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Vorga – Beyond The Palest Star (2024) – Review

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Hmm, isn’t that ironic? Just before attacking Vorga‘s last piece Striving Toward Oblivion, Corpus Diavolis’ 2022 piece hit. So, lo and behold, Beyond The Palest Star is on the menu, and what? The French black metallers just released their newest salacious opus. Go figure, the universe sometimes speaks to us, doesn’t it?

The brutal transition from the writhing altar to space force is harsh, though. The RMR crew’s still fending off all them daemons whilst – suddenly – there’s urgency to dust off our old spacesuits. And already this thing wants to take off and lead us … [...] Click to raid more!

Félonie – De Sève et de Sang (2023) – Review

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RMR is rummaging about the metal underground yet again. And I mean some hardcore underground. Félonie‘s the name and De Sève et de Sang1 the game. Created by a one-man show that currently only sports a sparse number of followers on the band’s Facebook page and not much social media coverage at the time of writing this piece.

Félonie is one of Marc Bourban‘s2 side projects that’s solely driven by the man’s very own ideas. It appears that his other outfits Tyrmfar and Wizards of Wiznan – allegedly – didn’t quite let the creative juices flow … [...] Click to raid more!

Gotland – Rise (2023) – Review

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Avē barbarae!

Gotland are one of these bands. They’ll release a record and wait for an inordinate amount of time to push the second out into the world. Nine years this time, to be precise. In the meantime, the band floated about the RMRsphereTM for a while with an offering here and there. And once the RMR reviewers thought them dead and gone, they suddenly appeared with grand tales. Or is it just a Fata Morgana of grandeur?

So, here’s to one of the most traumatic defeats in Roman history. Three legions lost in the Teutoburg forest somewhere, the … [...] Click to raid more!

Gravefields – Tetragrammaton (2023) – Review

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By the Dark Lord and his glowing trident. This is the week of Black and Death Metal hybrids. The RMR crew just reviewed one – and it wasn’t all that pretty. It is difficult to sync both styles and not kill the essence of the record in the process.

Thus, along come Gravefields‘ Tetragrammaton. Yet another outfit with a band logo straight from the shrubbery in my backyard. Question is, though, will these transcontinental boys fare better than their German brethren? Let’s step right into the brawl. Measuring sticks out, this is gonna be hot as hell. … [...] Click to raid more!