Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Excarnated Entity Country: USA Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 With ‘Descended Immortality – Promo 2024’ the Portland, Oregon based Death Metal band Excarnated Entity is giving us a 2-track sneak peak into what they have…
A new Deceased album is always something to be excited about. Although Deceased has long since ceased to be a pure Death Metal or Death/Thrash Metal band and an increasing amount of Heavy Metal has gradually crept into the band’s…
When I came across the two Hearse demos in my never-ending search for new obscure music in the early 00’s, they left a lasting impression. To my youthful ears, those sluggish and eerie riffs on those raw recordings connected both…
Artist: Black Funeral Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Ever since Drowning The Light’s spiritual father Azgorh took his place in Black Funeral in 2015, the band’s sound has taken a markedly different turn and his…
Artist: Lampir Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Early this same year Perverse Homage, the long-time companions of Lampir, digitally released a second compilation of demo recordings. With the title ‘Demo I – III’ it leaves little…
Artist: Coffin Rot Country: USA Label: Maggot Stomp Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After one album and a whole series of demos, splits, compilation and whatnot American Death Metal band Coffin Rot finally arrived at their…
Artist: Deceased Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Some bands still arouse a kind of youthful enthusiasm in me. But, honestly, there are fewer and fewer of them. That may have…
Artist: Sanguine Relic Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 ‘Within The Fog Of Fragmented Memory’, Sanguine Relic’s seventh full-length album, was already released some months ago, yet so far only on cassette tape. Like many of…
Artist: Kudlaakh Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: CDr EP Year: 2024 In the great hoopla of Raw and/or Lo-Fi Black Metal bands and releases from around the second half of the 10s, Kudlaakh fell a bit outside the box.…
Artist: Temple Of The Beast Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Admittedly, I have missed the self-titled demo that Temple Of The Beast had released two years ago, but in my own…
Artist: Arbor Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 With a steady stream of quality releases, including a handful of demos, an EP and one full-length album, one-man band Arbor has garnered some world wide praise for its alluring raw…
Artist: Vile Rites Country: USA Label: Carbonized Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although this American trio is quite young in age, they seem to be intrigued by the concept of time. The band’s previously released…
Artist: Acid Mass Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Yes, I have said it before and I will probably mention it again in the future: the advantage of having a one-man band is that you can crank…
Artist: Deteriorot / Rotpit Country: USA / Germany/Sweden Label: Seven Inches Of Metal Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 With the aptly titled ‘We Rot’ Seven Metal Inches Records presents a new 7” that brings together the long-running Deteriorot…
Artist: Cloaked Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 With very little info being available of this newly conceived Nashville, Tennessee-based Raw Black Metal band the music on this project’s debut demo should do the majority of the…
Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Not even a year after the band’s debut album, Death Metal one-piece Mortuary Ghoul returns with its follow-up. An album that is obviously based…
Artist: Herculean Death Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Some two years ago I reviewed Herculean Death’s first EP, ‘Lost Hierarchy Of Dark Twisted Arts’ and reading back that one while listening to that particular EP…
From the category of underrated and overlooked bands: Thornspawn. That fact in itself would be enough to put the band in the limelight for once, but in addition, the band recently came up with their fifth long-player, the first since…
Artist: Desekryptor Country: USA Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 No, this is not new material from USA’s Desekryptor. Instead this is the vinyl and CD reissue of their Caligari-released EP that surfaced during…
Artist: Penis Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This is the day we have all been waiting for. The day that there would finally be a band that would call themselves Penis. Hallelujah! Well, okay, the band…
Artist: Thornspawn Country: USA Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 When it comes to the North American Black Metal scene, the discussions usually evolve around the same bands, it’s always Judas Iscariot, Leviathan, Krieg,…
Artist: Ancient Necromancy Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Ancient Necromancy, a one-man Black Metal band spawned out of the mind of Eldrinacht, also responsible for such acts as Cult of Thaumiel and Gharmelicht, released one…
Although only formed fairly recently, in 2016 to be precise, Deathwalker, the sole being behind Nihil Invocation has not exactly been sitting still. The band’s discography is impressive not only on volume, but mainly because of its down-to-earth and raw…
Artist: Nocturnal Deviancy Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 Together with a digital split with Chasmic Filth that appeared just a month prior this Dark Adversary Productions released EP, these are the first recordings from…
Artist: Nihil Invocation Country: USA Label: Northern Void Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 The ever-restless and hardworking Deathwalker returns with his sixth full-length album with Nihil Invocation, not all too long after the 2-track demo from February this same year.…
Artist: Primitive Warfare Country: USA Label: Godz Ov War Productions / Stygian Black Hand Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a demo and two splits (with Complot! and Bog Body) the duo that is behind Primitive Warfare thought it…
Artist: Necrophagia Country: USA Label: Time To Kill Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With the passing of Killjoy back in 2018 the metal scene lost not only a musician who was widely loved and appreciated…
Formed in 2021, Hekseblad have used their first few years to flesh out and further perfect their musical formula of melodic and even symphonic Black Metal. While perhaps not all initial recordings have turned out equally well, it is clear…
Artist: Purulency Country: USA Label: Caligari Records / Pulverised Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 ‘Transcendent Unveiling Of Dimensions’ is the first feat of the Kingsport, Tennessee, USA-based Death Metal that was founded back…
Artist: ParfaxitasCountry: Iceland / Norway / USALabel: Terratur PossesionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Parfaxitas, the archdemon that rules over astral thunderstorms. Ruler of wrath, fevers, vengeance and atavism. That who can gives rise to chaos, destruction and death through acts…
At the very end of summer 2023, more or less out of the blue, came Flesher. A new Death Metal band from the USA that doesn’t only play an obvious tribute to the Death Metal gods of their home country,…
Artist: Perversion / Pyromancer Country: USA Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 This new split 7” EP combines two Black/Death Metal bands from the USA. Perversion on the A-side has already released a significant amount…
Artist: Deicide Country: USA Label: Reigning Phoenix Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Most people of a certain age reading this will have a relationship with Deicide that is based on, at least, mixed feelings. To…
Artist: Arbor Country: USA Label: Blood And Crescent Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 One of those alluring new names of contemporary Black Metal is the much praised Arbor from the USA. With a handful of great demos and the 2023-released debut…
Artist: Black Lycanthropy Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 In the past two years the American one-man Black Metal band Black Lycanthropy has already delivered two EP’s and a demo of which especially the last two releases…
Artist: Morgul Blade Country: USA Label: No Remorse Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a demo/EP, ‘Harbingers Of Power And The World’s End’ from 2019, that sadly enough went under my radar, the American Heavy Metal band Morgul…
Artist: Baphorator Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 After a self-released demo tape in 2023 this American duo returns with a half-hour debut LP through none other than Nuclear War Now! Productions. The label ever…
Artist: Hekseblad Country: USA Label: Hypnotic Dirge Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a considerable amount of demo’s and EP’s that were released in the last couple of years, the American duo that together form Hekseblad thought it…
Artist: Aberration Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Aberration debuted in 2021 with a self-titled EP after which it remained quiet for a long time, not counting the Beherit cover that…
Artist: Diabolic Oath Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The trio that together makes up Diabolic Oath has just delivered us something new to chew on, not all too long after…
Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Daedric Chamber’s ‘Black Marsh Eternal’, the band’s fourth full-length album, felt like a prime example of the ‘new generation’ of contemporary (American) Black Metal. It portrayed the band,…
Artist: Oppressive Descent Country: USA Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 Although Oppressive Descent was already founded back in 2008, the one-man project my workaholic Matt “Grond Nefarious” Schulte only really got wings during the years around the…
Artist: Drape Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Only a couple of days after Drape’s debut demo ‘Under The Majestic Black Mist’ the American one-man act returns with its follow-up; the twenty minute clocking and the evocatively…
Artist: Iron Firmament Country: USA Label: Wergild Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 ‘Empyrean Blood’ is Iron Firmament’s second offering, after last July’s debut EP ‘Keepeater’. That EP already introduced us to an interesting piece of Raw Black Metal that sounded…
Artist: Drape Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Drape is a new Black Metal band without any other information than it is apparently coming from the USA. But, since we are here for the music and not…
Artist: Ectospire Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Almost exactly a year ago I came across Ectospire’s debut demo, a tape that stuck with me a for a while because of a vital mix of both European…
Artist: Drekavac / Orgy Of Carrion Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage / Satanik Requiem Formats: Split Cassette / Split LP Year: 2024 After a quick start in their early career, Orgy Of Carrion produced a considerable amount output of a…
Artist: Grave Alter Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Last year I stumbled upon Grave Alter’s self-titled first demo, a 3-tracker that showed a certain appreciation of Mortician-styled gore-drenched Death Metal. Now, exactly one year later, also…
Artist: Midnight Country: USA Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP /Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Over the course of the last, let’s say, ten years Midnight is one of Heavy Metal’s most revered rising stars. Not only has Midnight…
Artist: Posthumous Regurgitation Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: Digital Year: 2024 After two EP’s and a split, released through various labels in the late 2010’s, the Americans of Posthumous Regurgitation finally return with some new material. With these previously…