Band info Band: Crawl Below Album: ‘Democracy Is So Last Season‘ Released: April 30th, 2025 Genre: blackened sludge punk Location: US Review Remember Crawl Below? Well, forget what you knew from the last time we featured them, this release is different, cause apparently the band also loves genre hopping, and you know what, it works. […]
Tag: Sludge
Review: It Is Dead – Liberate, Upon the Altar of Freedom (Full album, 2025) | Black crust, war
Band info Band: It Is Dead Album: Liberate, Upon the Altar of Freedom Releases: April 11th, 2025 Genre: Black crust, sludge, war metal Location: US Review Once again, we are pleased to present to you It Is Dead. This is a band from the so-called USA midwest, and today we premiere their new album “Liberate, […]
Review: Las Llagas – Cuanto tiempo nos queda para oler los eucaliptos? (EP, 2025) | Neocrust
Band info Band: Las Llagas Album: ‘Cuanto tiempo nos queda para oler los eucaliptos?‘ Released: March 5th, 2025. Genre: neocrust, blackened hardcore, sludge Location: Uruguay Review This is the first EP from Las Llagas, a crusty blackened hardcore band from Uruguay. In their own words, they initially started wanting to do a post-punk band which […]
Review: Black Market Fossil – Pathways To The Occult (EP, 2024) | Black metal, doom
Band info Band: Black Market Fossil Album: ‘Pathways To The Occult‘ Released: October 31st, 2024. Genre: black metal, doom Location: Canada Review Black Market Fossil of Canada has brought us a very unique twist to the blackened doom genre. Combining the rawness of black metal with the classic sounds of late 80s/ early 90s doom. […]
Review: Othismos – ‘Sottrazione’ (Full album, 2024) | Black-crust, post-hardcore
Band info Band: Othismos Album: ‘Sottrazione’ Released: December 16th, 2024 Genre: black-crust, post-hardcore Location: Italy Review Today’s band was introduced to ABMN a few weeks ago with a new single: “Cops Are Not People“. It immediately got our attention, obviously! Then, we found out this Italian trio has been around since 2012 and is back […]
Review: Bibex Necrobex – Quantum Echoes (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
Band info Band: Bibex Necrobex Album: Quantum Echoes Released: October 9, 2024 Genre: black metal Location: Canada Review We don’t know about you, but whenever we at ABMN see or hear the words “eat the rich”, we get a big smile on our faces and a whole lot of curiosity about those behind them. And […]
Okwaho – “The Mermaid” (Lyric video, 2024) | Doom, sludge metal
Band info Band: Okwaho Album: The Usurper Regime Released: May 1st, 2023. Genre: Sludge, doom, post-metal. Location: Greece Review You should be already familiar with the antifascist blackened post-sludge trio of Okwaho from Athens if you’re actively following our channel, since we’ve uploaded both of their albums, including last year’s very strong contender The Ursuper […]
Review: Obsidian Blade – Zerfal (Full EP, 2024) | Blackened sludge
Obsidian Blade comes from Augsburg, Germany, and they seem to be one of those bands that have the rare gift of genre-bending without really a lot of effort. It just goes right for the jugular with an old-school frozen black metal riff and then somehow it morphs into some raw 90s doom/death complete with stenchy […]
Review: yell. – Ostatnia Godzina (Full album, 2024) | Dark punk
Black metal is often the music of nature where the artists come from. In the case of yell, it’s eastern Poland, whose forests are getting smaller every year. In the album Last Hour from this year, the theme of forests will recur quite often, but it will not be an idyllic fairy tale, but full of […]
Review: Caged Bastard – ‘Solace in Virtue’s Absence’ (Full album, 2024) | Experimental
Today’s upload, the second album by Caged Bastard, is a treat for us in more ways than one – and it’s an impressively difficult work to describe, so we’ll make an effort to be straightforward in this review. First, we love it because it’s musically a smorgasbord (or whatever the fuck you write that) of […]