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Gåte – Sigil (2026) – Review

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The Norwegian band Gåte‘s 2021 piece Nord filled us with hope that a newish version of pagan anything finally reached our roster. And sure enough, their mix of modern Folk Rock and Metal, Pagan Folk, and too much Heilung hit a pretty good rating. Albeit at an elevated mixed-bag level. But it was a decidedly good one at that.

In the meantime, the RMR crew missed some of the action the band created. Well, unpaid reviewers with no money to spend and too much material cannot cover it all. Artfully forged alloy spews forth in abundance from many sources, … [...] Click to raid more!

Savage Lands – Army of the Trees (2025) – Review

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Let me tell you what made us pick this record up in the first place. Black Rock Heart, the first track on Savage Lands‘ debut album Army of the Trees, wildly reminded us of Slap Betty‘s piece of work that aired some years ago. A record containing a lot of progression, some limited emotion, but little substance otherwise.1 Apart from loads of red-hot, well-chiseled Heavy Rock, that is. A feature that rarely garnishes this zine’s review pipe.

So, here we got ourselves a record featuring a limited core band created by Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth) and Sylvain … [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: Varmia sends us a Prolog!

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Well, by the broken bells of hell. Total darkness trickles down South from the Northern frozen landscape. RMR barely starts the year, and the Polish band Varmia hits us with their newest slightly pagan-esque EP Prolog. Time will tell if ’23 will again turn out to be a malevolent year like the last one. But this band launches us to a good start.

First and foremost, Prolog hits you with a strange mix of the lost dregs of (very) early Enslaved, Bathory on a sunny day, and the unhinged rage of early Myrkur. This goes together with a … [...] Click to raid more!

Nanna Barslev – Lysbærer (2022) – Review

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Neo-Pagan and Dark Folk fascinate me, in a geeky kind of way. It’s an archaic multiverse of sorts that seeks to recreate long bygone times that were – supposedly – aligned to Gaia’s consciousness. You know, those times when we were all dancing around the fires and painting weird symbols on rocks.

You got the amplifiers of Heilung for instance, the folks that weirdly howl around the stage claiming they got a grip on all that history thing. RMR covered Gåte not many moons ago for their newest folk piece.1 Wardruna, Einar Selvik’s (not so) new outlet, garnered some … [...] Click to raid more!