably said it more than once before, Thrash Metal isn’t exactly the most frequent featured genre of Extreme Metal here at out pages, but that doesn’t mean we don’t like out fair share of…
Artist: Traum Country: USA Label: Torture Palace Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I missed this project’s first offering, ‘Demo 2024’, but I would like to make amends by spending a few words on this follow-up, which was recently released…
Artist: Astral Gauze Country: USA Label: Wergild Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Astral Gauze is a new project consisting of two musicians with lavish résumés that include current and previous experience with such bands as Ebony Pendant, Iron…
Artist: Nocturnal Adversary Country: USA Label: Mystic Glory Order Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Other than their affiliation with the Mystic Order circle, alongside Eisenblut, there’s practically no information about Nocturnal Adversary available. However, it is plausible that these two…
Artist: Perdition Temple Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Format: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Without being sure what the reason was behind Perdition Temple’s previous album, ‘Merciless Upheaval’, that only had the A-side filled with new…
Artist: Savaging Country: USA Label: Into Extinction Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 Having formed in 2024, Savaging recently released their debut release, a full-length titled ‘Vignettes of Cruelty and Callousness’. Despite that I somehow expected Death Metal after reading the…
Artist: Obeisance Country: USA Label: Wit Duivel Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Despite the band has been around for well over three decades and spawns out material on a very regular basis, Obeisance has never been featured on these pages before. And honestly, I…
Artist: Night’s Threshold Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 After two demos and three split releases, with Lament In Winter’s Night (Atrocity Altar, 2021), Efermus (Atrocity Altar, 2023) and Eerified Catacomb (Perverse Homage/His Wounds, 2023/2025) respectively, this…
Artist: Keys To The Astral Gates And Mystic Doors Country: USA Label: Empty Pit Recordings Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Depending on where you’re looking, ‘Anathema’, the latest offering from Keys To The Astral Gates And Mystic Doors, is either…
Artist: Spirit Of Impurity Country: USA Label: Death’s Radiance / Perverse Homage Formats: Demo CDR Year: 2025 ‘Occluding The Gates Of Heaven’ is the debut recording of a new band that goes by the name of Spirit Of Impurity. Other…
Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although I tend to keep a close eye on the Elf Eggs label and I wrote a favourable review about Kos’ debut demo earlier this year, this new…
Artist: Evil Tree Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Admittedly, I have missed this band’s first demo from 2022, but when I came across the cover of this new demo on Instagram, I had to find it.…
Artist: Exploding Zombies Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 It is not quite the first time I have lauded Hells Headbangers Records for their recent series of Brutal Death Metal re-releases. In recent weeks,…
Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Occult Mountain’s first digital demo surfaced last June, although summer might be still fresh in our memories, ‘Cries Of The Forest Spirit’ is already this project’s fifth demo.…
Artist: Regurgitation Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 We usually focus our reviews on new releases and largely ignore the huge number of reissues that keep coming our way. And, as a whole, I try to…
Artist: Red Right Hand Of Plague Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 With a demo tape and an EP in 2024 and a split 7” EP with Warslaughter earlier this year, the sonic assault that is…
Artist: Storming Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Iron Bonehead Productions announced ‘Celestial Clear Moonlit’ as the “highly anticipated” second album of this one-man Black Metal band from the USA. To be honest, I…
Artist: Hulder Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Hulder started out as a good, yet considerably predictable and rather unoriginal Black Metal band, but over the course of this band’s existence the music progressed and developed tremendously.…
Artist: Spiculum Iratus Country: USA Label: Into Extinction Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although they have existed since 2005, Spiculum Iratus is a new band to me. Perhaps that in part is caused by the fact that this Black Metal…
Artist: Cruentation Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 It is no real secret that I am only marginally entertained by what today’s Death Metal scene has to offer. This topic regularly comes up in conversations with…
Artist: Burial Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In its quest for unearthing some unsung genre highlights of late 90’s and early 00’s Brutal Death Metal, Hells Headbangers Records already crossed paths with a few undeniable…
Artist: Babylonian War Chant Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Although the all-knowing algorithms tend to taunt me with their suggestions of bands that I don’t give a dime about, sometimes they bring up something rather interesting. Such as…
Artist: Valac Country: USA Label: Black Gangrene Productions Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 Although Valac has been around for quite some time now, being formed in 2019, none of its rather extensive back-catalogue has been featured on these pages yet. Time to…
Artist: Black Discharge Country: USA Label: Death’s Radiance Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Under the banner of Death’s Radiance, an obscure label that already brought us such great acts as Firmament and especially Kudlaakh, comes the debut of Black Discharge. Apart…
Artist: Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: LP Year: 2025 Not too long ago Gates Of Dawn treated us with a cassette tape in the form of ‘III – Promo 2025’ and as well as with a…
Artist: Versteck / Geheimnisvoll Country: Indonesia / USA Label: Ancient Horror Records / Nithstang Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Albeit originating from different parts of the world, both Versteck (Indonesia) and Geheimnisvoll (USA) have amassed a considerable following within…
Artist: Ceremonial Incantations Country: USA Label: Northmoon Zephyr Productions / Sin For Belial Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although ‘Messengers Ov Sathanas’ is already the third full-length offering from Ceremonial Incantations, you don’t have to feel very ashamed…
Artist: Koreltsak Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Those who tend to keep an eye on today’s Raw Black Metal underground, must at least have stumbled upon the name of Koreltsak, an American entity that spawns…
Artist: Herzsklave Country: USA Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I am not too much into Depressive Black Metal myself. Most of the times I think it is rather pretentious and it is hard to take seriously,…
Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Iron Fortress Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 While ‘Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux’ is somehow marketed as a new Mortuary Ghoul album, it’s not. The title already suggests…
Artist: Silver Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Year: 2025 After two demos, released in 2022 and 2024 that were both compiled on a cassette tape earlier this year, this American one-man Black Metal project is back with…
Artist: Obscentum Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 While its inception dates back a few years, ‘From Black Blood To Occult Flames’ is only the first recording that was publicly released by Obscentum, yet another musical outlet for Terrance…
Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘My Dead Pulsing Vigil’ follows shortly after Zkywbrezdreb’s ‘Remnants Of Human Ash’, this project’s debut demo tape from a bit earlier this year. That demo, with such titles as ‘No Friends’, ‘No Trends’,…
Artist: Empyrean Gaunt Country: USA Label: Altare Productions / Poisonous Sorcery Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although the identity of the only person behind Empyrean Gaunt is kept in darkness, I would be very surprised if this would…
Artist: Altar Of Belial Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Some time ago I ran into this rather mysterious one-man band. There’s very little information available, other than this is a solo-project that operates out of the…
Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Wolven Dawn’ is the third demo from this American one-man band in only a matter of weeks, in three months, to be exact. With the previous two demos,…
Artist: Ancient Death Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Sacred Vessel’, Ancient Death’s debut EP, there were lots of plans. This rather young American Death Metal band had its hopes…
Artist: Midnight Country: USA Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Midnight’s best days are pretty much over, coinciding with their move from Hells Headbangers Records to Metal Blade Records, Athenar still manages to release solid…
Artist: Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 More or less simultaneously with the release of the split 7” EP with Sanguine Relic, this enigmatic American Black Metal act also released this 2-track promo…
Artist: Sempervirens Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sempervirens, which loosely translates to “Evergreen”, was founded a few years ago as a duo with a seemingly aim to create some Black Metal that’s both raw and atmospheric.…
Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Only a mere three weeks after the release of ‘The Black Serpents Lament’, Chalice Of Eden already returns with a second demo. Maybe we shouldn’t be that surprised, as the main composed…
Artist: Spectral Torture Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Together with this new ‘Reflections Under The Stench Of Resentment’, Spectral Torture, one of the many musical endeavours of E.X. (also known for his work in Drape, EJXA…
Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With seemingly little effort, the anonymous figure behind projects such as Red Right Hand Of Plague, Kos, Thirsting Ampoule, Vëřťžîmbrÿġțžûmşțřě and Great Tribulation, as well as the Elf Eggs…