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: 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 […]

Review: Morvigor – De spiegel (Full EP, 2024) | Black Metal

For all of its colonial crimes and its important role in imperialist politics nowadays, it’s a fact that the Netherlands have been for a long time one of the places where the arts have been the most developed in capitalism. This might be most obvious in the visual arts, with such unavoidables as Rembrandt, Hieronymous […]

Review: Mycorrhizal – Blessed Be the Match (Full album, 2024) | Experimental

Today is a day of resistance and struggle for the Antifascist Black Metal Network. Well, every day is one in truth, really, but today has the special symbolism of being March 8th, the International Day of the Struggle of Women Workers, a day that celebrates the February Russian Revolution of 1917 where women-led textile strike […]

Review: Crevasse – Orphans (Full EP, 2024) | Black metal

We are certainly delighted to share here today something that will probably make many of you feel pretty old (in a good way), with the first EP from the Los Angeles-based band Crevasse. Its only member, Noah Hawkins, ensures with this latest work under this artistic name (being active for 2 years now with three […]