So, when you have a band known for their unique take on black metal like Jute Gyte, with their legendary microtonal progressive output, why would you choose their rare ambient release to feature? Well, why not, after all their black metal releases are already acknowledged as genre classics, plus, it’s named after an equatorial dark […]
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Review: Nocthun – Rest In Flames (Full album , 2024) | Black metal
Nocthun self-describes as apocalyptic antifascist metal and it pretty much sets the mood for Rest in Flames, their new album. This 48-minute album starts slowly with a first track starting with spoken text and low-volume instruments before being quickly overflowed by raging guitars and drums, in a mix of death metal guitar riffs, and blast […]
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: Genital Shame – Chronic Illness Wish (Full album, 2024) |Experimental black metal
Genital Shame is the one-woman project of Erin Dawson from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Chronic Illness Wish is her first full-length album, after two eps released in 2023 and 2022. Although a young project, Genital Shame has entered the black metal scene with a bang, playing shows and creating noise about the project which has reached […]
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: Gonemage – Spell Piercings (Full album, 2024) | Nu metal, black metal
We welcome the return of Gonemage in ABMN, the project of the hardest-working-person-in-the-metal-scene Garry Brents, who has graced us with numerous releases (also with Cara Neir, Homeskin and other names, really too many to mention) in the last years while retaining a high level of quality in everything he does and also at the same […]
Review: Sun Of Nothing – Maze (Full album, 2024) | Post-black metal, sludge
Sun Of Nothing are not just another band, they are a phenomenon. They were the linchpin that turned the tide of the Greek heavy music scene in an era it was entrenched in traditionalism and finally dragged it into an era where “sludge”, “hardcore” and “experimental” were not dirty words to be ashamed of. And […]
Review: Mycorrhizal – Blessed Be the Match (Full album, 2024) | Experimental
Today is a day of resistance and struggle for the Antifascist Black Metal Network. Well, every day is one in truth, really, but today has the special symbolism of being March 8th, the International Day of the Struggle of Women Workers, a day that celebrates the February Russian Revolution of 1917 where women-led textile strike […]