https://youtu.be/KvWIxDMsp-o Band info Band: SKOJ Single: ‘Zora Sivog Sokola‘ Released: January 9th, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina Review Very often the projects we promote in some subversive way oppose the traditional black metal narrative appropriated by nationalists. For example, the history of World War II. How many bands playing the so-called “war […]
Tag: Raw black metal
Review: Festral Yong – Haunted Suites (EP, 2024) | Raw blackened dungeon synth
https://youtu.be/BTMRRdwijNc Band info Band: Festral Yong Album: ‘Haunted Suits‘ Released: November 12th, 2024 Genre: raw blackened dungeon synth Location: Toronto, Canada. Review What do you get when mixing black metal’s oldest punk roots with 80’s drum machine samples? It results in today’s oddball feature on the antifascist black metal network! This Qlaglaga-associated project brings us […]
Review: Cazvra – Elsewhere (EP, 2024) | Dark ambient
Band info Band: Cazvra Album: ‘Elsewhere‘ Released: October 30th, 2024 Genre: dark ambient Location: US Review Cazvra is a 100 per cent D.I.Y. solo bedroom project. Although the music and accompanying story is completely non-political, the person behind this multi-instrumental and eclectic music project is an anti-authoritarian anti-capitalist who comes from anarchist and queer punk […]
Review: Charisma Rat – ISAR (Full EP, 2024) | Black metal
https://youtu.be/1dD64MmkzN0 Band info Band: Charisma Rat Album: ISAR Released: October 16th, 2024 Genre: raw black metal Location: US Review Charisma Rat is a Baltimore-based project from the so-called United States. It has a very impressive discography for a project formed in 2017 (or at least from this year, which is the first episode). These are […]
Review: Na Zarot – “Waste” (Single, 2024) | Raw black metal
Band info Band: Na Zarot Song: “Waste” Released: September 10th, 2024 Genre: raw black metal Location: Germany Review If you’re in for a (literally sadly) fast and intense experience today, stay for this brief time with us then as we introduce you not for the first time to Na Zarot, a promising and blooming raw […]
Review: Imagine A Boot – Fearless Werewolf Killers (EP, 2024) | Black metal
Band info Band: Imagine A Boot Album: Fearless Werewolf Killers Released: October 27th, 2024. Genre: raw black metal. Location: Netherlands. Review Imagine A Boot‘s new material is raw and -as the author mentions- iconoclastic raw black metal created out of fury at the rise of fascism. But before we get to anti-fascism a few words […]
Review; Mordran – One-and-Ninety Years of Darkness (EP, 2024) | Black metal
At this point, Sweden’s Mordran is probably already quite well-known for anyone who follows our channel, this being something like the 5th time they have been featured (it helps that they’re very productive). Their new EP, One-and-Ninety Years of Darkness, continues to explore atmosphere and ambience through black metal, this time with some added dungeon […]
Review: Imagine A Boot – Imagine A Boot (EP, 2024) | Raw black metal
“Imagine A Boot“? Well… let us picture it then. Leather, or some other heavy material, in the format of a foot, with a foot inside. A boot, right? Seems simple enough. But let us go the extra mile and finish the quote from which today’s featured artist, a lone anonymous Dutch partisan, clearly took this […]
Review: Without the Sky – Reflections (EP, 2024) | Black metal, post-black
As the seasons change and slowly start to drift into autumn for those in the northern hemisphere, we bring to you our upload of the day: Without the Sky‘s latest EP, Reflections. A mixture of DSBM and post-black metal with a slower, more doomy feel towards the end, this release is a solid (albeit short) […]
Review: 1648 – ‘Regicide of the Incorruptible Crown’ (EP, 2024) | Raw black metal
1648 is a one-person project from Liverpool and the year in which the Second Civil War broke out, ruled by the English elite Brittain. The war was, of course, part of a broader process of friction at the levels of government, between the monarchists and the power of Parliament. Add the issue of Catholicism and […]