Band info Band: Eveale EP: ‘Lament of the Dryads / The Enemy‘ Released: May 30th, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: Unknown Review For those of us who love melodic black metal and view music as a space for resistance, finding bands that both fit our taste and are ideologically safe -especially when they lean toward […]
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Review: Synthema Occvlta – Synthema Occvlta (EP, 2025) | Black/death metal
Band info Band: Synthema Occvlta EP: ‘Synthema Occvlta‘ Released: May 2nd, 2025 Genre: black metal, death metal Location: US Review As the rich, healthy sons of capitalism try to change the human rights narrative from empathy, solidarity and community, to harm, exclusion and colonialist wet dreams, the people are waking up from the individualistic lethargy […]
Review: Low Before The Breeze – A Hole Beneath the Home We Shared (Full album, 2025) | Blacked hardcore
Band info Band: Low Before The Breeze Album: ‘A Hole Beneath the Home We Shared‘ Released: May 30th, 2025 Genre: blackened hardcore Location: US Review Chaotic. Noisy. Much like a typical Monday, ‘A Hole Beneath the Home We Shared‘ ‘s debut album ‘A Hole Beneath the Home We Shared‘ brings us our daily dose of […]
Review: athshe – The Body Will Die (Full album, 2025) | Atmospheric black metal
https://youtu.be/NV55-l1BcUs Band info Band: athshe Album: ‘The Body Will Die‘ Released: March 29th, 2025 Genre: ambient/atmospheric black metal Location: US Review We will all die. As many philosophers have put forward, this is perhaps the only certainty we have as humans, and one of the main features of the human condition. What differs is how […]
Review: Crawl Below – Democracy Is So Last Season (EP, 2025) | Blackened sludge punk
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. […]
Review: Locomotion of Escape by Tachanka/Vanessa Funke (Split album, 2025)
Band info Band: Tachanka Location: US Band: Vanessa Funke Location: Germany Album: ‘Locomotion of Escape‘ Released: February 21st, 2025 Review All art in the present day is forced to deal with the fact that capitalism is unravelling the world, both literally and metaphorically, and the music we bring to ABMN is made by those who […]
Review: Genital Shame / Lust Hag (Split album, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Bands: Genital Shame & Lust Hag Album: Split Released: March 7th, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: US Review We’ve said it in the past, and we’ll say that again. Some of the more interesting black metal that comes out these days is created by trans people. And it’s not an argument deriving from […]
Review: Ashenheart – ‘Tales From Eternal Dusk’ (Full EP, 2025) | Black metal, death metal
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 […]
Review: Iron Spire – Iron Spire (Demo, 2025) | Black punk
Band info Band: Iron Spire Demo: ‘Iron Spire‘ Released: March 14th, 2025 Genre: Black metal, punk Location: US Review Iron Spire‘s debut self-titled EP of what they call “armored metal” offers delicious metal punk. It’s not the raw atavistic kind you’d expect from the Xerox cover but more a mix of Bathory, classic heavy metal, and crusty […]
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, […]