This album is interesting for at least 3 reasons. The first one is, of course, the music, and that is electronic black metal with an atmospheric character, including elements of trip-hop, and drone, as well as ambient, noise and dungeon synth. It is more or less a complete picture. More or less because you have […]
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Review: Desert Heretic – Infernalis (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
Desert Heretic has returned! We had the honour of releasing this project’s first EP in early 2022. Now they are back with their first full-length, Infernalis“, with even more of what we loved in their first release – that is, very violent and serious black metal with a lot of melodies, traces of thrash metal […]
Review: Vanessa Funke – Void (Full album, 2024) | Progressive, rock/metal
We are proud to present to you today the last album in a long list of works well done by the prolific German mostly-solo multi-instrumentalist, Vanessa Funke. Since its inception, her solo project quickly started to shape into a melancholic effective mix of styles where you could see her development crystal clear, even in collabs […]
Review: Lammoth – Tales of Treachery (Full album, 2024) | Medieval black metal
We don’t know about you, but “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH” was the first thought some of us at ABMN had when we received the submission for today’s band, North Carolina’s Lammoth, which, in their own words, play “hobbit black metal”; after all, incorrigible nerds that we are, we have known that Lammoth is a region of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth […]
Review: Asiratic Lithomancy – From Either End the Welkin Burns (Demo, 2024) | Raw black metal
Today we are bringing you a raw coldness to either your winter or summer depending on where you are in the world. We have the incredibly raw black metal project of Asiratic Lithomancy and their album, From Either End the Welkin Burns. This is definitely for the enjoyers of all things raw black metal that’s […]
Review: Xwîn – Xwîn Bi Xwînê Tê Şûştin (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
Black metal often claims to be a scene of rebels and angry outcasts, until you realise that a good majority of it is just middle-class Westerners using their art to complain that their ancestors converted to Christianity and deprived them of the opportunity to roleplay as vicious pagan warriors (never mind that 99% of their […]
Review: Hipoxia – Fragmented Revelations (Full album, compilation, 2024) | Doom, drone
If there would ever be a more fitting cover for this compilation it would be just slightly lighter than this pitch-black square that we are presented with for Fragmented Revelations by Hipoxia. Gathering all those songs from Hipoxia that would usually be hard to find on a physical medium, be it from being only released in […]
Review: Unholy Altar – Veil of Death! Shroud of Nite (Full album, Premiere, 2024) | Raw black metal
As weather gets warmer around those of us in the northern hemisphere and colder for those in the southern hemisphere we go searching for music to match these moods. Specifically, music that brings coldness to our ears and hearts whether it be through escaping the heat and treachery of the sun or matching the cold […]
Review: Sunrot – The Unfailing Rope (Full album, 2023) | Sludge, post-metal
It’s ironic that we are featuring a band called Sunrot today, as most of us, at least those in the northern hemisphere, are in between heatwaves that make us feel like rotting inside, and it’s fitting that the band sounds like hot sand stripping your skin. Loud and abrasive sludge in the camp of Thou and […]
Review: Shades Of Extinction – Demo II (Full demo, 2024) | Raw black metal
A few months after their first demo that we already reviewed, Shades of Extinction is back with a second demo, soberly called Demo II. In the meanwhile, they did participate in a compilation to raise funds for 269 Libération Animale. In the world of antifascist black metal, there is not much raw BM, but Shades […]