Carnifex – More Than Misery (2026) – Review

Carnifex - More Than Misery - Album Cover

Ah, Anaal Nathrak has got some serious competition. And it’s high time we caught some additional high-octane material that will help burn some of that mental fat off our frames. And to be blunt, the RMR’s 2026 pipeline wasn’t really very dangerous to date. But that is about to change.

Carnifex is here. So, beware of murderers, blood-craved crooks, torturers, vile executioners, and other such scoundrels. Brutalization is on the menu, and the band’s album cover already tells you where this is headed. And in no uncertain terms. The meat makers have been seen near you. So, in this sense, … [...] Click to raid more!

Firtan – Helios (2026) – Review

Firtan - Helios - Album Cover

Helios, the old Greek sun god. The all-seeing eye spy in the sky from which you cannot hide. A sun-crowned raider of the infamous chariot, roaring through the ether with his horse-drawn contraption. That is the theme the German Black Metallers Firtan chose to cover in their newest 2026 album.

And I daresay, the RMR crew couldn’t imagine a better genre to pick for such a mighty storyline. Firtan have been orbiting around our little universe for a while. Peddled to us as a highly atmospheric and insanely immersive Black Metal act, this is their first appearance on our … [...] Click to raid more!

Dantalion – Dantalion (2026) – Review

Dantalion - Self-Titled - Album Cover

It is true, you know. The RMR zine covered a ton of moody doom pieces in 2026. But real vile Black Metal and ferocious Extreme Metal disasters? None too many. Not that there weren’t any, of course. In This Hell graced our turntables lately, and it wasn’t necessarily bad fare. Thus, it’s time to reach yet again into the underground and grope around in the abject darkness down there. Ze Grand Masters of ze Okkvlt have been strangely silent these days. Or perhaps they missed our very own freight train, who knows?

So, luckily the Spaniards of Dantalion appeared on … [...] Click to raid more!

Avaland – Chemical Poetry (2026) – Review

Avaland - Chemical Poetry - Album Cover

Alright, the band boasting a perpetual metal opera is back in town. The RMR crew last looked at them in 2023, when The Legend of the Storyteller failed to pump up our juices enough to get us really excited.

Yup, Avaland are back from whatever rock they hid under for the last three years. Chemical Poetry is the newest sub-theme to the well-known operatic urges they’ve pursued for long years. Interestingly, Rockshots Records are gone from the equation, and the band’s very own vanity label Storytium SAS has taken over. I reckon, to ‘take back control’ or something. An argument … [...] Click to raid more!