Review: Vedmaahn – Traces from the Ancient Realms, Part I (EP, 2025) | Atmospheric / fantasy BM

https://youtu.be/oxATuBuIwXg Band info Band: Vedmaahn Album: ‘Traces from the Ancient Realms (Part 1)‘ Released: September 19, 2025 Genre: atmospheric/fantasy black metal Location: Russia Review Hello yet again, dear listeners and stubborn haters, coming back to us. This is ABMN, and we got a spicy submission rolling in this fine Wednesday. Or maybe “spicy” is not […]

gāſt – gāſt (Demo, 2025) | DSBM, funeral doom

Band info Band: gāſt Demo: ‘gāſt‘ Genre: DSBM, doom, post-black Released: August 24th, 2025 Location: US Review Hailing from New York, today’s band is gāſt, or Gāst, pronounced with a regular short “s” sound instead of a long one from the main from, but both interchangeably valid, which could be roughly from different roots as […]

Review: Aurora Ortus – Against Ourselves (Full album, 2025) | Post-black/doom

Band info Band: Aurora Ortus Album: ‘Against Ourselves’ Genre: post-black/doom Released: 22nd of October, 2025 Location: Brazil Artwork: oil painting by Eduardo Untura Review The Brazilian duo Aurora Ortus returns today with the premiere of their brand-new full-length: ‘Against Ourselves’! As we heard on their previous release ‘Ostrara‘, they blend post-black metal with atmospheric passages […]

Review: The World Sleeps Beneath – You Were Never For Me When I Needed You The Most (EP, 2025) | Meloblack

https://youtu.be/CXFH32sm1Nc Band info Band: The World Sleeps Beneath Album: ‘You Were Never For Me When I Needed You The Most‘ Genre: atmospheric black metal Released: July 25th, 2025 Location: Canada Review From the remnants of a traumatic past experience comes The World Sleeps Beneath, an antifascist queer solo project from Canada that channels grief into […]

Review: Intraether – Vestiges (Full album, 2025) | Atmospheric black metal

  Band info Band: Intraether Album: ‘Vestiges‘ Releases: October 9th, 2025 Genre: atmospheric black metal Location: Spain Review We are thrilled today to announce and share what we believe is one of the most interesting and dedicatedly crafted projects, which, from the start, already shows a point of detail that invokes the thread of personal […]

Review: Eternal Starvation – Life In A Coffin (EP, 2025) | Black metal

  Band info Band: Eternal Starvation Album: ‘Life in a Coffin‘ Released: August 22nd, 2025 Genre: atmospheric, raw black metal Location: Germany Review Today’s release is courtesy of Eternal Starvation and their new album, ‘Life in a Coffin‘; coming in at a little over 20 minutes, this album is short but sweet, meaning nothing overstays […]

“Buried in their Confines” by Knights of Rain feat Tumultuous Ruin (Single, 2025) | Black metal

https://youtu.be/ASgJz1_TziA Band info Single: “Buried in their Confines” Genre: black metal, atmospheric black metal Band: Knights Of Rain Location: Germany Band: Tumultuous Ruin Location: US Review Once again, we are witnesses to the marvels that musical collaborations can achieve. In this case, you are surely more than familiar with the acts highlighted: Knights Of Rain, […]

Review: Mycorrhizal – ‘The Way Out is Through’ (Full album, 2025) | Electronica, BM

Band info Band: Mycorrhizal Album: ‘The Way Out is Through’ Releases September 19th, 2025 Genre: experimental, black metal, electronica Location: US Review Have we made the “Mycorrhizal put the ‘fun’ in fungi” joke yet? We have? Yeah, well, it’s a good joke because it is true. Christine Elaine‘s one-woman musical vehicle never fails to be interesting, […]

Review: Amimia – ‘Eigengrau’ (Full album, 2025) | ATBMN, blackgaze

Band info Band: Amimia Album: ‘Eigengrau‘ Released: April 11th, 2025 Genre: atmospheric black metal, blackgaze Location: Germany Review Blackgaze is one of the most interesting transgressions that black metal has gone through; how many fans from its first era, thirty years ago, would have guessed that it would be combined with one of the most […]