Mythbegotten – Tales From The Unseelie Court (2024) – Review

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Ah, what splendid news just crossed our hawse here? The Unseelie Court, the haven of the evil fey, seems to be in session again. The RMR crew is full of suckers for mystical realms and unsolved myths, so pretty much any record offering such riches may will get a shot over at the office.

Besides RMR didn’t sport a folk record this year, even if Mythbegotten‘s debut album is many more things than just pvre medieval musings high on nyckelharpa and weird pipes. But the fact that their brand-new record features a version of Twa Corbies really got

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Marche Funèbre – After The Storm (2024) – Review

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The RMR crew was a bit reticent to entertain the idea of yet another Doom Metal piece on RMR’s roster this year. After all, our daily lives seem to be inundated by bigly yet terrifying news and ominous warnings. All about the end(s) of the world in a variety of foreboding paintings and dark musings. And truly so, every disaster-loving fearmonger out there kinda describes a new one.

But what can we say? A new Marche Funèbre piece needs some serious attention. So, in we jump into this miasma of tears and wistful woe and get going. Signs of the … [...] Click to raid more!

My Silent Wake – Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief (2024) – Review

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Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief. For a moment, the RMR crew was afraid that Rise to the Sky had awoken yet again with another round of endless noisy sorrow. Catalán is famous for bolstering his croaky doom with such headlines after all.

But fear naught, we’re dealing with Ian Arkley‘s My Silent Wake. A band that has been as versatile as it has become consistent on this zine. Doom ‘n’ gloom is their daily tear-drenched bread, true. But the records RMR covered to date were never really cut from the same cloth. Let’s face it, Gothic … [...] Click to raid more!

My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding (2024) – Review

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Woe, what did I just read? My Dying Bride are – allegedly – canceling all of their 2024 tour dates. And I daresay, the RMR crew much enjoyed the Maryland Death Fest’s enigmatic choice words for the band. By the time of writing this blurb, nobody really knows what the matter may be. And oddly, they did that just before their newest piece A Mortal Binding was up for release.

It would at least make some sense if this were their 13th record. That honor, however, was bestowed on the 2015 piece Feel The Misery which found some enthusiastic … [...] Click to raid more!