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!

Newsflash: Until Our Tale is Told, by VallorcH!

RockmusicRaider Review - Vallorch - Until Our Tale is Told - Album Cover

Ah, the Cimbrian community in the Italian Veneto seems to be very active in metal. The RMR crew covered Kanseil’s piece Doin Erde earlier in 2015. Folk Metal with a quirk and a solid historical background.

Now, the Italian Folk Metal band VallorcH released their sophomore full-length album Until Our Tale Is Told back towards the end of that same year. And similar to the aforementioned medievally-tainted dudes, this act takes a pretty folksy, yet truly metallic approach to local themes. Mainly based on the cultural remnants of the highlands North of Venice. 

VallorcH came into existence in 2010 and released their first EP … [...] Click to raid more!