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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Nest - "Spiked and abandoned" (2016)

NEST "Spiked and abandoned"

Year: 2016

Genre: Blackened Doom
Country: USA

Track List:

Spiked and abandoned
Boundless

Nest is a project from USA, that we have previously reviewed here so you can check their last EP here. This is their new material that you can listen directly form their bandcamp.

Trench foot - "Trench foot" (2016)

TRENCH FOOT "Trench foot"

Year: 2016

Genre: Drone/Noise
Country: Spain

Track List:

Mito del Estado
Ensayo sobre la ubicuidad
Sonata para Artaud
Del mutismo y sus formas
Díselo con flores

Bandcamp

'Trench foot' is a drone/noise band from Salamanca, Spain. This is an experimental projects that from an anarchist perspective wants to talk about the modern bourgeois State based on three important pillars that sustain it: the importance of state institutions, the ethics of health and welfare, and the monopoly of violence. I'm going to translate what was send to me because I find this important to comprehend:

"The first song includes a text file (I think you can read from Bandcamp), in which I propose that the creation of the State arises as a way to maintain control over the population once the theological substrate falls, being necessary to resort to something so ineffable and transcendent as laws. Given this, I propose to go to the myth of Hercules to decapitate the absolute power of the bourgeois state.
In the second (actually third) I sample some verses of Artaud, the poet of the disease, where the disease is claimed as a way of life. I think the hygienist tendency, which lasts to our days, does not seek health as an end in itself, but sees it as a pretext for greater productive force: a greater health, greater efficiency at work. The best oil to the machinery of capital are healthy people.
And the last song is based in the Weberian thesis that the state is the monopoly of legitimate violence, to claim all violence against the State itself. Hence the name, as it is based on Mateo Morral, a Spanish anarchist who tried to undermine Alfonso XIII in his mouth throwing a bomb with a bouquet of flowers."

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Existe - "Espirit sensible, monde fragile"

EXISTE "Espirit sensible, monde fragile"

Year: 2016

Genre: Post Black Metal / Hardcore
Country: Canadá

Track List:

La fin du jor (The end of day)
/!\
Tête Manquante (Missing head)
La dérape (The skids)
Anxieuse (Anxious)
Surpopulation humaine (Human overpopulation)
Frivole (Frivolous)
Les fleurs fanées (Wilted flowers)

Facebook / Bandcamp

'Existe' is a post black metal project from Canada the has influences from post hardcore and shoegaze in it. Even though i don't have too much information about them this is a very unique project that was send to me their lyrics talk about our human condition and this existential crisis we are dealing with every day trying to figure out the foundations of our life.

So, here it is... you can listen and download for free at bandcamp.

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Wildspeaker // Cara Neir "Guilt and His Reflection"

Wildspeaker // Cara Neir "Guilt and His Reflection"

Year: 2016

Genre: Blackened Crust/Avant Black Metal

Country: USA

Wildspeaker 1-6 Cara Neir 7-13

Desecration Plague
Sins of Desperation
Hunt The Weak
First Taste of Flesh
Stages of Decomposition
His Reflection
Halo of Grey
Clinging to My Last Bit of Sanity
The View Through This Fog
Failure//Savior
Ego Eats man
Life From Inside Your Pocket
Guilt

Bandcamp/Facebook

Guilt and His Reflection is a conceptual full length split between Wildspeaker and Cara Neir. The split details the decay of humanity crumbling into itself. This partnership exposes the story of post-civilization sins committed when desperation overwhelms. The whole split can be downloaded for free (or donate what you want!). Cara Neir truly push the envelope of music creativity. Completely unchained from the bondage of genre restrictions. Cara create atmosphere and darkness as often as aggression and hope. Wildspeaker provides a more straight forward pummeling blackened crust style. Plenty of true black metal riffs and d beats.

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Depravation - "Feast with the rats" (2016)

DEPRAVATION "Feast with the rats"

Year: 2016

Genre: Blackened Hardcore

Country: Germany

Feast with the rats
Gift
Submerge
Merest

Bandcamp / Facebook

Depravation is a Blackened Hardcore band from Giessen Germany. Their previous releases has been reviewed on our blog before, so if you want to check them go here.

Feast with rats is a 12" release with 4 tracks and a b-side screenprint.

They have it up for free download at their bandcamp site.

Personaly, I found this very interesting, this is a band with such a powerful sound and great lyrics so take the time to listen

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Contra//Historia - "Caminando sobre las ruinas de la naturaleza" (2016)

CONTRA//HISTORIA "Caminando sobre las ruinas de la naturaleza" (Walking above the ruins of nature)

Year: 2016

Genre: Punk
Country: México

Track List:

Progreso (Progress)
El sombrio cobijo de la ciudad (The somber shelter of the city)
Escapa al desierto (Escape to the desert)
Derribando las murallas (Tearing down the walls)
El conformismo es una prisión para tu mente (Conformism is a prison for your mind)
Muerte (Death)
Yo no quiero ser una calavera (I don't want to be a skull)
Cenizas (Ashes)
Intenta contrarrestarlo (Try counter it)
Ataca (Attack)

Bandcamp

Contra//Historia is a Mexican Anarcopunk band, this is their first album.
You can listen the full streaming on Youtube

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Monday, August 15, 2016

Discum / Inerte "Split" (2016)

DISCUM/INERTE "Split"

Year: 2016

Genre: Crust Punk
Country: México

Track List:

Why I must die?
New world disorder
Legal Annihilation

Facebook / Bandcamp

Discum is a one man band from México that has been featured here before. This is a new split with the band "Inerte". Listen and download in the bandcamp site.

Friday, August 5, 2016

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

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

Year: 2016

Genre: Black Metal

Choose your side
Capitalist dirge

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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.

Anti-Freeze - "Sky burial (split w/ Some Men)" (2016)

ANTI-FREEZE "Sky burial (split w/ Some Men)"

Year: 2016

Genre: Post Black Metal

Among the trees
Protect you
Shreds of faith

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Sky Burial is a split effort between the post-metal project Some Men and Anti-Freeze. Very much a contemporary take on a variety of different post-metal, neocrust, and dark music for fans of such things.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Anapsique - "Photocopy Machine" (2016)

ANAPSIQUE "Photocopy Machine"

Year: 2016

Genre: Blackened Blues
Country: México

Track List:

Intro (Photocopy Machine I)
Burnout Syndrome
Photocopy Machine II
Driving Nowhere
From the cave to the space
Great Dark Spot
Somos Nada (We are nothing)
Rose Rose Red ft. Igor Zotov
Dalton
Jian Zhicheng (Bonus)

Free streaming on Youtube

Facebook / Bandcamp / Soundcloud

Photocopy Machine is life, we all started with a dream and we realize that is impossible, just being and doing what everyone does in this sea of humans... this is the concept of the first album of this one-man band from Guadalajara, México: Putrid blues and Jazz. Existentialism, drug addiction, society, sadness, anger, love, death.

Inspiration always comes from the social and moral shortcomings, this music is dedicated to the most frail and sick people...

I submitted a lot of projects I had pending today, sorry all of you for the delay. And this, the last one is very special. I am working with Miguel Figueroa in all the visual part of his project, but besides that I feel very close with the message of this band, in the free streaming on youtube you can see all the original artwork.

are we humans?

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About the blog

First of all: there's probably a lot of broken English on this blog. Hope it isn't that bad, at least I'm trying to do my best. Feel free to point me to any of my mistakes, if there are any. -B.K.

If you're playing in a band and want to see your music featured on our blog - just send a download link of your demo to us:

- m.almereyda [@] icloud [.] com - for basically anything RABM-related, but she is generally interested in atmospheric, depressive, and post-BM stuff, as well as the projects from Latin America (and Mexico in particular). You also can contact her via facebook.

- vlvlato [@] riseup [.] net for any anarcho-friendly metal and metallic hardcore. This address is also to be used if you want to take part in a benefit compilation by TDSAU collective (example).

- rabmblog [@] gmail [.] com - for anything RABM-related, all the demos sent to this address will be forwarded to our contributors. This address is also to be used for all matters other than demo submission (link exchange, reporting dead links, takedown requests, etc.)

Make sure to include the following information:

- band name, release name/year, country of origin, album cover image (or at least band photo or logo);

- track listing (properly numbered);

- preferably a full release (not samples or streaming) in mp3/m4a/ogg (128kbps or higher bitrate). You may use any free filesharing site (preferably Mediafire) to host your files; or you can use Bandcamp (but then make sure your release is available for free download). *** NO LARGE ATTACHMENTS PLEASE!!! ***;

- any other info about you and your release (links to any sites related to your band, release notes, etc.);

- reason why you want your music to be featured on our blog (note that it's not just another metal blog, and even if your band is apolitical, it still should be somehow in the spirit of RABM movement).

Most of the uploads here are band sanctioned. Anyway, if you for some reason don't want to see your music here, send a message to rabmblog [@] gmail [.] com and we'll consider taking it down.

If you wish to become a contributor for this blog, shoot a message to rabmblog [@] gmail [.] com. The obvious requirements are: being supportive of the RABM movement, good proficiency in English, and willingness to review lots of albums on a regular basis.

Other contributors that doesn't seem to be active by now:

- anticivpunk [@] gmail [.] com for blackened hardcore, crust, noise and various anarcho-primitivist / anti-civ stuff.
- super_vegan [@] att [.] net for blackened punk/hardcore, green/primitivist black metal and black metal in general.
- p-system [@] hotmail [.] com for anything political (preferably black metal). NB1: make sure to mention "RABM" in your message, because this address is also used for demo submissions to a label that has nothing to do with this blog.

FAQ

Q.: Which kinds of music are featured on this blog?

A.: - (primarily) RABM or Red & Anarchist Black Metal: all kinds of black metal-related music charged with radical leftist (anarchist, libertarian socialist, eco-anarchist, etc.) political views. Some of the bands featured here may be not openly political, but all of them are RABM-friendly;

- blackened crust/hardcore/punk (only if it's openly RABM-friendly, or if it's just very good music; we have no intention to collect here all the blackened punk in existence);

- other kinds of political (anarchist, socialist, etc.) metal - death, thrash, post-metal, etc.;

- dark ambient, neofolk, industrial, dark electro, etc. - but only if it has some RABM-friendly ideology;

- regular punk/hardcore/crust, post-rock, conscious hip-hop, etc. - but only as a rare exception (so if you want to send us a demo in one of these genres, you're probably in the wrong place).

Q.: What are some RABM/blackened crust bands to start listening from?

A.: Here's an old compilation which I (B.K.) made in late 2009. Doesn't include a lot of good RABM bands that I didn't know of back then, but still recommended if you're new to RABM:

Check out this list as well, or this one.

Q.: How can I support a particular RABM band with my money?

A.: Most bands nowadays have a bandcamp page, where you can but their stuff online (usually for an arbitrary price). It's the most convinient way to support the band. If your favourite band don't have a bandcamp or bigcartel page, try to find out in which distro you can find their albums/merch. Of course, go to concerts if you have such opportunity.

Q.: How can I offer my financial support to this blog, or the RABM movement in general?

A.: Unfortunately right we don't have an opportunity to accept donations, but we hope we'll be able to set it up soon.

Q.: What is the connection between black metal and hardcore/punk/crust?

A.: It's a well-established fact that the connection between black metal and punk scenes existed since the early days of BM (think Venom, early Bathory, early Mayhem and early Sodom on one side, and Amebix, Discharge and Axegrinder on another). Recently this mix of BM and hardcore punk got a new life in the form of blackened crust (thanks to Black Kronstadt / Iskra in first place). And don't forget about Cascadian black metal bands with their radical environmentalist ideology, often to the extent of radical eco-anarchism or "pro-nature/anti-humanity" ideas.

Q.: What's your main ideology?

A.: This blog is generally written from a position of anarchism without adjectives; however, the RABM scene is very diverse ideologically. Let us end on this, as this blog isn't quite a right place for purely political debates; if you want to learn or argue about anarchism/other ideologies, there's a lot of specialized FAQs/blogs/forums for you.

Q.: Isn't black metal supposed to be apolitical?

A.: Supposed by whom? I personally don't think so, but if you think that political awareness should have no place in "true" black metal, you can feel free to call the bands featured on here "blackened punk" or whatever you want. It should be noted, though, that a lot of these bands doesn't openly talk about politics in their lyrics, exactly because they think it wouldn't be suitable for black metal. - B.K.

Q.: Isn't RABM just an "answer" to NSBM?

A.: While RABM is definitely against NSBM and any other kind of far-right crap in metal scene, it's most emphatically a self-sufficient movement and not any kind of "answer to NSBM". Similarly, while RABM is 100% pro liberation from any kinds of religious tyranny, it isn't a movement against any particular religion (Christianity, Islam, or any other).

Q.: What's your opinion on Satanism?

A.: The so-called "Hollywood Satanism", which is often found in black metal, is, in our opinion, nothing more than inverted Christianity, so we aren't big on it. Many of us are simply atheists, pagans of all kinds, gnostics, etc. We also don't share the notion that only genuine theistic Satanists / Devil-worshippers can play "real" black metal (this would exclude such bands as Venom, Bathory, Immortal, Summoning, and many many others). Additionally, the very term "Satanism" is quite vague, and can't be narrowed down to LaVeyan Satanism (which is heavily disliked by many black metallers), or whatever else. LaVey had some good points, but in general his philosophy can be described just as "Ayn Rand with some occult tinge".

Q.: What about misanthropy and nihilism?

A.: To put it in short: we don't hate everyone and everything (and we don't think there's anyone who truly does). We just hate these traits of humanity which make true anarchist society most likely infeasible in the foreseeable future.

Q.: Collectivism or individualism?

A.: There actually is no "hard" contradiction between these two terms. Individualism is simply an outlook emphasizes the moral worth of the individual and its right not to be oppressed by the state or some social group. It doesn't contradict at all with standing up for your rights along with a group of like-minded individuals. It also worth noting that the early black metal scene didn't promote individualism that much (see "black metal circles").

Q.: Who coined the term "RABM"?

A.: Hard to say, but there's an apparent similarity to RASH ("Red & Anarchist Skinheads"). Here's the very first mention of "RABM" we could find (August 2005). The term was popularized by our last.fm group (and later - by this blog) since 2009.

Q.: Do you know the ideology of the band X? It isn't obvious if they're NSBM or not...

A.: Sorry, we don't know, do your own research. It's often hard to say anything certain about a band's views, if the members themselves aren't open about it. We also don't advice using various "lists of nazi bands" etc. as a reference, as most of them are full of bullshit. Similarly, forum posts or blog comments (especially anonymous ones) generally aren't a reliable source for anything. In one particular case, we had an anonymous comment claiming that the members of Timebomb are now playing in a fascist band called SPQR. Later it turned out that it were members of a completely other Italian band with a similar name (Timebombs). Hopefully that'd be a good example of how important fact-checking is.

Q.: I've seen some of the albums posted here in the same distro with some albums by right-leaning bands...

A.: Unfortunately it's often the case with distros and labels that distribute stuff regardless of its political affiliation. Even Austin Lunn of Panopticon complained about Pagan Flames (the label which released his "Collapse" and "Social Disservices" LPs) having NSBM in their distro, so things like these are just unavoidable.

Q.: Some bands on this blog have Burzum on their list on influences. Isn't Varg Vikernes a nazi?

A.: See a good comment on this matter here.

Q.: Can I use some materials from this blog on my site?

A.: Of course you're welcome to do so (unless otherwise is specified), as we're against copyrights.

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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Nest - "Spiked and abandoned" (2016)

Trench foot - "Trench foot" (2016)

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Existe - "Espirit sensible, monde fragile"

Saturday, September 17, 2016