https://youtu.be/FuT6n-K8tVs Band info Band: Splintering Lightning Spear Album: ‘Ice Shatters as Thunderbolts Break the Night Sky‘ Released: December 8th, 2023 Genre: raw black metal Location: Canada Review Sometimes all one desires is just a straightforward black metal demo. That’s why today we present to you the project Splintering Lightning Spear. Cold, aggressive, raw. They present […]
Tag: Raw black metal
Review: Eternal Starvation – Life In A Coffin (EP, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: Eternal Starvation Album: ‘Life in a Coffin‘ Released: August 22nd, 2025 Genre: atmospheric, raw black metal Location: Germany Review Today’s release is courtesy of Eternal Starvation and their new album, ‘Life in a Coffin‘; coming in at a little over 20 minutes, this album is short but sweet, meaning nothing overstays […]
“Buried in their Confines” by Knights of Rain feat Tumultuous Ruin (Single, 2025) | Black metal
https://youtu.be/ASgJz1_TziA Band info Single: “Buried in their Confines” Genre: black metal, atmospheric black metal Band: Knights Of Rain Location: Germany Band: Tumultuous Ruin Location: US Review Once again, we are witnesses to the marvels that musical collaborations can achieve. In this case, you are surely more than familiar with the acts highlighted: Knights Of Rain, […]
Review: Mycorrhizal – ‘The Way Out is Through’ (Full album, 2025) | Electronica, BM
Band info Band: Mycorrhizal Album: ‘The Way Out is Through’ Releases September 19th, 2025 Genre: experimental, black metal, electronica Location: US Review Have we made the “Mycorrhizal put the ‘fun’ in fungi” joke yet? We have? Yeah, well, it’s a good joke because it is true. Christine Elaine‘s one-woman musical vehicle never fails to be interesting, […]
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: Rakzo – ‘Pueblo… Conciencia’ (EP, 2025) | Raw black metal
Band info Band: Rakzo Album: ‘Pueblo… Conciencia‘ Released: June 20th, 2025 Genre: raw/lofi black metal Location: Patagonia, Chile Review Usually, when people think of raw black metal, they think of it having so much distortion stuff is barely audible, right? Well, today Rakzo from Chilean Patagonia comes to show something that many of us already know: […]
Review: Karhunvartijan Tyhjiö – Ruttovirta (EP, 2025) | Raw black metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK9Vdvu4Tlo&feature=youtu.be Band info Band: Karhunvartijan Tyhjiö EP: ‘Ruttovirta‘ Released: May 29th, 2025 Genre: raw black metal Location: Finland Review Karhunvartijan Tyhjiö is a band from Turku, Finland, and if, by some miracle, you haven’t yet heard them, now is your chance. Especially since the ‘Ruttivirta‘ EP presented today is a foretaste of their upcoming debut […]
Review: Tumultuous Ruin – Never A Night So Dark (EP, 2025) | Black metal
https://youtu.be/vT46qYun40I Band info Band: Tumultuous Ruin EP: ‘Never a Nigh So Dark’ Released June 27th, 2025. Genre: black metal Location: US Review As much as we at ABMN are consistently trying to keep spirits high among the lines of the antifascists, the truth is that we are as susceptible to the crushing pressure towards despair […]
Review: Nekrokratie – Ein Blutig Frühling (Full album, 2025) | Raw black metal
Band info Band: Nekrokratie Album: ‘Ein Blutig Frühling‘ Released: April 16th, 2025 Genre: raw black metal Location: Germany Review “Necropolitics” is a concept introduced by Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe, which, in brief, describes how regimes utilise social, political, and military power to determine who lives and who dies. He uses the genocides […]
Review: Wolven Daughter x Order of the Wolf (Split album, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: Wolven Daughter Location: US Band: Order Of The Wolf Location: Scotland Album: Wolven Daughter x Order of the Wolf Released: March 21st, 2025 Genre: black metal Review Collaborations are an essential part of our scene, for if we cannot rely on each other in the face of coming evil to crush as […]