Band info Band: Ashenheart Album: ‘Tales From Eternal Dusk‘ Releases: April 18th, 2025 Genre: black metal, death metal Location: UK, US Review Ashenheart is a new band featuring musicians from the UK and the USA. It was founded last year. Spearheaded by Amanda Kauffman, who writes the music and performs most of the instruments, they’ve already […]
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Review: Lunar Cult – The Blade Was Forged to Fit Your Hand (Full album, 2025) | Dungeon synth
Band info Band: Lunar Cult Album: ‘The Blade Was Forged to Fit Your Hand‘ Released: April 4th, 2025 Genre: dungeon synth Location: UK Review For the second time, we welcome Lunar Cult, a dungeon synth project from the UK with a perfectly clear antifascist stance that has already released six albums, the latest of which we […]
Review: Greet – Harmonium 2 (Full album, 2024) | Dark folk
Band info Band: Greet Album: Harmonium 2 Released: November 1st, 2024 Genre: folk, dark folk Location: UK Review Greet‘s new album ‘Harmonium 2‘ is a continuation of the previous album, the debut, “Harmonium 1”. This debut then attracted attention because Matthew Broadley known for Dawn Ray’d is the person behind this project, so we can […]
Review: Dawn Treader – Bloom & Decay (Full album, 2024) | Blackgaze
Band info Band: Dawn Treader Album: Bloom & Decay Released: released August 23rd, 2024 Genre: blackgaze Location: UK Review Like a soothing mist, it comes from the alleys of London today to paint an image in our minds of what is probably one of the closing and more interesting releases of the year so far […]
Review: Clones Of Sirius – ‘Grandeur’ (EP, 2024) | Black metal, death metal
Band info Band: Clones Of Sirius Album: Grandeur Released: October 22nd, 2024. Genre: black metal, death metal. Location: United Kingdom Review After their very exciting EP debut last year, Clones of Sirius is back again with another EP, Grandeur. This time around, though, Clones of Sirius really lean hard into blackened death over blackened thrash compared […]
Review: Greet – Harmonium I (Full EP) | Dark folk
Well, we have finally done it, we here at ABMN have gone off the deep end in bringing you “extreme” or really are stretching the meaning of extreme. We have Leed’s Greet and their first album Harmonium I. This is a dark folk project not too dissimilar to that of one of Chelsea Wolfe’s older […]
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 […]
Review: The Dirty Looks – “Second Guessing” demo & two live extracts| Proto-punk
Manchester has recently welcomed a new proto-punk project devised by five femmes: The Dirty Looks. In May they released their most recent demo, and we have been meaning to introduce you all to them ever since. The day has come, and we thought to bring not only Second Guessing, the above-mentioned one-single demo, but […]
Review: Purgatorial – “Doomed To Repeat” (Single PREMIERE, 2024) | Blackened death metal
Again we are premiering a new song by Purgatorial, just what the doctor ordered to keep us on the hook until we wait for an album to come, you fucking tease! We jest, of course, take your time, as long as the album keeps the quality of this song you’ll have no complaints from us, […]
Review: Ba’al – Soft Eyes (Full EP, 2024) | Post-black metal
Ba’al did it again. After their album Ellipsism in 2020, they are back with an EP called Soft Eyes, with a total of 3 songs for 27 minutes and 3 seconds of complex yet stunning post-black metal. The diversity of tonalities, and the variety in the composition, from very intense phases in “Ornamental Doll” to only […]