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 […]
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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 […]
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: 1648 – ‘Regicide of the Incorruptible Crown’ (EP, 2024) | Raw black metal
1648 is a one-person project from Liverpool and the year in which the Second Civil War broke out, ruled by the English elite Brittain. The war was, of course, part of a broader process of friction at the levels of government, between the monarchists and the power of Parliament. Add the issue of Catholicism and […]
Review: Cipo Fogo – “Distopia” (single, 2024) | Crossover
Peeking at what is just a small bite to taste their late and sixth full work, we are happy at the Network to share CIPÓ FOGO‘s “Dystopia” single from Born Enslaved, one of a kind breed of heavy riffs within a thrashcore/crossover frame (mainly, but certainly not only). Coming from Brazil and Uruguay, Marcelo Cabral, […]
Review: Dawn Brought Saviour – Wavering (Full album, 2024) | Drone
A year after their debut EP, Dawn Brought Savior presents us with their debut album, like clockwork. And Wavering is not just an album, it’s a journey, in the band’s own words one through longing, empowerment and overcoming trauma. Something to casually listen to for a few minutes this is not, neither is it car […]
Review: Defenestrate – Sobek (Full EP, 2024) | Blackened punk
It’s blackened punk Sunday y’all! And to properly celebrate, we got the last work by one of the (less rare than what many people might think) young four-piece NY band Defenestrate, which presents themselves as students from the Suny Purchase College. They show to be staunchly antifascist so we can only be joyful to see […]