Review: Imagine A Boot – Imagine A Boot (EP, 2024) | Raw black metal

“Imagine A Boot“? Well… let us picture it then. Leather, or some other heavy material, in the format of a foot, with a foot inside. A boot, right? Seems simple enough. But let us go the extra mile and finish the quote from which today’s featured artist, a lone anonymous Dutch partisan, clearly took this […]

Review: Swampworm – Architeuthis (Full EP, 2024) | Dissonant blackened grind

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 […]

Review: Aurora Ortus – Drought (Official vídeo, 2024) | Post-black metal

It has been almost two years since we were introduced to Aurora Ortus through their 2022 album Ostrara, showcasing an obscure and heartfelt post-black metal, altered with doom and blackgaze inspired. Today, we are happy to have them back with the premiere of a brand new song in the form of an official video, “Drought“, the first single of an […]

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: VENUS-426 – Destruction is Your Religion (EP, 2024) | Noise

Whew, that was fast. And Loud. Our frequent guest Venus 426 decided to kick things up a notch for this release, or maybe sideways, by putting her usual atmospheric soundtrack-y noise on hold in favour of some furious grind noise. There is no better feeling for us here in the ABMN secret volcano base than […]

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: 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 […]