Today we bring not one but two official video clips to introduce you all to Witchden! They are a US-based quintet that has recently released their fourth full-length: Tomes of Madness Volume 1. As a brief example of what you will find on TOMVI‘ we have the song “Renewal”, starting off with very danceable black and […]
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Review: Lust Hag – Lust Hag (Full album premiere, 2024) | Black metal
We are in the midst of some sort of renaissance in the black metal sphere, we get caught up with those that continue the old ways or even the iconoclasts that reject them in favour of doing something different and reject the status quo/ trve kvlt. So while we are here we get the small […]
Review: Kvadrat – ‘The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion (Full album) | Dissonant black/death metal
We’re proud to feature the long-awaited second album from Kvadrat, the one-man death/black metal band from Greece which took everyone by surprise with their debut EP release in 2021. Showcasing already a mastery in the combination of death metal and dissonant black metal alongside bathed in the waters of an oppressing, dark atmosphere, the question […]
Review: Eyes Of Simurgh – Legendas Ruraus (Full album, 2024) | Sludge, stoner
Although ABMN has already been around for three years where we have received tons of submissions, and done a lot of research to find RABM/antifascist-related bands within black metal and outside of it, we keep discovering more and more bands that aren’t new and have already been around for a while. Some have been speaking […]
Review: inattentive apprentice – Why must wizardry be so complicated? (Full EP, 2024) | Dungeon gaze
Today we present a little synth project called inattentive apprentice and the name couldn’t be more matching. Coming straight from one of Germany’s oldest university towns, categorized by itself as dungeon gaze, these songs unite the fantastic and atmospheric soundscapes of dungeon synth with the harsh experiments of noise music making it, well, a kind […]
Review: Masochrist – Grimecode: DCLXVI (Full album, 2023) | Melodic death grind
Masochrist is what you expect from melodic death grind: the music you need to get up and go to work, the music that keeps your heart beating, the music that will scare your parents, your colleagues, or any right-minded person. With 18 songs for almost 17 minutes, this album keeps a very high standard of […]
Wandering Oak – Resilience (Full album, 2024) | Progressive, folk
Sometimes as a fan of metal, we may find ourselves in an indecisive mood about the kind of metal we want to listen to. Should we throw on some folk metal? Maybe some classic heavy metal? Nah, maybe some black metal? The indecisiveness can be incredibly frustrating. Well, if you’re in that kind of mood, […]
Jute Gyte – Krun Macula’ (Full album, 2023) | Ambient
So, when you have a band known for their unique take on black metal like Jute Gyte, with their legendary microtonal progressive output, why would you choose their rare ambient release to feature? Well, why not, after all their black metal releases are already acknowledged as genre classics, plus, it’s named after an equatorial dark […]
Review: Malevich – “Inalienable” (Track, 2024) | Blackened grind
In the turn to spring for the northern hemisphere, some parts of the world are bracing for oppressively thick humidity that makes the air all heavy and us sluggish. To bring this sort of greeting to us we have a new pounding, riffing, thick atmosphere single called Inalienable by the Atlanta, Georgia band, Malevich. You’re […]
Paranormal Arson – “Hook, line, sinker” (Single, 2024) | Death metal
Paranormal Arson is probably not what people expect when they see their latest single’s cover, but the fact they catch you unawares when their brutal punky death metal kicks in is part of the fun. Just one track sadly, but it’s a brutal one, definitely something to get the blood running, metaphorically AND literally. So, […]