The full album of the Bremen-based project Traktat will come out in October, and it’s definitely something worth noting. The band has released a stunning rehearsal demo, and now we present the video from their new single “Subdue The Filthy Pride of History.” Musically, it’s great black metal with mostly blasting but sometimes more laid-back […]
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Review: Reva – Urban Madrigals (Full album Premiere, 2024) | DSBM, post-black
Releasing tomorrow, we’re excited to premiere Reva‘s second album, Urban Madrigals. Somewhat reminiscent of Bonjour Tristesse‘s Your Ultimate Urban Nightmare with its cover, Reva explores the “impact of modern society and its relentless pace on our lives“, delving into the duality of the social isolation we all feel and constant connectivity via the Internet. Combining […]
Review: Ba’al – Soft Eyes (Full EP, 2024) | Post-black metal
Ba’al did it again. After their album Ellipsism in 2020, they are back with an EP called Soft Eyes, with a total of 3 songs for 27 minutes and 3 seconds of complex yet stunning post-black metal. The diversity of tonalities, and the variety in the composition, from very intense phases in “Ornamental Doll” to only […]
Review: Lowen – Najang Bah Divhayeh Mazandaran (Single, 2024) | Progressive
Time and time again Fortune shows itself to be a fickle and harsh mistress, but also a very sarcastic one. When we contacted the incredible Lowen a few weeks ago for permission to upload their amazing new single, “Najang Bah Divhayeh Mazandaran“, we never expected that the day of the upload would be precisely the […]
Review: Venus 426 – Causeways Into the Night (Full album, 2024) | Noise
We wander again to a different frame of sound from the usual today presenting the premiere for VENUS – 426’s last effort named Causeways into the Night. Packed into a 12-track body of work, the queer antifascist harsh noise powerhouse shows an immense evolution and develops into a concrete and more conceptual and thick atmosphere […]
Review: Telltales and Rituals by Chained Arcana & Knights of Rain (split, 2024) | Black metal
Right now, rain is a terrifying idea for the inhabitants of Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost Brazilian state, has been ravaged by storms and floods that have lasted for weeks and literally destroyed a large part of it, leaving hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands homeless, in the worst catastrophe in the history […]
Review: Ivory Primarch – Excruciation (Video clip, 2024) | Doom metal
Today’s premiere is Ivory Primarch, a funeral black doom band from Melbourne. The first single of their new album The Portrait is “Excruciation“, a 9′ long title, built in 5 different stages, going from regular doom to funeral doom, gaining in intensity at every new stage. The track starts with a keyboard line, quickly joined by […]
Review: Hilary Hutchinson – Morningstar (Full EP, 2022) | Rock, alternative metal
At Antifascist Steel (and ABMN for harsher music) we are proud of the broadness of artists we bring. Fighting gatekeeping and helping artists experiment as much as they want with their work are part of the struggle against oppression that we stand for, after all. And it’s in this spirit that today we bring Morningstar, […]
Castle Of Love – Review: Caves beneath the castle ruins (Full album, 2023) | Dungeon synth
Join us today on a little field trip into the ruins of a forgotten civilisation, deep underground and endlessly mysterious! Castle of Love‘s Caves beneath the castle ruins describes the fantastic journey through an ancient realm of forgotten history yet to be newly discovered. And while of course lacking vocals, the atmosphere of each of these […]
Review: Παγανή Κυριακή – Παγανή Κυριακή (Full album, 2024) | Blackened dungeon disco
Today is Easter Sunday for the Orthodox and Oriental Christian world who follow the Julian calendar, unlike those western Gregorian heretics, and as it’s arguably the most pagan of all Christian holy days (shhhh, don’t tell them) it’s only fitting we feature a fresh band called Παγανή Κυριακή (pronounced Pagani Kyriaki and meaning Pagan Sunday […]