Nattradio – The Longest Night (2025) – Review

Nattradio - The Longest Night - Album Cover

You get the joke, don’t you? Nattradio boasted that all songs were written and recorded between 1 AM and 5 AM. Hence, also the album cover with the lonely, brightly lit window in the dark shape of the nightly high-rise. The RMR crew will, of course, never know how many night sessions of writing and recording were needed to get to the final product. But the sum of all hours would indeed be The Longest Night on record by earthly standards. It may be different in other planetary systems, though. But, let’s move back to the endless Northern night, shall … [...] Click to raid more!

No Shelter. – Remission/Resolve (2025) – Review

No Shelter. - Remission / Resolve - Album Cover

Ready for a secret from the RMR office? Choices of what or what not to review are sometimes driven by mood. Specifically, by bad mood. And this time, the RMR crew still finds itself on a never-ending cold turkey trip. Abrupt removal from the beach and its delights does that to us, and it turns us into grumpy and cantankerous bitches.

So, what better idea than to waltz down some psycho-punk horror lane straight into the smelly puddles lining the metal underground? ‘Xactly, none whatsoever. A place where sanity flies out the door and is replaced by the dredges of … [...] Click to raid more!

Noumenia – Echoes (2025) – Review

Noumenia - Echoes - Album Cover

Alright, these folks caught the seasoned old wizards of RMR’s Best off guard. For about two seconds, the sinners of the review desk thought this was about the Death Metal doomsters of Noumena, the band without the I. Nice try, guys.

But no, here we deal with a much more modern quirk of the metal multiverse. The band is called Noumenia, and they’re looking for Echoes. A record that seems to emerge straight from ‘core country yet again. Not a direction we want to turn into too often. But this Band o’ Strange Sisters screamed themselves into … [...] Click to raid more!

Nite – Cult of the Serpent Sun (2025) – Review

Nite - Cult of the Serpent Sun - Album Cover

Back in 2020, the RMR crew heard about a “…newly formed band…” hailing from the Californian desert with some pig-headed take on how to mold their metal. Alas, both of Nite‘s first records – Darkness Silence Mirror Flame and Voices of the Kronian Moon – never reached far enough into our review pipe to get the attention of the sump rats down there. There was no particular reason for that, either. The last years were filled with loads of great rock, metal, and folk. So, as the saying goes, we had many other fish to fry.

But here, their … [...] Click to raid more!