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Tyraels Ascension – Hell Walker (2024) – Review

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Core, the bane of RMR? Not quite, just a bunch of styles that don’t sit too well over at the RMR Review Desk. Albeit some hybrids found pretty feisty praise in 2024. So, good fare will find recognition after all.

Tyraels Ascension‘s debut record Hell Walker dwelled in our review pipe for a while – and got forcefully displaced by some metallic extremes that will air shortly on RMR. Hence our being comfortably late all over again. And – perhaps – the need for core-ish brutality wasn’t all that prevalent for a while. Sometimes the urge for caustic screams … [...] Click to raid more!

RMR’s 2023 Infamous Lamestream N00bs!

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Ha! I got ya, didn’t I? Negative headlines indeed create clicks. You thought this was all about miserable underground bands nobody ever heard of. Snazzy ranting destroying the month-long efforts those outfits put in to eke out a living. Right? RIGHT?

Nope, it isn’t. Much to the contrary, this is all about established metal bands that the RMR Review Desk shamefully ignored for all those years. You know, because – mainstream. They may all represent hardened metal but they were also insanely successful, alive and kicking for decades, and show no signs of slowing down. Most of them don’t, of … [...] Click to raid more!

In Flames – Foregone (2023) – Review

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It’s time to continue to make our underground genes work on the dreaded (metal) mainstream1 some more. A new series of sorts that should show some results later that year. The RMR crew already started on Katatonia with some – interesting and also unexpected results.

Now here In Flames is on the menu, another heavyweight in Extreme Metal, in business since 1990. And yet another n00b on the RMR review pipe, because – for some reason – the ‘zine never quite paid attention to one of the most established metal bands out there. Foregone conclusions or true quality on … [...] Click to raid more!