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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!

Depravity – Bestial Possession (2025) – Review

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2025 had its share of Brutal Death Metal. And it went something like this: The horrors of Castrator led to Insatiable Violence, which again insinuated the Lust of Decay and finally ended in Depravity. The name of a band from down under that nicely finished this year of mixed reviews. Plus an astonishing number of rants to round things up some.

And while Extreme Metal had more difficulty making it over the threshold over here this year, this is still a pretty astonishing crop of metal atrocities. The grouchy old geezers over at the RMR Review desk took

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Nattradio – The Longest Night (2025) – Review

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You get the joke, don’t you? Nattradio boasted that all songs were written and recorded between 1 AM and 5 AM. Hence, also the album cover with the lonely, brightly lit window in the dark shape of the nightly high-rise. The RMR crew will, of course, never know how many night sessions of writing and recording were needed to get to the final product. But the sum of all hours would indeed be The Longest Night on record by earthly standards. It may be different in other planetary systems, though. But, let’s move back to the endless Northern night, shall … [...] Click to raid more!

Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence (2025) – Review

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Brutally effective Death Metal had a difficult stand over here this year. And bands going beyond that with outstanding skills and a nuclear determination to get there were nonexistent. True, the reasonably feisty Castrator grated on our turntables this year. But we also got more tepid, sewage-infested material, and more of that than we ever wished.

The Canadians from Cryptopsy landed in the unsavory, noisome catacombs of our review pipe back in early 2025. Not something the RMR crew readily enjoys when beach-time starts winking at ye and summer’s on its way. Especially when a piece calls itself An … [...] Click to raid more!