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When Nothing Remains – Echoes of Eternal Night (2025) – Review

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It is true. Somehow, the reviews over at the RMR Review desk don’t seem to match the mood of the year in question. In 2024, the reviews were somber, virulent, and abrasive when the year was in relative control. In contrast, 2025 caught itself a mellower clutch of albums over at the RMR review desk, when these endless 12 months are a fucking disaster to put it mildly.

And that mellowness manifests itself in a bunch of folk pieces and a load of often excellent doomy excursions such as this one. Good quality Metal o’ the Light also made … [...] Click to raid more!

Danheim – Heimferd (2025) – Review

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The RMR crew’s lately been to Cemican‘s idea of the Yucatan jungle. A rhythmically charged version of fetid metal and folk vibes in wild disarray. But the piece’s still alluring enough, sez I. The terrible war drums are present all over, after all. And that is always a good thing. However, Waldgeflüster‘s excursions into folky realms and back to metal mama didn’t quite sit too well with the Review Desk. A weird, helter-skelter production on a giant errand to pagan lands, which led to a mixed experience.

So, it’s time to make a point and descend into the … [...] Click to raid more!

Darkyra – Life Force (2025) – Review

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Does anybody remember the folks of SAVN? The Gothic Metal jockeys with only one self-titled album to their credit, dating back to 2014. The one fronted by Carmen Elise Espenæs, you know, Liv Kristine‘s sister. Now, this record was literally the first really failed record of this zine’s long career. And we’re still traumatised. But to this day, we just can’t stand the weak tea metal this record exudes in abundance.

So here we got ourselves a piece from an obscure act called Darkyra. One that sounds eerily similar to the aforementioned band. Their 3rd full-length Life Force… [...] Click to raid more!

Waldgeflüster – Knochengesänge (2025) – Review

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A double-tap, that’s what Waldgeflüster had in mind this time. Knochengesänge (bone chants), they called their newest piece of art. A tandem going for a whopping 109 minutes of airtime. That’s usually a no-go for this crew. But hey, the things we do for the Forest Metal gang. We just hope that they got a good compass; these are vast wooded wastes out there. And you surely wouldn’t want to get lost out there. Else, some evil witch, Bruder Hain1, or Rübezahl will get you just good. And you won’t get out of there anymore.

2021’s Dahoam2… [...] Click to raid more!