Vvon Dogma I – The Kvlt of Glitch (2023) – Review

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The RMR review pipe of early 2023 seems to attract all types of abstract or out-of-the-box pieces. Records that usually should not co-exist with all that metal over here. But somehow, they still do. Funky, huh? But – you see – comfortable metal tropes are good for the soul. Yet sometimes you need to push the boundaries until you meet the glitch. Kvltish technocrats brutally unchained!


Back in 2017, Vvon Dogma I‘s Communion fascinated us in a geeky yet disturbing kind of way. This one was so out of the box, it almost didn’t make it onto our … [...] Click to raid more!

Melt Motif – Particles. Death Objective (2023) – Review

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Ever since Steven Wilson left the solid grounds of Progressive Metal and went full-tilt Pop Rock adorned with colorful electronica, the RMR review folks were searching for that next one. Gotta have some break from the endless avalanche of metal heading towards us from time to time.

Now, the electronic metaverse is as full of garbage as it is varied. Yet, there are those proverbial cherries on that misaligned cake of garishly colored horrors. To find them is terribly difficult. And – of course – a second such record needs to be outrageously out-of-the-box and so avant-garde that it will … [...] Click to raid more!

Runemagick – Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind (2023) – Review

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Runemagick, yet another band that sailed past our mighty lighthouse unnoticed a few times. And that means their two offerings since their resurrection in 2017 – Evoked from Abysmal Sleep and Into Desolate Realms – got no attention. And no doubt about it, too. RMR was a different animal back then. We had too much material on our plates to immediately realize that an age-old DM band had just returned from the undead with a new album.

Runemagick proved to be pretty prolific over time, too. I counted some 13 full-length records since 1990,1 some of those signed … [...] Click to raid more!

Metallica – 72 Seasons (2023) – Review

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The RMR crew literally had to sift through 72 Seasons of Metallica‘s miscarriages of album art for them to finally hit a new low. We already suffered through things like the piss and blood covers on the Load / Reload series. But this one is the most awful vinyl sheath ever to appear on a metal album.1 I mean, scorched items, including a wrecked crib and miscellaneous instruments on a bright canary-yellow background. That’s like a migraine on painted cardboard. If the folks over at Metallica wanted to annoy everyone and provoke reactions, then – hells bells – … [...] Click to raid more!