Band info Band: Unmother Album: ‘State Dependent Memory‘ Released: February 20th, 2026 Genre: black metal, post- black metal Location: UK Review And finally (with a bit of delay!) we are presenting today the album of the London-based post-black metal band Unmother, after the single “My Armor” that we premiered a few weeks ago. It’s not […]
Tag: Antifascist black metal
Review: Zalaam – To Resist the Enemies of the Sun (EP, 2026) | Black metal
Band info Band: Zalaam EP: ‘To Resist the Enemies of the Sun‘ Releases: TBC Genre: Black metal Location: Palestine Review Right, let’s get the obvious part out of the way. Yes, Zalaam are is Palestinian. And after everything that has happened, if that alone isn’t enough to make you pay attention, we’re not sure that […]
Review: Damhnait – Keeper of the Dead (Full album, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: Damhnait Album: ‘Keeper of the Dead‘ Released: December 26th, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: US Review “Plant myself in undead soil Make matter of all this toil” These are the opening lines of the song “You Entered the Dwelling Place of Dead Tenderness Alive”. Rarely have we heard such laconic yet deeply meaningful […]
Review: Karhunvartijan Tyhjiö – The Shameful Light (Full album, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: Karhunvartijan Tyhjiö Album: ‘The Shameful Light‘ Released: December 4th, 2025 Genre: raw black metal Location: Finland Review Hello, hello. This is ABMN in what we are already calling a Shameful Light Friday honoring today’s submission. Starring for a third time the Finns KARHUNVARTIJAN TYHJIÖ, which this time bring us which is […]
Review: Lijkschouwer – All What Did the Blade Reveal (Full album, 2025) | Post-black, sludge
Band info Band: Lijkschouwer Album: ‘All What Did the Blade Reveal‘ Released: September 16th, 2025 Genre: post-black metal, sludge, death metal Location: Netherlands Review Whatever they put in Dutch water not only makes people huge, it also makes them produce some seriously awesome music: Focus, Asphyx, Charlotte Wessels and Arjen Lucassen are just a few […]
Review: Excommunicant – Reviresco (Full album, 2025) | Black, death, doom
https://youtu.be/Skh_qtqBM1s Band info Band: Excommunicant Album: ‘Reviresco‘ Relesed November 13th, 2025 Genre: death, doom, black Location: Canada Review Today, we bring one of those projects that resist categorisation by moving across multiple musical languages and genres. Excommunicant is a solo band based in Canada, and what you’ll be listening to is its second full-length release. […]
Review: Lighting Sun – Star of Bethlehem (EP, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: Lighting Sun Album: ‘Star of Bethlehem (Refugee)‘ Released: July 31st, 2025 Genre: doom black Location: US Review Lighting Sun is a black-doom band from California. ‘Star of Bethlehem‘ is their second album, following their first album in 2024 called ‘Man With No Name‘, as the title of their songs makes it clear, […]
Review: Gruta – Hymnus Atram Ad Mortem (Full album, 2025) | Blackened crust/death
Video link Band info Band: Gruta Album: ‘Hymnus Atram Ad Mortem‘ Released: November 27th, 2025 Genre: blackened crust, death metal Location: Colombia Review If there is one thing to be happy about regarding the contemporary metal scene, it is that there are more and more antifascist metal bands coming from the Global South, defying the […]
Review: Antacid Trip – The Hellish Cycle (Full album, 2025) | Hardcore punk, black metal
Band info Band: Antacid Trip Album: ‘The Hellish Cycle‘ Released: December 1, 2025 Genre: Blackened hardcore punk Location: US Review Hello, dear listeners, to this fine day (as fine as we are allowed to feel in a global hellscape), on this fine day. Time to revisit old cherished sounds and bands with an end-of-the-year gift […]
Review: Detox From Humanity – Massenstaub (EP, 2025) | Post-black metal
Band info Band: Detox From Humanity EP: ‘Massenstaub‘ Genre: black metal, post-black metal Released: May 29th, 2025 Location: Germany Review Detox From Humanity is a post black metal band from Germany. They recently released ‘Maussenstaub‘, their debut EP. Starting with a sample that I definitely understand as anti-psychiatry, their lyrics deal with LGBT rights, pollution, […]