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Dawn of a Dark Age – Transumanza (2023) – Review

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I am going to make a bold statement. Those who don’t fancy Myrkur1 and her metal machinations won’t appreciate Dawn of a Dark Age. The RMR reviewers just came across a band so out-of-the-box that the famous crate already disappeared in the haze somewhere. An outfit that has put the term ‘pig-headed’ to shame – and then added a few layers to the meaning of genre fusion.

Case in point, the critiques about the band’s past works I was able to find range from overflowing exuberance to – mainly – darkly ominous mutterings about abject noise pollution. In … [...] Click to raid more!

Sangre de Muérdago – O Vento que Lambe as miñas Feridas (2023) – Review

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The RMR crew discovered Sangre de Muérdago (blood of mistletoe) more by accident than by design. One late night with rain hitting the roof, I set out to find some vile metal to rumble across my stomach and blur the screams in my head. Instead, I found a gem of a pig-headed version of folk. Galician Folk, to be precise. And same as Ljungblut‘s latest blurb, this offering feels like soothing balm spread on an often overly tortured soul. A record the band already released worldwide back in April and which will now get a vinyl facelift by 6 … [...] Click to raid more!

Darkher – The Buried Storm (2022) – Review

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When Darkher hit our turntables back in 2016, the RMR deckhands – at first – thought that this would be some trve competition to Extreme Metal acts like Myrkur. But Realms turned out to be more Loreena McKennit than it would ever hit Amalie Bruun’s backyard.

And whilst that may be so, her depiction of frugal dark and subdued doom continued to fascinate us. Her minimalistic streak, those carefully crafted blurbs of tasty doom stuck with us like some ice-cold and wet power glue to our skin.

Now, Jayn Maiven (formerly Wissenberg) made us wait for new material for … [...] Click to raid more!

Nanna Barslev – Lysbærer (2022) – Review

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Neo-Pagan and Dark Folk fascinate me, in a geeky kind of way. It’s an archaic multiverse of sorts that seeks to recreate long bygone times that were – supposedly – aligned to Gaia’s consciousness. You know, those times when we were all dancing around the fires and painting weird symbols on rocks.

You got the amplifiers of Heilung for instance, the folks that weirdly howl around the stage claiming they got a grip on all that history thing. RMR covered Gåte not many moons ago for their newest folk piece.1 Wardruna, Einar Selvik’s (not so) new outlet, garnered some … [...] Click to raid more!