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Haven – Causes (2025) – Review

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Hmm. 2024 turned dark and daemonic to the point that the RMR top 10 (almost) reached the glowing bottom of the occult pit. Now, early views of records on offer in 2025 seem to show a propensity toward the avantgarde. Stuffed with material that’s mighty difficult to classify and review. A redefinition of the term out-of-the-box if there ever was one.

And sure enough, an enigma just made a splash in our sumpy underworld of the review pipe. Haven is the name and they peddle their debut piece Causes. Yet another band with the urge for unconstrained metal music … [...] Click to raid more!

Bergthron – Neu Asen Land (2025) – Review

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Any modern management nerds around here? I got the perfect team-building case study for you. Meet Bergthron.1 A German Nature Metal act, created in 1994 and unleashing new albums occasionally. Very occasionally. Meaning, their last record aired back in 2010. That’s nothing extraordinary so far, agreed. Apart from the fact that the RMR crew – unsurprisingly – never heard of them.

But here it comes: Seemingly in search of their perfect sound, this band of brothers went on seven (7) expeditions from the endless forests to the Arctic Circle over the last decades. And upon their return, Bergthron… [...] Click to raid more!

Hesperia – Fra Li Monti Sibillini (2025) – Review

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Somebody opined that we haven’t heard anything like this record. Come again? The RMR crew is known to take on eclectic pieces of the weird. Records that are so far out of the box and hidden in the wastes of metalland, you’ll have to search the outer reaches of space for them. And Latin-based languages fascinate us to no end when they come with a juicy slab of Extreme Metal. Case in point, Dawn of a Dark Age’s Transumanza hit our turntables not that long ago. A pig-headed piece if there ever was one. And devilishly difficult to review.

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Tumenggung – Back On The Streets (2025) – Review

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2025 hasn’t even started yet in earnest and we already find ourselves back in Heavy Metal country. A genre long thought dead but still alight with numerous bands plying these long-discovered routes. Interestingly, the aging biggies still are at the top of their game and have been for eons. To the point that young guns joining the fray have a helluva time to get themselves heard. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt? Well, not so fast.

Tumenggung would like a word. And they’re not necessarily the freshest on the block anymore. In 2007 they saw the light of day … [...] Click to raid more!