Category Archives: Editorial

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

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Gojira - Ah Ca Ira - 2024 French Olympics - Video Cover

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!

Top Female Vocalists @ RMR! True talent at work.

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Top Female Vocalists @ RMR - Female Metal Band

Over the years we covered a whole bunch of female interpreters that more or less prominently appeared on the RMR zine at some point in time. And this at a rate of some 25% of all reviews done to date.

Now, let’s be clear.

There will be no quota for anything on this blog, so don’t get your hopes up. We’re not going down silly road and die the painful death of fucking political correctness. Nor will there be any single-minded preference towards any type of interpreter on this blog.

We will – however – cover whoever in the world … [...] Click to raid more!

Rammstein, a guilty pleasure @ RMR! Really?

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Controversy sells, we all know that. That, and a fair dose of authenticity and trve geekery in whatever art you may excel in. The music industry is fairly famous for some of the more outrageous specimens. Rough, dirty, and often otherworldly provocations reach us not only in the form of dreary soundscapes but surely through moving pictures that often darkly glow with dreadful cinematography and worse live shows.

Now, there are truly masterful instigators out there. Bands that work with questionable iconography, unnerving storylines and symbols, and sport a musical style that will have the political correctness … [...] Click to raid more!

RMR features playlists. Check & Enjoy!

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Howdy, Fans and Friends! Did you know?

RockmusicRaider features music-only playlists on Spotify, and on YouTube for those mini-movies, people call clips.

Just click on the RockmusicRaider homepage link and head over to the playlist section. Fire one of them up and let ‘er rip.

Oh, and give us a like or twenty, follow us and subscribe whenever you can. Those are always great motivators. And we need a ton of that to sweeten our hard toil of unpaid labor.

For those of you who don’t feel like surfing around the metallic realms of RockmusicRaider at this time, just … [...] Click to raid more!