The long-awaited debut full-length album from Grendel’s Sÿster is finally here and we’re beyond proud to present it to you. After two fantastic EPs that build up anticipation in the epic heavy metal scene, the three-member band from Stuttgart reminded us to “love metal and hate fascism” (a statement that needs to be heard strongly […]
Tag: Folk
Review: Caged Bastard – ‘Solace in Virtue’s Absence’ (Full album, 2024) | Experimental
Today’s upload, the second album by Caged Bastard, is a treat for us in more ways than one – and it’s an impressively difficult work to describe, so we’ll make an effort to be straightforward in this review. First, we love it because it’s musically a smorgasbord (or whatever the fuck you write that) of […]
Review: Greet – Harmonium I (Full EP) | Dark folk
Well, we have finally done it, we here at ABMN have gone off the deep end in bringing you “extreme” or really are stretching the meaning of extreme. We have Leed’s Greet and their first album Harmonium I. This is a dark folk project not too dissimilar to that of one of Chelsea Wolfe’s older […]
Review: Veriarmo – Kuiske (Full album, 2024) | Symphonic metal
Living in 2024 we seem to be blurring rigid lines between various sub-genres of metal. Sure one could argue that it’s always been there and an ever-ongoing thing but people in the past have been careful in how they blur the lines and in today’s atmosphere it’s easier for a smaller band/ artist to gain […]
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 […]
Wandering Oak – Resilience (Full album, 2024) | Progressive, folk
Sometimes as a fan of metal, we may find ourselves in an indecisive mood about the kind of metal we want to listen to. Should we throw on some folk metal? Maybe some classic heavy metal? Nah, maybe some black metal? The indecisiveness can be incredibly frustrating. Well, if you’re in that kind of mood, […]