Review: Light The Pyres – Death Of The Megafauna (EP, 2024) | Black metal, crust

Band info Band: Light The Pyres Album: Death Of The Megafauna Released: August 2nd, 2024. Genre: black metal, crust. Location: USA Review Hello there our beloved listeners, would you be able to spare us 10 minutes today? If so, you’re still in time to jump for some groovy and muddy sonic aggression by the hand […]

Review: Auriferous Flame – The Insurrectionists And The Caretakers (Full length, 2024) | Black Metal

Band info Band: Auriferous Flame  Album: The Insurrectionists And The Caretakers Released: November 8th, 2024 Genre: Atmospheric black/thrash metal Location: Greece Review Barely a year after releasing the sophomore album, ‘Ardor For Black Mastery’, Ayloss is back with a new Auriferous Flame album, ‘The Insurrectionists and the Caretakers’. ‘The Insurrectionists’ carry over, sound and visual […]

Review: Rampancy – Where the Sun of the Future Rises (Full album, 2023) | Black metal

https://youtu.be/Xcz5CLP6Ypk Band info Band: Rampancy Album: Where the Sun of the Future Rises Released: November 1st, 2024. Genre: epic, melodic black metal Location: London, Canada. Review Three years ago, ABMN was introduced to Rampancy, a solo Canadian project hosted by Oculus Tod, a musician with one of the longest “See also” lists of bands in the whole […]

Review: Na Zarot – “Waste” (Single, 2024) | Raw black metal

Band info Band: Na Zarot Song: “Waste” Released: September 10th, 2024 Genre: raw black metal Location: Germany Review If you’re in for a (literally sadly) fast and intense experience today, stay for this brief time with us then as we introduce you not for the first time to Na Zarot, a promising and blooming raw […]

Review: Luciferian Strings – The Last Kingslayer (Full album, 2024) | Black metal, dungeon synth

https://youtu.be/GxxuzwE7Gt0 Band info Band: Luciferian Strings Album: The Last Kingslayer Released: November 1st, 2024. Genre: black metal, dungeon synth. Location: Portugal. Review Let me preface this next statement by saying that it does not represent the Network as a whole, just this specific reviewer goblin, but I was wary when I saw that Portuguese anarchist […]

Review: Tylo – Of Rot and Rebirth (Full album, 2024) | Doom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxdITiLUYTs Band info Band: Tylo Album: Of Rot and Rebirth Released: October 27th, 2024 Genre: doom, black metal Location: USA Review Tylo, the personal project of Tylo Gardner (also the bassist of Seattle atmospheric/prog black metal band Izthmi) has always been standing at a crossroads between two usually quite different in presentation and aesthetics genres; […]

Review: Imagine A Boot – Fearless Werewolf Killers (EP, 2024) | Black metal

Band info Band: Imagine A Boot  Album: Fearless Werewolf Killers Released: October 27th, 2024. Genre: raw black metal. Location: Netherlands. Review Imagine A Boot‘s new material is raw and -as the author mentions- iconoclastic raw black metal created out of fury at the rise of fascism. But before we get to anti-fascism a few words […]

Review: Dvster – Hexenwerk (EP, 2024) | Black punk, dungeon synth

  Band info Band: Dvster Album: Hexenwerk Released: August 21st, 2024. Genre: back punk, dungeon synth. Location: Germany. Review Today we present you a charming little discovery from this wonderful cabinet of oddities that is independent black metal. Germany-based project Dvster may be one of the most surprising variations of this long-known musical direction. This […]

Review: Illmara – Blodlust (Full album, 2024) | Black metal

Band info Band: Illmara Album: Blodlust Released: October 30th, 2024. Genre: black metal. Location: Sweden. Review Hope you missed the Swedish scene a normal amount (as much as we do) because the fire’s up again and is coming as red as blood by the hands of Illmara, a four-piece project from Gothenburg delivering a harsh […]