Soliloquium – Famine (2025) – Review

The times are dire and the outlook into the future ain’t great. Crisis upon crisis, threats of war, power grabs, and an uncertain future courtesy of a few unhinged strongmen. A dystopian and widespread feeling of unease permeates the populace – and that doesn’t bode well. That is how the Year of the Dark Lord 2025 presents itself and we’re not very far into it yet. Sounds dark, dreary, and gray, doesn’t it? Well, it is, and it might well get worse quickly.1

So, what better time to dig into the doom-filled depths of Soliloquium‘s newest piece Famine[...] Click to raid more!

Tower – Let There Be Dark (2025) – Review

Tower - Let There Be Dark - Album Cover

You gotta celebrate them. ‘Young’ bands worshipping the well-trodden grounds of good ol’ speedy Heavy Metal. Sounds that harken back to times when the only genre pretty much was that very same one. These were the times when fledgling Hard Rock bands tried themselves at that new devil’s music many old farts of that era took exception with.

Of course, it would not take long until the new metal world branched out into a gazillion sub-genres and blossomed into that ill-fated Yggdrasil ov Metal we know today. But until that happened, things were easy and spawned some of the greatest … [...] Click to raid more!

Rioghan – Kept (2025) – Review

Rioghan - Kept - Album Cover

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!