Band info Band: Poisonous Reflection Album: ‘Demo III‘ Released October 24th, 2025 Genre: Noise, black metal, punk Location: UK Review Poisonous Reflection returns to the network after a two-year hiatus with ‘Demo III‘, their newest work. This demo features four tracks that mix genres as they did, including black metal, noise, and punk. The release is […]
Category: Demos
Review: Splintering Lightning Spear – Ice Shatters as Thunderbolts Break the Night Sky (Demo, 2023) | Raw BM
https://youtu.be/FuT6n-K8tVs Band info Band: Splintering Lightning Spear Album: ‘Ice Shatters as Thunderbolts Break the Night Sky‘ Released: December 8th, 2023 Genre: raw black metal Location: Canada Review Sometimes all one desires is just a straightforward black metal demo. That’s why today we present to you the project Splintering Lightning Spear. Cold, aggressive, raw. They present […]
gāſt – gāſt (Demo, 2025) | DSBM, funeral doom
Band info Band: gāſt Demo: ‘gāſt‘ Genre: DSBM, doom, post-black Released: August 24th, 2025 Location: US Review Hailing from New York, today’s band is gāſt, or Gāst, pronounced with a regular short “s” sound instead of a long one from the main from, but both interchangeably valid, which could be roughly from different roots as […]
Review: GIDIM – Demo 2025 | Black metal
Band info Band: GIDIM Album: ‘Demo 2025‘ Released: January 1, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: US Review Jesus Christ, how awesome is it when a black metal band already starts going straight to your throat? At ABMN, we adore our atmos, progs, and posts, but when we have the level of direct aggression GIDIM gives […]
Review: Feartilizer 1492 – Wape’k Mntu (Demo, 2025) | Death metal, grindcore
Band info Band: Feartilizer 1492 EP: ‘Wape’k Mntu‘ Released 21st of June, 2025 Genre: death metal, grindcore Location: so-called Canada Review ‘Wape’k Mntu‘ means white devil in the Mi’gmaw language. It is also the title of a demo by a deathgrind project from so-called Canada – Feartilizer 1492, which is entirely dedicated to the indigenous […]
Review: Lucerne Hammer – Demo (2025) | Black metal
https://youtu.be/W5oDdiKmEJI Band info Band: Lucerne Hammer Album: Demo Released: March 29th, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: Canada Review As antifascists, we really don’t like using the word “supremacy” for obvious reasons, but sometimes you can’t avoid it, like when you are preaching polearm supremacy. Yeah, yeah, swords are cool and all, but mostly tied to […]
Review: Iron Spire – Iron Spire (Demo, 2025) | Black punk
Band info Band: Iron Spire Demo: ‘Iron Spire‘ Released: March 14th, 2025 Genre: Black metal, punk Location: US Review Iron Spire‘s debut self-titled EP of what they call “armored metal” offers delicious metal punk. It’s not the raw atavistic kind you’d expect from the Xerox cover but more a mix of Bathory, classic heavy metal, and crusty […]
Review: Verstige – Urban Thoughts (Demo, 2025) | Ambient
https://youtu.be/blLXo5vVrGU Band info Band: Verstige Album: ‘Urban Thoughts‘ Released: 1st of March, 2025 Genre: Ambient Location: Switzerland Review Dense atmospheric synth textures floating around silent screams venturing into the black void of dark midnight suburbia. This might be one possible description of this ambient synth EP delivered to us by an artist working under the […]
Review: DŹONSLOVS – Asgrauw (Demo, 2025) | Atmospheric black metal
Band info Band: DŹONSLOVS Album: Asgrauw Released: January 5th, 2025 Genre: atmospheric black metal, DSBM Location: UK Review DŹONSLOVS is an antifascist black metal band from London that produces atmospheric, minimalistic, and depressive post-black metal. In January 2025, they released their second album, Asgrauw, which features five tracks in German, dealing with themes of resistance, […]
Review: The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir – Demo I – “Folklore” (Demo, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: The Blood Mountain Black Meal Choir Album: ‘Demo I – “Folklore”‘. Released: January 8, 2025. Genre: black metal Location: US Review The Blood Mountain Black Meal Choir is a one-man band from Appalachia which presents us their first demo, with 5 exceptional tracks. As the band states, “[Appalachia] has a long and […]