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Kaledon – Carnagus: Emperor of the Darkness (2017) – Review

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Sometimes you get this sense of déjà-vu. Like that prickly feeling down your spine, when you sense something unknown. And it started straight from the beginning of Kaledon‘s newest album Carnagus: Emperor of the Darkness. 

‘Tis the flavor of Overtures, a known entity belting away at a Power Metal event. And – lo and behold – it is indeed Michele Guaitoli (Overtures, Temperance), who got hired to advance the glory of Kaledon‘s 9th full-length album.

The band started to spin their tale many years ago already, in 1997 to be precise. A medieval-fantastic story, … [...] Click to raid more!

Video: Like Crows For The Earth by Tethra!

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The Italian metallers Tethra released their sophomore album Like Crows for the Earth in February of this year. And I daresay that their record left quite an impression on the RMR crew.

The band now doubled down and released a new and quite controversial clip based on their title track.

Never fear, there are none of the gore-laden splatterfests prevalent in Extreme Metal in this video. Yet, Tethra use suicide as the venue to put their point across and this type of imagery is indeed powerful. Good stuff.

To this the band states:

“The deliberately strong and provocative images … [...] Click to raid more!

Arch Enemy – Will To Power (2017) – Review

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I confess. Sometimes I do look into the opinions other reviewers express. Not so much to gain specific word-by-word insight, but more to get a general drift of a record.

Usually, the sum of all parts gives you a pretty good idea of where an album resides. It is a bit like Trip Advisor, where you get the gist of things from the overall rating. But not from the detailed wording of endless badly written and subjective comments.

For any record you will always find the fanboys and girls schmoozing the audience in glowing, sugary colors on the beauty of … [...] Click to raid more!

Dodecahedron – Kwintessens (2017) – Review

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Something creates dark, foreboding atmospheres. Cold, empty spaces filled with noisy dissonance to chill your soul with frozen hydrogen.

And no doubt you need this type of a wall of sound if a record takes off with something called The Culling of the Unwanted from the Earth.1 Equally, if the main actor goes by the name of ‘The Entity’.

Dark and grey, a landscape of bleak winds that howl hauntingly through the low-lying mists. The mists that just about hide the sharp-toothed monsters within. Well, hells bells, that’s quite a piece of work, now ain’t it? In truth, … [...] Click to raid more!