https://youtu.be/nUfhOUYeSWQ https://youtu.be/i_PMJYb30Q8 Band info Band: Strunkiin Album: ‘A Past That Never Was‘ & ‘Kingdom of Frost‘ Released: January 28th, 2026 Genre: Symphonic black metal Location: Finland Review Diptychs in art are the union of individual pieces conjoined in aesthetic dialectics. ‘A Past That Never Was’ and ‘Kingdom of Frost’ by Strunkiin – the duo from […]
Tag: Epic black metal
Review: Iron Spire – Iron Spire (Demo, 2025) | Black punk
Band info Band: Iron Spire Demo: ‘Iron Spire‘ Released: March 14th, 2025 Genre: Black metal, punk Location: US Review Iron Spire‘s debut self-titled EP of what they call “armored metal” offers delicious metal punk. It’s not the raw atavistic kind you’d expect from the Xerox cover but more a mix of Bathory, classic heavy metal, and crusty […]
Withered Land – “My Last Autumn” (Official video, 2024) | Epic, symphonic black metal
Band info Band: Withered Land Song: “My Last Autumn” Released: November 1st, 2024 Genre: epic, symphonic black metal Location: Belarus Review Though fascists unfortunately exist in every country, for reasons which are beyond the scope of this review Eastern Europe has a particularly large presence of them in black metal, as the Polish, Ukrainian and […]
Review: Rampancy – Where the Sun of the Future Rises (Full album, 2023) | Black metal
https://youtu.be/Xcz5CLP6Ypk Band info Band: Rampancy Album: Where the Sun of the Future Rises Released: November 1st, 2024. Genre: epic, melodic black metal Location: London, Canada. Review Three years ago, ABMN was introduced to Rampancy, a solo Canadian project hosted by Oculus Tod, a musician with one of the longest “See also” lists of bands in the whole […]