Saor – Amidst the Ruins (2025) – Review

Saor - Amidst The Ruins - Album Cover

Looks like this will be Nordic week. The RMR crew just covered some Scandinavian mystique. And now there’s a different North on the menu a tad more to the West. We’re talking about the good ol’ Scottish warriors that used to howl down South to torment the Aenglish beyond that big wall. A modern and metal-laden version of them, more or less.

You guessed it. Saor‘s the name and their newest piece Amidst The Ruins is currently on the chopping block over at the RMR Review Desk. The band behind Andy Marshall with an affinity for standing stones … [...] Click to raid more!

Zéro Absolu – La Saignée (2025) – Review

Zéro Absolu - La Saignée - Album Cover

The RMR crew was somewhat underwhelmed with Alcest’s latest offering back in 2024. A disheartening moment in a difficult year with a record full of promises but an annoying lack of true substance and no true metal spine left. And what does this have to do with the price of butter on this review here? Well, read on.

Thus, Zéro Absolu (absolute zero in English)1 enter the scene. Zero who? Never heard of them. And unsurprisingly so, because this outfit emerged from the remnants of the band Glaciation in 2024. The latter fell prey to some legal (or kind … [...] Click to raid more!

Thy Kingdom Will Burn – The Loss and Redemption (2025) – Review

Thy Kingdom Will Burn - The Loss and Redemption - Album Cover

The RMR crew indeed didn’t hear back from the dreary cold wastes of the North for some time. Meaning, the zine’s dreaded review pipe has some real use for substantial, darkly melancholic metal. Not that we were short on material from Scandinavia, far from it. The folks up there are very prolific and the Extreme Metal on display is often outstanding. But real in-the-flesh melodeath? Some. Meaning, there really was nothing much that got us out from under the fire. It’s winter after all, so this needs to sport some real juice.

But never say die, right? Because here Thy [...] Click to raid more!

Tumenggung – Back On The Streets (2025) – Review

Tumenggung - Back on the Streets - Album Cover

2025 hasn’t even started yet in earnest and we already find ourselves back in Heavy Metal country. A genre long thought dead but still alight with numerous bands plying these long-discovered routes. Interestingly, the aging biggies still are at the top of their game and have been for eons. To the point that young guns joining the fray have a helluva time to get themselves heard. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt? Well, not so fast.

Tumenggung would like a word. And they’re not necessarily the freshest on the block anymore. In 2007 they saw the light of day … [...] Click to raid more!