Today we are pleased to present a new EP by the Rejecter, which was one of the first projects we published. It’s a great opportunity to trace Rejecter‘s musical path and to reflect on its example of paying attention to genre frameworks. Black metal, however, consists of several distinctive musical elements, but it also exists […]
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Review: Primaevus – An Eldritch Odyssey (Full album, 2024) | Acoustic BM, folk
Dark folk/neofolk may not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think of the Western Himalayas part of India, but Primaevus will make it one of the things that do at least. Mixing atmospheric dark folk influenced by pastoral settings and nature with worship of classic weird fiction like Poe and Ashton […]
Review: Fatal Torture – Savage Depths of Hell (Full album, 2023) | Thrash metal, death metal
Pssst over here, do you guys wanna buy some speed cos today we got just enough to keep you wanting more! Coming in from Ireland we have Fatal Torture and their EP, Savage Depths of Hell. This is some blistering speeding death metal fiery fury that it’s over just as soon as it begins. To be […]
Review: Witchden – “Renewal” & “Ash of the ancients” (Official videos, 2024) | Black metal
Today we bring not one but two official video clips to introduce you all to Witchden! They are a US-based quintet that has recently released their fourth full-length: Tomes of Madness Volume 1. As a brief example of what you will find on TOMVI‘ we have the song “Renewal”, starting off with very danceable black and […]
Review: Lust Hag – Lust Hag (Full album premiere, 2024) | Black metal
We are in the midst of some sort of renaissance in the black metal sphere, we get caught up with those that continue the old ways or even the iconoclasts that reject them in favour of doing something different and reject the status quo/ trve kvlt. So while we are here we get the small […]
Review: Kvadrat – ‘The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion (Full album) | Dissonant black/death metal
We’re proud to feature the long-awaited second album from Kvadrat, the one-man death/black metal band from Greece which took everyone by surprise with their debut EP release in 2021. Showcasing already a mastery in the combination of death metal and dissonant black metal alongside bathed in the waters of an oppressing, dark atmosphere, the question […]
Review: Eyes Of Simurgh – Legendas Ruraus (Full album, 2024) | Sludge, stoner
Although ABMN has already been around for three years where we have received tons of submissions, and done a lot of research to find RABM/antifascist-related bands within black metal and outside of it, we keep discovering more and more bands that aren’t new and have already been around for a while. Some have been speaking […]
Review: inattentive apprentice – Why must wizardry be so complicated? (Full EP, 2024) | Dungeon gaze
Today we present a little synth project called inattentive apprentice and the name couldn’t be more matching. Coming straight from one of Germany’s oldest university towns, categorized by itself as dungeon gaze, these songs unite the fantastic and atmospheric soundscapes of dungeon synth with the harsh experiments of noise music making it, well, a kind […]
Review: Masochrist – Grimecode: DCLXVI (Full album, 2023) | Melodic death grind
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 […]
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, […]