Ah, grindcore! It’s always refreshing to have a barrage of short songs and barked vocals after some of our more usual long-form black metal menus. Today’s piece, however, is even more welcome than usual, for Ragum, our guests for this “beautiful” Monday, are a band from the city of Haifa in occupied Palestine/”Israel”, and outright […]
Category: Full albums
Review: TerraMorta – Intifada (Full album, 2024) | Grindcore
Intifada is a grindcore album with a black metal twist. Released a few weeks ago by the newly created band Terra Morta, this album is a very short but intense album, as you could expect from a grindcore band. Mixing crust punk, grindcore and some black metal rhythms, this album will match your needs of […]
Review: Human Abyss – Death Obsessed (Full album, 2024) | Blackened death
Today we have a lot to cut through with the most recent addition to the channel: Berlin-based Human Abyss, and its newest album Death Obsessed. Although this quintet only goes back to 2020, it is almost entirely formed by experienced musicians who have played in bands like Spawn (death metal) or currently active No On […]
Review: End – III (Full album, 2009) | Black metal
Today we have an old but historical black metal album to present to you, End‘s third and last full-length album from 2009. While the Greek band isn’t as famous as some of their contemporaries (also as a result of never playing live) they were quite influential around the early 00s for offering an alternative to […]
Review: Dancing Devilry – Voltairine (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
Today’s release by the one-person project from Florida, Dancing Devilry, is a distinctly anarchist and anti-fascist-themed album of great executed black metal. The sound and production are at a really high level, for sure it is a classic and fresh at once in sound black metal without any doubts or other genre influences. The metal […]
Review: Atlantic – Black Sands (Full album, 2024) | Atmospheric/post-black metal
As the waves that cyclically recede into the sea and come crashing unto the shore, Atlantic has returned to our channel almost two years since its first outing, bringing in more amazing musicianship, more torrential blast beats, more riffing crescendos growing evermore towards the horizon, and an even wider soundscape than before! Black Sands, their […]
Review: Shrinewitch – Songs Of Power & Despair (Full album, 2024) | Raw black metal
Shrinewitch is not new to ABMN as we already featured their previous release, Heathen Idolatrous, and if there is something we like that is bands returning, so obviously we welcomed the opportunity to feature their new release Songs of Power & Despair. This is a release of raw yet melodic black metal continuing from where […]
Review: Veriarmo – Kuiske (Full album, 2024) | Symphonic metal
Living in 2024 we seem to be blurring rigid lines between various sub-genres of metal. Sure one could argue that it’s always been there and an ever-ongoing thing but people in the past have been careful in how they blur the lines and in today’s atmosphere it’s easier for a smaller band/ artist to gain […]
Review: Reva – Urban Madrigals (Full album Premiere, 2024) | DSBM, post-black
Releasing tomorrow, we’re excited to premiere Reva‘s second album, Urban Madrigals. Somewhat reminiscent of Bonjour Tristesse‘s Your Ultimate Urban Nightmare with its cover, Reva explores the “impact of modern society and its relentless pace on our lives“, delving into the duality of the social isolation we all feel and constant connectivity via the Internet. Combining […]
Review: Venus 426 – Causeways Into the Night (Full album, 2024) | Noise
We wander again to a different frame of sound from the usual today presenting the premiere for VENUS – 426’s last effort named Causeways into the Night. Packed into a 12-track body of work, the queer antifascist harsh noise powerhouse shows an immense evolution and develops into a concrete and more conceptual and thick atmosphere […]