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 […]
Tag: Atmospheric black metal
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 […]
Review: Ba’al – Soft Eyes (Full EP, 2024) | Post-black metal
Ba’al did it again. After their album Ellipsism in 2020, they are back with an EP called Soft Eyes, with a total of 3 songs for 27 minutes and 3 seconds of complex yet stunning post-black metal. The diversity of tonalities, and the variety in the composition, from very intense phases in “Ornamental Doll” to only […]
Review: Dysthymia/Saeva (Full split, 2024) | Black metal
On today’s release, we listen to this often-intriguing pairing of depressive and atmospheric black metal. Starting with three tracks of Denver’s Saeva we are presented with mostly dry and hard-produced mid to high-tempo drums forming an effective rhythmic base on which the project sets a well-known sound of strongly distorted guitars and pulsating bass in […]
Review: Mordran – The Midnight Woods (Full album premiere, 2024) | Black metal
Releasing on March 29 after a full-length and two EPs last year, the Swedish one-man project Mordran returns with another piece we have the pleasure to premiere today. With a cold and raw ambience fitting for the season it was conceived in, The Midnight Woods promises us to be the embrace for a long night to […]
Review: Morvigor – De spiegel (Full EP, 2024) | Black Metal
For all of its colonial crimes and its important role in imperialist politics nowadays, it’s a fact that the Netherlands have been for a long time one of the places where the arts have been the most developed in capitalism. This might be most obvious in the visual arts, with such unavoidables as Rembrandt, Hieronymous […]
Review: Crevasse – Orphans (Full EP, 2024) | Black metal
We are certainly delighted to share here today something that will probably make many of you feel pretty old (in a good way), with the first EP from the Los Angeles-based band Crevasse. Its only member, Noah Hawkins, ensures with this latest work under this artistic name (being active for 2 years now with three […]