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 […]
Tag: Doom
Review: Hipoxia – Fragmented Revelations (Full album, compilation, 2024) | Doom, drone
If there would ever be a more fitting cover for this compilation it would be just slightly lighter than this pitch-black square that we are presented with for Fragmented Revelations by Hipoxia. Gathering all those songs from Hipoxia that would usually be hard to find on a physical medium, be it from being only released in […]
Review: Sunrot – The Unfailing Rope (Full album, 2023) | Sludge, post-metal
It’s ironic that we are featuring a band called Sunrot today, as most of us, at least those in the northern hemisphere, are in between heatwaves that make us feel like rotting inside, and it’s fitting that the band sounds like hot sand stripping your skin. Loud and abrasive sludge in the camp of Thou and […]
Review: Ammonoid – “Pierce The Veil” (Official animated video, 2024) | Doom, prog.
One of our main functions at AFS and ABMN is to help foster, nurture and reveal new bands under our specific musical purviews that take a stand in the battle against oppression and exploitation. And it is a great pleasure when one of these is of such high quality as today’s feature, the US project […]
Review: Ivory Primarch – Excruciation (Video clip, 2024) | Doom metal
Today’s premiere is Ivory Primarch, a funeral black doom band from Melbourne. The first single of their new album The Portrait is “Excruciation“, a 9′ long title, built in 5 different stages, going from regular doom to funeral doom, gaining in intensity at every new stage. The track starts with a keyboard line, quickly joined by […]
Review: Primaevus – An Eldritch Odyssey (Full album, 2024) | Acoustic BM, folk
Dark folk/neofolk may not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think of the Western Himalayas part of India, but Primaevus will make it one of the things that do at least. Mixing atmospheric dark folk influenced by pastoral settings and nature with worship of classic weird fiction like Poe and Ashton […]