Band info
Bands: Genital Shame & Lust Hag
Album: Split
Released: March 7th, 2025
Genre: black metal
Location: US
Review 
We’ve said it in the past, and we’ll say that again. Some of the more interesting black metal that comes out these days is created by trans people. And it’s not an argument deriving from wishful politics but from the fantastic work that artists like Eleanor Harper from Lust Hug and Erin Dawson from Genital Shame have been doing.
There’s always been elements of transformativeness and transgression (you get it, ok) in the aesthetic besides the macho posturing of the early musicians of the genre, and Erin and Eleanor, together with many other trans artists, have been farming it to sway black metal in new and interesting directions.
We’ve presented many one-woman TWBM (Trans Woman Black Metal) projects in ABMN, so it’s natural to see a split album between some of these artists, especially Lust Hug and Genital Shame, who have found mutual admiration in each other’s works, as the text on the album page states. But their take on black metal is also quite different; Eleanor‘s side on this four-track album is much more traditional, dark and aggressive, centering on emotions of nihilism and loss and visions of a coming end. While Erin is on a contemplative, even positive mood on “Notes are my friends” with her mathy, post-influenced atmospheric take on black metal, but also declaring “War on scars” and reminding us that life is not “Crash” and we can just walk. Be safe then and listen to TWBM
Other links and platforms:
⚔️ GENITAL SHAME ⚔️
BC: https://genitalshame.bandcamp.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/genitalshame/
⚔️ LUST HAG ⚔️
BC: https://eleanorharper.bandcamp.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/lust.hag/