Band info Band: Auriferous Flame Album: The Insurrectionists And The Caretakers Released: November 8th, 2024 Genre: Atmospheric black/thrash metal Location: Greece Review Barely a year after releasing the sophomore album, ‘Ardor For Black Mastery’, Ayloss is back with a new Auriferous Flame album, ‘The Insurrectionists and the Caretakers’. ‘The Insurrectionists’ carry over, sound and visual […]
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Review: Rampancy – Where the Sun of the Future Rises (Full album, 2023) | Black metal
https://youtu.be/Xcz5CLP6Ypk Band info Band: Rampancy Album: Where the Sun of the Future Rises Released: November 1st, 2024. Genre: epic, melodic black metal Location: London, Canada. Review Three years ago, ABMN was introduced to Rampancy, a solo Canadian project hosted by Oculus Tod, a musician with one of the longest “See also” lists of bands in the whole […]
Review: Na Zarot – “Waste” (Single, 2024) | Raw black metal
Band info Band: Na Zarot Song: “Waste” Released: September 10th, 2024 Genre: raw black metal Location: Germany Review If you’re in for a (literally sadly) fast and intense experience today, stay for this brief time with us then as we introduce you not for the first time to Na Zarot, a promising and blooming raw […]
Review: Luciferian Strings – The Last Kingslayer (Full album, 2024) | Black metal, dungeon synth
https://youtu.be/GxxuzwE7Gt0 Band info Band: Luciferian Strings Album: The Last Kingslayer Released: November 1st, 2024. Genre: black metal, dungeon synth. Location: Portugal. Review Let me preface this next statement by saying that it does not represent the Network as a whole, just this specific reviewer goblin, but I was wary when I saw that Portuguese anarchist […]
Review: A///Plague – Solve et Coagvla (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
https://youtu.be/EEYE_7ZG224 Band info Band: A///Plague Album: Solve et Coagvla Released: September 13th, 2024. Genre: black metal. Location: Brazil. Review Today we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Brazilian anarchist black solo project A///Plague. Founded by a very prolific musician who has been around the Brazilian and antifascist scene for a lot longer than half a decade: […]
Review: Tylo – Of Rot and Rebirth (Full album, 2024) | Doom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxdITiLUYTs Band info Band: Tylo Album: Of Rot and Rebirth Released: October 27th, 2024 Genre: doom, black metal Location: USA Review Tylo, the personal project of Tylo Gardner (also the bassist of Seattle atmospheric/prog black metal band Izthmi) has always been standing at a crossroads between two usually quite different in presentation and aesthetics genres; […]
Review: Imagine A Boot – Fearless Werewolf Killers (EP, 2024) | Black metal
Band info Band: Imagine A Boot Album: Fearless Werewolf Killers Released: October 27th, 2024. Genre: raw black metal. Location: Netherlands. Review Imagine A Boot‘s new material is raw and -as the author mentions- iconoclastic raw black metal created out of fury at the rise of fascism. But before we get to anti-fascism a few words […]
Review: Dvster – Hexenwerk (EP, 2024) | Black punk, dungeon synth
Band info Band: Dvster Album: Hexenwerk Released: August 21st, 2024. Genre: back punk, dungeon synth. Location: Germany. Review Today we present you a charming little discovery from this wonderful cabinet of oddities that is independent black metal. Germany-based project Dvster may be one of the most surprising variations of this long-known musical direction. This […]
Review: Illmara – Blodlust (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
Band info Band: Illmara Album: Blodlust Released: October 30th, 2024. Genre: black metal. Location: Sweden. Review Hope you missed the Swedish scene a normal amount (as much as we do) because the fire’s up again and is coming as red as blood by the hands of Illmara, a four-piece project from Gothenburg delivering a harsh […]
Review: Clones Of Sirius – ‘Grandeur’ (EP, 2024) | Black metal, death metal
Band info Band: Clones Of Sirius Album: Grandeur Released: October 22nd, 2024. Genre: black metal, death metal. Location: United Kingdom Review After their very exciting EP debut last year, Clones of Sirius is back again with another EP, Grandeur. This time around, though, Clones of Sirius really lean hard into blackened death over blackened thrash compared […]