A few days ago, the D.I.Y label Liminal Dread Production came out with the awesome split that we are presenting to you today. The release we are talking about is Yeast Veils, which consists of two projects – Mycorrhizal and Stygian. These are both original projects, so naturally their combined album is one of those […]
Category: Split albums
Review: ‘Austerity – Despondency – Longing’ by Botgörelsen / Wrekan / Astral Lore (Full split, 2024) | BM
ABMN has always cherished split and collaborative albums for the many reasons expressed before: collective work, and uniting different genres, cultures, and points of view… And it’s one lazy click into discovering /re-visiting more than one band! Today’s upload brings three different bands within the same raw and straightforward black metal, offering slightly different sonorities. […]
Review: ‘Stigmergy’ by There Is No Light Here & Tachanka (Full split, 2024) | Raw black metal
With a hammering tone of angst and wrath in a 4-track split, two of the most promising emerging projects in the antifascist scenes around the world join forces in a conceptual work bringing us Stigmergy, a blend of styles and topics from the two sides involved highlighting a convergence into a socio-political dive to a […]
Review: Sudra by Iravu & Mumuksu (Full split album, 2024) | Black metal, doom metal
It is no mistake that here in ABMN we hold Malaysia’s Iravu in very high esteem, both as an artist and as a comrade, so of course we were excited to premiere their new release, and that excitement was doubled when those of us also into the doom side of things heard that this was […]
Review: Telltales and Rituals by Chained Arcana & Knights of Rain (split, 2024) | Black metal
Right now, rain is a terrifying idea for the inhabitants of Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost Brazilian state, has been ravaged by storms and floods that have lasted for weeks and literally destroyed a large part of it, leaving hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands homeless, in the worst catastrophe in the history […]
Review: Dysthymia/Saeva (Full split, 2024) | Black metal
On today’s release, we listen to this often-intriguing pairing of depressive and atmospheric black metal. Starting with three tracks of Denver’s Saeva we are presented with mostly dry and hard-produced mid to high-tempo drums forming an effective rhythmic base on which the project sets a well-known sound of strongly distorted guitars and pulsating bass in […]