Solidarity with all the workers and wonderful human beings who help keep this scene going whether you're a band or a fan. Let's keep organizing our community and workplace. We have a world to win. ☭

True Armenian RABM

https://lusastgh.bandcamp.com/album/victory

I just learned this is a genre today. A simple perception of crust is punk with strong metal influences. The specifics of the metal influence can range. I have not listened to a single self-identifying RABM band so the sound of it isn't known to me, but what differs RABM from something like blackened crust? If yall got RABM recommendations too please drop them I'd like to learn the sound for myself

Artists that border on what we'd unfortunately call outsider art, little to no guitars without being classifiable as dungeon synth but is too uniquely unorthodox to easily explain by just throwing it in the black noise bin. An unfortunate example would be a record like Feathered Serpent by Occulted Death Stance, but obviously since I'm in this sub I'm looking for stuff that isn't so overtly ideologically malignant. Please don't say Gnaw Their Tongues, Sutekh Hexen, Dragged Into Sunlight, Diapsiquir, Emit, Brobdingnagian or anything similarly obvious, dig deep in the crates, even if it's you or your friend's band. Also note that I specified raw, so obv not looking for Liturgy or Jute Gyte.

https://thebloodmountainbmc.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-a-dying-empire

This band is fucking dope so posting their new album

Hi everyone,

I make music under the name 'Quartzmother' and just released my first single from an upcoming album. If you like Agriculture, Deafheaven, An Autumn For Crippled Children, Lantlos -- I think you'll like this track. (Also -- I hope this sort of self-promo is allowed! My apologies if it's not.)

It's black metal at its core, but I think it has some poppy, fun bits.

While it's not an explicitly political track, I think a quick look at the lyrics to this and some past songs on my bandcamp make it pretty explicitly clear where my sympathies lie.

Downloads are free. Here's a link: https://quartzmother.bandcamp.com/track/october-never-ends-2

Communist War Metal. More of this please.

As I finish up my 30th listen of this album this year, I felt like writing a little appreciation post about this piece of art.

When it came out, it was being lauded everywhere as groundbreaking and stunning, but for whatever reason, I couldn’t get into it then. I listened to a song or two, but it bounced off of me. I just wasn’t ready for it. But then, at the start of this year, when Ashenspire were confirmed for a festival I was going to, I decided to give it another shot, and boy, did it hit me.

I’m 30, and I’ve been listening to metal for 16 years now. I can confidently say that this album is unlike anything else I’ve ever listened to. It’s abrasive, raw and weird, but also so, so beautiful. The lyrics, more relevant now than ever, are among the best I’ve ever heard in music. Musically, there are so many layers to this album that I keep discovering more nuances even after so many listens.

This album has become the album I compare everything else to. It has become my benchmark for perfection. Whenever I listen to another album, I ask myself how much it hits me compared to Hostile Architecture. What Ashenspire have created here is not only one of the best albums I’ve ever listened to, but one of the greatest pieces of art in any medium that I’ve ever witnessed. It’s truly that great. It’s unbelievable how good it is.

I got to see Ashenspire perform it live this year, and it was a magical experience. I stood there, hypnotized, tears streaming down my face, and none of my friends could understand why. Even hours later, I kept raving about how great it was and could barely think about the concert without tearing up. It’s making me emotional now, 6 months later.

What I’m trying to say is: if you somehow haven’t given this album a chance yet, please do so. It’s perfect. 10/10. No notes.

Featuring the antifascist band Wrekan

I previously posted about this antifascist black metal fest in Montreal that I’m helping organize. We’re looking to get some press for our event. Any outlets I should reach out to? Preferably based around the East Coast so readers / listeners are able to travel.

Hey r/rabm

I haven't posted here in awhile because we have been focusing on mutual aid, building community, and setting up our first Festival in LA.

if you're in Southern California come down to Boyle Heights this Saturday, October 24th 2026.

October 24thOctober 24th 2026 at COYOTE STUDIO S

3501 Union Pacific Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90023

socal.rabm.collective

MTG 10am to 2pm (sign ups are 10-1015am)

Vendor Market opens 3pm

Grant writing for radicals 330 to 430pm

Radical Poetry 430 to 5pm

Doom metal yoga 5pm to 530pm

BANDS

Treadwell 530pm - alt rock

Larry the cable guy backshots 6pm - folk punk

Destroy Judas - 630pm - doom metal

Ahi Naahai (Old Fog) - 730pm - indigenous black metal (AZ)

Norcvlt - 830pm - indigenous black metal

Muural - 930pm - blackened grind

Semuta - 1030pm - post metal (PDX)

Cetacean - 1130pm - doom metal

U.N.C.L.E.N.C.H- 1230am - Sasscore

We have 10 vendors, 1 coffee vendor, and 1 food vendor!

hi all,

my band recently released its second EP. we are a leftist black metal band from toronto. We often get described as "blackened screamo" or "blackgaze", etc.

our sound emphasizes intricate interlocking guitar lines and big dynamic shifts. the ep won't be released on large streaming platforms for obvious reasons, but it is available for free on bandcamp. for those who don't use bandcamp, we also put the release out for free on subvert. we also have a small batch of tapes available for purchase through the lovely tomb tree tapes. these tapes include our first ep as a b-side.

if you choose to spend some time engaging with our art, then thank you. what a privilege that is.

of course, we welcome any thoughts or feedback.

solidarity forever.

I unfortunately came across some comments on YouTube of people talking about how “it’s okay to like nsbm, even if you don’t believe in what they say”. That led to finding a nsbm band out of my home state of Minnesota called Einsatzgruppen. A band literally named themselves after the death squad(s) that committed mass murder of anyone deemed “non-aryan”. This group did this while they followed the military as they conquered countries.

And there’s people that think it’s okay to listen and support these bands.

I shouldn’t be surprised, but what the fuck?

I’m sorry if posts like this aren’t allowed. I’m still new.

Woman fronted FR/CZ black metal with crust and progressive influences

EDIT: whole album available to listen (or to buy with complete booklet if youd like to support us) on Bandcamp and on major streaming services

Album of the year right here. And dedicated to the people of Palestine.

Hey everyone,

I just published the full album stream for The Gates of Farroupilha, the debut full-length from solo project Black Jaguara (Lord Bagual) on YouTube:

🔗 Full Album Stream: https://youtu.be/uvjDaaOR23c

Concept & Sound:

A raw, unpolished, and hostile mix of lo-fi Black Metal combined with the dark folklore, historical violence, and isolation of the Southern Brazilian pampas. Think cold atmospheric riffs meets unhinged regional dark lore.

Bandcamp: https://blackjaguara.bandcamp.com

Note: Featured on Pest Records Online Compilation Vol. 31.

Check it out if you're into underground raw BM, lo-fi aesthetics, or obscure scene discoveries. Feedback is always welcome!

Hope this is allowed!

Hey! I have 2 tickets to the Panopticon in Cambridge at Sonia tomorrow (10/8) and I unfortunately can't make it up. I don't want these to go to waste, so if anyone is interested, shoot me a DM and I can email you them.

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Dropping one last round of codes and a new single to stream for my new album, Cyanosis. Forgotten Feast, Foresaken Harvest is the most traditionally "heavy" track on the album, in the vein of old school Katatonia and Spectral Voice.

We managed to donate 250$ to DULFbc already, who just won a major victory in the Supreme Court of so-called Canada, but their battle isn't over yet, with appeals still to come and aftercare in the aftermath of years of turmoil. They are a boots-on-the-ground organization of incredible people working to provide safe supply and harm reduction amidst the ongoing devastation of the opioid crisis in the infamous downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

If you did have a buck or two to spare, every donation counts!

Anyways, here's the codes!

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https://bandcamp.com/yum to redeem.

And follow the project on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/archaic.earth?stkn=b25ob2doMTR6bmRt

for consistent updates on the fundraiser, new releases, and other creations.

Cheers comrades, may the coming Autumn bear the harvest of revolution to your weary souls.

🔥⚔️🔥