This Austrian death metal formation had a really long road since 2007 to finally release their debut full-length material in 2019. But after 3 demos, 2 EPs and a split the magic is happened, so in August of 2015 the infernal trio – Blackpriest (vocals & rhythm guitars), D. (lead guitars & bass) and Necrofister (drums) – recorded 8 songs for their debut album "Abysmal Echoes". At once I have to note the ultra-confusing cave-like sound production, which is mostly due to the chaotic drumming (especially at fast parts) and possible false triggering of the snare drum. The vocal parts turned out to be super sick and necrotic as well. After listening to this nearly 38-minute long morbid manifestation by Abhorrot I come to the following conclusion: "Yes, their kind of ungodly music is definitely good to summon the ancient ones". This cassette version was released in 2020 by a cooperation of two labels from the underworld and limited to 150 copies. The cassette shell has a superior glossy gray color with professional factory prints on both of the sides and the accompanying J-card is a pro-printed one respectively. Kind of extremely abhorrent stuff for the extremely abhorrent times!!!

Black Hosts is a quartet from Poland that plays a totally old-school kind of speed thrash metal with lyrics about the medieval times. Their debut album "Times of Eternal Torture" was originally out in 2019, but TDP from Hungary thought this release deserves a decent cassette version too. Well, their decision was 100% right, because this material is just awesome in its entirety! The 10 songs of the Silesian thrashers will return us to the middle of the 80s, more precisely to the times of the Teutonic regime. The four thrash-driven inquisitors, i.e. Lord Violator (vocals), Axemaniac (guitars), Black Vomit (bass) & Evil Eye (drums), are maximally aware of how to achieve the riff-structures, the dynamics, the vibe and even the sound-production of the golden 80s. Incredible so to say! The whole material positively radiates the glorious past and not just music- but lyrics-wise as well. Plus, the singing abilities of Lord Violator are beyond words. Hats off! I would wholeheartedly and super warmly advise this over 33 minutes masterwork by Black Hosts to every possible thrasher out there! This superb cassette release was limited to 150 copies. Hail to the pioneers of thrash & speed metal, hail to the past, thrash till death!!!

"He Who Hates" is the debut demo by Bletsian from Melbourne (Australia). The 5 songs of the demo have been recorded by Unbeliever (vocals, guitars, bass) and Maelstrom (drums) between 2017 and 2019. The over 17 minutes of chaos-inspired black/death metal hell comes in an appropriate aural way. It's dark, it's harsh and it's evil. The track list of the demo is: "Strike with Chaos", "Wrath", "Infidel", "AIO Chant" & "Hate is the Law". These demonic musical creations are the absolute essence of the warlike sonic devastation. Its members are rather experienced in raising hell and some of you might know them from such hateful underground hordes as Sanguinary Misanthropia, Decrepit Soul, DeathFuckingCunt, Wardaemonic or Ur Draugr, just to name some. This was TDP's 10th release with a limitation of 150 copies, needless to mention, it has been sold out by the time you read these words. But good news that Belgian label Warmachine Prod. released this antihuman stuff on CDs in 500 copies. Oh, and let's also add here, Bletsian managed to release its debut full-length album "Phosfyriun" in 2021. You can order it directly from the band.

Cave Altar is a newborn project by G.V. (vocals, guitars, bass) and Kryptagonist (drums), both known inter alia from the progressive black metal band Holdlajtorja. In the over five minutes long title track "Impermanence" the duo from Hungary dives into the empyrean fields of doom and death metal. It combines the best trademarks of both genres, thus the overall result is quite impressive. The song itself sounds very cool and tight to me, kind of a balanced mix between obscurity and beauty, where the catchy guitar melodies meet the utterly deep growls. The other track is named "Soul Drift". It's a pure instrumental composition, which atmosphere-wise reminded me a bit of G.V.'s other project called Asattarn. It starts with drifting ambient-like patterns in the background, but afterwards it gets intensified by the layers of cyclic melodies. Solid debut material, just a pity there's only two songs in total there. The pro-done cassette comes with a colored J-card, which features member photos, lyrics and all the necessary infos about the release. The two songs last over 8 minutes and they're repeated on both sides of the cassette. This edition was limited to 50 copies, but still you can support Cave Altar via their bandcamp page.

Cryptworm from Bristol (England) was (de)formed in 2014. It has only two members and they are Tibor Hanyi (vocals, guitars, bass) & Joe Knight (drums). This is their self-titled debut demo that initially was released on cassettes in 2017 by Goatprayer Records and re-released by Total Därkness Propaganda in 2020. The three songs of the demo are "Gruesome Death", "Cannibalized" and "Gutswamp". The 13-minute material sounds in the best traditions of the 90s US and Swedish death metal classicks, I mean bands like Autopsy, Impetigo, Grave or Necrony here. It's rather dirty and chaotic, but also has the punch. To me the riff collections of Tibor are nothing else than the deep admiration to the bands above. The professionally multiplied transparent cassettes come with a laconic b/w booklet, which has all the lyrics, a band photo and the mandatory credits included. There were 150 physical copies spread in total, but you can anytime listen to the digital version of the demo online. By the way, the Cryptworm(s) have recently unleashed their first full-length monster "Spewing Mephitic Putridity" in MC, LP & CD formats. So if you like gore obsessed death metal the old-school way, don't hesitate to buy anything from Cryptworm!!!

Let me tell you at once that this 19-cassette box of Dissection is a jackpot in every possible way and Darkness Shall Rise Productions from Germany did a flawless job putting together this monster of a release. Being a longtime fan of the band and collecting everything possible from them meant to possess this special release as well. Frankly speaking I am super happy to own it as there's quite a lot of cool stuff gathered into this magic box. Besides the mentioned number of cassettes (with all the official releases & many never heard recordings) there's a huge hardcover book with so many interesting photos from all the eras of the band that simply that book alone would win the battle. However, there's still more inside, a lot more to be honest. If you love this band you will be spoiled by the additional items for sure: a metal-pin, 3 patches, a flag, 5 posters and a handnumbered certificate. All housed in a heavy luxurious matte black canvas casewrapped box with golden hot foil stamped printing. The quality of the recordings on these tapes and everything else in this box is just top notch! To me personally the following audio materials were of big interest: "The Hall Recordings", "Rehearsal 2005", "Winternoise Pt.1 & Pt.2", "Reinkaos – Instrumental Rehearsal" and "Midsummer Massacre Rehearsal". Well, if you claim to be a diehard fan of Dissection you must definitely own this beautiful box! Thank you Darkness Shall Rise for releasing it and taking care about the Dissection heritage! Also have in mind that this box is limited to 1500 handnumbered copies and will never ever be re-released!

Dying Grotesque from Kyiv started its career in 2018 as a one-man band. Its first release was a 4-song demo "Hunter's Daughter" the same year. It was followed by "Creator Plan" EP in 2019. So the current cassette version of the EP is no other than a re-release by Surrogate Rec. from Ukraine. Well, this special 3rd anniversary release includes the 5 songs of the EP plus a bonus track "Red Alert" from 2022. The EP songs were solely arranged and recorded by Silvan (all instruments & vocals). To be honest, he delivers to us a very simple and quite boring mixture of thrash and death metal. His kind of music is the one that usually doesn't get a second spin. The new song "Red Alert" was recorded by the current line-up, i.e. Silvan (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Gxreparty (bass) and Nordwind (drums). In that song only the vocals remain reminiscent of death metal, as the rest of instruments and the music itself are turned to some super lame industrial effort. To me it's a maximally unworthy material, but let's the "real" fans of the band decide it anyway. This cassette release was strictly limited to 33 copies. Now I know why, ha-ha... Nonetheless, it comes with a pretty decent design and a bonus sticker inside the J-card.

This is the second EP by these Ukrainians. On this 4-song EP the quartet – Silvan (vocals, guitar, synth), Gxreparty (guitar), Liquidator (bass) & Nordwind (drums) – continues to copy the Swedish death metal formula with the addition of inappropriate synth parts. The three songs of their own – "Imminence" (a fully instrumental piece), "Living Ghoul" and "Kikimora" – finally show some potential, so this time you can listen to a few good riffs and find some proper song structures there. These tunes turned out decent, so let's hope this attitude will remain for their future works too. The fourth song of the EP is a Roky Erickson cover. As you might know, "Night of the Vampire" has been covered previously by Entombed in 1995 and I still think that was the best cover version yet. In the interpretation of Dying Grotesque, I feel the constant lack of power plus the vibe is just totally wrong there. They've tried, but failed. Anyway, this cassette EP is the first worthy material by them, so give it a spin!

Formorket from Szerencs was formed in 2003 and ceased to exist in 2017. This live material was recorded at Inner Awakening Festival IX in Budapest on the 18th of August, 2017. The 7-song live show sounds pretty decent and captures the live essence of this unholy black metal horde from Hungary. Formorket's line-up on this live recording was Saterion (guitar/vocals), B (bass) and Ga'eheln (drums). Besides their own tracks they've included two great cover versions there as well, namely Craft's "Hidden Under the Skin" and Armagedda's "A World Full of Lies". Well, to be honest, the own music of Formorket is totally inspired by both the Norwegian and Swedish black metal scenes, thus this over 35 minutes stuff I would only advise for the diehard fans of the band. The fancy looking dark blue cassettes were limited to 50 copies, so hurry up to get your copy, before they are all gone... or simply walk into the nothingness of space and time...

This is Ghoul Temple's only material, released on cassettes in 2019. The Hungarian duo from Nagyatád was established in 2014. Patrik (guitars) and D (vocals, bass & guitars) present us four grumpy songs with a grim but marching-like mixture of black and death metal. However, I felt the black metal influences more predominant on "Catacomb Ritual". The music they play is like a cross between some early stuff of Hellhammer/Celtic Frost and Bolt Thrower. The sound production of the 21 minutes long repertory is really good and quite enjoyable. The song titles are as follows: "Possession", "Catacomb Ritual", "Invocation" and "Ghoul Wrath". The plain designed J-card comes with the flawless artwork and design by Anvil Kvlt. I am not sure if this killer tape is still available through FTP, but try to search for it, I personally found it pretty worthy! Enough said, eagerly waiting for the next chapter by these ghouls from Hungary!!!

Spanish doom/death warriors of God's Funeral are opening up the gates to hell on the A side. They've been around since 2016. The three songs of their own are about the absolute sadness and melancholy of the human race. The Catalonian quartet, i.e. Abel (vocals/bass), Juan (guitar), Naila (guitar) & Sergi (drums), is firmly handling their instruments of doom. And despite the fact, these lengthy songs were recorded and mixed at the rehearsal, they do sound awesome! The B side features four vicious black/death metal tracks by Hadez. The Peruvian horde with the following members in its ranks Scharack (growls), Agressor (guitar), Asmodeus (bass) & TM666 (drums) decided to re-record some songs from their past. These old songs are sounding rather rough and chaotic, but I suppose it had to be this way. Well, if you are in desperate search for a post-apocalyptic vibe for your day, stop searching, Hadez will do the best possible job for you. Sorry to write it, but this killer split has been sold out a while, so you can only browse and listen to it online. That's all folks! Apropos, there were two more cassette format releases of this split before, notably the DiscosMeCagoEnDios and the Profaner Records versions, both in 2018.

Hell Fury is an absolutely blasphemous black/death metal duo from Quito (Ecuador). It started to spread its dark wings in 2018. In August of 2019 they completed the recordings of 6 songs with 25 and half minutes playing time for their debut album called "Enemy of the Virtue (Blaspheme and Crush the Cross)". This evil stuff was originally released on cassettes by the following underground labels: Aniquilación Satánica Productions, Father of Obscurity Distro and Kult of Bloody Rites. Nonetheless, Total Därkness Propaganda from Hungary decided to re-release it on both cassettes and CDs in March of 2020. Their cassette run was limited to 50 pieces, so it must be a sought-after item by now. The plain looking black cassette features the same program on both sides. So you can listen to this necrotic sounding antichristian ritual twice on this tape, he-he... The blackened duo, namely Infernal Warlord (vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards) and X (drums), is doing everything possible to desecrate the holy spirit, thus your darkened soul will probably find the most wanted equilibrium there... Good news, the CD version of this hellcult masterpiece is still available at TDP, so make your order in time or cry later...

From the death metal elite of Szeged (Hungary) takes form the diabolical triumvirate of Molis Sepulcrum: Disemboweler (Gravecrusher, ex-Necrosodomy, ex-Goblin Gore) on vocals & bass, Alkoholizer (ex-Gravecrusher) on guitar and Winehammer on drums. Music- and sound-wise they maximally focus on the Swedish type of death metal. So you'll get a circa 23 minutes dose of downtuned chainsaw sounding riff massacre spiced up with massive grooves and death grunts of the most sombre kind. The debut mini album of the Hungarians is divided into 6 tracks. I personally liked their "back to the beginning of the 90s death metal era" repertory, even if I have to admit there's really nothing new or intriguing there. Their stuff is very well played and executed, but that's all. The pro-dubbed tape in the superior black shell comes with a superb quality b/w booklet featuring all the lyrics, recording infos and credits. The limitation of the cassettes is 150 pcs. and you can still order your copy from TDP. Thanks to Pulverised Records from Singapore this EP was also released on CDs and three different kinds of vinyls. Alright, let's see when Molis Sepulcrum will conquer next...

The second cassette release of TDP is a split. On side A we have Pathetic from Canada. The trio – AJ Kovar (vocals/bass), Spencer Kraft (guitars) & Duncan Chisholm (drums) – delivers to us four chaotic death metal songs in a super raw manner. Their mixing is a little bit garage-like, but it adds the so-beloved crypt sound to their stuff. Especially the death growls and the snare sound turned out to be loud and sick as hell. Fans of old-school death metal will love their dreadful over 20 minutes set. On side B we have four even more garage-like sounding tracks by Putrid from Peru. The unholy death metal quartet – Evil Avatar (vomits & whipping guitars), Erick Graves (infernal chords), Mad Butcher (cursed bass) & Drum Major of War (chaotic drums) – presents some sort of evilized yet blackened musick the way only South American bands can do. Their turbo Slayerish stuff is pretty annihilating, especially when all those sick blast beats enter the game. By the way, their fourth track "The Curse!" is a cover of the cult Canadian death/thrash band Slaughter. Should I mention at all that Putrid's version has just turned super diabolic in all sense. There were 200 copies of this split successfully spread all over the world, so its current status is sold out. However, you can still buy, stream or listen to it at TDP's bandcamp profile.

Canadian Pathetic is an obscure death metal band established in 2015. As you see the Calgary-based trio wasn't in hurry with the recordings of their debut full-length album, but they finally did it and collected 10 songs for the "Rat King". The circa 55 minutes long transparent red cassette has been divided to "rat" and "king" sides, 5 songs per each side respectively. Sound-wise they've managed to get a 100% live effect that is enough gruffly and dirty. Compared to their previous recording for the split "Devorando Carne Divina", here on "Rat King" we have all their instruments and vocal parts in a well-balanced, audible and proportional way. The only thing I've found a little bit odd is the big loudness difference between the two kick drums/pedals in a few songs. Anyway, this is a great apocalyptic death metal release I can only recommend for fans of the old-school vibe. My favorite tracks are "Frozen to Death (The Starlight Tours)" and "Empty Threat". These cool-looking cassettes were sold-out a while (as the limitation was 100 copies), but you can still order the "Rat King" on CD at TDP's bandcamp page.

Sanguinary Misanthropia is an Australian raw black metal horde, formed in Melbourne to spread the gnostic chaos upon the blindfolded herds of humankind. Initially "Blodison" was released in 2016 by Aurora Australis Records on CDs, but the Hungarian new-born label called Total Därkness Propaganda decided to materialize this hellish masterpiece on cassettes as well. The professionally dubbed tape is in rad black shell added by plain stickers on both sides. The colored cover is pro-printed too. There are 8 songs in total (four per side). The 37-minute long material sounds in an ultra-harsh way and truly stands for the "warlike black metal chaos" definition. This release was limited to 200 copies and, unfortunately or fortunately, by now it has been totally sold out. You can still stream or buy its digital version online. By the way, there was a special 8-song live album issued in 2019 under the title of "Live Blood Rituals" by Sinister Essence Records. Since that time no more news from this obscure black metal entity, but hopefully they will return soon...

Sedem Minút Strachu is an awful four-piece noise brigade from Slovakia. They started to play this kind of anti-music in 2012. Since that time they've managed to release too many splits. The material for the current split was recorded 10.2.2019 and it lasts 5 minutes and 33 seconds. There are no songs there, just spontaneous improvisations and chaos above all. I've checked some of their live videos and there's hell and madness during their performances. So I am pretty sure the diehard fans of the band will love this split release too. On the other side of the cassette we have the Kyiv-based noisecore duo called Maläd. Val (bass/screams) and Anton (drums) present to us 5 minutes and 26 seconds of their unique kind of (un)controlled noise diarrhea. It was recorded on 26th of April and titled as "Absolute Complete Insanity". This super sick split cassette release was limited to 100 copies and it is still available at the RPR bandcamp page. Only chosen ones should order this tape, others please stay away!!!

The third full-length material by Siculicidium from Transylvania is a special concept album that lyrics-wise tells an insane story, a neverending journey in the tartarean world and beyond. The Harghita County located black metal unit was founded in 2003 and since 2005 was led by two permanent members, namely Pestifer (guitar/bass) & Lugosi (vocals). Their sort of netherworld concept is fully written in Hungarian language and has been spread over 44 minutes. Needless to say, the 7 songs of "Az alámerülés lárvái (The larvae of the submergence)" are rather fascinating, both musically and lyrically. The type of black metal they play is monotonous, slightly melodic, at times epic and mostly mid-paced. It is rather focusing on the vibe as a whole then on the variety of riffs. Due to the monotone speech nature of Lugosi this vibe gets a hypnotizing character. The album's mixing is great and well-balanced. Fans of atmospheric black metal should invest into this stuff, which has been limited to 100 copies. The cassette's shell is white with black prints on both sides, while the extended booklet featuring all lyrics & credits is printed in black & white. The cover art was painted by Juha Vuorma, it fits well the story and looks awesome. Everything is on a high level there, so get your copy now or lament later...

Subscum from Kyiv is a young, but very promising grindcore quartet. It was established in 2020 by the following members: Roma (vocals), Vlad (guitar/noise), Nuri (bass) & Sirko (drums). Their self-titled EP was recorded live on the 5th of May, 2021 at Pree Tone's studio. The achieved sound production is pretty necrotic and totally cave-like, especially the vocal parts turned out to be extra sick there. The EP has 8 songs in almost 13 minutes. Their songs start and end with noises to give the effect of one long continuous song. These transitions weren't done in a flawless way, but who cares. What matters most is that Subscum debuted with killer stuff and I am eagerly looking forward to their next release! Until then, you can order this EP either from Rotova Porojnina Records or Acid Redux Productions. The first label limited the quantity of cassettes to 48 copies, while the second one to 50 copies. Don't hesitate too long as this sort of item is selling lightning fast.

The fourth TDP release is a limited double tape box containing the first two Tulsadoom albums and 6 never before released live tracks. It was strictly limited to 200 copies and sold out by now. The first cassette has the Austrian band's debut album called "Barbarian Steel", originally released in 2012 by Nihilistic Empire Records, plus five live tracks from 2015. The album itself contains 11 full speed ahead heavy metal songs that were slightly blackened, but strongly infected by thrash metal. Kind of punchy, very good-sounding epic alloy is it with lyrics about Conan the Barbarian and the Hyborian age. The line-up on this record is: King Totolva (vocals), Virgin Penetrator (guitar), Hairless Torturer (guitar), Rick Thunder (bass) & Dokthar Radiovodnik (dums). On its B-side we have 5 out of the 6 above mentioned live tracks. Those live cuts have a pretty decent sound, so you can enjoy the barbaric metal force live as well. The second cassette includes the band's second full-length release "Storms of the Netherworld", originally released in 2015 by Nihilistic Empire Records and one live track. The barbaric horde continues to evolve musically further on, so the 11 songs of their sophomore release are even more groove-oriented and hymn-like within the bestial combination of heavy & thrash metal. The members are the same, except Hairless Torturer, who has been replaced by Skullcrusher Volkov on guitar. Both cassettes come with extensive full-colored J-cards that were put together in a b/w hand numbered slipcase. A must-have for all the Tulsadoom collectors!!!