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: Melodic black metal
Review: Burnt Lodge / Veytik – Anchors Plunged Off Helluland (Split album, 2026) | BM
Band info Bands: Burnt Lodge & Veytik Album: ‘Anchors Plunged Off Helluland‘ Released: April 29th, 2026 Genre: black metal Location: US Review Today is Premiere day! Burnt Lodge, which we had already reviewed in 2024 and Veytik, from Olympia, Washington, have trusted us for the premiere of their split, and it is excellent! From the […]
Review: Vedmaahn – Traces from the Ancient Realms, Part I (EP, 2025) | Atmospheric / fantasy BM
https://youtu.be/oxATuBuIwXg Band info Band: Vedmaahn Album: ‘Traces from the Ancient Realms (Part 1)‘ Released: September 19, 2025 Genre: atmospheric/fantasy black metal Location: Russia Review Hello yet again, dear listeners and stubborn haters, coming back to us. This is ABMN, and we got a spicy submission rolling in this fine Wednesday. Or maybe “spicy” is not […]
Review: Terzij de Horde – Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone (Full album, 2025) | Black metal, hardcore
Video link Band info Band: Terzij de Horde Album: ‘Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone‘ Released October 10th, 2025 Genre: black metal, hardcore Location: Netherlands Review We have operated the Antifascist Black Metal Network for just a little over four years now, since around the middle of 2021, as an effort to help popularise and […]
Review: The World Sleeps Beneath – You Were Never For Me When I Needed You The Most (EP, 2025) | Meloblack
https://youtu.be/CXFH32sm1Nc Band info Band: The World Sleeps Beneath Album: ‘You Were Never For Me When I Needed You The Most‘ Genre: atmospheric black metal Released: July 25th, 2025 Location: Canada Review From the remnants of a traumatic past experience comes The World Sleeps Beneath, an antifascist queer solo project from Canada that channels grief into […]
Review: Burnt Lodge – Intergenerational Anamnesis (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
https://youtu.be/kviVn1Ofe2Q Band info Band: Burnt Lodge Album: ‘Intergenerational Anamnesis‘ Released: November 2nd, 2024 Genre: melodic black metal Location: US Review If there are two things to remember from ‘Intergenerational Anamnesis‘, it is how good the music is, and how magnificent the cover art is. Burnt Lodge is a one-man band from Portland, OR, and created […]
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 […]
Review: A///Plague – Solve et Coagvla (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
https://youtu.be/EEYE_7ZG224 Band info Band: A///Plague Album: Solve et Coagvla Released: September 13th, 2024. Genre: black metal. Location: Brazil. Review Today we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Brazilian anarchist black solo project A///Plague. Founded by a very prolific musician who has been around the Brazilian and antifascist scene for a lot longer than half a decade: […]
Review: Mourn The Stars – Saudade… (Full album, 2024) | Melodic black metal
In Portuguese, saudade represents an emotional feeling mixing melancholy, nostalgia and hope. It’s the feeling of a strong longing for something or someone that is loved but also absent. By this title, the US-based band Mourn The Stars gives a taste of their first album Saudade…. If you’ve been following for some time now, you […]
Review: Rejecter – A Method for Withdrawing (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
Today we are pleased to present a new EP by the Rejecter, which was one of the first projects we published. It’s a great opportunity to trace Rejecter‘s musical path and to reflect on its example of paying attention to genre frameworks. Black metal, however, consists of several distinctive musical elements, but it also exists […]