Review: Festral Yong – Haunted Suites (EP, 2024) | Raw blackened dungeon synth

https://youtu.be/BTMRRdwijNc Band info Band: Festral Yong Album: ‘Haunted Suits‘ Released: November 12th, 2024 Genre: raw blackened dungeon synth Location: Toronto, Canada. Review What do you get when mixing black metal’s oldest punk roots with 80’s drum machine samples? It results in today’s oddball feature on the antifascist black metal network! This Qlaglaga-associated project brings us […]

Review: Ecologist – Glaciares: Premonici​ó​n de los fragmentos del deshielo inminente (2024) | ABM

Band info Band: Ecologist Album: ‘Glaciares: Premonici​ó​n de los fragmentos del deshielo inminente’ Released: November 29th, 2024 Genre: atmospheric black metal Location: Chile Review Hello, hello. We hope you didn’t want to get warm and cosy by the fire with what we offer this festive day, even though we will talk about particular warming that […]

Review: Othismos – ‘Sottrazione’ (Full album, 2024) | Black-crust, post-hardcore

Band info Band: Othismos Album: ‘Sottrazione’ Released: December 16th, 2024 Genre: black-crust, post-hardcore Location: Italy Review Today’s band was introduced to ABMN a few weeks ago with a new single: “Cops Are Not People“. It immediately got our attention, obviously! Then, we found out this Italian trio has been around since 2012 and is back […]

Review: Gvla – Invidia (Full album, 2024) | Black metal

Band info Band: Gvla Album: ‘Invidia‘ Released: November 14th, 2024 Genre: black metal Location: Germany Review Today we’re absolutely excited to bring you no bullshit, no frills black metal. Not that there’s anything wrong with any other type of black metal but sometimes you just want to cut to the chase right? Gvla brings us […]

Review: Poisse – À L’Aff​û​t (Full album, 2024) | Black punk

https://youtu.be/HPPEkSR7Kqc Band info Band: Poisse Album: ‘À L’Aff​û​t‘ Released: September 18th, 2024 Genre: black metal, punk Location: France Review We don’t mention often enough how much the RABM/antifascist scene has grown in just a few years. And the many bands that are being born, either—brand new, raised from ashes, side projects of settled bands, or […]

Antifascist Solidarity Compilation | Metal Sem Facho, 2024

Antifascist Black Metal Network today presents the Antifascist Solidarity Compilation, composed of Brazilian antifascist bands and put together by the collective Metal Sem Facho. It aims to raise money for MLB and CSP-Conlutas, organisations involved in the relief effort during the disastrous floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 2024. Releasing officially on the […]

Review: Galibot – Euch’Mau Noir (Full album, 2024) | Black metal

Band info Band: Galibot Album: ‘Euch’Mau Noir‘ Released: December 4th, 2024 Genre: black metal Location: France Review Many of us who like metal are urban workers in the service sectors – lawyers, clerks, health workers, drivers, teachers, and IT – but there are also many industrial workers among the fans and musicians. And among the […]

Review: Burnt Lodge – Intergenerational Anamnesis (Full album, 2024) | Black metal

https://youtu.be/kviVn1Ofe2Q Band info Band: Burnt Lodge Album: ‘Intergenerational Anamnesis‘ Released: November 2nd, 2024 Genre: melodic black metal Location: US Review If there are two things to remember from ‘Intergenerational Anamnesis‘, it is how good the music is, and how magnificent the cover art is. Burnt Lodge is a one-man band from Portland, OR, and created […]

Messe Des Morts festival

  This year the Messe Des Morts festival in Montreal, Canada has went back to its roots. Some of you might remember the clashes that happened when the festival invited NSBM stalwarts Graveland back in 2017, which resulted in its cancellation. Well, this year it featured renowned crypto-fascist bands such as Marduk, Akitsa and Horna […]

Review: Pâenil Era – Idle Cage (Full album, 2024) | Atmospheric/post-black metal

Band info Band: Pâenil Era Album: Idle Cage Released: Released September 19, 2024 Genre: atmospheric, post-black metal Location: Romania Review Pâenil Era is a new post-black metal one-man band from Romania that introduced itself last year with its very impressive debut album ‘Deviere‘, showing an already advanced mix of atmospheric black metal with post-metal and […]