Impureza – Alcázares (2025) – Review

Alright, this crew is confused. The review pipe violently ejected a Death Metal band called Impurity. These guys spew their wares in Castellan, but are based in the beautiful French city of Orléans. To add insult to injury, the band frequently indulges in flamenco-style excursions with those typical fast-moving rhythms. And they do it in the traditional fashion or in high-end Extreme Metal mode. Now, if that doesn’t pique your interest, I wonder what will.

So, here’s to Impureza, the band boasting one of the funkiest ideas in metal that this crew has found to date. Grab yer hardhats!… [...] Click to raid more!

Celestial Wizard – Regenesis (2025) – Review

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Celestial Wizard - Regenesis - Album Cover

Celestial Wizard‘s 2022 piece, Winds of the Cosmos, never quite convinced us. The RMR crew let ‘er roar out of our mighty music machine. But nada, nothing would stick, or at least not enough to unstick it from the sump of the review pipe.

But here, the band is back with Regenesis, their newest concoction. And already the pulp fiction style, kinda oldish album cover got the better of us. Who can resist some sort of Western-style Grim Reaper on a pale horse in a saguaro-infested1 fantastical Arizona desert setting? Well, yours truly couldn’t. Go find … [...] Click to raid more!

Noumenia – Echoes (2025) – Review

Noumenia - Echoes - Album Cover

Alright, these folks caught the seasoned old wizards of RMR’s Best off guard. For about two seconds, the sinners of the review desk thought this was about the Death Metal doomsters of Noumena, the band without the I. Nice try, guys.

But no, here we deal with a much more modern quirk of the metal multiverse. The band is called Noumenia, and they’re looking for Echoes. A record that seems to emerge straight from ‘core country yet again. Not a direction we want to turn into too often. But this Band o’ Strange Sisters screamed themselves into … [...] Click to raid more!

Aexylium – Myth of Mankind (2025) – Review

Aexylium - Myth of Mankind - Album Cover

It looks like they learned something from Fleshgod Apocalypse. Placing your classically trained female fighter up front and straight into action pays, doesn’t it? It led to great things for the aforementioned band on this zine. But how did Aexylium fare with their newest piece Myth of Mankind?

This band appeared on our list of reviews since it hit the metal road with Tales from this Land, after all. If anything, they’ve grown in metal power and coherence ever since. So, what’s it going to be this time? Ancient myths or a metallic history lesson. Let’s see

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