Band info Band: Uganga Album: ‘Ganeshu‘ Released: May 9th, 2025 Genre: crossover, hardcore Location: Brazil Review One thing every leftist metal (and punk too, really) fan goes through is the inevitable reckoning with old favourites who have turned sketch. We’ve all been there – many founding parents of our genres are now racist MAGA asshats, […]
Tag: Thrash metal
Review: Aovum – Abandon (Full album, 2025) | Avant-garde
https://youtu.be/ucoFBdtKnP4 Band info Band: Aovum Album: ‘Abandon‘ Released: December 12th, 2025 Genre: avant-garde black metal Location: Finland Review Antti Mikonmäki, responsible for, among other things, the Kartano project, which we presented to you a few years ago, returns with a new album from his other project, Aovum. The album is titled ‘Abandon‘, and as always […]
Review: GIDIM – Demo 2025 | Black metal
Band info Band: GIDIM Album: ‘Demo 2025‘ Released: January 1, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: US Review Jesus Christ, how awesome is it when a black metal band already starts going straight to your throat? At ABMN, we adore our atmos, progs, and posts, but when we have the level of direct aggression GIDIM gives […]
Review: Savini – Into the Arms of Evil (EP, 2025) | Black thrash
Band info Band: Savini Album: ‘Into the Arms of Evil‘ Released on March 11th, 2025 Genre: black metal, thrash metal Location: UK Review A common misconception is that horror cinema is brainless and pointless entertainment, but the truth is that either by playing on social anxieties or allegory or stereotyping, horror is often extremely political, […]
Review: Rotten Filthy – “The Path of Mercury” (Single, 2025) | Thrash death
Band info Band: Rotten Filthy Single: “The Path of Mercury” Released: January 20th, 2025 Genre: thrash metal, death metal Location: Brazil Review For today’s feature, we bring you an intriguing four-minute taste of blackened trash coming from the Brasil-based Rotten Filthy. In the tradition of so many classical trash metal groups “The Path of Mercury” […]
Review: Auriferous Flame – The Insurrectionists And The Caretakers (Full length, 2024) | Black Metal
Band info Band: Auriferous Flame Album: The Insurrectionists And The Caretakers Released: November 8th, 2024 Genre: Atmospheric black/thrash metal Location: Greece Review Barely a year after releasing the sophomore album, ‘Ardor For Black Mastery’, Ayloss is back with a new Auriferous Flame album, ‘The Insurrectionists and the Caretakers’. ‘The Insurrectionists’ carry over, sound and visual […]
Review: Cipo Fogo – “Distopia” (single, 2024) | Crossover
Peeking at what is just a small bite to taste their late and sixth full work, we are happy at the Network to share CIPÓ FOGO‘s “Dystopia” single from Born Enslaved, one of a kind breed of heavy riffs within a thrashcore/crossover frame (mainly, but certainly not only). Coming from Brazil and Uruguay, Marcelo Cabral, […]
Review: Desert Heretic – Infernalis (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
Desert Heretic has returned! We had the honour of releasing this project’s first EP in early 2022. Now they are back with their first full-length, Infernalis“, with even more of what we loved in their first release – that is, very violent and serious black metal with a lot of melodies, traces of thrash metal […]
Review: Code Red – “Death March” (Single, 2024) | Thrash metal
Code Red is a project of a young artist playing thrash/blackened thrash. You can definitely feel the grave of the 1980s here when it comes to either thrash or black metal elements. The band can be classified as politically engaged, the artist has anti-imperialist, anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist views, which are reflected in the lyrics. And […]
Review: Rejecter – A Method for Withdrawing (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
Today we are pleased to present a new EP by the Rejecter, which was one of the first projects we published. It’s a great opportunity to trace Rejecter‘s musical path and to reflect on its example of paying attention to genre frameworks. Black metal, however, consists of several distinctive musical elements, but it also exists […]