Wings of Steel – Winds of Time (2025) – Review

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Clichés rule! And that is specifically true for well-established metal genres. Heavy Metal is one of them for sure. Long past its heyday, you’ll still find bands wanting to go down this well-trodden path. They’ll make you experience that delicious devil’s music the old masters started once upon a time. And it’s a surprising number of them newbies tilling the ancient fields that their oldish brethren already visited eons ago.

Meet Wings of Steel. A surprisingly young Californian Heavy Metal band that seems to step right out of the tired remains of the Sunset Boulevard movement and the early … [...] Click to raid more!

Inhuman Condition – Mind Trap (2025) – Review

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Funny how that works out. The cheap-looking album covers of Inhuman Condition got us to pick up Rat God in the first place. There’s some twisted humor in there. These covers look like the front pages of them sleazy Pulp Fiction novels we used to buy many a decade ago. And somehow, the perpetrator’s mug kinda looks familiar. Or is it just me? Hidden messages galore or brain fog brought about by too many conspiracy theories. Whichever comes first. And that the new band sports refugees from the mighty Massacre was just icing on this metal cake.

The band’s oldish … [...] Click to raid more!

Ironflame – Kingdom Torn Asunder (2024) – Review

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This is going to be the week of Heavy and Power Metal. And it’s true, the RMR crew truly is a sucker for these two genres. So, we’re all ears whenever there’s a chance for another band braving these overwrought styles’ boundaries. Case in point, many bands already roared over our threshold here coming from a bundle of metal flavors many pronounced dead already. Some of them very good, others less so.

Ironflame already made a dent in the History ov RMRTM back in 2020 with Blood Red Victory. A speeding ticket in search for a fine, … [...] Click to raid more!