ΑΒΜΝ has been around for one year and a half of operations and we’d like to thank you all for your valuable support! It’s time that we expanded our scope by launching a sister channel to ABMN and its name is Antifascist Steel!

As you can imagine, this channel will cover the style of heavy metal and its closest counterparts like hard rock, progressive metal, doom metal, speed metal or anything metal with clean vocals. We’ve made a point from the beginning of the channel to include music that is quite far from black metal, which we’d like to believe is consistent with one of the most important tenets of the genre, which is radical non-conformity, transformation and aversion to formalism.

However, we did notice from the beginning that we got very few submissions from bands that belong to the older and more traditional subgenres of metal, which is of course something to be expected since the scenes of extreme metal and heavy metal don’t always overlap (although we’d like to believe that they could do so more). So this is our calling for bands that belong to these genres of metal to join us together in an antifascist alliance, for despite the musical differences, the issues that all metalheads face are pretty much the same.

We know that probably the first argument we’ll get to hear is that “heavy metal never had a problem with fascism” but we beg to differ; although a separate scene like NSBM wasn’t ever created in heavy metal, one can certainly find many examples of bands that flirted with fascism.

In addition, issues such as sexism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia are as rampant in the heavy metal scene as they are in the extreme metal scenes and must be addressed with equal fervour.