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Gojira: Death Metal @ The 2024 French Olympics. Come again?

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Okay, let’s not bury the lede for once. Gojira absolutely smashed it over at the opening of the July 2024 French Olympics. An astoundingly powerful Death Metal performance in front of a felt billion people. The devil’s music on full display and the evening crowd in an uproar. And the RMR crew loved every second of it.

Controversy and pushing the envelope were clearly on the menu throughout the performance. Artistic director Thomas Jolly probably pushed his very own ideas of diversity at all costs a bridge too far. His statement that he wanted to – and I quote – … [...] Click to raid more!

Ironflame – Kingdom Torn Asunder (2024) – Review

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This is going to be the week of Heavy and Power Metal. And it’s true, the RMR crew truly is a sucker for these two genres. So, we’re all ears whenever there’s a chance for another band braving these overwrought styles’ boundaries. Case in point, many bands already roared over our threshold here coming from a bundle of metal flavors many pronounced dead already. Some of them very good, others less so.

Ironflame already made a dent in the History ov RMRTM back in 2020 with Blood Red Victory. A speeding ticket in search for a fine, … [...] Click to raid more!

Dream Evil – Metal Gods (2024) – Review

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It’s been a while. A few years back the RMR crew covered Dream Evil‘s old 2004 piece The Book of Heavy Metal, a record that felt like some insanely powerful metal parody. Very – and I mean very – intense and so full of clichés it almost hurt. On the other hand, the thing also was equally insanely enjoyable. A fun record that ran for weeks on our music machine.

After that, we somewhat lost sight of the band and never got around to covering more of their wares. Until today, that is, with their newest output called … [...] Click to raid more!

Seth – La France des Maudits (2024) – Review

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Seth first crossed our hawse back in 2021 with their powerful ode to a burned church called La Morsure du Christ. Seethingly powerful Black Metal that roars forth on gritty French vocals. A language that seems to soak up this almost poetically dramatic evil, as if it were predestined for such rough treatment. The devil must indeed reside somewhere in Paris and not in the Vatican, as was whispered for centuries. But I heard today that it might be the UK after all. We’ll keep on checking, of course. Satan’s prone to change locations all the time.

Unsurprisingly, a … [...] Click to raid more!