Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Death Possession Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo CD Year: 2024 Fresh to the putrid sounding Death Metal front: Death Possession, from Denver, Colorado. With this debut demo they do present the world that there certainly still is some…
Artist: Velvet Sorrow Country: USA Label: Luciferous Cruor Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 In recent years the little niche of raw yet atmospheric Black Metal has spawned a lot of bands, but amongst them are a lot bands that using…
Artist: Orgy Of Carrion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Commonly regarded as being one of the flag bearers of the resurgence of the Raw Black Metal scene from the second half of the 10’s, Orgy…
Artist: Inquisition Country: Colombia / USA Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Inquisition has always been a band that was full of exceptionalities and controversy. The international metal press has written relentlessly about the…
Artist: Scab Hag Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 Although Scab Hag’s self-released debut EP from 2021 was reissued on cassette tape by two different labels in the months following up to its original CD release (Cemetery…
Artist: Genocidal Rites Country: USA Label: 18 Is 9 Records And Tapes Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 Last year I reviewed ‘Exsanguination Of The Gods’, a tape-only release by Genocidal Rites. It was a short but sweet EP, presented by…
Artist: Moonlight Sword Country: USA Label: Oakheart Production Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 In 2022 the one-woman band Moonlight Sword released two fine digital demos, that both also appeared on cassette tape by the Belgian Rabauw label. Carmilla II Dracul,…
Artist: Black Lycanthropy Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 For those who have delved a little deeper into Black Metal than the interchangeable artists on the Nuclear Blast, Metal Blade, Century Media or even Season Of Mist…
Artist: Haan Valar Country: USA Label: Mamzer Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Apart from the big commercial success of Rotting Christ, that mythical sound of Greek Black Metal has always been loved, it was mostly appreciated by a small…
Artist: Master Country: USA Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 It has been more than 20 two decades since I have reviewed my first Master release, at the time I started with ‘Unreleased 1985…
Artist: Upon Stone Country: USA Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 The early 90’s were the domain of Swedish Death Metal in its most primal form, following the path first paved by Nihilist and giving way to…
Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 After some first small releases, an EP and a split EP, Matt N. (also active in a whole slew of other bands), the godfather…
Artist: Flesher Country: USA Label: Redefining Darkness Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Admitted, on more than one occasion I have labelled Redefining Darkness Records as a thoroughly mediocre label spawning huge amounts of interchangeable Death Metal records of…
Artist: Ancient North Country: USA Label: Wulfhere Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 If one-man Black Metal band Ancient North has proven one thing over the course of two years (and three full-length albums, an EP and a split release) is…
Artist: Cruciamentum Country: United Kingdom / USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Six long years since the band’s last sign of life and even eight years after the release of the debut…
Artist: Black Funeral Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 Over the course of its expansive career, spanning over three decades, Black Funeral have proven itself as one of the most elusive Black Metal bands ever…
Artist: Demoncy Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2023 Hot on the heals off the band’s sixth full length album, Demoncy also releases this new 12” EP (also released on cassette…
Artist: Demoncy Country: USA Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 If anything, Demoncy is a band that seems to work in short and unexpected outbursts of creativity. In their early days since their…
Artist: Blood Loss Country: USA Label: Self-Released / Tape Eater Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 The award of Best Death Metal Demo of 2022 definitely went to the youngsters of Blood Loss. ‘The Order Of Malevolence’ blew me right off my socks with…
Artist: Ringarë Country: USA Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 The story of Ringarë began all the way back in 2004 when this US-based Black Metal band recorded two demos in the following years but eventually more or…
Artist: Astral Crypt Of Moloch Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 In 2019 the elusive and mysterious one-man act Astral Crypt Of Moloch released one demo tape which served the listener some of the better Raw and Lo-Fi…
Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Blind Mage Records / WereGnome Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Although Daedric Chambre has been formed in January 2022, this one-man project has already spawned no less than five EP’s, two…
Artist: Wolves Of Desor Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2023 Although ‘Lost Kingdom Of The Giants’ is the first brain child of Wraithlord, the youthful mind behind Wolves Of Desor, under this moniker, he has been spawning…
Artist: Azathoth’s Dream Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP Year: 2023 Earlier this year I was pretty impressed by the American Black Metal band Luring, brought to us by Iron Bonehead Productions. The mystic and haunting Black Metal…
Artist: Annihilation Cult Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2023 Although ‘Demonstration MMXXIII’ is the first offering of this new American outfit, it does not consist out of newbees. On the contrary, the trio are also active in…
Artist: Vastum Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Ever since their inception in 2009, Vastum has been a force to be reckoned with and they have proven to be a true…
Artist: Left Cross Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 After a couple of EP’s and a self-released debut album, the American Death Metal band Left Cross got picked up by the revered Profound Lore…
Artist: Shithammered Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2023 Despite the fact that the Chris Moyen-like black/red-with-goat cover might make you expect a serving of Ross Bay Cult Bestial Black/Death Metal, the music of this American duo is…
Artist: Nihil Invocation Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2023 During the band’s lifespan since its formation in 2016, Nihil Invocation has already amassed a respectable discography with the great common denominator being raw and unpolished punk-style Black Metal.…
Artist: Fabricant Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 After a demo in 2010 and a split CD with Apocryphon in 2013, things got awfully quiet around this American Death Metal band.…
Artist: Alchemy Of Flesh Country: USA Label: Redefining Darkness Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Every now and then I am testing myself. Testing to see if things can change or that I should change my mind on certain…
Artist: Satanism Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2023 In the last couple of months I reviewed two releases of other bands of Scott Thayer (here going under the name of “Preacher of Unholy Blasphemies”) and I think I…
Artist: Dripping Decay Country: USA Label: Satanik Royalty Records / Old Shadows Records Formats: LP / Cassette / CD Year: 2023 Those who are lurking deep enough in the Death Metal scene might already picked up the name of this…
Artist: Krieg Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Krieg’s heady musical career is one characterised by an impressive multitude when it comes to both its equally staggering list of (mostly) ex-band members and the…
Artist: Luring Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions / Nithstang Productions Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 ‘Triumphant Fall Of The Malignant Christ’ is Luring’s second full-length effort, but other than the band’s debut, which was only…
Artist: Obsidian Grave Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2023 Over the roughly half decade of their existence, American Obsidian Grave have released their music through labels such as Atrocity Altar, Hatework, Perverse Homage and Death Hymns,…
Artist: Feeble Deity Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions / Forbidden Sonority Formats: CD / Cassette tape Year: 2023 That the Dark Adversary Productions label not only releases the own material of label-owner Azgorh (Drowning The Light, among others) is…
Artist: IncantationCountry: USALabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2023 When a new Incantation album drops you just know you’re in for a treat. The musical formula of the band hasn’t drastically changed over the past decades, and why…
Artist: Wolves In The Throne Room Country: USA Label: Relapse Records / Century Media Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2023 As with many bands that are dealt with a certain hype in their careers this phenomenon comes with…
Artist: Profanatica Country: USA Label: Season Of Mist Underground Activists Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Ever since the band’s resurrection in 2001 and especially after their first full-length album ever, 2007’s ‘Profanatitas de Domonatia’, the nefarious Black Metal entity…
Artist: Bloody Run Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: CD EP Year: 2023 Earlier this year the trio that is Bloody Run, hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, presented their third release. ‘The Revenge’ is an (extremely) short affair, clocking in at…
Artist: Abysmal Spite Country: USA Label: Narbentage Produktinen Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 Last year the American Black Metal duo of Abysmal Spite presented a short but fine demo tape under the name of ‘Demo MMXXII’, of which I concluded…
Artist: Protrusion Country: USA Label: Unholy Domain Records / Sevared Records / A Sangre Fría Records Formats: Demo Tape / Demo CD Year: 2023 Although Protrusion is a new band at the front, three of its four members have a…
One of the most interesting Death Metal albums of recent years was Occulsed’s debut album, released in 2021 by Everlasting Spew Records. It may be a new band, but with only a few demos on their record before the release…
Formed as early as 1997, we can definitely say that Burning Winds is a band that more than deserves the term ‘Cult Band’. Although always at the ultimate underground level, the band has undoubtedly contributed heavily to what we now…
Artist: Chamber of MirrorsCountry: USALabel: Drakkar ProductionsFormats: LP / Tape / CDYear: 2023 On their second album, US-based Chamber of Mirrors presents a well-crafted mix between raw and symphonic Black Metal. Consisting of the sole member Mortem, ‘Moonlight Decay’ follows…
Artist: Casket Fesh Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2023 Whether there will ever be a shortage of gory and zombie-inspired Death Metal is of course only questionable, but if it is up to Casket Flesh that moment…
Artist: Ritual Hammer Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2023 There is little background information to give you any guidance before you turn on ‘Demo 2023’ by Ritual Hammer. But this demo, so far only available as a…
Artist: Weregoat Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2023 Ahh, Weregoat. The ever-cheerful trio that has been ostentatiously hitting the road since the late 00s is making themselves heard again. Although their previous (and only) full-length…
Artist: Cattle Decapitation Country: Terrasite Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Apart from maybe the very first outings (of which some were reissues on 2018’s ‘Medium Rarities’ compilation), Cattle Decapitation were never much of your regular…