Mystfall – Embers of a Dying World (2026) – Review

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Greece’s Mystfall must have sailed straight past our outpost a few years ago. Their debut album, Celestial Vision, just didn’t register. But then, 2023 was a busy year, and the RMR crew is thus excused.

But now it’s time for some Symphonic and Power Metal fun of times long past. Yep, that genre again, one that’s hopelessly overcrowded with a felt 99% of wannabes and 1% of real stars of this very special slice of the metal multiverse.

I mean, we all still remember when this movement really took off in the early ’00s with the likes of Epica… [...] Click to raid more!

Tardigrade Inferno – Hush (2026) – Review

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Alright, what pitch-black kettle of fish did we catch ourselves here? Out of the smoke-infested Northern reaches of the Baltics emerge some sickly circus sounds. That said, the circus theme in metal is nothing new, of course. It is, more often than not, all about the old tropes of the evil clown, which have been en vogue since Stephen King killed the market with his novel ‘IT’ decades ago. What better figure to scare the bejeesus out of you than a not-so benign paintface?

Now, here we’re faced with a whole gaggle of them. A noisy, beetlejuice-infested chaos troupe that’s … [...] Click to raid more!

Arroganz – Death Doom Punks (2026) – Review

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Didn’t we already encounter some bastardly punkfaces earlier this year? We indeed did. Wolfbastard hail from the windy island in the North Sea, though, whereas here we got ourselves brutal German fare. Straight Teutonic power. Relentless and brutal.

What piqued our attention, though, was the weirdly similar album names. The former called their concoction Satanic Scum Punks, whereas Arroganz here had theirs down as Death Doom Punks. Let’s just hope that this is a naming oversight of the arrogant ones and no botched creativity attempt. But whatever the truth, that’s a godawful load of fucking punkery. Thus, let … [...] Click to raid more!

Black Sea of Trees – Cult of the Sun (2026) – Review

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It has been some time since a genuine, new Progressive Metal piece hit our review pipe. A few remarkable records came our way last year, and that was a good sign. Yet with the departure of some big names over the years, things got a little bleaker.

But for the most challenging category in prog, the conceptualists and real storytellers, there was almost no movement. True, acts such as Ayreon and the rest of Arjen Lucassen’s gaggle of happy misfits still exist. But the man behind this whole construct ain’t no fresh young tiger anymore, either.

The RMR crew just … [...] Click to raid more!