Eluveitie – Ànv (2025) – Review

Eluveitie - Anv - Album Cover

Once upon a time, Chrigel Glanzmann had a great idea. And that was to merge Pagan Folk with Death Metal. Not many expected this to work, but after a fair amount of trial and error, he succeeded, and Eluveitie was the end product that stuck with the audience.

Since the zine’s inception, the RMR crew covered a whopping six full-length records of this band. Out of which Everything Remains (as it never was) and – strangely – Evocation II – Pantheon fared best. Let’s be clear, lavish coverage such as this for one band is pretty unusual @ RMR. And … [...] Click to raid more!

Saor – Amidst the Ruins (2025) – Review

Saor - Amidst The Ruins - Album Cover

Looks like this will be Nordic week. The RMR crew just covered some Scandinavian mystique. And now there’s a different North on the menu a tad more to the West. We’re talking about the good ol’ Scottish warriors that used to howl down South to torment the Aenglish beyond that big wall. A modern and metal-laden version of them, more or less.

You guessed it. Saor‘s the name and their newest piece Amidst The Ruins is currently on the chopping block over at the RMR Review Desk. The band behind Andy Marshall with an affinity for standing stones … [...] Click to raid more!

Hesperia – Fra Li Monti Sibillini (2025) – Review

Hesperia - Fra Li Monti Sibillini - Album Cover

Somebody opined that we haven’t heard anything like this record. Come again? The RMR crew is known to take on eclectic pieces of the weird. Records that are so far out of the box and hidden in the wastes of metalland, you’ll have to search the outer reaches of space for them. And Latin-based languages fascinate us to no end when they come with a juicy slab of Extreme Metal. Case in point, Dawn of a Dark Age’s Transumanza hit our turntables not that long ago. A pig-headed piece if there ever was one. And devilishly difficult to review.

Hesperia

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Dragonknight – Legions (2025) – Review

Dragonknight - Legions - Album Cover

Oh boy. We got ourselves yet another of them masked bands boasting all those forbidden delights Power Metal could possibly furnish. And all of them are Lords to boot. Dragonknight here, a – and I quote – “…new conceptual band…” delivers a slick brand of Power Metal.

Way too slick for some folks, who immediately sniffed the terrible stench of an AI production. Well, judging by the label promoting this album and the presence of one Mikael Salo (ex De Lirium’s Order et al), they indeed form part of Finland’s PM brethren. But – cheese on red-hot iron drips fast … [...] Click to raid more!