Awenden - s/t (2018)

AWENDEN "Awenden"

Year: 2019

Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal

Origin: USA

Track List:

1. Awake
2. The Wilderness
3. ...
4. A Scourge on the Earth
5. The Wild Jihad

Bandcamp / Facebook / Instagram

Awesome Cascadian style anarcho-primitivist black metal from Oregon and Washington. They're working on a new full length, but in the mean time, the self titled album is up for free on bandcamp.

Kopalhem - "Лики обреченных (Demo)" (2019)

KOPALHEM "Лики обреченных (Demo)"

Year: 2019

Genre: Blackened Crust

Country: Russia

Track List:

1. Черный флаг (Black flag)
2. Шкуродер (Lycanthropy)
3. Город руины (Ruin City)
4. Блокада (Blockade)
5. Путь в пустоту (The Road To The Void)
6. Стычка (Firefight)
7. Дневник обреченного (Diary Of The Doomed One)
8. Всадники смерти (Riders of the Dead)

Bandcamp

A band from St. Petersburg inspired by the story of Nestor Makhno and the tragic events in the first half of 20th century. "Kopalhem" is another name for igunaq, a kind of potentially poisonous fermented food traditionally consumed in the Arctic regions.

Bezbozhnik - "Resistance" (2019)

BEZBOZHNIK "Resistance"

Year: 2019

Genre: Black Metal/Punk

Country: Russia

Track List:

1. Долой царя!
2. Цепь догматов
3. Сопротивление
4. Рабы религий
5. Театр безопасности
6. Яд заводов
7. Полицаи
8. Вне свободы слова
9. Общество трупоедов
10. Чистый разум
11. Война
12. Узники совести
13. Власть - народу!

 Bandcamp

Безбожник (Bezbozhnik/Godless) Is Anarchist Black Metal Band, formed in 2018 in Kirovgrad. The main values of the project: justice, freedom, fight against discrimination, overthrow of tyranny, anti-fascism, vegetarianism, animal protection, nature protection.

Line-up:
Gleb - Vocal, Guitar
Anna - Bass
Alexandr - Drums 

1. Down with the tsar!
2. Chain of dogmas
3. Resistance
4. Slaves of religions
5. Security theater
6. The poison factories
7. Policemen
8. Outside freedom of speech
9. Society of corpses
10. Pure reason
11. War
12. Prisoner of conscience
13. Power to the people!

Recorded in the summer of 2018 in an underground garage-studio.

Outer Darkness - "Altars of the Subaltern" (2019)

OUTER DARKNESS "Altars of the Subaltern"

Year: 2019

Genre: Post-Black Metal

Country: USA

Track List:

1. Lazy Thieving Master
2. Murmur
3. Asa Lake
4. Whiskered Men With Bombs

Bandcamp

RABM from Brooklyn. Not much is known about this band, but "Whiskered Men With Bombs" is quite good.

Panopticon - "The Crescendo of Dusk" (2019)

PANOPTICON "The Crescendo of Dusk"

Year: 2019

Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal

Country: USA

Track List:

1. The Crescendo Of Dusk
2. The Labyrinth

Bandcamp

This record is in honor of the northern lights, which very few things in the world are more beautiful and awe inspiring than.
A limited Edition one sided LP will be available exclusively through Bindrune Recordings in early 2019. Pre orders will be announced soon.

All music written, performed and recorded by A.Lunn.
Mixed and mastered by Colin Marston.
“The Crescendo of Dusk” was written and recorded during the “Scars of Man...” sessions.
“The Labyrinth” was written and recorded during the “Autumn Eternal” sessions.
Cover drawing by A. Lunn. Back photo by Bekah Lunn.

Austin Lunn: Guitars, vocals, bass, drums, keys, square neck resonator, lyrics and music,samples and recording.
Colin Marston: Additional keys, Re amping, mixing and mastering. 

Trespasser - " Чому не вийшло?" (2018)

TRESPASSER "Чому не вийшло?"

Year: 2018

Genre: Black Metal

Country: Sweden

Track List:

1. Hunted Like Wolves
2. Black Flags On A Blood-Red Horizon
3. To The Barricades
4. Death To Fight Death
5. Tachanka
6. The Execution Of Grigor'ev
7. Miscreant Dawn

Bandcamp

""Чому не вийшло?" - sweden-based combos first official output can best be understood as a musical sermon, preaching the end-time-message. This is 32 minutes worth of apocalyptic black metal mayhem in the veins of IMMORTAL and UNANIMATED. Sounds like hell broke loose, shattering down everything we hold dear into pieces of anguish"

Lyrical themes: Anarchy, Revolution, Anti-fascism, Nestor Makhno

Operation Volkstod - No Gods, No Masters (2018)

Year: 2018

Country: Germany

Genre: Black metal

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1. Trummer I

2. No Gods, No Masters

3. Trummer II

4. Utopia

Echoes of norwegian black metal, songs that gives no time to the audiencer to assimilate what it is happening. It is happening that black metal is still in the hands of fascists, machists, sexist and stupid kvlty people. It's time to take a position and fully support noise like Operation Volkstod. Enjoy 

Toadeater - "Demo" (2018)

TOADEATER - "Demo"

Year: 2018

Genre: Black Metal
Country: Germany

Track List:

1. Parasite
2. Heir to the throne
3. Lathe

Bandcamp 

Toadeater is a three piece blackened crust / RABM band from Osnabrück, Germany, started in 2018. They strongly support the international DIY network. 

M.A

Okaat - "Okaat" (2018)

OKAAT - "Okaat"

Year: 2018

Genre: Black Metal
Country: UK

Track List:

1. Our hope of evolution
2. Parasite host
3. Earnest endeavour
4. Voluntary dysphagia

Bandcamp 

A one-man project from the UK.“The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.” With this quote from Ursula K. Le Guin begins this EP with a consistent message in it's lyrics. 

M.A

Tiffo - "Lutar | Resistir" (2018)

TIFFO - "Lutar|Resistir"

Year: 2018

Genre: Black Metal
Country: Brazil

Track List:

1. Lutar
2. Resistir

Bandcamp | Facebook 

Formed in late April 2017 Tiffo is an old dream of a single member who mixes black metal, crust and folk. The lyrics have an anarchist character, pro LGBTQ, internationalism, anti racism, freedom to live, daily pessimism and freedom to be. 

M.A

Rampancy - "The Sublime Conquest of Nothing" (2017)

RAMPANCY - "The Sublime Conquest of Nothing"

Year: 2017

Genre: Black Metal
Country: Canada

Track List:

1. Blood for blood
2. Failure in the eyes of Jehova
3. Schadenfreunde
4. Choose your side
5. Thy Kingdom
6. Besieged
7. Solitary march under a black flag
8. Hanger 96 (Two forces balance)
9. Dawn of the new order
10. Insurrectionary extremist
11. A.F.D.T.D

"The Sublime Conquest Of Nothing" is the fourth album chronologically and the first under the new name Rampancy following up from the 2014 release "Aftermath". Many of these songs are re-envisioned from their past as Anti-Freeze tracks found on other releases and some tracks are entirely new themselves.

Thematically, this album largely deals with topics of violence, hatred, betrayal, and insurrection. The songs expand on previous anarchist topics and declares open hostility towards a collective world enslaved by political machinery and an identity crisis.

Smuteční slavnost - "Zahrada krkavců" (2017)

Smuteční slavnost -  "Zahrada krkavců"

Year: 2017

Genre: Black Metal
Country: Czech Republic

Track List:

1. Moc sžírá vědomí
2. Zákonitost střídá chtíč
3. Když procházíme světem
4. Jistota na konci řady

Bandcamp / Facebook

"Strictly unorthodox black metal" tag-line was meant as a joke. But we mean it. We are not interested in taking any part in your orthodox, evil, role-playing. We use black metal as a tool, not as an idol."
Smuteční slavnost is back on the road. This is their newest release with very strong lyrics and a very 'solid' sound.

Also, you can take a look into their past releases we have supported here. And stream and download this one in bandcamp. 

Blight - "Basidium" (2017)

BLIGHT  "Basidium"

Year: 2017

Genre: Black Metal
Country: USA

Track List:

1. Side A - Theocratic Mujahidin, blight
2. Side B - Goodbye horses

Bandcamp 

Blight is an 'anarchist black metal' band from Chico, California with primitivism related lyrics and a blasphemous and political context in their background. Their music has a raw with a lot of rage in it. I don't really have more information about this project, but it has definitely a space in our blog...

Ammophilia - "Forgotten death of miserable world" (2017)

AMMOPHILIA "Forgotten death of miserable world (demo)"

Year: 2017

Genre: Raw Black Metal
Country: Slovakia

Track List:

1. Soaken blood
2. Desecrated pride
3. Curse this world

Bandcamp

Ammophilia, a raw black metal band from Slovakia. Even though they are a leftist band in their demo the lyrics are more misanthropic and depressing. In bandcamp you can download their music, and also, here is the link for their last song: "Away the Carpathians", that is about jews deported from Slovakia at world war 2. 

-M

Fajro Greka - "Kapitalo Estas Dio" (2016)

FAJRO GREKA "Kapitalo Estas Dio"

Year: 2016

Genre: Experimental Black Metal

Country: USA

Track List:

1. Hunger
2. Acquisition
3. Void
4. Side B

Bandcamp // Facebook 

Fajro Greka is an experimental black metal band from Miami. They use electronic elements in addition to their sound. "Our goal is to capture a lofi aesthetic with more  modern sounds and synths". Download for free at bandcamp, and they are also selling tapes in case you are interested. 

V/A - "Crushing Intolerance Vol. 4" (2016)

V/A "Crushing Intolerance (vol.4)"


Year: 2016

Genre: Black Metal with various influences

Country: Earth

Track List:

1. Arête - Beneath the Pond
2. Ast - Fraktale
3. Bertran de Born - Malebolgia
4. Black Vice - -----
5. Concord - Aftermath
6. Drone Wars - Fear of The Future (Doom cover)
7. Funeral Art - La Belleza Oculta
8. Gudsforladt - Untitled
9. Mácula - Turing
10. Morbid Blood - Hope is Gone
11. Ninhursag - Scin-laeca
12. Norn - Das Hexenhaus
13. Old Graves - Hang My Remains from the Crescent Moon
14. Old Thunder - Altars
15. Ravnblod - Misunnelse
16. Schönesende - Blood Cement
17. Seeds in Barren Fields - The Epitaph of the Vain and the Forgotten
18. Virium - Snow over Wallachia
19. Void Forger - Excess Collapse
20. Welkend - Seelennebel

bandcamp

Here's the 4th installment in the "Crushing Intolerance" series of anti-NSBM compilations by The Black Metal Alliance. It features 20 tracks, the majority of which are raw black metal and blackened crust, but not all - there are even melodic acoustic ones, like "Blood Cement" by Schönesende.

Larva ov Cum - "Internazionalismo" (2016)

LARVA OV CUM "Internazionalismo"

Year: 2016

Genre: Avant-garde Black Metal

Country: Italy

Track List:

1. Buongiorno Direttore
2. Expo2015
3. Burgues Bohemio
4. Daesh
5. HobH

bandcamp

Just arrived in the mail today: a new album from Larva Ov Cum, one of the most original RABM projects. The trademark clean vocals are mostly gone, but the sound is still very recognizable. Recommended if you liked two previous albums of LoC.

Iprit - "XVI" (2016)

IPRIT "XVI"

Year: 2016

Genre: Black Metal, Blackened Punk

Country: Russia

Track List:

1. XVI

bandcamp

I'm back for a moment, and here's some good stuff from the last half of an year or so, that other editors haven't reviewed yet. Let's start from Iprit, a band that was reviewed on here multiple times before. "XVI" is their newest single, consisting of one long track.

S.A.S (SatAnarchist Apparition Storm)

Well, S.A.S are a Raw Anarchist Black Metal band from Florida. They have been part of the V/A "Resistance: Anti-NSBM compilation vol.2"  made by the crew of The Dark Skies Above Us. 
I have received their music, available only on Youtube which i'm attaching here, hoping you can give them a listen. I'm also quoting part of the message for you to know more about the band...

"In short this project was to release some anger I had towards the police in the state of Florida after having my rights trampled upon. The lyrical themes have to do with the Greek gods together with the souls of fallen Pagan warriors, witches and revolutionaries of old rising together in a spiritual conquest through raging thunderstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes, riots and the evocation of my own personal soul energy to target the POLICE, destroying them completely through obliteration and tearing their uniforms into shreds!!! A TOTAL downfall of fascism worldwide and a big fat FUCK YOU to both neo nazis and cops!"

Anti-Freeze - "Red & Anarchist Black Metal" (Split w/ PunaTerrori) (2016)

ANTI-FREEZE "Red & Anarchist Black Metal" (Split w/PunaTerrori

Year: 2016

Genre: Black Metal

1. Choose your side
2. Capitalist dirge

Facebook / Bandcamp (unavailable since December 2016, but both tracks can be found here)

Anti-Freeze is the solo project of Preston Ell currently based in London, Ontario and originating in the village of Wheatley and PunaTerrori is a Finnish one-man Communist (Marxist-Leninist) Black Metal band formed in 2013.

This is a split dedicated to militant anti-fascism and revolution.