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Blasts from the Past 2024: Prog meets Metal Wiolence!

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What can I say, we can’t help it. Our revolutionary genes kicked in yet again in 2024. Rulez have been broken and oldish content was covered with abandon. Well, the sinning wasn’t quite that severe. But the selection of Blasts from the Past is kinda juicy nonetheless, ranging from Prog geekery to brvtish metallic wiolence. The kind of thing that will keep you entertained and your hackles up at the same time.

Welcome to a new selection of crazy alloys and strange archaeological finds!

Haken – Fauna

Release year: 2023

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Talk about a missed opportunity. How on earth could we … [...] Click to raid more!

Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas (2012) – Review

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The Anaal Nathrakh saga continues at RMR HQ. The screams in our heads won’t subside, so we’re in dire need of a soothing placebo. Something to blast off a few pounds of mental fat in one sitting. And this band will deliver the goods, no doubt. This ain’t surprising if you have two band members, one called Vitriol and the other one – hold on to something – Irrumator. And I let you discover what in the galactic fuck this last moniker actually means. It ain’t pretty.

But boy, we’re burning through those albums with some lightning speed in … [...] Click to raid more!

Blasts from the Past 2023: Fury and Nostalgia!

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Blasts from the Past 2023: Anger and Nostalgia! - Angry vinyl cover.

Admitted. We don’t do those all that much anymore. I mean, RMR policy pretty much directs its unpaid and overstretched wordsmiths to focus on the current year and not lose time on smelly old items of different couleur. But sometimes we can’t resist and have a go at some dusty old record that quietly wastes away in a swampy corner somewhere. So, here’s to a short list of olde records that made us break the rules.

Cheeky shenanigans fueled by fury and nostalgia.

Xaon – The Lethean

Release year: 2022

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Hells bells! This one should have garnered its spot on … [...] Click to raid more!

Wintersun – Time I (2012) – Review

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A few weeks ago, the RMR grey-beard squad checked out Wintersun‘s 2017 epos The Forest Seasons. A pretty tasty piece of Forest Metal that somehow tried too hard to be a great record in a way. Throughout the reviewing process, the RMR crew witnessed a lot of whining about the greatness of the band’s 2012 epos Time I. And how a) The Forest Seasons didn’t quite cut it and b) everybody’s still waiting for the elusive Time II.

And there’s some truth in the second statement. Jari Mäenpää‘s full-throated promises that a second installment would … [...] Click to raid more!