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Blasts from the Past 2024: Prog meets Metal Wiolence!

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What can I say, we can’t help it. Our revolutionary genes kicked in yet again in 2024. Rulez have been broken and oldish content was covered with abandon. Well, the sinning wasn’t quite that severe. But the selection of Blasts from the Past is kinda juicy nonetheless, ranging from Prog geekery to brvtish metallic wiolence. The kind of thing that will keep you entertained and your hackles up at the same time.

Welcome to a new selection of crazy alloys and strange archaeological finds!

Haken – Fauna

Release year: 2023

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Talk about a missed opportunity. How on earth could we … [...] Click to raid more!

Haken – Fauna (2023) – Review

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Somebody famously opined that Haken‘s Fauna somehow flew under the radar for many reviewers in 2023. And there may be some truth to this. Or is there?

After masterpieces like Virus that made it straight to the top of our 2020 Top 10 or sturdy records like The Mountain with their Cockroach King, it will be a difficult climb for any new piece to reach those lofty heights. And I daresay, these olde albums still resonate with the RMR crew to this day.

Also, Haken here were called out for being an abject djent machine and should thus … [...] Click to raid more!

Parius – The Signal Heard Throughout Space (2022) – Review

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Did you ever hear about the Wow Signal? A limited, short burst of data that seemed to hint at intelligent origins. ET, where art thou, that kind of thing. Well, many of you might not be aware of the story, it all happened back in 1977. And it was very short-lived, too. Somewhat of a microburst that vanished as quickly as it appeared. But it still got the undivided attention of the technician because it truly stood out from everything else.

Funny enough, I just enjoyed a short analysis of the incident on one of my YouTube channels. Their … [...] Click to raid more!

RMR’s 2020 Top 3 Videos and EPs!

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Did you know that RockmusicRaider will also rant about videos and those short blurbs called EPs?1 You probably did. But you didn’t know that our lazy asses finally got in gear to offer a short ranking list for both categories to our readers. As a first-ever in the illustrious career of the RockmusicRaider webzine.

It is true, we focus on full-length reviews and often pay little attention to clips and those shorter concoctions. But 2020 whelped some excellent material, which we found impossible to ignore. So, in this light, it would be a pity not to give them an … [...] Click to raid more!