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Hope Drone – Void Lustre (2019) – Review

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The RMR crew gets a great many review requests of all sorts – every friggin’ day. This means that our pipeline is always desperately overflowing and it is just not physically possible to look at all of that goodness.

So, sometimes and somewhat in desperation, we just reach into the vast depths of this heap of potential wordsmithing and pull one request out at random.

Sounds like Black Metal, check. From Australia, that’s truly interesting, check. Loads of growls in a dense sonic environment, check. So, we let ‘er rip for good to find out what’s really there. Then some … [...] Click to raid more!

Video: Gone in April release If You Join Me!

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Sometimes you can feel those vibes. The promise of bands that appear on the scene. Those that are not quite famous yet, but have got the goods to go places – in time.

So happened with Gone In April that the RMR crew took a liking to. And already their last 2016 full-length Threads of Existence had us pretty much hooked.

Now finally, the band released a new video called If You Join Me. The one providing that welcome glimpse into their new album Shards of Light due out in early September 2019.

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Zeit – Drangsal (2019) – Review

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I just listened to Zeit‘s last album Konvergenz all over again. And you know what? They are pretty much what you could wish for from an Extreme Metal record.

If only the band would not dream the dream of the underground too much. So much so that they are barely visible to the mean crowd on the surface, very much like Allone that the RMR deck crew took a liking to.

And yes, I heard all of the ideologically charged bullshit about culture and the vile capitalist dough before, trust me. Now, there appears to be some light in … [...] Click to raid more!

Astralium – Land of Eternal Dreams (2019) – Review

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I already stated once upon a time that I was pretty much done with Symphonic Metal. You might have heard that from me. Then Delfinia happened, and I found myself with egg on my face.

So, the RMR deck crew’s ‘new’ approach became a trifle more careful.

And it goes somewhat like this: If anybody can deliver a chunk of Symphonic Metal that is so good, it might unhorse biggies like Nightwish, then I want to know about it. Ha, there you go, destiny. I got you good this time. No more egging poor, old RMR.

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