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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!

Dragonknight – Legions (2025) – Review

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Oh boy. We got ourselves yet another of them masked bands boasting all those forbidden delights Power Metal could possibly furnish. And all of them are Lords to boot. Dragonknight here, a – and I quote – “…new conceptual band…” delivers a slick brand of Power Metal.

Way too slick for some folks, who immediately sniffed the terrible stench of an AI production. Well, judging by the label promoting this album and the presence of one Mikael Salo (ex De Lirium’s Order et al), they indeed form part of Finland’s PM brethren. But – cheese on red-hot iron drips fast … [...] Click to raid more!

Ze Playlist Zone @ RMR Central!

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Did you know?

RMR sports playlists! Since its meager beginnings, the crew generated roughly 1’100 reviews spread over around 700 bands covering a riot of different genres and sub-genres. That’s a pretty impressive number, given the lack of manpower and an abundance of life events getting in the way all the time. After all, we only have 24 hours in the day, plus the night if need be. An operation fraught with unpaid labor and a day job to finance all that pain and misery.

This means that RMR sits atop a vast heap of predominantly heavy music waiting to … [...] Click to raid more!

Slaughtersun boast some Black Marrow!

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By Loki’s undead minions, the RMR crew just had one of those ‘strap in for the ride’ moments. Welcome to the wild and dystopian world of Slaughtersun. The band calls itself NJ1 Death Metal. A moniker that elicited some evil chuckles over here at the office tower. You know, bad New Jersey dad jokes and all. But make no mistake, the joking will stop once Black Marrow starts scorching your eardrums.

Death Metal truly is an overused and fully saturated genre. Many a big metal band dwells in its vast realms, some of them trve Metal Royalty. And … [...] Click to raid more!