“Imagine A Boot“? Well… let us picture it then. Leather, or some other heavy material, in the format of a foot, with a foot inside. A boot, right? Seems simple enough. But let us go the extra mile and finish the quote from which today’s featured artist, a lone anonymous Dutch partisan, clearly took this […]
Category: EPs
Review: Act The Fool – Nebel (EP, 2024) | Hardcore
Happy Sunday everybody! We hope you’re in the mood for something a little different but that doesn’t stray too far from our usual vision. Today we are excited to give you Germany’s own Act The Fool and their recent EP, Nebel. Act The Fool comes right out of the gate with fist-pumping hardcore punk on […]
Review: VENUS-426 – Destruction is Your Religion (EP, 2024) | Noise
Whew, that was fast. And Loud. Our frequent guest Venus 426 decided to kick things up a notch for this release, or maybe sideways, by putting her usual atmospheric soundtrack-y noise on hold in favour of some furious grind noise. There is no better feeling for us here in the ABMN secret volcano base than […]
Review: 1648 – ‘Regicide of the Incorruptible Crown’ (EP, 2024) | Raw black metal
1648 is a one-person project from Liverpool and the year in which the Second Civil War broke out, ruled by the English elite Brittain. The war was, of course, part of a broader process of friction at the levels of government, between the monarchists and the power of Parliament. Add the issue of Catholicism and […]
Review: Defenestrate – Sobek (Full EP, 2024) | Blackened punk
It’s blackened punk Sunday y’all! And to properly celebrate, we got the last work by one of the (less rare than what many people might think) young four-piece NY band Defenestrate, which presents themselves as students from the Suny Purchase College. They show to be staunchly antifascist so we can only be joyful to see […]
Review: The end of… – Wistful Longing and Deranged Emptiness (Full EP, 2024) | DSBM
Hailing from Kelowna in British Columbia and making for a proper eve to a Gloomy Sunday of a kind, there’s today the demo released this year back in April by The End Of… (currently Arsgoetia) and remastered in June, which in a brief duration of 23 mins offered an interesting take on the ‘classic’ sound of […]
Review: Through Mists – Prolific (Full EP, 2024) | Blackened death
Today’s album is Through Mist last release: ‘Prolific‘. Which, in their own words, bring a new breeze to their discography. Counting 4 songs for 27’28”, this album could be defined as an experimental blackened death metal album, which builds up intensity from the first and shortest track “The Ride” to the last and longest track “Prolific“, […]
Review: Ba’al – Soft Eyes (Full EP, 2024) | Post-black metal
Ba’al did it again. After their album Ellipsism in 2020, they are back with an EP called Soft Eyes, with a total of 3 songs for 27 minutes and 3 seconds of complex yet stunning post-black metal. The diversity of tonalities, and the variety in the composition, from very intense phases in “Ornamental Doll” to only […]
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: Cinerea – Cinerea (Full EP, 2023) | Atmospheric post-sludge
Today we bring a Berlin-based quartet making á la Belgique/’USesque’ atmospheric post-sludge with lyrics and titles in Portuguese, Italian, and English. Oh, and they are called Cinerea. The quartet presented its debut EP at the end of 2023, and there is so much thought and effort put into it we could be making an essay […]