Demos always tend to be smiled at. They are the everlasting joke of black metal’s so often gatekept “true” form. So raw, so direct, so instant that the record can’t even be finished. Just an unprocessed mess that sounds like recorded by a microphone covered by a can standing in the room next door. But this […]
Tag: Atmospheric black metal
Review: Inherits The Void – ‘Scars Of Yesteryears’ (Full album, 2024) | Atmospheric/melodic BM
Inherits The Void, the French one-man band is back with a new excellent album! You may remember Inherits The Void from the review we did for their 2023 album last year, but let me rewind it for you: a solo band doing a complex melodic black metal, with shades of atmospheric black metal. This album […]
Review: 1648 – ‘Regicide of the Incorruptible Crown’ (EP, 2024) | Raw black metal
1648 is a one-person project from Liverpool and the year in which the Second Civil War broke out, ruled by the English elite Brittain. The war was, of course, part of a broader process of friction at the levels of government, between the monarchists and the power of Parliament. Add the issue of Catholicism and […]
Review: The end of… – Wistful Longing and Deranged Emptiness (Full EP, 2024) | DSBM
Hailing from Kelowna in British Columbia and making for a proper eve to a Gloomy Sunday of a kind, there’s today the demo released this year back in April by The End Of… (currently Arsgoetia) and remastered in June, which in a brief duration of 23 mins offered an interesting take on the ‘classic’ sound of […]
Review: Astral Lore – Astral Lore (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
3 songs, 50 minutes, on a full album, is maybe all you need to know about Astral Lore‘s new self-titled release. You can expect it from here, we publish black metal, it’s very long songs, hence it’s an excellent atmospheric black metal album. While it’s their first full-length album, Astral Lore already has some solid […]
Review: greyfleshtethered – Primordial Decay (Full album, 2024) | Electronic black metal
This album is interesting for at least 3 reasons. The first one is, of course, the music, and that is electronic black metal with an atmospheric character, including elements of trip-hop, and drone, as well as ambient, noise and dungeon synth. It is more or less a complete picture. More or less because you have […]
Review: Unholy Altar – Veil of Death! Shroud of Nite (Full album, Premiere, 2024) | Raw black metal
As weather gets warmer around those of us in the northern hemisphere and colder for those in the southern hemisphere we go searching for music to match these moods. Specifically, music that brings coldness to our ears and hearts whether it be through escaping the heat and treachery of the sun or matching the cold […]
Review: ‘Stigmergy’ by There Is No Light Here & Tachanka (Full split, 2024) | Raw black metal
With a hammering tone of angst and wrath in a 4-track split, two of the most promising emerging projects in the antifascist scenes around the world join forces in a conceptual work bringing us Stigmergy, a blend of styles and topics from the two sides involved highlighting a convergence into a socio-political dive to a […]
Review: Atlantic – Black Sands (Full album, 2024) | Atmospheric/post-black metal
As the waves that cyclically recede into the sea and come crashing unto the shore, Atlantic has returned to our channel almost two years since its first outing, bringing in more amazing musicianship, more torrential blast beats, more riffing crescendos growing evermore towards the horizon, and an even wider soundscape than before! Black Sands, their […]
Review: Sudra by Iravu & Mumuksu (Full split album, 2024) | Black metal, doom metal
It is no mistake that here in ABMN we hold Malaysia’s Iravu in very high esteem, both as an artist and as a comrade, so of course we were excited to premiere their new release, and that excitement was doubled when those of us also into the doom side of things heard that this was […]