Band info Band: Nekrokratie Album: ‘Ein Blutig Frühling‘ Released: April 16th, 2025 Genre: raw black metal Location: Germany Review “Necropolitics” is a concept introduced by Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe, which, in brief, describes how regimes utilise social, political, and military power to determine who lives and who dies. He uses the genocides […]
Tag: Antifascist black metal
Review: athshe – The Body Will Die (Full album, 2025) | Atmospheric black metal
https://youtu.be/NV55-l1BcUs Band info Band: athshe Album: ‘The Body Will Die‘ Released: March 29th, 2025 Genre: ambient/atmospheric black metal Location: US Review We will all die. As many philosophers have put forward, this is perhaps the only certainty we have as humans, and one of the main features of the human condition. What differs is how […]
Review: Savini – Into the Arms of Evil (EP, 2025) | Black thrash
Band info Band: Savini Album: ‘Into the Arms of Evil‘ Released on March 11th, 2025 Genre: black metal, thrash metal Location: UK Review A common misconception is that horror cinema is brainless and pointless entertainment, but the truth is that either by playing on social anxieties or allegory or stereotyping, horror is often extremely political, […]
Review: So.Wa.Des – Gnathosonics (EP, 2025) | Experimental black noise
Band info Band: So.Wa.Des Album: ‘Gnathosonics‘ Released April 12th, 2025 Genre: experimental black metal, noise Location: Greece Review So.Wa.Des is a project from Greece that fuses black metal with sludge, drone, noise and electronics. The result is genuinely great, and while the band already has several EPs on their account, today we present the […]
Review: SKOJ – More Krvi I: Zora sivog sokola (EP, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: SKOJ Single: ‘More Krvi I: Zora sivog sokola‘ Released: April 11th, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina Review To say World War II was a rather complicated affair is one of the most obvious things ever. One thing basically everyone agrees, however, is that a large part of the reason […]
Review: Crawl Below – Democracy Is So Last Season (EP, 2025) | Blackened sludge punk
Band info Band: Crawl Below Album: ‘Democracy Is So Last Season‘ Released: April 30th, 2025 Genre: blackened sludge punk Location: US Review Remember Crawl Below? Well, forget what you knew from the last time we featured them, this release is different, cause apparently the band also loves genre hopping, and you know what, it works. […]
Review: Locomotion of Escape by Tachanka/Vanessa Funke (Split album, 2025)
Band info Band: Tachanka Location: US Band: Vanessa Funke Location: Germany Album: ‘Locomotion of Escape‘ Released: February 21st, 2025 Review All art in the present day is forced to deal with the fact that capitalism is unravelling the world, both literally and metaphorically, and the music we bring to ABMN is made by those who […]
Review: Halizth – Halizth (Full album, 2025) | Cosmic black metal
Band info Band: Halizth Album: Halizth Released: March 10th, 2025 Genre: atmospheric black metal, cosmic black metal Location: France Review Black metal is “anywhere out of the world” to use Dead Can Dance‘s song as a reference. Escape from the confines of the material or the earthen is a common tendency that expresses the transcendental […]
Review: Lucerne Hammer – Demo (2025) | Black metal
https://youtu.be/W5oDdiKmEJI Band info Band: Lucerne Hammer Album: Demo Released: March 29th, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: Canada Review As antifascists, we really don’t like using the word “supremacy” for obvious reasons, but sometimes you can’t avoid it, like when you are preaching polearm supremacy. Yeah, yeah, swords are cool and all, but mostly tied to […]
Review: Atlantic – Timeworn (Full album, 2025) | Atmospheric black metal
Band info Band: Atlantic Album: ‘Timeworn‘ Released: April 4th, 2025 Genre: atmospheric black metal, post-black metal Location: Ireland Review Sing, o Muse, of the plight of the people of Atlantis, sunken below the sea for their hubris, their attempted mistreatment of other nations, their forgetting of their own origins. Sing of how the ground opened […]