Review: Enumbria – Statvs Qaos (Full album, 2024) | Black, crust

https://youtu.be/Bp7OhkFYwcY Band info Band: Enumbria Album: ‘Statvs Qaos‘ Released: October 17th, 2024 Genre: black metal, crust punk Location: Chile Review Today, we are proudly presenting the blackened crust duo Enumbria from Chile. Their newest record ‘Statvs Qaos‘ may aesthetically gather all the stereotypes for some black and death metal, but that’s what we’re here for, […]

Review: Kaatayra – Caminhos de Água (Full album, 2026) | Black metal

Band info Band: Kaatayra Album: ‘Caminhos de Água‘ Released: April 24th, 2026 Genre: atmospheric, folk, black metal Location: Brazil Review We’re happy to welcome back Kaatayra, the one-man project of Caio Lemos from Brazil that has already released quite a lot of albums (either with this name or with other projects) that have since become […]

Review: Strunkiin – ‘A Past That Never Was’ & ‘Kingdom of Frost’ (Full album, 2026) | Black metal

https://youtu.be/nUfhOUYeSWQ https://youtu.be/i_PMJYb30Q8 Band info Band: Strunkiin Album: ‘A Past That Never Was‘ & ‘Kingdom of Frost‘ Released: January 28th, 2026 Genre: Symphonic black metal Location: Finland Review Diptychs in art are the union of individual pieces conjoined in aesthetic dialectics. ‘A Past That Never Was’ and ‘Kingdom of Frost’ by Strunkiin – the duo from […]

Review: Burnt Lodge / Veytik – Anchors Plunged Off Helluland (Split album, 2026) | BM

Band info Bands: Burnt Lodge & Veytik Album:  ‘Anchors Plunged Off Helluland‘ Released: April 29th, 2026 Genre: black metal Location: US Review Today is Premiere day! Burnt Lodge, which we had already reviewed in 2024 and Veytik, from Olympia, Washington, have trusted us for the premiere of their split, and it is excellent! From the […]

Review: Sedmi Sekretar – Bleiburg (EP, 2026) | Raw black metal

https://youtu.be/qVX2iaE3etY Band info Band: Sedmi Sekretar Album: ‘Bleiburg‘ Released: April 11th, 2026 Genre: raw black metal Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina Review Sedmi Sekretar simply do not fuck around. Named after the Seven Secretaries of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia who were leading figures in the organization between 1924 and 1931 and were all […]

Review: Vatermord – Worte einer Kindheit (Full album, 2026) | Black, sludge

https://youtu.be/rRHE–MO_r0 Band info Band: Vatermord Album: ‘Worte einer Kindheit‘ Released: February 19th, 2026 Genre: black metal, death metal, sludge Location: Germany Review The notebook. A book about two kids sent out to the countryside during a war. Neglected by their grandmother, they will be left on their own. Hunger, solitude, cold. The depiction of social […]

Review: The Breaching Experiment – Skevheten (Full album, 2026) | Black/death

Band info Band: The Breaching Experiment Album: ‘Skevheten‘ Released February 27th, 2026 Genre: black/death Location: Sweden Review ‘Skevheten‘ is a very interesting word in Swedish. The closest equivalents in English are ‘warp’ or ‘lopsidedness’. As you listen to the album ‘Skevheten‘ by The Breaching Experiment, you get the impression that the music truly warps and […]

Review: Drang – De Doorbraak (Full album, 2026) | Black metal

Band info Band: Drang Album: ‘De Doorbraak‘ Releasing on the 17th of April, 2026 Genre: black metal Location: Netherlands Review Today, the network is excited to premiere the debut album by Drang, titled ‘De Doorbraak‘ (English: The Breakthrough). A dark gem of furious, urgent black metal rooted in anarchist rage. The leftist/antifascist Dutch scene has already […]

Review: Night Vigil – The Hamlet (Full Album, 2026) | Black Metal

https://youtu.be/iNcIo4qjVdg Band info Band: Night Vigil Album: ‘The Hamlet‘ Released: March 26. 2026 Genre: atmospheric black metal/doom metal Location: Greece Review Atmospheric black metal is one of those subgenres that one would think would allow for a wider-than-usual range of interpretation and expression. All-too-often, however, many artists operating within this framework (naming no names, of […]

Review: Splēne – Desire Path (Demo, 2025) | Post-black

Band info Band: Splēne EP: ‘Desire Path‘ Released: January 15th, 2025 Genre: post-black, shoegaze, avant-garde BM Location: Italy Review Salutations, greetings or even hails (as some folks still use to our sight), dear listeners. We’ve got something particularly fresh today coming from the city of Novara, in Italy. Under the name Splēne, they define themselves as […]