https://youtu.be/ucoFBdtKnP4 Band info Band: Aovum Album: ‘Abandon‘ Released: December 12th, 2025 Genre: avant-garde black metal Location: Finland Review Antti Mikonmäki, responsible for, among other things, the Kartano project, which we presented to you a few years ago, returns with a new album from his other project, Aovum. The album is titled ‘Abandon‘, and as always […]
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Review: Lijkschouwer – All What Did the Blade Reveal (Full album, 2025) | Post-black, sludge
Band info Band: Lijkschouwer Album: ‘All What Did the Blade Reveal‘ Released: September 16th, 2025 Genre: post-black metal, sludge, death metal Location: Netherlands Review Whatever they put in Dutch water not only makes people huge, it also makes them produce some seriously awesome music: Focus, Asphyx, Charlotte Wessels and Arjen Lucassen are just a few […]
Review: Steenkiste & Bischoff – Steenkiste & Bischoff (Full album, 2025) | Krautrock, acoustic
Band info Band: Steenkiste & Bischoff Album: ‘Steenkiste & Bischoff‘ Released: December 1st, 2025 Genre: acoustic, avant-garde, krautrock Location: Germany Review Αnd now for something completely different; some of you might remember a weird band called Sylvester Anfang that appeared twenty years ago and made some noise in the metal scene as well, using obvious […]
Review: Corpse Bird – Forge (Full length, 2025) | Crust, black
Band info Band: Corpse Bird Album: ‘Forge‘ Released November 21st, 2025 Genre: crust, black metal Location: UK Review Welcome yet again, dearest listeners, to another uplifting Review Friday time (just made up)! Ever wanted to know how it sounds to fuse At the Gates with Amebix and a black edge and folk-y kicks by […]
Review: Excommunicant – Reviresco (Full album, 2025) | Black, death, doom
https://youtu.be/Skh_qtqBM1s Band info Band: Excommunicant Album: ‘Reviresco‘ Relesed November 13th, 2025 Genre: death, doom, black Location: Canada Review Today, we bring one of those projects that resist categorisation by moving across multiple musical languages and genres. Excommunicant is a solo band based in Canada, and what you’ll be listening to is its second full-length release. […]
Review: Lighting Sun – Star of Bethlehem (EP, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: Lighting Sun Album: ‘Star of Bethlehem (Refugee)‘ Released: July 31st, 2025 Genre: doom black Location: US Review Lighting Sun is a black-doom band from California. ‘Star of Bethlehem‘ is their second album, following their first album in 2024 called ‘Man With No Name‘, as the title of their songs makes it clear, […]
Review: Gruta – Hymnus Atram Ad Mortem (Full album, 2025) | Blackened crust/death
Video link Band info Band: Gruta Album: ‘Hymnus Atram Ad Mortem‘ Released: November 27th, 2025 Genre: blackened crust, death metal Location: Colombia Review If there is one thing to be happy about regarding the contemporary metal scene, it is that there are more and more antifascist metal bands coming from the Global South, defying the […]
Review: Teardrinker – Killing the Flowers Will Not Delay Spring (EP, 2025) | Screamo, post-hardcore
Band info Band: Teardrinker EP: ‘Killing the Flowers Will Not Delay Spring‘ Released: April 14th, 2025 Genre: screamo, post-hardcore, sludge Location: Netherlands Review The Dutch (black) metal scene never disappoints, and today’s upload is no exception! Teardrinker’s debut EP, ‘Killing the Flowers Will Not Delay Spring‘, may be short, but it’s sweet, empowering and hopeful. […]
Hands off Venezuela!
As if to top 2025 as an awful year, 2026 has thrown at us as early as January 3rd what some of us already feared: the Trump administration has used the US military to directly intervene in a Latin American country for the first time in decades, with USian commandos kidnapping Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro […]
Review: Guerrilla Warnoise – Oppressor Exterminator (Demo, 2025) | War metal
https://youtu.be/18sN5ZYI84I Band info Band: Guerrilla Warnoise Album: ‘Oppressor Exterminator‘ Genre: war metal Released May 9th, 2025 Location: Greece Review Sometimes, antifascist black metal is about deconstructing tropes and introducing new elements and aesthetics, and other times it’s about harnessing the strongest and most blunt force imaginable and aiming it as a weapon. In case you […]