Mea Culpa (‘Ah! Ca ira!’) – Gojira wins the metal battle over at the Grammies!

Gojira - Grammy Awards 2025 - Mea Culpa (Ah, ça ira)
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It’s funny how things sometimes work out. Back in July 2024, Gojira together with opera singer Marina Viotti mounted a furious and pretty stellar metal attack based on the old revolutionary song Ah! Ca Ira! at the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. RMR offered a few choice words not only for the outstanding performance of the musicians themselves but also for the often astonishingly disrespectful comments issued by the mainstream press and the somewhat creaky arrangement of the event.

Now much to this crew’s delight, Joe Duplantier‘s boyz, Viotti, and composer – Victor [...] Click to raid more!

Hazzerd – The 3rd Dimension (2025) – Review

Hazzerd - The 3rd Dimension - Album Cover

Whenever I ask one of my non-metalhead friends to fire up some metal, they hit one of Metallica‘s tracks. Damn. But who are we kidding? Ever since the Grammies forgot to do research and just handed prizes to the loudest American band with the worst and yellowest album covers, Thrash Metal got undue credit and false fame. Battle medals these folks didn’t quite deserve in the first place. But whatever the merit may be, this kind of promotion undoubtedly assisted the furious success of this genre over the decades.

So, here’s Hazzerd. A relatively young band having seen … [...] Click to raid more!

Zéro Absolu – La Saignée (2025) – Review

Zéro Absolu - La Saignée - Album Cover

The RMR crew was somewhat underwhelmed with Alcest’s latest offering back in 2024. A disheartening moment in a difficult year with a record full of promises but an annoying lack of true substance and no true metal spine left. And what does this have to do with the price of butter on this review here? Well, read on.

Thus, Zéro Absolu (absolute zero in English)1 enter the scene. Zero who? Never heard of them. And unsurprisingly so, because this outfit emerged from the remnants of the band Glaciation in 2024. The latter fell prey to some legal (or kind … [...] Click to raid more!

Thy Kingdom Will Burn – The Loss and Redemption (2025) – Review

Thy Kingdom Will Burn - The Loss and Redemption - Album Cover

The RMR crew indeed didn’t hear back from the dreary cold wastes of the North for some time. Meaning, the zine’s dreaded review pipe has some real use for substantial, darkly melancholic metal. Not that we were short on material from Scandinavia, far from it. The folks up there are very prolific and the Extreme Metal on display is often outstanding. But real in-the-flesh melodeath? Some. Meaning, there really was nothing much that got us out from under the fire. It’s winter after all, so this needs to sport some real juice.

But never say die, right? Because here Thy [...] Click to raid more!