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Ominous Ruin – Requiem (2025) – Review

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Ha! 2025 didn’t yield its usual crop of brutal Death Metal pieces yet and we’re behind on quota. Management is fuming and will be cutting benefits if the review desk won’t get a move on.

So, luckily, our scouts found an obscure Extreme Metal band from the Bay Area that stubbornly stuck to the smelly underbelly of the alloy-laced underground. Meaning, despite endlessly riffing about stages and soundscapes, they didn’t quite get to that breakthrough yet. The famed metal nirvana many a band attempted to reach but few ever did.

So, let’s explore. Ominous Ruin state that they did something … [...] Click to raid more!

Eluveitie – Ànv (2025) – Review

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Once upon a time, Chrigel Glanzmann had a great idea. And that was to merge Pagan Folk with Death Metal. Not many expected this to work, but after a fair amount of trial and error, he succeeded, and Eluveitie was the end product that stuck with the audience.

Since the zine’s inception, the RMR crew covered a whopping six full-length records of this band. Out of which Everything Remains (as it never was) and – strangely – Evocation II – Pantheon fared best. Let’s be clear, lavish coverage such as this for one band is pretty unusual @ RMR. And … [...] Click to raid more!

Aversed – Erasure of Color (2025) – Review

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Aversed did it. Who would have thought that? The airtime is down to a benign 40 minutes from 57 minutes on Impermanent. Also, methinks that there’s much less Arch Enemy baked into Erasure of Color compared to what was before. And these are good pointers toward a successful sophomore piece of an up-and-coming Extreme Metal band. Or is it really? Harsh musings and melodic exploits.

Right from the start, the change in vocal style is truly remarkable. It looks like Haydee Irizarry and her Gluz-leaning1 antics left the building in 2021, and one Sarah Hartman moved into her … [...] Click to raid more!

eie – My Tongue Is Stuck to the Roof of My Mouth And That Is All I Can Think About (2025) – Review

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How do you lure good ol’ RMR into writing a review? Well, send a bunch of out-of-this-world psych tracks and strange noisy objects garnished with an unspeakable record title to us. That’s how. And let’s face it. We have a weakness for well-written weirdness in an out-of-the-box setting. But submitting this kind of material can be a double-edged sword, of course. Because bad quality stuff filled with absurdities will be treated differently.

Yet, the RMR crew had no such qualms for eie. The band boasts a turbulent chatterbox item called – hold on to something – My Tongue … [...] Click to raid more!