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Aversed – Erasure of Color (2025) – Review

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Aversed did it. Who would have thought that? The airtime is down to a benign 40 minutes from 57 minutes on Impermanent. Also, methinks that there’s much less Arch Enemy baked into Erasure of Color compared to what was before. And these are good pointers toward a successful sophomore piece of an up-and-coming Extreme Metal band. Or is it really? Harsh musings and melodic exploits.

Right from the start, the change in vocal style is truly remarkable. It looks like Haydee Irizarry and her Gluz-leaning1 antics left the building in 2021, and one Sarah Hartman moved into her … [...] Click to raid more!

Rioghan – Kept (2025) – Review

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I never thought we would cover Leprous ever again. After all, Einar Solberg took his almost picture-perfect prog act down a windy road of whiny, high-pitched, and soft-balled tunes. Suddenly, the progressive cojones went missing and the outcome wasn’t something we could stomach for more than five minutes at a time. But wait, what? This ain’t Solberg?

Right.

Meet Rioghan, a very talented Finnish artist with a pig-headed, out-of-the-box approach to her music. And that landed her with an inordinate amount of attention on this zine to this day. The last time the RMR crew had her seriously on … [...] Click to raid more!

Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire (2025) – Review

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Nobody over here needs to be reminded who Lacuna Coil is. The band has been a staple of this zine for all its existence. At first, the RMR crew covered the somewhat conflicted mid-tens offerings such as Dark Adrenaline or – again – Broken Crown Halo.

Things started to improve by 2016 when the disturbing yet pretty excellent Delirium appeared out of nowhere. That one clearly marked a change in energy levels, posture, and attitude of a band finally capitalizing on their many talents. And this trend continued with the succulent Black Anima of 2019 that made it onto … [...] Click to raid more!

Beriedir – Liminal Spaces (2025) – Review

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It is true. Progressive Metal was in short supply on the RMR zine in 2024. And this resulted in a roster far too dark and ominous for its own good. Don’t believe me? Our Top 10 can bear witness to this. That’s not to say that we didn’t enjoy any juicy hits in the prog department. But all of those were rather scarce to begin with.

So, why not start 2025 with a neat hammer blow of a prog record? And for this, we won’t have to look further than the beautiful countryside of Italy. Bergamo’s Beriedir manifested themselves with … [...] Click to raid more!