Masochrist is what you expect from melodic death grind: the music you need to get up and go to work, the music that keeps your heart beating, the music that will scare your parents, your colleagues, or any right-minded person. With 18 songs for almost 17 minutes, this album keeps a very high standard of […]
Category: Full albums
Wandering Oak – Resilience (Full album, 2024) | Progressive, folk
Sometimes as a fan of metal, we may find ourselves in an indecisive mood about the kind of metal we want to listen to. Should we throw on some folk metal? Maybe some classic heavy metal? Nah, maybe some black metal? The indecisiveness can be incredibly frustrating. Well, if you’re in that kind of mood, […]
Jute Gyte – Krun Macula’ (Full album, 2023) | Ambient
So, when you have a band known for their unique take on black metal like Jute Gyte, with their legendary microtonal progressive output, why would you choose their rare ambient release to feature? Well, why not, after all their black metal releases are already acknowledged as genre classics, plus, it’s named after an equatorial dark […]
Review: Fatal – Unburned (Full album, 2024) | Black metal, DSBM
Missing a bit of angst and bitterness this Sunday? Worry not, we got you covered. From doomy passages to frantic blast beats, Unburned can be your companion today offering a prime expression of fiery rage with an excellent addition of melancholy, hopelessness and sharply well-written lyrics against the duality of religion and its rule, alongside […]
Review: Nocthun – Rest In Flames (Full album , 2024) | Black metal
Nocthun self-describes as apocalyptic antifascist metal and it pretty much sets the mood for Rest in Flames, their new album. This 48-minute album starts slowly with a first track starting with spoken text and low-volume instruments before being quickly overflowed by raging guitars and drums, in a mix of death metal guitar riffs, and blast […]
Review: Convulsing – Perdurance (Full album, 2024) | Prog death metal
There are a lot of bands and musicians in the style of dissonant, technical or avant-garde death/black metal that can create interesting and original textures, but not many that can powerfully grab your attention and create an everlasting impression like Australia’s one man death metal powerhouse Convulsing. Having already delivered two acclaimed albums in 2016′ […]
Review: Mordran – The Midnight Woods (Full album premiere, 2024) | Black metal
Releasing on March 29 after a full-length and two EPs last year, the Swedish one-man project Mordran returns with another piece we have the pleasure to premiere today. With a cold and raw ambience fitting for the season it was conceived in, The Midnight Woods promises us to be the embrace for a long night to […]
Review: Genital Shame – Chronic Illness Wish (Full album, 2024) |Experimental black metal
Genital Shame is the one-woman project of Erin Dawson from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Chronic Illness Wish is her first full-length album, after two eps released in 2023 and 2022. Although a young project, Genital Shame has entered the black metal scene with a bang, playing shows and creating noise about the project which has reached […]
Review: Gonemage – Spell Piercings (Full album, 2024) | Nu metal, black metal
We welcome the return of Gonemage in ABMN, the project of the hardest-working-person-in-the-metal-scene Garry Brents, who has graced us with numerous releases (also with Cara Neir, Homeskin and other names, really too many to mention) in the last years while retaining a high level of quality in everything he does and also at the same […]
Review: Sun Of Nothing – Maze (Full album, 2024) | Post-black metal, sludge
Sun Of Nothing are not just another band, they are a phenomenon. They were the linchpin that turned the tide of the Greek heavy music scene in an era it was entrenched in traditionalism and finally dragged it into an era where “sludge”, “hardcore” and “experimental” were not dirty words to be ashamed of. And […]