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 […]

Review: Antacid Trip – The Hellish Cycle (Full album, 2025) | Hardcore punk, black metal

Band info Band: Antacid Trip Album: ‘The Hellish Cycle‘ Released: December 1, 2025 Genre: Blackened hardcore punk Location: US Review Hello, dear listeners, to this fine day (as fine as we are allowed to feel in a global hellscape), on this fine day. Time to revisit old cherished sounds and bands with an end-of-the-year gift […]

Review: Detox From Humanity – Massenstaub (EP, 2025) | Post-black metal

Band info Band: Detox From Humanity EP: ‘Massenstaub‘ Genre: black metal, post-black metal Released: May 29th, 2025 Location: Germany Review Detox From Humanity is a post black metal band from Germany. They recently released ‘Maussenstaub‘, their debut EP. Starting with a sample that I definitely understand as anti-psychiatry, their lyrics deal with LGBT rights, pollution, […]

Review: Unmother – “My Armor” (Single Premiere, 2025) | Black metal

Band info Band: Unmother Single: “My Armor” Releases: January 5th, 2026 Genre: black metal, post- black metal Location: UK Review We’re very happy to welcome back Unmother, the very promising post-black metal band from the UK, whose debut album we featured in 2021, during our first year as a network. Some years have passed since […]

Reivew: Dolorous Gnaw – Wretched Void (Full album, 2025) | Experimental noise

https://youtu.be/e44rGi3RftM Band info Band: Dolorous Gnaw Album: ‘Wretched Void‘ Genre: experimental noise, ambient Album: ‘Wretched Void’ Released December 11th, 205 Location: Australia Review Dolorous Gnaw returns with an hour-long album entitled ‘Wretched Void‘. As a reminder, this is a side project of Ivory Primarch’s bassist. Both bands previously featured on ABMN. What we are dealing […]

Review: Shrinewitch – Black Sacrist (Full album, 2025) | Raw black/doom, acoustic BM

https://youtu.be/jEroZcWhXRQ Band info Band: Shrinewitch Album: ‘Black Sacrist‘ Released: October 31st, 2025 Genre: raw black/doom, acoustic bm Location: US Review Across many cultures, the end of the year is near, which usually comes with a sense of renewal; a self-analytic look at where we stand, what we wish to improve, or what we hope to […]

Review: A///Plague – An Exit In Darkness (EP, 2025) | Black metal, crust

https://youtu.be/FRVo2h3dld0 Band info Band: A///Plague Album: ‘An Exit In Darkness‘ Released: November 21st, 2025 Genre: black metal, crust Location: Brazil Review The hyperprolific A///Plague of Brazil is back with a brand new EP titled An Exit in Darkness! This is an EP of a rough, dark, doomy black metal tour de force that keeps all […]

Review: Unmaking – Absolute Immiseration (EP, 2025) | Death metal, sludge

Band info Band: Unmaking Album: ‘Absolute Immiseration‘ Genre: death metal Released: October 29th, 2025 Review ‘Absolute Miseration‘ is the first album of Unmaking, a trio from Glasgow mixing elements of black and death metal, extremely groovy, with some elements of grindcore and sludge. From the first notes, you can feel the struggle and the pain […]

Review: DEATHFUCKINGWOUND – VOID MMXXV (Full album, 2025) | death, black, grind

Band info Band: DEATHFUCKINGWOUND Album: ‘Void MMXXV‘ Released: October 7th, 2025 Genre: black, death, grind Location: Finland Review War metal is a complicated genre. Every time we receive a submission that includes the word “war” – unless it is preceded by the noun “class” – our eyebrows go up in suspicion. The genre has long […]