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Overt Enemy – Insurrection (2025) – Review

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There’s some headscratching going on over at the Review Desk. The powers that be of the metal interweb threw American thrashers Overt Enemy into our lap, wordily touting its wares in often flowery language. An act from Mission, Texas,1 who had – and I quote “…carved a name for itself in the global metal scene…” happily riding into the sunset on all that newfound global fame. Or something.

And that sounds great, except that their 2025 tour happens all around the Lone Star State. And the only live location abroad that we could find was the UK. Back in

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Vintersorg – Vattenkrafternas Spel (2025) – Review

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I reckon we’ll need a lamestream n00b list for 2025 as well. Vintersorg, the band around one Andreas Hedlund, has been active since 1996. That’s not quite a lifetime ago, unlike other bands out there. But it is a whopping three decades of faithful service to further the mighty metal lore. And they had an undeniable influence on Northern atmospherics in metal, no contest.

The band sometimes showed its colors at the RMR office tower, straight out of the Northern lights at the outer edges of our aural range. But they never quite made it onto the review … [...] Click to raid more!

Paradise Lost – Ascension (2025) – Review

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Is it fall yet? Not quite. But doom ‘n’ gloom promptly appears on the menu again. And this time, wistful roaring reaches us from the cold and windy island nation of the UK.

Together with their brethren from Bradford, Paradise Lost pretty much set the gold standard for all things doom over the years. Especially their return to in-yer-face tearful woe with The Plague Within indeed cemented this act’s place in Doom’s Hall ov Fame.

So, the band’s 17th full-length record Ascension finally appeared on our mighty radar. An impressive feat that not many bands managed to achieve so

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Panopticon – Laurentian Blue (2025) – Review

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There’s a fine line between Black Metal and proper folk. Examples abound, but the most telling one probably is Wardruna with its founding member Kvitrafn1 (White Raven), who famously hopped to the other side from Gorgoroth together with the infamous Gaahl. The latter returned to his roots in the meantime, whereas Selvik and his sidekick, Lindy-Fay Hella, stayed in pagan land.

But I digress. Panopticon just hit our review pipe. A band steeped in blackened forgery but freely dispensing folksy tunes, too. A one-man show run by one Austin L. Lunn, excelling in a steady flow of Folk and … [...] Click to raid more!