RMR’s 2023 Top 10 Records

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2023 started slowly. And at first, the RMR crew wasn’t quite sure where it would all lead to – or end. And by the word ‘end’, I mean the end of RMR. A lot of soul-searching went into this year’s continuation of a steady flow of reviews. Same as other music sites out there, we had our severe doubts if running a review ‘zine wasn’t just a fucking waste of internet space or not. Brutally put, nobody gives a damn about review sites anymore – apart from those looking for free marketing. So, if you’re reading this, then the leftover … [...] Click to raid more!

RMR’s 2023 Infamous Lamestream N00bs!

RMR's 2023 Infamous Lamestream N00bs - Skeletal Metal Band

Ha! I got ya, didn’t I? Negative headlines indeed create clicks. You thought this was all about miserable underground bands nobody ever heard of. Snazzy ranting destroying the month-long efforts those outfits put in to eke out a living. Right? RIGHT?

Nope, it isn’t. Much to the contrary, this is all about established metal bands that the RMR Review Desk shamefully ignored for all those years. You know, because – mainstream. They may all represent hardened metal but they were also insanely successful, alive and kicking for decades, and show no signs of slowing down. Most of them don’t, of … [...] Click to raid more!

Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite (2023) – Review

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They keep on rolling in this year, don’t they? All those mainstream extreme metal music bands with their time-worn tropes and decade-long experience adding fodder to our list of RMR n00bs of established outfits. Bands with distinguished careers and undeniable influence on metal music that – for some reason – never made it onto the RMR ‘zine.

So, meet Cattle Decapitation and their latest lovechild Terrasite.1 Yet another established band to be gleefully butchered on the RMR Altar ov Metal Ignorance. Because the RMR review desk won’t give a damn what came before. The present is all that … [...] Click to raid more!