Viande – Monument Aux Morts (2026) – Review

Viande - Monument Aux Morts - Album Cover

In trying times like these, what better idea than to sit your ass down with some truly vile metal? It will (hopefully) burn the mental fat off your grey matter real fast and help get rid of this aggression fest aimlessly careening about your skull.

And today I have a special suggestion that will brutally expel vegetarians and vegans, too. Not that they cannot partake in this endeavor, far from it. But they’re not gonna like the smells and texture of this particular meal.

Viande1, the band, brings you the putrid fare you need. Terrible fetid musings in … [...] Click to raid more!

The Vicious Head Society – Call of the Void (2026) – Review

The Vicious Head Society - Call of the Void - Album Cover

The Vicious Head Society and the RMR crew go way back together. Graham Keane‘s outfit already cratered our runways in 2017 with Abject Tomorrow. A pretty rough-hewn first attempt at delivering a one-man show’s idea of prog. Now, Extinction Level Event brought us that same fare at a much-improved level of geekery. Yet another tale of doom, brimstone, and fire.

And this made us pick up this third iteration, Call of the Void. And as the saying goes, the leopard does indeed not change its spots (easily). This new record latches on where the extinction piece left … [...] Click to raid more!

TodoMal – Graveyards of Joy (2026) – Review

TodoMal - Graveyards of Joy - Album Cover

TodoMal, all is wrong. Talk to me about announcing your intentions in a rock ‘n’ metal setting. Already, the album cover positively screams misery and desolation without a note having been played on our music machine yet. It is actually an extract from a painting by Lluís Rigalt, titled Landscape with Ruins or simply Ruïnes, dated 1865. Yup, melancholy and decay date back eons already. Who would have thought that?

But what really drew us to this record was this oxymoron of a moniker called Graveyards of Joy. There’s usually nothing joyful about them cemeteries, unless you … [...] Click to raid more!

Moonspell – Far From God (2026) – Review

Moonspell - Far From God - Album Cover

From early on in the RMR zine’s existence, Moonspell has been an ever-returning companion of sorts. The crew was forever fascinated with our first finding, Extinct. The puffy-nippled, yet gruesome female torso kinda drew us to the record as if the Lord of The Flies had called. But then, the record itself was somewhat hard fare for a fledgling music review site. But then, we stumbled across Night Eternal. This one carried real heft, a brutally dark, murderously ominous atmosphere that would not leave you until the last note disappeared into the ether.

The heavy, all-Portuguese 2017 piece … [...] Click to raid more!