Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Vampiric SolitudeCountry: USALabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital demoYear: 2022 Vampiric themes have been all the rage in recent years, indeed, within underground Black Metal it is currently the most popular subject. The times that only Black Funeral was involved in this…
Artist: Destruction RitualCountry: France / USALabel: End All Life Productions / Norma Evangelium DiaboliFormats: LP / Cassette tape Year: 2021 The last time we heard any new material featuring French Black Metal vocalist MkM was the release of Antaeus’ relentless…
Artist: Lord Ov Chaos Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2022 Lord Ov Chaos is one of the two solo-projects of this creative creature, Caleb Bernatchez. A musician from Amqui, Quebec, Canada. He uses this vehicle to reflect…
Artist: DismaCountry: USALabel: Doomentia Records / Necoharmonic RecordsFormats: 12″ EP / CD EPYear: 2022 Over a decade after the Death Metal sledgehammer that was ‘Towards The Megalith’ (2011, Profound Lore Records), Disma are back with this new ‘Earthendium’-EP. After the…
Artist: Grand Belial’s Key Country: USA Label: Weltenfeid Formats: CD Year: 2022 Vocalist Grimnir Heretik (Richard Mills), who died of an overdose in 2006, abruptly ended Grand Belial’s Key after fourteen years – a band much talked and written about.…
Artist: CadaverousCountry: USALabel: Frozen Screams ImprintFormats: Cassete EPYear: 2022 At the ass-end of last year this American Death Metal band digitally released their first 3-track EP, which was put to cassette tape by Frozen Screams Imprint a few months later…
Artist: Master Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 It is almost impossible and perhaps even morally wrong to leave Master’s legendary 1985 demo-tape out of a series that is called ’10 Inches Of Deathcult’, in which…
Artist: Black Fucking CancerCountry: USALabel: Sentient Ruin LaboratoriesFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 After having released their debut album in 2016 through Osmose Productions, this subtly named power trio from California found a new home at Sentient Ruin…
Artist: Incantation Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 What can be said about Incantation’s debut demo from 1990 that hasn’t been said before? It has not only been tape traded a zillion times back in the…
Artist: Recipients Of Death Country: USA Label: VIC Records Formats: CD Year: 2022 Halfway the 80’s, the absolute heydays of Thrash Metal, many of the founding fathers of the genre released their iconic and classic albums. But it was also…
Artist: AcheronCountry: USALabel: Funeral Industries / VIC RecordsFormats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2022 There aren’t many American Death Metal bands about which opinions are as divided as Acheron. There’s a lot of haters and a lot of fans.…
Artist: Seep Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Gurgling Gore Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 After an EP, Vomitus, the sole member behind Seep, returns with a full-length album which sees the gore of day…
Artist: Hearse Country: USA Label: Sinistrari Records Formats: CD Year: 2022 Not being aware of their reuniting in 2019, it came to me as a surprise to see Hearse surface with a new release. ‘Traipse Across The Empty Graves’ is…
Artist: Midnight Country: USA Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Much has changed since the inception of Midnight. Going from a side-project that was initially only releasing (split) EP’s through various underground labels, Midnight went to…
Artist: TerrorizerCountry: USALabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: 10″ EPYear: 2020 During the second half of the 80’s Terrorizer, along with peers like Repulsion, Carcass and Napalm Death propelled extreme music into whole new levels extremity by pushing the boundaries that were thought…
Artist: Pyrexia Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 Around the 90’s American Death Metal bands had a real special thing going on. Other than their European counterparts they were much more vile and brutal. Especially New…
Artist: Immolation Country: USA Label: Nuclear Blast Records Formats: LP /Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 There are only few bands that have been around for about 35 years and are still as relevant today as they were when releasing…
Artist: Mortuous Country: USA Label: Carbonized Records / Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2021 In a scene that is getting more and more crowded with bands that take their major influence from what we…
Artist: Revenant Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 Between all the violence of the American Death Metal bands of the early 90s, it was difficult to really achieve great (commercial) success, obviously not every band had…
Artist: Macabre Country: USA Label: Nuclear Blast Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2020 Macabre has always been a band that is unique in so many ways. Not only because of the obvious, their characteristic sound and lyrical content, but…
Artist: Massacre Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 What we’ve got here is the third EP in the “10 Inches Of Deathcult” series, in which Xtreem Music presents a slap of legendary early recordings from groundbreaking…
Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Xtreem Records Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 This 10” EP is the second installment in the “10 Inches Of Deathcult”-series, in which the first one was Sinister’s “Perpetual Damnation”-demo pressed onto 10 inches of wax.…
Artist: Black Pyramid Country: USA Label: Electric Earth Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2008 Usually I would not feature these kinds of bands, doom bands that lean too much to the stoner-side are usually not my thing and definitely don’t…
Artist: Realmbuilder Country: USA Label: I Hate Records Formats: LP Year: 2009 While reading through the bands on the inlay that are thanked for their influence expectations run sky-high. A nice blend of all kinds of heroic and epic metal…
Artist: Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: Autopsy Kitchen Records / Battle Kommand Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2008 This is another one from the ‘Hell On…’-series, it is rumoured that this is the last one to be released, so, finally the…
Artist: Earthride Country: USA Label: Doomentia Records Formats: LP Year: 2008 Once in a while a new labels stands up and dedicates itself on releasing great vinyl records only, recently one of those labels is Doomentia Records, based in the…
Artist: Obituary Country: USA Label: Candlelight Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2008 Obituary’s new one is a four-track EP (not counting the video-track for ‘Evil Ways’, taken from their last album) which will most likely closes the gap between the…
Artist: CobaltCountry: USALabel: Profound Lore RecordsFormats: CD EPYear: 2008 Last year’s “Eater Of Birds”-album was very well received by press and public alike, and was pretty much a surprise to both parties. The well crafted black metal fits well in…
Artist: Jex Thoth Country: USA Label: I Hate Records Formats: CD Year: 2008 Last year around the same time as the release date of this album (April 28th, 2008) I got a mini CD that left me in a state…
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: Bone AwlCountry: CanadaLabel: Nuclear War Now! ProductionsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2007 This American band is veiled in mysticism, as there is hardly any information available on them. Yet, from the very start there has been a constant flow of releases,…
Artist: BlaspherianCountry: USALabel: Blood Harvest Formats: 12″ EPYear: 2007 Though not really a well-known band (yet) they get their stuff released by labels as Hell’s Headbangers and Blood Harvest Records. That is what I call an achievement, as these two…
Artist: Impetigo Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2007 There are not many bands that were as influential and amazingly infectious as Impetigo. Like Carcass, Repulsion and Napalm Death they had litterily thousands of followers, bands trying…
Artist: Decaying FormCountry: USALabel: Dan’s Crypt RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 This Australian trio, though recorded as a duo, comes up with their debut album through Spanish underground label Dan’s Crypt Records and shows exactly the down side of modern recording techniques……
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: Abiku Country: USA Label: Automation Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 I remember hearing Abiku for the first time somewhere around this time last year, it was the split 7” EP with Myles Of Destruction from the end of 2004.…
Artist: Inquisition Country: Colombia / USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 American based Colombian black metal band came a long way. From zero to a considerable cult status. 2007 should be the year of a new…
Artist: TerrorizerCountry: USALabel: Century MediaFormats: CD / LPYear: 2006 For all the well-known reasons it took Terrorizer 17 (!!) years to come-up with a follow-up of one of the most influential albums in grindcore history, “World Downfall” from 1989. And…
Since my last chat with Chris Black of Superchrist a lot has changed again, and therefore we agrees to do a small update-interview on the things that happened. In the mean time a ‘real’ CD has been released (the live…
Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Mortician Records Formats: CD Year: 2004 It might be a little late, but when I got this CD in the mail the other day I thought it still deserved a review at our beloved magazine.…
Artist: Necrophagia Country: USA Label: Displeased Records / Red Stream Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2004 Metalheads who aren’t familiar with Necrophagia … Are there any? This is a band that has an enormous historical value when you…
When I met Paul Speckmann on the Obituary tour – Master opened up for them all around Europe – we talked a bit about Master and labels and stuff. That reminded me that I wanted to interview him after the…
Some time ago I got surprised by the two CDs of Superchrist I heard. Was it Motörhead or was it actually a goddamn great rock and roll band in the same vein. It was actually Superchrist, I’m still spinning the…
Artist: Black FuneralCountry: USALabel: Behemoth Productions / Perverted TasteFormats: LP / CDYear: 2004 Every black metal purist should have at least heard about Black Funeral – at least, that’s my opinion. One of the pioneers of the Satanic metal invasion…
Artist: Superchrist Country: USA Label: Autopsy Kitchen Records / Black Planet Formats: CDr Year: 2004 Some time ago I reviewed the previous out put by this bunch of American rockers called Superchrist. I wondered why no label picked them up…
Artist: Superchrist Country: USA Label: Black Planet Formats: CDr Year: 2003 After a couple of demos Superchrist released their first full-length CD in 2002 but I missed all of them, so this 2003 “Back & Black” is the first acquaintance…
Artist: TorrentCountry: Germany / USALabel: No Colours RecordsFormats: 12″ EP / CD EPYear: 2004 Torrent is a rather new band on No Colours Records and is a side-project of both Akhenaten (Judas Iscariot) and Kanwulf (Nargaroth), on these recordings they are…
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: Cannibal Corpse Country: USA Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: CD/DVD Boxset Year: 2003 It was in the late 80’s when Deathmetal was the most active genre in the metalscene. Bands that pushed the boundaries of brutality, aggression and speed…