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Welcome to the first Underground Updates of the year 2025!
So, let’s see what’s out there…
NEUROT RECORDINGS Now this label is going strong into the new year with their Pay What You Can segment and this week´s album pick is Solidarity by Tone! Head over here to claim your copy and simply pay what you can!
LACERATED ENEMY RECORDS And speaking of going strong into the new year; Lacerated Enemy Records is having a massive sale with up to 50% off on selected items in order to clear out some old stuff for room for the coming new merch drop and new releases in late January and early February! Head over here right now to check out the selection!
SEASON OF MIST Get a free Season of Mist compilation featuring a track from each of 2024 new album releases! This includes tracks from bands such as Rotting Christ, Anciients, Defeated Sanity and Gaerea, so head over here right now to get your hands on it!
HPGD PRODUCTIONS The new year´s evil sale has started over at Horror Pain Gore Death Productions which includes a 50% off on all digital downloads through January 6th! Head over here right now to check out the selection and use the code NYE24 at checkout!
SEVENTH RULE RECORDINGS As a new year celebration Seventh Rule Recordings has marked 20% off while stock lasts, so make sure you have very quick hands over here to get some well-priced goodies!
PATRIARKH Emerging out of the acrimony of who has the right to call themselves Batushka, the renamed Patriarkh return with their latest offering Prophet Ilja (ПРОРОК ИЛИЯ), a grand, symphonic, atmospheric black metal release, out now on Napalm Records. You can listen to the album here and buy physical copies here.
PARRICIDE Formed in 1992 and split-up in 2015, Poland’s death metal/grindcore act Parricide have had their earliest material re-recorded by the latest iteration of the band, the result is After The Funeral. Originally released last year, Selfmadegod Records have now released the compilation on double CD and double cassette. Enjoy yourself some updated, dirty, nasty death metal. You can listen in full here where there’s also a bunch of merch to go with the release.
DARK SKY BURIAL While you may know him best as the longstanding bass player for grindcore legends Napalm Death, Shane Embury has been busy the last few years carving out a totally different musical path as Dark Sky Burial. This one is dark, esoteric, occult, electronic and largely instrumental. Taking inspiration from Coil, Skinny Puppy and Dead Can Dance, among others, Dark Sky Burial has put out 10 releases in just a few years. V.I.T.R.I.O.L. takes some of the best and puts them all together into one compilation. It’s definitely not metal, but if you want to explore some electronic, industrial, dark sounds, you are strongly recommended to check this out. You can listen to the album in full here and buy a vinyl copy from Consouling Sounds here.
Having to pay gigantic sums for international postage is a real gear grinder. While it’s our default setting to link Bandcamp pages in the case of new and pre-releases, we thought it would be helpful to add some online stores that might provide a useful alternative.
So if you see a release you fancy, but it’s being sold in a far off land and you don’t want to fork out on exorbitant shipping, see if any of the links below can remedy the situation.
Dark Essence (Norway) Dark Essence (US)
Direct Merch (Australia)
eOne Heavy (EU) eOne Heavy (UK) eOne Heavy (US)
Metal Odyssey (EU) Metal Odyssey (US)
Napalm Records (Germany)
Prophecy Productions (Germany) Prophecy Productions (US)
Rough Trade (UK) Rough Trade (US)
Season of Mist (EU) Season of Mist (US)
Southern Lord (EU) Southern Lord (US)
Throne Records (World)
Transcending Obscurity (EU) Transcending Obscurity (US)
As we head straight into the year 2025, we hope all of our readers out there had a fabulous heavy metal New Year celebration, and we look forward to seeing you in the coming months!
By Julia Katrin and Tom Osman
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