Review: Inherits The Void – ‘Scars Of Yesteryears’ (Full album, 2024) | Atmospheric/melodic BM

Inherits The Void, the French one-man band is back with a new excellent album! You may remember Inherits The Void from the review we did for their 2023 album last year, but let me rewind it for you: a solo band doing a complex melodic black metal, with shades of atmospheric black metal. This album […]

Review: Qlaglaga – Fetidized (Full album, 2024) | Blackend cybergrind

Folks, it’s been a very long time since we’ve had something utterly strange, fucked up and weird, but today this streak ends, thankfully. We are excited to premiere for you today, Qlaglaga, which means nothing, and their new EP, Fetidized. Fetidized is a strange cacophony blend of blackened chiptune goodness. Starting with what feels like […]

Review: Astral Lore – Astral Lore (Full album, 2024) | Black metal

3 songs, 50 minutes, on a full album, is maybe all you need to know about Astral Lore‘s new self-titled release. You can expect it from here, we publish black metal, it’s very long songs, hence it’s an excellent atmospheric black metal album. While it’s their first full-length album, Astral Lore already has some solid […]

Review: Hexen House – Retributiones Maleficarum Mallei (Full album, 2024) | Black metal, death metal

Seeing Hexen House‘s photo which includes corpsepaint, candelabras, iron vambraces and so on you might be tempted to think it’s another band with a very traditional take on black metal and politics, but quickly you are confronted with messages that convey “total fucking war on impotent fascist scum” and “torch the values of western civilization“. […]

Review: Ivory Primarch – The Portrait (Full album, 2024) | Doom metal

Today we bring you back Ivory Primarch but this time with their full album, The Portrait, which is due out this Friday. The Portrait starts off with a hint of electronic-ness that morphs into a strange brew of blackened death doom metal. And yes, that was quite a word salad but there seems to be […]

Review: greyfleshtethered – Primordial Decay (Full album, 2024) | Electronic black metal

This album is interesting for at least 3 reasons. The first one is, of course, the music, and that is electronic black metal with an atmospheric character, including elements of trip-hop, and drone, as well as ambient, noise and dungeon synth. It is more or less a complete picture. More or less because you have […]

Review: Desert Heretic – Infernalis (Full album, 2024) | Black metal

Desert Heretic has returned! We had the honour of releasing this project’s first EP in early 2022. Now they are back with their first full-length, Infernalis“, with even more of what we loved in their first release – that is, very violent and serious black metal with a lot of melodies, traces of thrash metal […]

Review: Vanessa Funke – Void (Full album, 2024) | Progressive, rock/metal

We are proud to present to you today the last album in a long list of works well done by the prolific German mostly-solo multi-instrumentalist, Vanessa Funke. Since its inception, her solo project quickly started to shape into a melancholic effective mix of styles where you could see her development crystal clear, even in collabs […]

Review: Lammoth – Tales of Treachery (Full album, 2024) | Medieval black metal

We don’t know about you, but “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH” was the first thought some of us at ABMN had when we received the submission for today’s band, North Carolina’s Lammoth, which, in their own words, play “hobbit black metal”; after all, incorrigible nerds that we are, we have known that Lammoth is a region of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth […]