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Carrion Vael – Slay Utterly (2026) – Review

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Stortregn are not quite ready yet for that new record with their newfound virulence. So I guess, we’re going to hunt for new ‘n’ monstrous tech death roaming around the early dawn of 2026 somewhere else. A piece that’ll try to melt our faces with its ferocious metal on full display. Just about right for those dreary, ice-cold January days. May the heat of scathing fury warm us instead of the failing heating system. Pump up the volume!

Carrion Vael have left quite a footprint here, once Abhorrent Obsessions hit our loudspeakers the last time around. The record landed on … [...] Click to raid more!

Orchid Throne – Buried in Black (2026) – Review

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2026 is still young. And, already, yet another metallistic one-man show makes its presence known over at the office tower. In the past, the RMR crew wasn’t all that thrilled about them, though. The typical stale odor of a do-it-yourself piece often wafted about the turntable when we played them. A record stitched together like one badly finished golem and then let loose. More often than not, da master also took mixing and mastering duties onto his or her to-do list. And this didn’t bode too well for the end product, either.

Now, over the last 2-3 years or so, … [...] Click to raid more!

Depravity – Bestial Possession (2025) – Review

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2025 had its share of Brutal Death Metal. And it went something like this: The horrors of Castrator led to Insatiable Violence, which again insinuated the Lust of Decay and finally ended in Depravity. The name of a band from down under that nicely finished this year of mixed reviews. Plus an astonishing number of rants to round things up some.

And while Extreme Metal had more difficulty making it over the threshold over here this year, this is still a pretty astonishing crop of metal atrocities. The grouchy old geezers over at the RMR Review desk took

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Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence (2025) – Review

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Brutally effective Death Metal had a difficult stand over here this year. And bands going beyond that with outstanding skills and a nuclear determination to get there were nonexistent. True, the reasonably feisty Castrator grated on our turntables this year. But we also got more tepid, sewage-infested material, and more of that than we ever wished.

The Canadians from Cryptopsy landed in the unsavory, noisome catacombs of our review pipe back in early 2025. Not something the RMR crew readily enjoys when beach-time starts winking at ye and summer’s on its way. Especially when a piece calls itself An … [...] Click to raid more!