Previously presented to you all with its debut EP, Nahab (which is also one side of a split with Marigold King) as well as through the alternate project Pari’sya, we now welcome back the Germany-based solo outfit Swampworm with a brand new album, Architeuthis, that is out today. For those unfamiliar with Swampworm, its core […]
Category: Full albums
Review: Psychic Hood – Warp Ritual (Full album, 2024) | Dungeon synth
Today we’re excited to bring you a wonderful dungeon synth project, Psychic Hood, and their brand new album, Warp Ritual! Surface level this appears to be anything but dungeon synth considering most of the tropes popular dungeon synth groups do. However, the moment the play is pressed Psychic Hood takes you there and you’re immediately […]
Review: Goblin Soap – Goblin Offensive (Full album, 2024) | Blackened punk
At times, there are bands which present you with such a complex mix of genres that you don’t really know what to expect. Goblin Soap is one of them! A mix of blackened hardcore, d-beat, and synth coming straight from a dungeon synth album, distorted screams, what do you say? With three instrumental tracks, synths for […]
Review: Tenue – ‘Arcos, bóvedas, pórticos’ (Full album, 2024) | Neocrust
Hello again fellow listeners of excruciating tunes with no shallow political ambiguity! It is once more to brighten up a Friday with more of the aforementioned, presenting you today a slice of the active and kicking neo-crust scene down in Galicia, Spain. A legendary region already for crust punk worldwide thanks to acts like Ekkaia (see […]
Review: yell. – Ostatnia Godzina (Full album, 2024) | Dark punk
Black metal is often the music of nature where the artists come from. In the case of yell, it’s eastern Poland, whose forests are getting smaller every year. In the album Last Hour from this year, the theme of forests will recur quite often, but it will not be an idyllic fairy tale, but full of […]
Review: Mainländer – The Fall That Will Come (Demo, 2024) | Black metal
Demos always tend to be smiled at. They are the everlasting joke of black metal’s so often gatekept “true” form. So raw, so direct, so instant that the record can’t even be finished. Just an unprocessed mess that sounds like recorded by a microphone covered by a can standing in the room next door. But this […]
Review: Without the Sky – Reflections (EP, 2024) | Black metal, post-black
As the seasons change and slowly start to drift into autumn for those in the northern hemisphere, we bring to you our upload of the day: Without the Sky‘s latest EP, Reflections. A mixture of DSBM and post-black metal with a slower, more doomy feel towards the end, this release is a solid (albeit short) […]
Review: Caged Bastard – ‘Solace in Virtue’s Absence’ (Full album, 2024) | Experimental
Today’s upload, the second album by Caged Bastard, is a treat for us in more ways than one – and it’s an impressively difficult work to describe, so we’ll make an effort to be straightforward in this review. First, we love it because it’s musically a smorgasbord (or whatever the fuck you write that) of […]
Review: Greet – Harmonium I (Full EP) | Dark folk
Well, we have finally done it, we here at ABMN have gone off the deep end in bringing you “extreme” or really are stretching the meaning of extreme. We have Leed’s Greet and their first album Harmonium I. This is a dark folk project not too dissimilar to that of one of Chelsea Wolfe’s older […]
Review: Kréen – ‘Ecos de Olas, Céfiros y Llamaradas’ (Full album, 2024) | Atmospheric black/doom
Three years ago we were amazed by the Punta Arena (Chile) project Kréen, the musicianship shown within its release Cenizas, its political message, and its atmospheric black/doom alloy. Today, we have before us a brand new album called Ecos de Olas, Céfiros y Llamaradas, which is not just a thoroughly crafted qualitative piece of musical […]