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Alcest – Spiritual Instinct (2019) – Review

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Ah, damn. Let’s give in and do another one of them 2019 records. Maybe because there’s a sphinx on the cover, and it’s a scary beast. So, we better be nice, right?

Alcest‘s newest album Spiritual Instinct was one of those few albums that created a consistent background chatter late last year. With a lot of diehard protagonists swooning over the record as if the second coming just happened.

But we also caught the darker opinions. Those who state that Alcest‘s music is gay. No metal, and surely no good for anything. I am … [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: Ashlands release EP number I!

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You gotta be brave to break into a metal genre that many have tried and few succeeded in. We are talking about the realm of blackened orgiastic atmospherics and the horrible plastic drum machine.

You guessed it.

This is the style that many like to call Black Metal, fueled by lores of fantasy novels and wide, enigmatic landscapes. Caladan Brood and Summoning come to mind straight off the bat.

Ashlands – from central Umbria in Italy – now started this journey into those fantastic lands of yonder wonders. The band plans to release a series of three EPs, all wrapped … [...] Click to raid more!

Batushka – Panihida (2019) – Review

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2019 is the year of the Batushka controversy, one that will write Black Metal history. The genre is not devoid of its past troubles, and this one here just sounds like a fitting continuation. Albeit a bit less fiery, or deadly – come to think of it.

Yet we still got ourselves one major metallic earthquake that hit our metal shores like a steely tsunami at the beginning of the year. And which never ceased with its aftershocks since.

But it is also true enough that without all that drama, we would never find ourselves with two brand-new … [...] Click to raid more!

Hope Drone – Void Lustre (2019) – Review

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The RMR crew gets a great many review requests of all sorts – every friggin’ day. This means that our pipeline is always desperately overflowing and it is just not physically possible to look at all of that goodness.

So, sometimes and somewhat in desperation, we just reach into the vast depths of this heap of potential wordsmithing and pull one request out at random.

Sounds like Black Metal, check. From Australia, that’s truly interesting, check. Loads of growls in a dense sonic environment, check. So, we let ‘er rip for good to find out what’s … [...] Click to raid more!