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 […]

Review: Asiratic Lithomancy – From Either End the Welkin Burns (Demo, 2024) | Raw black metal

Today we are bringing you a raw coldness to either your winter or summer depending on where you are in the world. We have the incredibly raw black metal project of Asiratic Lithomancy and their album, From Either End the Welkin Burns. This is definitely for the enjoyers of all things raw black metal that’s […]

Review: Xwîn – Xw​î​n Bi Xw​î​nê Tê Ş​û​ş​tin (Full album, 2024) | Black metal

Black metal often claims to be a scene of rebels and angry outcasts, until you realise that a good majority of it is just middle-class Westerners using their art to complain that their ancestors converted to Christianity and deprived them of the opportunity to roleplay as vicious pagan warriors (never mind that 99% of their […]

Review: Hipoxia – Fragmented Revelations (Full album, compilation, 2024) | Doom, drone

If there would ever be a more fitting cover for this compilation it would be just slightly lighter than this pitch-black square that we are presented with for Fragmented Revelations by Hipoxia. Gathering all those songs from Hipoxia that would usually be hard to find on a physical medium, be it from being only released in […]