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Dawn of a Dark Age – Ver Sacrum (2025) – Review

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It is still early in 2026. And, as always, the records we somehow missed late in 2025 are bubbling to the surface. I daresay, though, that the end of last year was very chaotic over at the RMR offices. So the next installment of Blasts from the Past may well be richly endowed with material not seen here to date.

The long and arduous pagan history of the lands in present-day Italy forever fascinated the RMR crew. It is an old land, full of often famous epochs. A rich blend of past cultures that are still remembered to this day. … [...] Click to raid more!

RMR’s 2025 Top 3 Videos and EPs!

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The RMR crew finally decided to revive the Top 3 lists for EPs and Videos. The last iteration was back in 2022 with a more or less reasonable crop of juicy goodies. The output of ’23 and ’24 was – with exceptions – apparently never enough, so we gave both a pass. That said, 2025 got us a pretty wild selection of good-to-great shorties and some snazzy moving pictures. Thus, same as the lamestream n00b section, this here list rose from its ashes to shine once again in the dark glow of a very ominous 2025 that this reviewer … [...] Click to raid more!

RMR’s 2025 Top 10 Records!

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In 2024, RMR’s Top 10 was dark, ominous, and, at times, frankly distressing. Full of Satanik Panik, deep excursions into the terrible underground of Death and Black Metal, or – again – just frank, straightforward malevolence. There weren’t many rays of light, and one wondered what daemon visited the RMR Office Tower exactly to inflict such a brutal punishment on the esteemed audience. Even if the RMR crew just discovered some odd tidbits of ’24 that could have lightened the load. Could. But didn’t.

And perhaps this was a harbinger of doom for the year to come. With the worst … [...] Click to raid more!

RMR’s 2025 Infamous Lamestream N00bs!

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At first, the RMR crew thought that 2025 wouldn’t support yet another worthy year-end list of lamestream n00bs. In RMR Office Tower speak, this means old, established rock and metal bands with some influence on the industry appearing for the first time on this zine. Yup, you heard this right. Even after all these years and around 1’200 reviews in total, we still find revered rock stars that haven’t yet passed the smell test over here. But let’s face it. A lot of our focus was on the vile underground, and the woozy old geezers at the Review Desk had … [...] Click to raid more!