Genital Shame is the one-woman project of Erin Dawson from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Chronic Illness Wish is her first full-length album, after two eps released in 2023 and 2022. Although a young project, Genital Shame has entered the black metal scene with a bang, playing shows and creating noise about the project which has reached […]
Review: Cinerea – Cinerea (Full EP, 2023) | Atmospheric post-sludge
Today we bring a Berlin-based quartet making á la Belgique/’USesque’ atmospheric post-sludge with lyrics and titles in Portuguese, Italian, and English. Oh, and they are called Cinerea. The quartet presented its debut EP at the end of 2023, and there is so much thought and effort put into it we could be making an essay […]
Review: Morvigor – De spiegel (Full EP, 2024) | Black Metal
For all of its colonial crimes and its important role in imperialist politics nowadays, it’s a fact that the Netherlands have been for a long time one of the places where the arts have been the most developed in capitalism. This might be most obvious in the visual arts, with such unavoidables as Rembrandt, Hieronymous […]
Review: Gonemage – Spell Piercings (Full album, 2024) | Nu metal, black metal
We welcome the return of Gonemage in ABMN, the project of the hardest-working-person-in-the-metal-scene Garry Brents, who has graced us with numerous releases (also with Cara Neir, Homeskin and other names, really too many to mention) in the last years while retaining a high level of quality in everything he does and also at the same […]
Purgatorial – Harvesting Nightmares (Single, 2023) | Blackened death metal
Today, Purgatorial presented their song “Harvesting Nightmares“. Described by the band as “an unsettling track about not knowing when your time to pass will come“, the song keeps a crushing atmosphere throughout that lives up to its title. The wonderfully existential lyrics add to the piece as we are reminded of our mortality, and the […]
Review: Sun Of Nothing – Maze (Full album, 2024) | Post-black metal, sludge
Sun Of Nothing are not just another band, they are a phenomenon. They were the linchpin that turned the tide of the Greek heavy music scene in an era it was entrenched in traditionalism and finally dragged it into an era where “sludge”, “hardcore” and “experimental” were not dirty words to be ashamed of. And […]
Review: Mycorrhizal – Blessed Be the Match (Full album, 2024) | Experimental
Today is a day of resistance and struggle for the Antifascist Black Metal Network. Well, every day is one in truth, really, but today has the special symbolism of being March 8th, the International Day of the Struggle of Women Workers, a day that celebrates the February Russian Revolution of 1917 where women-led textile strike […]
Review: Crevasse – Orphans (Full EP, 2024) | Black metal
We are certainly delighted to share here today something that will probably make many of you feel pretty old (in a good way), with the first EP from the Los Angeles-based band Crevasse. Its only member, Noah Hawkins, ensures with this latest work under this artistic name (being active for 2 years now with three […]
When we say Never Again we mean Never Again for EVERYONE and by ANYONE
When ABMN first attempted to gather money for a good cause we were overwhelmed by your response and then realised some money was left over and then gave it again to a different good cause. Still, you somehow didn’t seem to stop donating even after we closed off the benefits so we somehow ended up […]
A word from an anti-zionist Israeli
We at ABMN have opinions on the Palestinian issue and the ongoing struggle. Seems like everybody has opinions, both educated and stupid, racist and intersectional, all kinds. What is lacking is not opinions, is listening to our comrades directly affected, the people on the ground, who seem to be constantly in a state of being […]