Agrypnie – erg (2024) – Review

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I just came back from Germany. The terrible grime and grit of their major cities, their loveless artificial nature, the social injustice on stark display, and the unkempt even neglected swathes of real estate nobody cares about had an impact on yours truly. Metropolitan behemoths that were bombed to smithereens many a decade ago and rebuilt in but a few years.

All that sent a message to me, and it wasn’t one of encouragement. It made me angry. A rage that Torsten Hirsch, the mastermind behind Agrypnie,1 seems to share. Because, he’s hailing from exactly one of

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Agrypnie – Metamorphosis (2021) – Review

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We said it a few times already. The RMR deckhands fancy bands that step out of boundaries. Too many outfits just navigate inside the suffocating confines of arbitrarily set genres. And astonishingly, many a metal adept actually likes that.

There is no stepping out of the proverbial box into those dreary swamps of new metal that can swallow you whole in an instant. In their minds you can’t be a metalhead without wearing a ton of black t-shirts and sport a scraggly beard, if you’re male, that is. But I transgress, so let’s get back to this review.

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