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.

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This Gift is a Curse – Heir (2025) – Review

Oh yeah, baby. Time to stop wobbling about strange soundscapes and back to burning off some mental fat. And that’s best done with unapologetic furious metal, stuff the usual classical music connoisseur would not touch with a ten-foot flagpole. Noisome metallic items that the RMR crew cannot really resist.

So, descend into This Gift is a Curse‘s unhealthy and wickedly heathen realm. An unwelcome apparition of a beast so vile it might make you decamp in a hellbent hurry. Meet the Heir, bow your head in submission, and be afraid. Very afraid.


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Rise of Tyrants – The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza (2025) – Review

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Woe! After an abject cheese-laden sugar high in the warm embrace of Metal o’ the Light, it is finally time for some trve brutality. Death Metal is on the menu and the folks over at Rise of Tyrants are enraged to the point of obsession.

Meaning, they’re on a mission to tell their story. Directly, ferociously, and without mercy. And why should they show any? The storyline is about priestly abuse, no less. Atrocities that the Roman Catholic Church is still trying to hide to this date. Assignment fully accomplished, or rampant mission creep? Creepy crawlers in empty smoke-infested buildings.… [...] Click to raid more!