Beriedir – Liminal Spaces (2025) – Review

It is true. Progressive Metal was in short supply on the RMR zine in 2024. And this resulted in a roster far too dark and ominous for its own good. Don’t believe me? Our Top 10 can bear witness to this. That’s not to say that we didn’t enjoy any juicy hits in the prog department. But all of those were rather scarce to begin with.

So, why not start 2025 with a neat hammer blow of a prog record? And for this, we won’t have to look further than the beautiful countryside of Italy. Bergamo’s Beriedir manifested themselves with … [...] Click to raid more!

Video: Aeons rage against the Machines!

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The islanders are at it again. Earlier this year, RMR covered Aeons‘ latest full-length The Ghosts of What We Knew. A powerful and very good record that garnered pretty sturdy criticism nonetheless. But things can change once a band chooses one of their tracks to elaborate further. Deep dives with often astonishing outcomes.


So, here the band’s back with a brand-new clip for their second-to-last song Machines. A clip that stopped the RMR crew dead in its tracks. The clip doesn’t shine with flamboyant cinematography throwing a thousand details at you all at once. You know, like … [...] Click to raid more!

Aeons – The Ghosts Of What We Knew (2024) – Review

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Now, wait a minute. The Isle of Man usually shines with its rebellious streak and – those totally crazy bike races. You know, these maniacs roaring about narrow country roads and trying not to end up as road kill.

But there’s more. Aeons dwell there, too. A band on the edge of prog with serious boy-band issues. And a knack for straying into nu territory and insisting on anything ‘core’. The RMR crew called them a band at a crossroads on Consequences, their last record. And the question is, have Aeons passed beyond their past alleged sins? Purgatory or … [...] Click to raid more!

Aeons – Consequences (2021) – Review

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Do you remember the ‘I love you / I love you not’ game? You know, the one also played with an unsuspecting flower that thus brutally meets its unseemly demise. Remember that? Good.

Because sometimes we encounter records that do exactly that. At the outset already, and we haven’t even tortured the flower yet, there seems to be no love lost (so the flower can live). Yet, one full half-hour bleeds away and this thing still roars out of our loudspeakers. And we kinda scratch our heads and ask ourselves what we’re going to do with this record. Death to … [...] Click to raid more!