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Malevolent 2025: Morose Musings and the Fiery Pit!

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Malevolent 2025 - Goat face with guitar!

2024 turned into a hotbed of severely blackened and razor-sharp metal shards. So much so that we had to ruthlessly curtail the number of smelly items on the malevolent list for that year. Now, 2025 looks a tad lighter, but there is still enough material to torment the minions of Satan for eternity. So, bear with us. To project all pitch-black abominations we got onto one single list would last us for another year. Bad choices must be made, and terrible taste will inevitably destroy good intentions. Welcome to this year’s list from hell.

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RMR’s 2024 Top 10 Records!

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RMR's 2024 Top 10 Records - Skull with earphones

2024 was a difficult year at first. It started very slow and apart from a few forlorn underground pieces, there wasn’t much that struck the fancy of the old geezers over at the RMR Review Desk. So, how were we ever going to field a genuine Top 10 series with no good material to show for? But fear naught, by late spring the crop started showing some promising results. And – boy – the harvest took a somber turn with many a malevolent piece hitting the desk of the surly Guardian ov the Review Pipe.

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Malevolent 2024: Rough-hewn, blasphemous, and feisty!

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Malevolent 2024 Series - Devils on a rampage

After an excellent crop of malevolent items showcased in the Year of the Dark Lord 2022, last year’s blood-thirsty urges didn’t warrant such a list. Allegedly. But for 2024, these terrible 365 days, there seems to be enough material to slake our thirst for the dark and daemonic. To the point that vile Death and Black Metal records started to pile up over at the RMR office. The consequence? RMR ended up with too much material than would be good for this here list. So, we had to make a choice. Only records exuding the vile breath of Astaroth were … [...] Click to raid more!

RMR’s 2024 Infamous Lamestream N00bs!

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Old Metal Band in a swampy haunted forest. - RMR's 2024 Lamestream n00bs!

Meager but mostly eager were the 2024’s pickings of yet another batch of lamestream n00bs over at the RMR Office tower. Records of entitled established mainstream bands bestowed with a true metal pedigree that never made it onto our review pipe before. Amazingly, acts boasting a felt gazillion years of service and the sky-high opinion of die-hard fans should sway our stone-cold hearts to worship the fans’ gnarly objects of desire. But not so, or at least not right away. So, as always, the RMR Review desk gave those newcomers a little push to reveal their trve nature without succumbing … [...] Click to raid more!