SIG:AR:TYR – Citadel of Stars (2024) – Review

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Northen wallowed in the rich history of the old Norse gone Viking. An ode to early visitors of white people to the North American continent who faced the terrible Skraeling. Science struggled with this fact, by the way. At first, the community would not confirm that early settlements existed in present-day Canada, and possibly further down South, too. And as grudging consent grew, it became clear that it wasn’t good ol’ blundering Columbus. It must have been Leif Erikson who unknowingly discovered a new continent – a few hundred years earlier.

In anticipation of the new record, the RMR crew … [...] Click to raid more!

Drunemeton – Tir Nan Og (2024) – Review

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Ah, the RMR crew is wallowing a lot in Celtic mystique this early 2024. This time it is Drunemeton and their invocation of Tir Nan Og that got our fancy. A theme hinting at the famed pagan otherwordly island paradise, a haven endowed with everlasting youth, beauty, health, abundance, and joy. A place where humans can visit at their own perils only. Because, if you’re not immortal, you’ll pay the price later.

And all that rolls in on quotes from the age-old movie ‘The Wicker Man’ of 1973.1 You’ll hear Sergeant Howie howling while he meets his fiery demise right … [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: Varmia sends us a Prolog!

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Well, by the broken bells of hell. Total darkness trickles down South from the Northern frozen landscape. RMR barely starts the year, and the Polish band Varmia hits us with their newest slightly pagan-esque EP Prolog. Time will tell if ’23 will again turn out to be a malevolent year like the last one. But this band launches us to a good start.

First and foremost, Prolog hits you with a strange mix of the lost dregs of (very) early Enslaved, Bathory on a sunny day, and the unhinged rage of early Myrkur. This goes together with a … [...] Click to raid more!

Vermilia – Ruska (2022) – Review

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The Pagan World of Metallics is vast. You get all sorts of street performers with scant knowledge of the good ol’ times when Gaia’s forces were – supposedly – in charge. Often they wear strange rags, holler incomprehensive screechy monologues, and stomp weirdly around the stage.

In their defense, there’s little scientific wisdom available to back things up. And even that is often clouded by the mists of time to boot. Modern-day sages just don’t have enough data to go by, even if considerable progress has been made over the last few years. So, much is open to sometimes wild … [...] Click to raid more!