Band info Band: Lighting Sun Album: ‘Star of Bethlehem (Refugee)‘ Released: July 31st, 2025 Genre: doom black Location: US Review Lighting Sun is a black-doom band from California. ‘Star of Bethlehem‘ is their second album, following their first album in 2024 called ‘Man With No Name‘, as the title of their songs makes it clear, […]
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Single: Shrinewitch – “The Silver of the Starlight is Hanging in the Trees” (Single, 2025) | Raw doom
https://youtu.be/wVXCKt_GiZA Band info Band: Shrinewitch Song: “The Silver of the Starlight is Hanging in the Trees” Released: August 9th, 2025 Genre: raw doom metal Location: US Review Shrinewitch returns with her latest single, “The Silver of the Starlight is Hanging in the Trees“. A stance against silence carved from exhaustion and persistence, serving as a […]
Review – Delightful Dekadenss – Ala Maji (Full album, 2023) | Occult metal
Band info Band: Delightful Dekadenss Album: ‘Ala Maji‘ Released: May 22nd, 2023 Genre: Occult metal Location: Turkey Review A large share of the black metal community is interested in magic(“k”) and the occult, which is not really a surprise; the promises of self-improvement and transcendence make complete sense for a genre that is very much […]
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: 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 […]