Carach Angren – Lammendam (2008) – Review

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Carach Angren always fascinated the RMR crew. This band will stuff your face with unabashed, out-of-this-world theatrics. Bombast with a terrifying facelift delivered on a thunderous platform that makes the term epic pale like so much weak tea. A band that facetiously liveth on a horror-filled territory that not many other bands dare venture into. Because – usually – they don’t have the goods nor the capabilities.

But this band does.

In their relatively short career, Carach Angren produced some pretty sturdy pieces, like Where the Corpses Sink Forever1 or the bloodthirsty, yet unpronounceable Franckensteina Strataemontanus of 20202[...] Click to raid more!

My Silent Wake – Damnum Per Saeculorum (2020) – Review

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RMR covered My Silent Wake before, in their incarnation as a Doom Death Metal band. Their very bare-bone yet rough and emotional style always made us listen up and home in for a closer look. Damnatio Memoriae and There Was Death come to mind.

But sometimes some of these bands have alter egos, yet another unplugged plane of existence. And this band is one of them.

True, 2020 is – so far – full of pretty excellent newly forged metal albums. And that kept us busy until the damp fogs of fall started to cover the moist landscape. It is … [...] Click to raid more!

Herbstschatten – Abschaum (2020) – Review

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Gaia good, humanity bad. So bad.

That’s how one could generalize the new record Abschaum (scum) of the German band Herbstschatten (autumn shadow). This seems to be a recurring theme often found in Germany and – indeed – further North, especially around Norway. Pun intended.

An expression of an apparent feeling of doom with more terrors still to come is pretty prevalent over there. With humanity being the scum that must be purged from the pristine swathes of earthy splendor. Or – at worst – everyone should start to live in huts in the forest all over again.

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