Newsflash: Neoheresy unleash Oblawa!

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If you visit a restaurant a number of times and you always find the same menu card, you will finally give up on them. And you’ll look for places where the food is equally good (or better), but the variation is more stringent. 

The same goes with some of the metal genres that are out there.

Black Metal especially and positively screams for some rejuvenating relief, and some fresh pathways to travel. Too many bands are just holed up in their deep caves, drumming and rasping away – come hell or high water, no pun intended. In the same drowsy fashion, they always [...] Click to raid more!

Video: The Reticent release The Decision!

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In 2016, The Reticent issued one of the best – if not THE best – Progressive Metal album of the year called On the Eve of a Goodbye. And I am not saying this lightly.

The emotional discharge, genuine passion, and musical prowess are such that the record ended up on spot number two of the 2016 Top Ten Records in the RMR universe. And the record still rocks a lot on the RMR mighty sound machine. So much so that the tear-drenched tune risks rusting the metal it is built on.

The band continues to flesh out their [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: OmnisighT unleash The Power of One!

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There are those who will bitch and moan that OmnisighT‘s latest EP is a terrible, glaring, and disjointed mess. Whereas others will insist that we got ourselves a masterpiece of outstanding Progressive Rock and Metal. So, in other words, we are up against two extremes. And which one of those will this record turn out to be?

The Canadian metallers OmnisighT and their sophomore EP The Power of One do indeed solicit emotions. Complex, confusing, scratchy, and straight in your face. These would be the attributes to distribute for this disc. That the record is loud, even extremely loud [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: Deadspace bring us Gravity!

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Whoever said all Australians are laid back and cool? Beer in hand and BBQ fired up, chasing crocodiles? Because this here band is anything but that. Or so it seems when their monstrous sound hits your eardrums.

Hailing from Perth way out West in Australia, the Extreme Metal band Deadspace presents us with a seething hot chunk of metal. Their 2016 EP Gravity sloshes around a life-cycle or – should I say – a perpetual cycle theme of birth, life, death and re-birth. 

The record sounds like the magician’s apprentice musical experiment taken over by the forces of chaos. Extreme dissonance interchanges with crazily tilted atmospheric and ambient interludes. … [...] Click to raid more!