RMR’s 2025 Infamous Lamestream N00bs!

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At first, the RMR crew thought that 2025 wouldn’t support yet another worthy year-end list of lamestream n00bs. In RMR Office Tower speak, this means old, established rock and metal bands with some influence on the industry appearing for the first time on this zine. Yup, you heard this right. Even after all these years and around 1’200 reviews in total, we still find revered rock stars that haven’t yet passed the smell test over here. But let’s face it. A lot of our focus was on the vile underground, and the woozy old geezers at the Review Desk had … [...] Click to raid more!

Magnadur – Punishment of Hamlet (2025) – Review

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Didn’t we tell these guys to stay off our feed and not return? After this Beautiful Nightmare, Magnadur was good for the scrapyard. So, we turned the page and moved on. A waste of space in our music library. At least, this is what this crew thought.

Because, lo and behold, another manic piece of this Perrakoski dude threw itself into our feed. And that burning sensation brought about unfinished business with this band. It ain’t smart to mess with the geezers at the review desk over at the RMR office tower. Never, ever. So, here we go with … [...] Click to raid more!

Deathless Legacy – Damnatio Aeterna (2025) – Review

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The RMR crew got to know Deathless Legacy when their 2018 piece Rituals of Black Magic hit our turntables. A record not without its (pretty severe) shortcomings. But they had that perfectly balanced song – Dominus Inferi – on the tracklist. And that is what finally made the cut over at the office tower. Saturnalia, the EP, improved matters some, whereas Mater Larvarum left mixed feelings behind yet again.

So, the band’s latest Damnatio Aeterna has been rummaging about the deepest recesses of our review pipe for a few months now. They got picked up and then dumped again, … [...] Click to raid more!

Malevolent 2025: Morose Musings and the Fiery Pit!

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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.

And as always, this isn’t our … [...] Click to raid more!