Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: Goatkraft Country: Norway Label: Deathrune Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 I said it before, not everything from Norway sounds like Borknagar, Arcturus or Ulver. Not quite. With ‘Barbed Wire Doctrine’, Goatkraft’s latest offering and follow-up to 2023’s ‘Prophet…
Artist: Beast Majesty Country: Peru Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Beast Majesty might a new band in the Extreme Metal scene, but the only person behind it is far from a newcomer. The wild child helming this new…
Artist: Division 52 Country: Germany Label: Rat Covenant / Southern Soundclash Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 This is an EP I’ve been looking forward to for a while. ‘Total War’ is the debut release from the German duo who perform…
Artist: Diabolical Vengeance Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 I don’t know who lies behind the pseudonyms Pyromaniak and Decimator, but together they form the new Finnish duo that, under the name Diabolical Vengeance, is making its mark on the slowly…
With Vider’s debut on cassette tape, the recent split LP with Bluthammer, and the upcoming album ‘Sounding The Horn Of Obliteration’ under the banner of WolfKult Religion, it is of course curious that this Swedish one-man band has not yet…
Artist: Sura’sura Country: Sri Lianka Label: විරූපි Propaganda Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 Although ‘Warfare Metal’ is only the first offering of Sura’sura from Sri Lanka, the band was already formed back in 2022. Not really sure what kept them…
Artist: Evokthum Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Formats: Digitaal Year: 2026 When I reviewed Evokthum’s debut demo, ‘Majesty Blood Vomiter’, back on the first day of 2025 it was still a one-man operation. But now, several releases on, Evokthum has become a duo.…
Artist: Ignobleth Country: Italy Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 If you make your debut with a digital single titled ‘Bestial Witchery’, you leave no doubt as to where your musical ambitions lie. These were realised…
Artist: Nocturnal Damnation Country: South Korea / Thailand Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Nocturnal Damnation is a band that has always been a bit hard to catch. Not so much for the musical identity, but even more…
Artist: Liturgy Of Desecration Country: Greece Label: Fallen Temple Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 After three demos, or EPs as they are often called these days, the unholy duo known as Liturgy Of Desecration are now back with a proper…
Artist: Goatspear Country: Canada Label: Pain Chain Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Goatspear is a relatively new one-man project by the multi-instrumentalist who is also a member of Nefarious Scorn and Pillagery, and performs here under the name The…
Artist: Triumph Country: USA Label: Black Plague Records / Pagan Fury Records Format: CD Year: 2026 Slowly but surely Evan “Immolator” Richardson is building quite a name for himself in the realm of Bestial Black/Death Metal. While not being specifically…
Artist: Szmrdt Country: Czechia Label: Filth Junkies Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 It will come as no surprise that, even more than the artwork and the logo, it was the title of this debut demo tape that caught my…
Artist: Mughtasib Country: Spain Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 This second demo tape by Mexican one-man band Mughtasib, which translates to “Violator”, is simply called ‘Invictus’ and continues the path chosen about two years ago when…
Artist: Bloody Vengeance Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Format: 12″ EP Year: 2026 Although the band has been around for about fifteen years, it is only in the last few years that Bloody Vengeance has started to gain traction. Perhaps this is…
Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 After a demo and two digital singles (both actually more or less the same song in a different version), all released in 2025, Zweihander quickly strikes again with a…
Artist: Terrorshroud Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Terrorshroud is a new Black/Death Metal band rising from the ever-fertile Greek underground scene. But while the individual band members only go by their initials and with blurred-out photos, it is at least known…
Artist: Bluthammer / Vider Country: Germany / Sweden Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split 12” LP Year: 2026 Relentless, menacing, uncompromising. Just some words that come to mind when playing this split between Bluthammer and Vider. Joined by their same home…
Artist: Verwándlung Country: Australia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although a physical cassette tape version has been announced, this debut demo by Australian band Verwándlung, recorded in separate sessions between 2024 and mid-2025, is only available digitally via…
Artist: Deathwinds Country: Canada Label: Headsplit Records / Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 When the ‘Ripping Annihilation’-EP was released back in autumn of 2025, it was quite a bit of a surprise. After…
Artist: Lecherous Country: USA Label: Self-Released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 After a digital demo and two rather low-profile split releases (of which one was also only released digitally), the USA-based Bestial Black/Death Metal band Lecherous published another digital demo…
Artist: Sepulchral Witchcraft Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Although Sepulchral Witchcraft is a (new) band from Russia, there’s musically nothing that seems to tie the band to their native scene – or at least what we usually associate with Russian Black…
Artist: Sulphuric Deity Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although this demo seems to have been in the works for quite some time, this is still a new band for most people. Only those who regularly visit Reddit or Instagram may…
Artist: Genocidal Sodomy Country: Thailand Label: Unpure Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Thai Bestial Black/Death Metal band Genocidal Sodomy first came to my radar with the split 7” EP with Savage Necromancy that was released in 2020, but even…
Artist: Bestial Warlust Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette / CD Year: 2026 Although bands like Impaled Nazarene, Blasphemy and Beherit were already blending the ferocity and darkness of Black Metal with the blunt brutality of…
Artist: Bestial Abyss Country: USA Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 In the latest series of releases by Unpure Records, there was also this re-release of the compilation of the first two digital demos by Bestial Abyss, originally…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Vomit Country: Ukraine Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Originally this split tape was already released in 2022 by Bathöryhead, a rather obscure label from Ukraine that seems to focus primarily on bands from…
Artist: Goatcorpse / Gotthammer Country: USA / Canada Label: WolfKult Religion Format: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 By no means do I have the illusion that in my role of a reviewer I have any other purpose than to just…
Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Abyss Country: Ukraine / USA Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2026 At the Unpure Records HQ, they must have devised a good way to start the year. And what better way to kick off…
Artist: Bestial Abyss / Bestial Temple Country: USA / Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split Year: 2025 No Nostradamus needed for this case, with such band names and the title this digital split was given, it is crystal clear what…
Artist: Archont Country: Austria Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although there is very little known about this band, it is most likely that Archont is from Austria as they are claimed to be part of the Symbolismus…
Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 The exact idea of and the meaning behind this one-track promo is a bit unclear to me. This sole track seems to be part of a longer rehearsal set…
Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Abbatoir Prods. / Fehexenheit Prod. Formats: Demo CDr Year: 2025 Besides the black/white/red artwork that reveals just about everything of what to expect musically, it was this band’s name that attracted my attention. A German…
Artist: Seraphic Castration Country: Canada Label: Spiritual Warfare / War Vellum Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From the ashes of Gotthammer and the extremely fertile Canadian underground, not only did the recently resurfaced Melth rise again, but now Seraphic Castration…
Artist: Occultor Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 With a cover art like this, strongly resembling Chris Moyen’s, with two goats watching the moon fall apart with a dissected person on their table, it is clear that we…
Artist: Melth Country: Canada Label: Berserk Ritual Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Emerging from the equally inventive and unpredictable group of musicians who previously brought us acts such as Gotthammer, Complot!, Moulin Banal, Adversaire, Shezmu, Pénombre and Kiloton. The exact…
Artist: Blood Altar Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2025 Blood Altar is a new band that, at least for the most part, hails from Germany – but at least has some international component in their line-up. The exact…
Artist: Barbaric Horde / Goatsmegma Country: Portugal / Estonia Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: Split LP / Split Cassette Year: 2025 With both bands having a long-standing relationship with Godz Ov War Productions as well as being two of…
Artist: Chaos Insignia Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Earlier this year I stumbled upon Chaos Insignia’s debut EP (or demo, if you prefer). I was enamoured with this band’s take on the Bestial Black/Death genre, even…
Artist: Schizophrenic Warfare Country: Denmark Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Just about everything about this first achievement by Schizophrenic Warfare exudes fresh finesse and thoughtful sophistication. Or not. Maybe not… True connoisseurs of the depraved art of the…
Artist: Depredation Netra Country: India Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Depredation Netra is a new band out of India. Given the insane size of the country’s population, there is hardly any metal scene to speak of, and for that reason…
Artist: Tormentador / Goat Semen Country: Brazil / Peru Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 A split LP with one of Brazil’s heaviest and Peru’s foulest. This is one of those records where you don’t really…
Artist: Demigoat Country: Sri Lanka Label: Black Kvlt Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Ever since the birth of our beloved genre, Sri Lanka might not have been the ultimate hotbed of our metal. But despite the lack of a rich…
Artist: Pillagery / Goatscrote Country: Canada Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With names like Pillagery and Goatscrote and a cover featuring goat heads and bullet belts, you don’t need to have an awful lot of imagination to…
Artist: Red Right Hand Of Plague / Warslaughter Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 After the release of the ‘Descent.Parasite.Abominator’ 7” EP that was released earlier this year and the ‘His Womb’-demo a few months…
Arist: Unholy Archangel Country: Greece Label: Profaner Records / Temple Profanator Format: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Unholy Archangel has already been around since the mid- to late 90’s and has a decent number of releases in their back catalogue, yet the band has never been…
Artist: Iron Division Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / IYY Blitzkrieg Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the Danish Extreme Metal scene and the Danish Extremely Rotten Productions label are mostly known for their Autopsy and Incantation-influenced Death Metal…
Artist: Thromvosis Country: Greece Label: Death’s Ovasions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 ‘Black Signs Of Bestiality’ is the follow-up recording to 2023’s ‘Proclamation Of The Smegmatic Warcult’, a record that I have reviewed and spent only a few hands full…
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…