https://youtu.be/eSklfGoaneo Band info Band: Greet Album: ‘I Know How To Die‘ Released: October 17th, 2025 Genre: dark folk Location: UK Review If you’re looking for the perfect album for a wet and windy Friday, this is it: Greet‘s debut full-length album, ‘I Know How To Die’. Much like their previous releases, this is yet another […]
Tag: Drone
mumuksu – breaking GOD (Full album, 2025) | Doom, black metal
Band info Band: mumuksu Album: ‘breaking GOD‘ Released: August 8th, 2025 Genre: experimental doom/drone Location: Malaysia Review Few subjects have been explored in metal as much as religion; some bands are inspired by it, while others (most, in fact) are adversarial to it. mumuksu falls firmly into the second camp, and thankfully, when many use […]
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: 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 […]
Review: Verstige – Urban Thoughts (Demo, 2025) | Ambient
https://youtu.be/blLXo5vVrGU Band info Band: Verstige Album: ‘Urban Thoughts‘ Released: 1st of March, 2025 Genre: Ambient Location: Switzerland Review Dense atmospheric synth textures floating around silent screams venturing into the black void of dark midnight suburbia. This might be one possible description of this ambient synth EP delivered to us by an artist working under the […]
Review: Bruja Ácida – Bruja Ácida (Full album, 2025) | Doom, heavy
https://youtu.be/joFQpfyCluQ Band info Band: Bruja Ácida Album: ‘Bruja Ácida‘ Released: February 22nd, 2025 Genre: doom, heavy, psych Location: Brazil Review The Brazilian project Bruja Ácida we have already had the opportunity to present to you with the ‘Nakba‘ EP. So let us quickly remind you – the release was entirely dedicated to the genocide in Palestine, […]
Review: greyfleshtethered – Primordial Decay (Full album, 2024) | Electronic black metal
This album is interesting for at least 3 reasons. The first one is, of course, the music, and that is electronic black metal with an atmospheric character, including elements of trip-hop, and drone, as well as ambient, noise and dungeon synth. It is more or less a complete picture. More or less because you have […]
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: Sudra by Iravu & Mumuksu (Full split album, 2024) | Black metal, doom metal
It is no mistake that here in ABMN we hold Malaysia’s Iravu in very high esteem, both as an artist and as a comrade, so of course we were excited to premiere their new release, and that excitement was doubled when those of us also into the doom side of things heard that this was […]
Review: Venus 426 – Causeways Into the Night (Full album, 2024) | Noise
We wander again to a different frame of sound from the usual today presenting the premiere for VENUS – 426’s last effort named Causeways into the Night. Packed into a 12-track body of work, the queer antifascist harsh noise powerhouse shows an immense evolution and develops into a concrete and more conceptual and thick atmosphere […]