Review: Corpse Bird – Forge (Full length, 2025) | Crust, black

  Band info Band: Corpse Bird Album: ‘Forge‘ Released November 21st, 2025 Genre: crust, black metal Location: UK Review Welcome yet again, dearest listeners, to another uplifting Review Friday time (just made up)! Ever wanted to know how would it sound to fuse At the Gates with Amebix and a black edge and folk-y kicks […]

Review: Excommunicant – Reviresco (Full album, 2025) | Black, death, doom

https://youtu.be/Skh_qtqBM1s Band info Band: Excommunicant Album: ‘Reviresco‘ Relesed November 13th, 2025 Genre: death, doom, black Location: Canada Review Today, we bring one of those projects that resist categorisation by moving across multiple musical languages and genres. Excommunicant is a solo band based in Canada, and what you’ll be listening to is its second full-length release. […]

Review: Lighting Sun – Star of Bethlehem (EP, 2025) | Black metal

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, […]

Review: Teardrinker – Killing the Flowers Will Not Delay Spring (EP, 2025) | Screamo, post-hardcore

Band info Band: Teardrinker EP: ‘Killing the Flowers Will Not Delay Spring‘ Released: April 14th, 2025 Genre: screamo, post-hardcore, sludge Location: Netherlands Review The Dutch (black) metal scene never disappoints, and today’s upload is no exception! Teardrinker’s debut EP, ‘Killing the Flowers Will Not Delay Spring‘, may be short, but it’s sweet, empowering and hopeful. […]

Review: Guerrilla Warnoise – Oppressor Exterminator (Demo, 2025) | War metal

https://youtu.be/18sN5ZYI84I Band info Band: Guerrilla Warnoise Album: ‘Oppressor Exterminator‘ Genre: war metal Released May 9th, 2025 Location: Greece Review Sometimes, antifascist black metal is about deconstructing tropes and introducing new elements and aesthetics, and other times it’s about harnessing the strongest and most blunt force imaginable and aiming it as a weapon. In case you […]

Review: Antacid Trip – The Hellish Cycle (Full album, 2025) | Hardcore punk, black metal

Band info Band: Antacid Trip Album: ‘The Hellish Cycle‘ Released: December 1, 2025 Genre: Blackened hardcore punk Location: US Review Hello, dear listeners, to this fine day (as fine as we are allowed to feel in a global hellscape), on this fine day. Time to revisit old cherished sounds and bands with an end-of-the-year gift […]

Review: Detox From Humanity – Massenstaub (EP, 2025) | Post-black metal

Band info Band: Detox From Humanity EP: ‘Massenstaub‘ Genre: black metal, post-black metal Released: May 29th, 2025 Location: Germany Review Detox From Humanity is a post black metal band from Germany. They recently released ‘Maussenstaub‘, their debut EP. Starting with a sample that I definitely understand as anti-psychiatry, their lyrics deal with LGBT rights, pollution, […]

Review: Unmother – “My Armor” (Single Premiere, 2025) | Black metal

Band info Band: Unmother Single: “My Armor” Releases: January 5th, 2026 Genre: black metal, post- black metal Location: UK Review We’re very happy to welcome back Unmother, the very promising post-black metal band from the UK, whose debut album we featured in 2021, during our first year as a network. Some years have passed since […]

Reivew: Dolorous Gnaw – Wretched Void (Full album, 2025) | Experimental noise

https://youtu.be/e44rGi3RftM Band info Band: Dolorous Gnaw Album: ‘Wretched Void‘ Genre: experimental noise, ambient Album: ‘Wretched Void’ Released December 11th, 205 Location: Australia Review Dolorous Gnaw returns with an hour-long album entitled ‘Wretched Void‘. As a reminder, this is a side project of Ivory Primarch’s bassist. Both bands previously featured on ABMN. What we are dealing […]

ABMN is growing! More genres, more voices! Come build it with us!

ABMN has existed for over four years as a radical left music platform focused on black metal as the root of RABM, and as a response to the genre’s long-standing relationship with reactionary ideologies. Over time, the network has naturally embraced other genres through artists who share the same commitments, and for a while now, […]