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RMR’s Rating System Explained!

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Bullseye - Perfect Rating

You’ll truly find a gazillion of different ways to slice and dice a record. It seems to me that every blog, webzine, or magazine has its own rating method or none at all. Some count to 10 points for their ranking. Others still sport those terrible star things or go for the five-point system.

And – again – others go for the same solution but with half-point ratings in between.1 The accountants and die-hard statistical nerds will probably fancy the count by the hundredth. Easy for the percentage count. But bitch, please.

And RMR?

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Red Cain, where art thou? A Tribute.

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Red Cain 2026

Red Cain has been with us off and on for some time. The RMR crew first got wind of this Calgary-based outfit back in 2016, some 10 years ago, when their self-titled EP aired. It was a funky piece and somewhat new territory for a still young-ish zine. But, truly, the power prog fueled flamboyance and outstanding musical prowess started to impress us back then already. A trend that continued over the years and to this day.

RockmusicRaider - Red Cain - Kindred: Act I - Album Cover

But then, some three years later, in 2019, the outfit hit our roster with Kindred: Act I, a record that still plays … [...] Click to raid more!

RMR Rulez: To AI or not to AI!

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RMR Rulez - Dystopian Skeleton in AI Hell

Modern times are upon us, they said. And everything will turn for the better, they said. But – will it? I think we’re about to find out. Because so many ‘actors’ are fucking around with this already, I fear we’ve already lost control. Skynet beckons you, mark my words. But let’s stay with our musical background for now and explore the impact of this newest technological development on the RMR zine.

“Crisis? What Crisis?”, an age-old, long-defunct band once famously crooned.1 Nobody took them quite seriously back then. Yet, it looks like the music industry is about to … [...] Click to raid more!

Batushka or Patriarkh, the Art of the Choice!

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The conflicted and neverending tale of Batushka is on our mutual minds yet again. Exactly. None other than these guys. This here crew covered the machinations around this act until around the end of 2019. That was the time when both accusers headed to court in earnest. And boy, do the legal mills run slowly back in Poland. It has taken both iterations of Batushka and their angry, fearless leaders eons to find some closure. If one can call that closure at all, that is.

But as far as we know today, by the second half of 2024, the Batushka… [...] Click to raid more!