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 […]
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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 […]
Premiere: Periodeater – Pacing in the Maw of Time (Full length, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: Periodeater Album: ‘Pacing in the Maw of Time‘ Releases September 22nd, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: US Review Hello, dear readers and listeners, for another day of premiering yearly blasting records with ABMN! Today is the turn (and return) of Summoner of Blood‘s Periodeater, releasing their new album ‘Pacing in the Maw of […]
Review: Catharsis – Hope Against Hope (Full album, 2025) | Hardcore
https://youtu.be/zr75-uerY6k Band info Band: Catharsis Album: ‘Hope against Hope‘ Released: August 1st, 2025 Genre: Hardcore Location: US Review Ok, first, let’s be clear, Catharsis is not a black metal or “blackened whatever” band. In fact, their brand of dark and epic hardcore predates the trend of mixing black metal and hardcore. And yet we would still call […]
Single: Cursed Body – “New Spring” (Single, 2025) | Sludge
https://youtu.be/qfq8TwGLChE Band info Band: Cursed Body Song: “New Spring” Released: August 1st, 2025 Genre: Sludge metal Location: US Review Today, we present a new band from Florida, United States, which introduces itself with a track called “New Spring“. Don’t expect anything either sunny or death metal-like, because this quintet, Cursed Body, plays the darkest of […]
Review: VENUS-426 – songs of post-apocalyptic yearnings (Full album, 2025) | Noisecore
Band info Band: VENUS-426 Album: ‘songs of post-apocalyptic yearnings‘ Released: September 2nd, 2025 Genre: Noisecore Location: US Review As the US marks Labour Day, celebrating the socially sold myth of work while so many are exploited, erased, and hunted, we premiere a very fitting upcoming album: ‘songs of post-apocalyptic yearnings‘ by VENUS-426. A 17-track voyage […]