Batushka – Hospodi (2019) – Review

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The big question was if or if not we should review the two offerings of Batushka that are currently out. Because the members of this band caused themselves more trouble than necessary and generated a major controversy in the process. Which is – of course – not necessarily a good thing, as this wastes energy and resources. Energy that could have been used to write stellar material, not feeding egos and paying lawyers.

It is also an unarguable fact that Hospodi would not exist without this unnecessary drama that spilled into the open lately. Yet, in the end, all … [...] Click to raid more!

Likes and Shares, and SEO. Bane or Blessing?

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It is one of those alluring what-if scenarios. One that helps you with that hard life of yours, with building blogs and writing beautiful posts.

What if – as a blog owner – you could have some sort of immediate statistics. You’d do that through collecting likes and shares from any online tool or network your service uses. And then display those numbers – pretty much and preferably live – directly on your website. So, everyone will know if the website is worth its salt – or just simply sucks.

And you will have immediate confirmation on how your posts … [...] Click to raid more!

Finsterforst – Mach Dich Frei (2015) – Review

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We covered Mach Dich Frei of Finsterforst already in 2015 for the first time in local lingo. With the new record looming and RMR with more than 510 posts under our belt, we decided to have another go at all that goodness. At these epic sounds reaching us from the – supposedly – darkest of all forests.

In the meantime, the RMR deck crew even insisted to cover Rastlos, which we quite enjoyed. So, something must be good with these folks, right?

This will also stop the endless confusion of Googlebot that did not know where to turn, once … [...] Click to raid more!

Ævintyr – Gjest Baardsen (2019) – Review

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RockmusicRaider is going to prison and takes a hike on a time machine at the same time. And no, the RMR deck crew is not about to be punished because of a blatant attack of blabbermouth. So far, no SWAT team has tried to break down our doors. And we survived pretty much all hacker attacks that constantly plague our server farm.

Have I confused you yet?

Imagine you take Gentle Knife and add a really stubborn, even eccentric streak to it. Sailing on a current so out in the Progressive Rock universe, it is almost alternatively avant-garde.

Then add … [...] Click to raid more!