Notes From Underground
Notes From Underground features the latest underground metal bands!
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MESSA’s The Spin – A Bold Evolution of Doom, Gothic Atmosphere, and Sonic Mastery – Album Review
Italian doom metal visionaries MESSA have long been synonymous with innovation. They effortlessly blend classic doom, jazz, ambient, prog, and Eastern influences into their…
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RWAKE Reawakens with The Return Of Magik – A Thirteen-Year Silence Broken by Cosmic Sludge and Southern Sorcery – Album Review
Thirteen years after Rest left us wandering through a gaping, sludge-ridden void, Arkansas’ sludge-metal shamans RWAKE have re-emerged—not as relics…
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GREY MOUNTAIN Delivers a Genre-Defying Debut That Redefines Modern Metal with Grey Mountain – Album Review
The trans-Atlantic metal collaboration GREY MOUNTAIN is set to release their self-titled debut on March 7, 2025, via Eat Lead…
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SCARE: In The End, Was It Worth It? Delivers a Relentless Onslaught of Metallic Hardcore and Doom – Album Review
Québec City’s SCARE has returned with In The End, Was It Worth It?, a relentless thirty-two-minute assault of metallic hardcore…
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ASASARA: 777 – A Thunderous Blend of Thrash Fury and Stoner Groove – EP Review
Massachusetts-based stoner/thrash metal duo Asasara returns with their sophomore EP, 777, delivering a potent fusion of groove-heavy riffs and thrash…
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MALTUKA’s Black Rite – A Ferocious Debut That Thrashes with Precision and Darkness – EP Review
Bergen, Norway’s newest thrash export, Maltuka, waste no time making their presence known with their debut EP, Black Rite, released…
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THIS GIFT IS A CURSE Unleashes Unrelenting Darkness with HEIR – Album Review
Sweden’s THIS GIFT IS A CURSE have long been at the forefront of blackened sludge metal, crafting sonic landscapes that…
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SEPULCHRAL CURSE Ascends with Ferocious Evolution on Crimson Moon Evocations – Album Review
Sepulchral Curse has returned with their third full-length opus, Crimson Moon Evocations, set to be unleashed upon the world via…
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RETROMORPHOSIS Resurrects Death Metal with Psalmus Mortis – A Haunting and Technical Triumph – Album Review
Even in the lawless wasteland of death metal, some exceptions prove the rule. Retromorphosis, a band born from the legendary…
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PREHISTORIA’s Cryptic Halo Delivers a Bold Fusion of Classic and Modern Heavy Metal – Album Review
Prehistoria, the U.S.-based heavy metal quintet, makes a bold statement with their debut full-length album, Cryptic Halo. Following their promising…
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NECRAMBULANT Unleashes Relentless Carnage with Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance – Album Review
After nearly a decade since their debut and a brief foray into experimental territory, Arizona’s Necrambulant has clawed their way…
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WATCH MY DYING Returns with Egyenes Kerülő – A Bold Reinvention of Industrial Metal – Album Review
Hungarian extreme metal stalwarts Watch My Dying return with Egyenes Kerőlő, an album that cements their status as a boundary-pushing…
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NOCTAMBULIST’s “Gevoelsmens” Offers a Striking Fusion of Nostalgia and Ferocity – Single Review
Kicking off 2025 with an evocative debut, Veil of Sound unveils the latest single from Noctambulist, the atmospheric black metal…
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OPEN KASKET’s Trials of Failure – A Relentless Beatdown Death Metal Debut That Leaves No Survivors – Album Review
Little Rock’s own Open Kasket burst onto the scene with Trials of Failure, a beatdown death metal behemoth that revels…
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CONFESS Redefines Metal’s Emotional Depth with the Harrowing and Defiant Destination Addiction – Album Review
Iranian-Norwegian metal visionaries Confess have delivered a masterful follow-up to their critically acclaimed Revenge At All Costs. With Destination Addiction,…
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KAISER Ignites the Stoner Rock Scene with the Explosive 2nd Sound – Album Review
Kaiser, the Finnish stoner rock trio with riffs heavy enough to shake the Arctic, returns with their sophomore album, 2nd…
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ABDUCTION’s Existentialismus – A Relentless Descent into Nihilism and Despair – Album Review
Abduction’s Existentialismus is not just an album; it’s a visceral mirror held up to the chaos, despair, and contradictions of…
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Sisters Of… Deliver an Emotional Odyssey with Marie / Michel – A Masterpiece of Dark Cinematic Soundscapes – Album Review
Missouri’s instrumental duo, Sisters Of…, returns with Marie / Michel, a stunning 17-minute EP that feels less like a collection…
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RELICS OF HUMANITY Unleash Unprecedented Brutality in Absolute Dismal Domain – A Conceptual Odyssey of Cosmic Annihilation – Album Review
Belarusian brutal death metal titans Relics of Humanity return with their most ambitious project to date, Absolute Dismal Domain. A…
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Exploring the Mystical Depths: Häxkapell’s Om jordens blod och urgravens grepp Blends Black Metal and Folk Mastery – Album Review
Häxkapell‘s latest album, Om jordens blod och urgravens grepp (‘Of earth’s blood and the grave’s grasp’), emerges as a profound…