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Rioghan – Kept (2025) – Review

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I never thought we would cover Leprous ever again. After all, Einar Solberg took his almost picture-perfect prog act down a windy road of whiny, high-pitched, and soft-balled tunes. Suddenly, the progressive cojones went missing and the outcome wasn’t something we could stomach for more than five minutes at a time. But wait, what? This ain’t Solberg?

Right.

Meet Rioghan, a very talented Finnish artist with a pig-headed, out-of-the-box approach to her music. And that landed her with an inordinate amount of attention on this zine to this day. The last time the RMR crew had her seriously on … [...] Click to raid more!

Steven Wilson – The Overview (2025) – Review

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Steven Wilson‘s 2023 piece, The Harmony Codex, didn’t quite work for us. And that came as a shock to some of the RMR crew over here. Because even the feisty and pop-laden The Future Bites managed to get into our good graces, and for cause. But it also garnered a lament of Wilson and others turning their mutual backs on prog.

Yet, in 2023, Wilson‘s latest piece of work felt like some very watery and – yes – boring material. Good for some background music in a bar, but not much more. Shocking indeed, for an

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Nite – Cult of the Serpent Sun (2025) – Review

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Back in 2020, the RMR crew heard about a “…newly formed band…” hailing from the Californian desert with some pig-headed take on how to mold their metal. Alas, both of Nite‘s first records – Darkness Silence Mirror Flame and Voices of the Kronian Moon – never reached far enough into our review pipe to get the attention of the sump rats down there. There was no particular reason for that, either. The last years were filled with loads of great rock, metal, and folk. So, as the saying goes, we had many other fish to fry.

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Niviane – Queen of Phantoms (2025) – Review

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Niviane. The last time we looked at the band was in 2017 with their debut The Druid King. A record that just couldn’t convince us despite multiple listens. Even attempts to invoke the Stockholm syndrome didn’t quite work out that well. Their 2020 concoction The Ruthless Divine sailed past our shores unseen. Quite unsurprisingly so. This is one of these acts changing labels for every one of their records they reluctantly choose to release and not everyone of them is connected to the good ol’ RMR office tower.

Now, another five years have gone by, and Queen of … [...] Click to raid more!