Notes From Underground
Notes From Underground features the latest underground metal bands!
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Album Review: ITHEIST – Itheist
It seems the lines between Black and Death Metal have blurred yet again. To call Itheist a Blackened Death Metal…
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Album Review: KAMPFAR – Ofidians Manifest
It has literally been twenty years since my first exposure to KAMPFAR. I reviewed their sophomore effort, Fra Underverdenen, and…
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Album Review: STELLAR MASTER ELITE – Hologram Temple
It seems that all life really is about is learning how to accept change, or at least put on the…
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Album Review: BLACK ANVIL – Miles
If one was to survey the annals of Heavy Metal history, scanning for the bands that made the largest impact,…
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Album Review: GATEKEEPER – Grey Maiden
Jeff Black, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist, started Gatekeeper in 2009 as a solo project. The band’s core roots include…
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Album Review: UNGRAVEN – Language of Longing
Most know Jon Davis as the front man for über-elite Doom outfit Conan. Since that band formed back in 2006…
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Album Review: BLADE KILLER – High Risk
For the uninitiated, there was a documentary filmed in 1986 entitled Heavy Metal Parking Lot, a cultural snapshot of the…
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Album Review: KARG – Dornenvögel
Going back centuries, Austria has been a center for musical exceptionalism. This rich heritage includes composers such as Franz Schubert…
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Album Review: THIRD STORM – The Grand Manifestation
In a time when those who blazed the trail for the proliferation of Black Metal and Death Metal throughout the…
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Album Review: BAEST – Danse Macabre
Perhaps living at the epicenter of the oncoming mega-storm hurricane looming along the coast, spiraling to bring doom to all…
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Album Review: Integrity/Krieg – Split EP
Seeing this release, I instantly connected knowing it had to be covered. Integrity helped write the book on metallic Hardcore. …
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Album Review: DRAGHKAR – The Endless Howling Abyss
When thinking of underground brutal old school Death Metal, one probably does not first list Los Angeles. Despite this fact,…
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Album Review: BLACK COFFEE – Take One
I have to be honest with you my sweet snickerdoodles, when I heard the intro of the first song I…
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Album Review: PHOENIX RISING – Ignite
I believe in fate, kismet, if you will. So, when I stumbled a crossed the email from this bands publicist…
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Album Review: BEGAT THE NEPHILIM – I: The Surreptitious Prophecy/Mother of the Blasphemy
Begat the Nephilim are relative newcomers to the land of signed acts and international press. Formed in 2012, the band…
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Album Review: GROW RICH – Senen Lempuyangan
Grow Rich is a one-man project catalyzed by Abdur Rahim Latada in late 2016. Hailing from Jakarta, Indonesia, Latada, nicknamed…
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Album Review: SKOGEN – Skuggorna Kallar
Skogen (in English: Forest) is a Swedish Black Metal band that has recently released their fifth full-length entitled Skuggorna Kallar…
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Album Review: WITCH CASKET – Hatred Index
While one certainly cannot complain about the popularity and sheer enormity of the Metal scene these days compared to the…
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Album Review: IHSAHN – Ámr
The mid-1990s were an important time for me personally, musically, and also for the Metal community in general. I was…
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Album Review: YASHIRA – Shrine
Listening to this, the first full-length by Yashira from Jacksonville, FL, I feel as if transported back to 2002. While…