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Lionheart – The Grace of a Dragonfly (2024) – Review

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You gotta love the promo dude. “LIONHEART (ex-IRON MAIDEN)…” in huge letters. The headline shrilly hollers its wares at the audience like some seethingly bright neon sign over at Times Square. So, naive RMR fully believed that staged Heavy Metal would grace our turntable and started looking for Iron Maiden‘s newest clone or something. But upon a closer look, the situation is a tad different.

Dennis Stratton indeed once rocked with Iron Maiden back around 1980 before Dickinson was even invented. And he only plied the one and only self-titled debut album. So, THAT’s the sole claim for fame … [...] Click to raid more!

Video: Let Us Begin, sez The Neptune Power Federation!

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Well, holy moly. These age-old rock tunes never cease to excite us, now, don’t they? The deliciously musty smell of ’70s and ’80s Hard Rock assaulting our ears. Those recordings hitting early metal without really going there – yet. The high-pitched wails, and fast-moving rock ‘n’ roll on goddam steroids. Or was it LSD? We’ll never quite know.

So, here the Australian outfit The Neptune Power Federation appeared on our radar ready to pervert our youth with some unsuitable children’s books. On a video, no less. Let Us Begin boasts a lusty fast-moving Hard Rock piece that reeks of good … [...] Click to raid more!

Byron – Chapter II: The Lotus Covenant (2024) – Review

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Byron‘s mighty debut album The Omega Evangelion seriously got on our good side back in ’21 – at first. That was one juicy piece of rock-laden Heavy Metal that proficiently marched us down metal avenue to glories yet unknown. But, those damn choices made by Byron V1 back then suddenly stripped the album of some much of its glory. And that was a true bummer.

So, the question here is, will the band’s dreaded sophomore album Chapter II: The Lotus Covenant rock the stage better than its sibling? We’re yearning for clarity because things look murkier than they … [...] Click to raid more!

Trespass – Wolf at the Door (2023) – Review

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The folks over at the RMR review desk are big fans of Heavy Metal. Yes, THAT genre again. The one that’s refusing to die with age-old bands still thriving on it to this day. And some of them are still stadium fillers, believe it or not. But there’s not only the old geezers still out there, you also find pretty good young guns hard at work to keep things alive.

Those bands – old or young – still draw on the mana from the first waves of Heavy Metal and definitely the NWOBHM1 era. And many of today’s activists … [...] Click to raid more!