Castle Of Love – Review: Caves beneath the castle ruins (Full album, 2023) | Dungeon synth

Join us today on a little field trip into the ruins of a forgotten civilisation, deep underground and endlessly mysterious! Castle of Love‘s Caves beneath the castle ruins describes the fantastic journey through an ancient realm of forgotten history yet to be newly discovered. And while of course lacking vocals, the atmosphere of each of these […]

Review: Παγανή Κυριακή – Παγανή Κυριακή (Full album, 2024) | Blackened dungeon disco

Today is Easter Sunday for the Orthodox and Oriental Christian world who follow the Julian calendar, unlike those western Gregorian heretics, and as it’s arguably the most pagan of all Christian holy days (shhhh, don’t tell them) it’s only fitting we feature a fresh band called Παγανή Κυριακή (pronounced Pagani Kyriaki and meaning Pagan Sunday […]

Review: Rejecter – A Method for Withdrawing (Full album, 2024) | Black metal

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 […]

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 […]