Band info Band: Downe Vaine Lights Demo: s/t Released: October 21st, 2025 Genre: lofi black metal Location: US Review Today, we present the demo of a new solo project from the United States, created by Downe Vaine Lights. This self-titled release offers two tracks of lo-fi black metal, built around a contrast that actually works: […]
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Review: Defenestrate – Crash Through the Glass (EP, 2025) | Blackened hardcore
https://youtu.be/t0SbM-pQfTQ Band info Band: Defenestrate Album: ‘Crash Through the Glass‘ Released: September 19th, 2025 Genre: blackened hardcore Location: US Review Defenestrate are not a new band in the channel, and they are back after last year’s ‘Sobek‘ with a nice little treat of black-ish hardcore punk, heavy on the d-beat, no ice, about throwing the oppressors […]
Review: Spectral Decay – Left Hand Wrath (Full album, 2025) | Black metal, crust
Band info Band: Spectral Decay Album: ‘Left Hand Wrath‘ Released: October 31st Genre: black metal/crust Location: US Review This is not the first time we have covered Spectral Decay, the antifascist act from Albuquerque, New Mexico. They play a well-constructed blend of black metal and crust, with a notable influence from thrash. This blend of […]
Review: MASSA NERA – The Emptiness of All Things (Full album, 2025) | Screamo
https://youtu.be/zhaLR_VbLnI Band info Band: Massa Nera Album: ‘The Emptiness of All Things‘ Genre: screamo, hardcore punk Released: October 31st, 2025 Location: US Review Today, ABMN presents a little treat for all who enjoy post-metal from the likes of Ashenspire, Laster and co. This may particularly connect the lyrical hyperrealism of the former with this strange, […]
gāſt – gāſt (Demo, 2025) | DSBM, funeral doom
Band info Band: gāſt Demo: ‘gāſt‘ Genre: DSBM, doom, post-black Released: August 24th, 2025 Location: US Review Hailing from New York, today’s band is gāſt, or Gāst, pronounced with a regular short “s” sound instead of a long one from the main from, but both interchangeably valid, which could be roughly from different roots as […]
Review: Electromancy – Visions Of Utopia (Full album, 2025) | Technical black metal
Band info Band: Electromancy Album: ‘Visions Of Utopia‘ Genre: black metal, death metal, technical Released: September 8th, 2025 Location: US Review Τhree years ago, we uploaded one of the most unique albums both musically and conceptually that we’ve ever had in ABMN. Electromancy‘s debut was centred around an intersection of many topics, from the creative […]
Review: Opus Est Sanare – ‘Live and Unadorned’ (Live EP, 2025) | Instrumental
https://youtu.be/wINHZy0i5N4 Band info Band: Opus Est Sanare Album: ‘Live and Unadorned‘ Genre: chamber music, instrumental Released August 1st, 2025 Location: US Review Metal, and extreme metal even more, for many, is first and foremost violence in musical form. And even though this isn’t the whole story, it is obviously not a wrong conclusion, given the […]
Metal Threat festival
It has been some time since we last spoke out against the politics of a metal festival, not that the situation has been any better lately. Sketchy metal festivals that feature a lot of crypto-fascist bands, “ex” nazi bands that call themselves “patriotic” now and the like are always in abundance. But there are a […]
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 […]