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Dawnwalker – The Between (2025) – Review

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Perhaps it was destiny that David Gilmour knocked at RMR’s steely gate late at night this fall and – to everybody’s surprise – garnered a review. For a solo piece he released in 2024, no less. So, the crew here basked in the creamy, warm light of smooth groove and established alt-rock with a flow addiction for a long while.

Fast forward to reality, and Dawnwalker just appeared on our radar. Again? It sounds like the Review Desk just did a piece on them – last year. And indeed so. The psychedelically tainted The Unknowing hit in 2024 and garnered … [...] Click to raid more!

Video: Ik Kom Uit Het Graf, sepulchral musings by Carach Angren!

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Long time no hear, sez I. After their take on Frankenstein (or Franckensteina) left the gate, Carach Angren kinda disappeared from sight. A few deep knocks here and there, but nothing to write home to the Dark Lord about.

So, here they suddenly appeared on our radar with a thunderclap of a clip called Ik Kom Uit Het Graf. Meaning, ‘I come from the grave’, courtesy of infamous translators available on the wide interweb. And I never knew that Dutch could sound so menacing.

The track itself is a raspy malevolent rant taken from the band’s upcoming EP The … [...] Click to raid more!

Novarupta – Astral Sands (2025) – Review

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Alright. It looks like Novarupta‘s latest concoction, Astral Sands, is the last partition of a four-piece journey into fantasyland, meaning the infamous four elements. Yes, the ones used by pagan religions of the past and present to great effect all over the world.

And the RMR crew missed that particular boat completely. And quite unsurprisingly so. Their latest piece, Carrion Movements, turned out to be an instrumental concoction and was thus brutally ignored. Rulez are to be obeyed after all!

This time around, Novarupta covers the earth element, so we are told, with Astral Sands featuring music … [...] Click to raid more!

Madder Mortem – Old Eyes, New Heart (2024) – Review

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Madder Mortem‘s Old Eyes, New Heart is one of those records. A piece that released early in 2024, but for some reason always kept harassing us at the back of our mutual subconscious. The band has been around since 1997 under the current moniker, but for some reason, the act never clicked with the RMR crew here. Well, let’s just blame it on the inconsistent release schedule, shall we? The last record aired back in 2018 after all.

But what really and always pulled us back from launching a all-out review were the glowing reviews this piece got from … [...] Click to raid more!