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Elf Queen – Glory to the Brave (2021) – Review

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There are some releases out there that truly leave the RMR crew scratching their mutual heads. Often it is one of those records that shouldn’t ever be on any PRs distribution roster. Marketing strategy largely unfinished, the mix and master in smithereens, and a production that will make every music lover run for cover.

Elf Queen‘s Glory to the Brave is one of those records. It lurked about our review pipe for a few months now. And it’s frustrating, the production – let’s face it – feels like one of those warmed-up hangovers with no caffeine fix in sight. … [...] Click to raid more!

Google – and the User Experience!

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If you’re running a website or you work in SEO1 and you haven’t really been operating from a Nuclear Bomb Shelter without communications, you certainly heard about Google’s latest stunt to drive supposedly better User Experience, also known as UX. The feature, somewhat loftily, calls itself Core Web Vitals. As if, without them, no website would be able to operate conveniently. But more to that later.

Google started announcing this solution in search of a problem back in 2020 and it went live in the course of 2021. In short, the cerebral ones at Google HQ … [...] Click to raid more!

Burial in the Sky – The Consumed Self (2021) – Review

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Didn’t the RMR supreme council decide that tech death was out of scope for the time being? I think they did. Yet, our feisty deckhands constantly defy orders and bring more and more of those virulent vibes to bear on our already strained resources.

Well, it looks like sometimes, the avalanche of metal rushing down at us suddenly becomes a force unto itself and takes over. Especially when you get exceedingly well-written records that somehow navigate outside of the known pathways to glory.

Oh, and if you thought that Archspire got all the brownie points for the sexiest tech death … [...] Click to raid more!

Ethereal Shroud – Trisagion (2021) – Review

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Atmospheric Black Metal is indeed a popular genre. Ethereal raspings on a cosmic scale, surging towards you in an abundance of sounds and colors. Towering tsunami waves of riffs and monumental samples that will work overtime to create atmosphere. And those records often originate from the fantasy folks, to the earthy nerds, over to the rebels in the realm.

But unfortunately, the genre garnered so much notoriety that the posers and copycats started to crawl out of the scorched woodwork. So, there’s also a dark side. Many times, the offerings contain overloaded, even overwrought constructs that indeed freely feed on … [...] Click to raid more!