Isolert – Wounds of Desolation (2024) – Review

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The RMR crew first encountered Isolert‘s firebrand style of Black Metal in 2016. No Hope, No Light…Only Death their debut album called itself, and – while still somewhat unwieldy – it stuck with us. Some real Black Metal, from Greece to boot. A strange place for Extreme Metal, by the way. At first, the country appears peaceful, but then you find unsavory little nuggets. Vile metal bands, some of which appeared on this zine. Rotting Christ for instance, Kvadrat,1 or Septic Flesh come to mind to name just a few.

For some reason, the band’s 2020 piece

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Ellende – Todbringerin (2024) – Review

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Remakes only sparsely grace our review pipe. There must be a couple at best, and that’s for good reason. Usually, the RMR crew prefers the raw material, the stuff that came before, the real thing. And not some crazy-ass remix with – Loki forbid – some atrocious synth-pop elements added for fun. You get all kinds, y’know, and not everything is pretty.

But – as always – exceptions do apply and Ellende is one of them. Since the 2022 piece Ellenbogengesellschaft hit our turntables, the RMR crew holds this artist in the highest esteem. Thus, Todbringerin will get a shot … [...] Click to raid more!

Darkend – Viaticum (2024) – Review

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For some reason, Black Metal has become one of the strongest genres on RMR. The inherent mystique and ungodly debauchery with its deadly siren song always seem to draw us near that particular black fire. It’s like this irresistible invitation out of the dark void from the Vampyre. Or, the deal with the devil, if you will. The invocation of dark spirits and worse daemons of the kinds even the horrible Aleister Crowley dared not speak of. In short, the RMR crew sports a driving force of trve dark souls with that strange blackened inhuman hunger.

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SIG:AR:TYR – Citadel of Stars (2024) – Review

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Northen wallowed in the rich history of the old Norse gone Viking. An ode to early visitors of white people to the North American continent who faced the terrible Skraeling. Science struggled with this fact, by the way. At first, the community would not confirm that early settlements existed in present-day Canada, and possibly further down South, too. And as grudging consent grew, it became clear that it wasn’t good ol’ blundering Columbus. It must have been Leif Erikson who unknowingly discovered a new continent – a few hundred years earlier.

In anticipation of the new record, the RMR crew … [...] Click to raid more!