Band info Band: Eveale EP: ‘Lament of the Dryads / The Enemy‘ Released: May 30th, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: Unknown Review For those of us who love melodic black metal and view music as a space for resistance, finding bands that both fit our taste and are ideologically safe -especially when they lean toward […]
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Review: Synthema Occvlta – Synthema Occvlta (EP, 2025) | Black/death metal
Band info Band: Synthema Occvlta EP: ‘Synthema Occvlta‘ Released: May 2nd, 2025 Genre: black metal, death metal Location: US Review As the rich, healthy sons of capitalism try to change the human rights narrative from empathy, solidarity and community, to harm, exclusion and colonialist wet dreams, the people are waking up from the individualistic lethargy […]
Review: Low Before The Breeze – A Hole Beneath the Home We Shared (Full album, 2025) | Blacked hardcore
Band info Band: Low Before The Breeze Album: ‘A Hole Beneath the Home We Shared‘ Released: May 30th, 2025 Genre: blackened hardcore Location: US Review Chaotic. Noisy. Much like a typical Monday, ‘A Hole Beneath the Home We Shared‘ ‘s debut album ‘A Hole Beneath the Home We Shared‘ brings us our daily dose of […]
Review: Nekrokratie – Ein Blutig Frühling (Full album, 2025) | Raw black metal
Band info Band: Nekrokratie Album: ‘Ein Blutig Frühling‘ Released: April 16th, 2025 Genre: raw black metal Location: Germany Review “Necropolitics” is a concept introduced by Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe, which, in brief, describes how regimes utilise social, political, and military power to determine who lives and who dies. He uses the genocides […]
Review: Savini – Into the Arms of Evil (EP, 2025) | Black thrash
Band info Band: Savini Album: ‘Into the Arms of Evil‘ Released on March 11th, 2025 Genre: black metal, thrash metal Location: UK Review A common misconception is that horror cinema is brainless and pointless entertainment, but the truth is that either by playing on social anxieties or allegory or stereotyping, horror is often extremely political, […]
Review: So.Wa.Des – Gnathosonics (EP, 2025) | Experimental black noise
Band info Band: So.Wa.Des Album: ‘Gnathosonics‘ Released April 12th, 2025 Genre: experimental black metal, noise Location: Greece Review So.Wa.Des is a project from Greece that fuses black metal with sludge, drone, noise and electronics. The result is genuinely great, and while the band already has several EPs on their account, today we present the […]
Review: SKOJ – More Krvi I: Zora sivog sokola (EP, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: SKOJ Single: ‘More Krvi I: Zora sivog sokola‘ Released: April 11th, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina Review To say World War II was a rather complicated affair is one of the most obvious things ever. One thing basically everyone agrees, however, is that a large part of the reason […]
Review: Crawl Below – Democracy Is So Last Season (EP, 2025) | Blackened sludge punk
Band info Band: Crawl Below Album: ‘Democracy Is So Last Season‘ Released: April 30th, 2025 Genre: blackened sludge punk Location: US Review Remember Crawl Below? Well, forget what you knew from the last time we featured them, this release is different, cause apparently the band also loves genre hopping, and you know what, it works. […]
Review: Locomotion of Escape by Tachanka/Vanessa Funke (Split album, 2025)
Band info Band: Tachanka Location: US Band: Vanessa Funke Location: Germany Album: ‘Locomotion of Escape‘ Released: February 21st, 2025 Review All art in the present day is forced to deal with the fact that capitalism is unravelling the world, both literally and metaphorically, and the music we bring to ABMN is made by those who […]
Review: Halizth – Halizth (Full album, 2025) | Cosmic black metal
Band info Band: Halizth Album: Halizth Released: March 10th, 2025 Genre: atmospheric black metal, cosmic black metal Location: France Review Black metal is “anywhere out of the world” to use Dead Can Dance‘s song as a reference. Escape from the confines of the material or the earthen is a common tendency that expresses the transcendental […]