RMR’s 2025 Infamous Lamestream N00bs!

Infamous lamestream n00bs - Three skeletons around a fire on an island during a tropical storm

At first, the RMR crew thought that 2025 wouldn’t support yet another worthy year-end list of lamestream n00bs. In RMR Office Tower speak, this means old, established rock and metal bands with some influence on the industry appearing for the first time on this zine. Yup, you heard this right. Even after all these years and around 1’200 reviews in total, we still find revered rock stars that haven’t yet passed the smell test over here. But let’s face it. A lot of our focus was on the vile underground, and the woozy old geezers at the Review Desk had … [...] Click to raid more!

Bergthron – Neu Asen Land (2025) – Review

Bergthron - Neu Asen Land - Album Cover

Any modern management nerds around here? I got the perfect team-building case study for you. Meet Bergthron.1 A German Nature Metal act, created in 1994 and unleashing new albums occasionally. Very occasionally. Meaning, their last record aired back in 2010. That’s nothing extraordinary so far, agreed. Apart from the fact that the RMR crew – unsurprisingly – never heard of them.

But here it comes: Seemingly in search of their perfect sound, this band of brothers went on seven (7) expeditions from the endless forests to the Arctic Circle over the last decades. And upon their return, Bergthron[...] Click to raid more!