Blighted Eye – Agony’s Bespoke (2024) – Review

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A good storyline will drive the quality of a record. A stereotype that is almost always true. A great storyline, however, will knock it out of the park. And that is where Blighted Eye strut onto the scene like the bright green Cookie Monster. I’m hearing, Agony’s Bespoke rides into battle on the tale of Clare, a deported convict violently abused by Australian settlers, as described in the 2018 movie ‘The Nightingale’. And to transform these brutal moving pictures into an Extreme Metal piece definitely turns this slightly nauseating tale into a damned great storyline. Thus as the lore goes, … [...] Click to raid more!

Wormed – Omegon (2024) – Review

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Alright, Wormed should form part of our n00b crowd at the RMR office tower. A list of established metal acts that – to this day – somehow didn’t make it on our roster yet. The band emerged from the vile depths of space in 1998 and produced all of – four full-length albums over all these years. But even with a scarce density like that, this band has exerted considerable influence on Brutal and Technical Death Metal over time.

RMR is no good with ‘established’ bands of the alleged metal mainstream. So, it’s no surprise that this band somehow sailed … [...] Click to raid more!

Maere – …And The Universe Keeps Silent (2024) – Review

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The RMR crew likes itself a good piece of dissonance from time to time. And this April 2024, there are two of them on the menu. Kvadrat – in a subdued kind of way – and the German band Maere with their debut …And The Universe Keeps Silent.

Disconcerting and unsettling nuances lead down this thorny road usually reserved for trve metalheads who like to wallow in darkness and misery. In other words, the adepts of the light will simply faint once you hit play. There’s no happy note where this particular left-hand path’s acolytes are heading.

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Kvadrat – The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion (2024) – Review

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The square. A magic symbol for times immemorial. An object that’s been revered not only in math but in many other mystical undercurrents that grew themselves some legs over the eons. And that’s how this band’s name – Kvadrat1 – immediately garnered some attention. And no, it wasn’t the killer artwork that made us pick up the piece this time. Much to the contrary, even if the 3D logo is kinda cool.

To define the quality of a record by the band name only would be silly, of course. From the moment The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion struck our … [...] Click to raid more!