Review: Darkat Yuuyamihn – ‘eu sou a vitima e o carrasco’ (Full album, 2024) | Post-black metal

Band info Band: Darkat Yuuyamihn Album: eu sou a vitima e o carrasco Released: December 23rd, 2024 Genre: post-black metal Location: Brazil Review You know the age-old saying “come to Brazil”? Well, today we bring Brazil to your ears! We are happy to have Darkat Yuuyamihn and their brand new album ‘Eu sou a vitima e […]

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: The Shade of Crow – Capítulo II: Oceano (EP, 2024) | Black metal

Band info Band: Shade Of Crow Album: Capítulo II: Oceano Released: September 20th, 2024 Genre: black metal Location: Brazil Review Has anyone else noticed how many different variations of black metal exist? You got your black/- hybrids, your blackened’s, your various adjectives like “raw” or “depressive” or “bestial” or add-ons like post- or -gaze. Isn’t […]

Review: Aurora Ortus – Drought (Official vídeo, 2024) | Post-black metal

It has been almost two years since we were introduced to Aurora Ortus through their 2022 album Ostrara, showcasing an obscure and heartfelt post-black metal, altered with doom and blackgaze inspired. Today, we are happy to have them back with the premiere of a brand new song in the form of an official video, “Drought“, the first single of an […]

Review: Cipo Fogo – “Distopia” (single, 2024) | Crossover

Peeking at what is just a small bite to taste their late and sixth full work, we are happy at the Network to share CIPÓ FOGO‘s “Dystopia” single from Born Enslaved, one of a kind breed of heavy riffs within a thrashcore/crossover frame (mainly, but certainly not only). Coming from Brazil and Uruguay, Marcelo Cabral, […]

Review: inattentive apprentice – Why must wizardry be so complicated? (Full EP, 2024) | Dungeon gaze

Today we present a little synth project called inattentive apprentice and the name couldn’t be more matching. Coming straight from one of Germany’s oldest university towns, categorized by itself as dungeon gaze, these songs unite the fantastic and atmospheric soundscapes of dungeon synth with the harsh experiments of noise music making it, well, a kind […]

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 […]