It’s ironic that we are featuring a band called Sunrot today, as most of us, at least those in the northern hemisphere, are in between heatwaves that make us feel like rotting inside, and it’s fitting that the band sounds like hot sand stripping your skin. Loud and abrasive sludge in the camp of Thou and […]
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Review: ‘Austerity – Despondency – Longing’ by Botgörelsen / Wrekan / Astral Lore (Full split, 2024) | BM
ABMN has always cherished split and collaborative albums for the many reasons expressed before: collective work, and uniting different genres, cultures, and points of view… And it’s one lazy click into discovering /re-visiting more than one band! Today’s upload brings three different bands within the same raw and straightforward black metal, offering slightly different sonorities. […]
Review: Demon Sluice – Demo MMXXIV (Full demo, 2024) | Black metal, death metal
Today it feels like we have a treat for those of you who enjoy the more death metal-influenced side of black metal that we tend to get. And by treat and death metal we mean, this shit is so fucking on the nose for bestial black metal that it’s shocking that it isn’t a tag […]
Review: ‘Stigmergy’ by There Is No Light Here & Tachanka (Full split, 2024) | Raw black metal
With a hammering tone of angst and wrath in a 4-track split, two of the most promising emerging projects in the antifascist scenes around the world join forces in a conceptual work bringing us Stigmergy, a blend of styles and topics from the two sides involved highlighting a convergence into a socio-political dive to a […]
Review: Ammonoid – “Pierce The Veil” (Official animated video, 2024) | Doom, prog.
One of our main functions at AFS and ABMN is to help foster, nurture and reveal new bands under our specific musical purviews that take a stand in the battle against oppression and exploitation. And it is a great pleasure when one of these is of such high quality as today’s feature, the US project […]
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: Venus 426 – Causeways Into the Night (Full album, 2024) | Noise
We wander again to a different frame of sound from the usual today presenting the premiere for VENUS – 426’s last effort named Causeways into the Night. Packed into a 12-track body of work, the queer antifascist harsh noise powerhouse shows an immense evolution and develops into a concrete and more conceptual and thick atmosphere […]
Review: Witchden – “Renewal” & “Ash of the ancients” (Official videos, 2024) | Black metal
Today we bring not one but two official video clips to introduce you all to Witchden! They are a US-based quintet that has recently released their fourth full-length: Tomes of Madness Volume 1. As a brief example of what you will find on TOMVI‘ we have the song “Renewal”, starting off with very danceable black and […]
Review: Lust Hag – Lust Hag (Full album premiere, 2024) | Black metal
We are in the midst of some sort of renaissance in the black metal sphere, we get caught up with those that continue the old ways or even the iconoclasts that reject them in favour of doing something different and reject the status quo/ trve kvlt. So while we are here we get the small […]
Review: Masochrist – Grimecode: DCLXVI (Full album, 2023) | Melodic death grind
Masochrist is what you expect from melodic death grind: the music you need to get up and go to work, the music that keeps your heart beating, the music that will scare your parents, your colleagues, or any right-minded person. With 18 songs for almost 17 minutes, this album keeps a very high standard of […]