Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Clactonian Country: Italy Label: Prehistoric Sounds Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Dea Madre’ was the short debut demo of this Italian Black/Death Metal band and displayed the steps of a decent, yet not completely convincing band. Their aim was…
Artist: Combat Shrine Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 The all-knowing Metal-Archives filed Combat Shrine under “Grindcore”. Although that is not entirely out of touch with reality, you’re doing this Finnish band short quite a bit. And…
Artist: Chaos Insignia Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Probably prompted by the current popularity of the virtuous Antichrist Siege Machine, who have a song titled Chaos Insignia, these Romanians enter the field of chaotic Black/Death Metal…
Artist: Bluthammer Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 “Fuck Religion, Fuck Politics, Fuck Humanity”. It can only be clear. Bluthammer does not mince words: this is merely about sonic violence and unhinged total hatred. And, of course,…
Artist: Atomic Goatcrime Country: Ecuador Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 After the band’s great 2023-released ‘Atomic Goat Exterminium!’-EP, I have kept my binoculars focused on Ecuador to see if there was any movement in the Atomic Goatcrime camp.…
In the summer of 2024, this Canadian duo simultaneously released two cassette tapes, a demo and a rehearsal. The aesthetics of both tapes and the overall image surrounding the band hold pretty little mystery: with their Black/Death Metal laced with…
Artist: Vadhakarmadhikarin Country: India Label: Final Agony Formats: LP Year: 2025 While a lot of Extreme Metal is made in a few countries or continents with a long and lively history in this sort of music, some things do come…
Artist: Blasphamagoatachrist Country: Brazil/Canada Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Those who thought that Blasphamagoatachrist would cease to exist after the deaths of Sabbaoth (2021) and Virrugus (2024) turns out completely mistaken. Of course, it…
Artist: Nocuous Lust Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sometimes very little words are needed, or they can even take some of the magic away. That must have been the way of thinking of this newly found…
Artist: Red Right Hand Of Plague Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 After an interesting demo tape in Spring 2024, which unfortunately was too limited and hard to get for a European like me, this American…
Artist: Vider Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 On a miserable, rainy, grey and stormy January day, nothing really fits better than an all-consuming darkness in musical form. For that joyous occasion today, I threw in the debut…
Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Almost simultaneously with the ‘Swine Slice’-EP Kiloton also assumed we, poor humans, were ready for even a full-length release of this rotten and totally degenerated Black Noise. Even if ‘Ruine…
Artist: Annihilation Cult Country: USA Label: Profaner Records / Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 At the end of 2023 Annihilation Cult came up with a digital demo of just over 15 minutes of merciless Black/Death Metal…
Artist: Evokthum Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Someone even half-versed in the wonderful world of the Bestial Black/Death Metal scene will have no difficulty in already getting some idea of where this is going to, simply…
Artist: Wrathprayer Country: Chile Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 If we’re not counting the split LP with fellow Chileans Force Of Evil from 2017 (also Nuclear War Now! Productions) ‘Enkoimeterion’ is…
Artist: Vengeance Horde Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Stygian Black Hand / Deathrash Armageddon Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After the short but convincing and self-titled debut EP, released on cassette tape and…
Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 On the band’s previously released two demos and full-length albums Warslaughter already showed what they were made of. The Spaniards follow much of the country’s tradition in unrelenting…
Artist: Morbid Inovcation Country: Germany Label: Sect Entropy Formats: Tape Year: 2024 Without having felt the urge to record some demos or other short players first, this hitherto unknown duo goes straight for the full-length. Although, it is not actually…
Artist: Wrahha Country: Germany Label: AbArt Corruption / Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 After the break-up of Lihhamon, singer/guitarist M. (here as BRSRKR) decided to try again with a different line-up. The exact reason for the predecessor’s…
Artist: Bestialgoat Country: Brazil Label: Brasilis Produções / Unpure Records Formats: Cassette tape / CD Year: 2024 With a back catalogue consisting of releases with black/white/red tones on the cover and titles of which the words are separated.by.dots. it is…
Artist: Abysmal Desecration Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With ‘Total Extinction Of Humanity’, this new Argentine band lays their first feat on the table. And if the band name combined with the black, white and red…
Artist: Ignobleth Country: Italy Label: Masked Dead Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Despite these three blokes from the Northern region of Italy being said to be in their mid-teens, they know their craft damn well. Being formed somewhere in…
Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: CDYear: 2024 ‘Nuclear Conquest’ is the tale of Turbo Sodomizer, Hammer Commander and Sonic Reducer, who together as Gotthammer have set out to turn the world to ash with their downtuned savagery. This compilation is a…
Artist: Funeral Vomit Country: Colombia Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Before the Xtreem Music-released ‘Monumental Putrescence’ from late December last year, the Colombians of Funeral Vomit released a demo, two splits and a self-titled…
Artist: Sepulchral Conjurator Country: Ecuador Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Sepulchral Conjurator is a relatively new band who deliver their first demo with ‘Ceremony Ritual I’. This already happened late last year with a first self-released on…
Artist: Sadomortuary / In League With Satan Country: Italy Label: Non Resurgam Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 This split cassette tape is quick to follow up on Sadomortuary’s first full-length album that was released only two months prior. This…
Artist: Sadomortuary Country: Italy Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 After a couple of demos (also available on a US-released compilation CD) and a split with Nameless Tomb, ‘Inflicting Litanies Of Torment’ is Sadomortuary’s first full-length album. In just…
Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Anti-Human Productions / WolfKult ReligionFormats: 7” EP / Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2024 The godslaying sonic barbarians of Gotthammer return to the stage with their first EP, following a couple of demos and a split with…
Artist: Prehistoric War Cult / Dolchstoß Country: Germany Label: AbArt Corruption / Fucking Kill Records Formats: Split 7″ EP / Split Cassette EP Year: 2024 Although the title of this split might suggest that we are having a Manowar tribute…
Artist: Goatscrote Country: Canada Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 With a name that in itself leaves little to the imagination, the “logo” and covers that Canadian Goatscrote serve themselves with make it even easier to imagine what this…
Artist: Pillagery Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Pillagery, a new Canadian Black/Death Metal outfit, is presenting its first feat in the form of this 4-track demo tape that (almost) simultaneously saw the darkness of day with…
Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: The Final Return Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of the band’s second album, the Black Noise Committee released ‘Autocombustión’, we are also presented with this tape release that compiles both…
Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Black Noise Committee / Headsplit Records / Ixiol Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 After two demos and a full-length album in about three years the band decided to throw in the towel…
Artist: Impiety Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 While the Singaporean Impiety by far is more well-known than this one from the USA, their musical background is not all that different. Okay,…
With two good demo tapes under their belt, Spanish outfit Vomit Messiah have proven, as far as I am concerned, to be a more than worthy continuation of what we can safely call the “Spanish Tradition” in Bestial Black/Death Metal.…
Artist: Prehistoric War Cult Country: Germany Label: Fucking Kill Records / Iconoclasm Conquest / Kellerassel Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With a good couple of short players in the past few years the German Black/Death…