Tag Archives: Pop Metal

Marilyn Manson – One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 (2024) – Review

Posted on by — Leave a reply
RockmusicRaider - Spotify Logo
Marilyn Manson - One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 - Album Cover

Any band with a piece of ‘Manson’ in it should probably be banned outright in RMR’s top secret List ov Unforgivable Extremes. You know, acts so daft or ideologically challenged, we’ll ban our very own fucking reviews. Like one of them idiot monks enjoying a flagellation attack and the terrible cilice until the white mana spews forth, that kind of thing. But back to the Manson curse. You got Charles Manson, of course, the guy who didn’t know what sorry means and is now burning in hell. A phrase famously covered by Paradise Lost on their 1995 album Draconian Times… [...] Click to raid more!

Carmeria – Tragédie D’amour (2024) – Review

Posted on by — Leave a reply
Listen on Apple Music
RockmusicRaider - Spotify Logo
Carmeria - Tragédie D'amour - Album Cover

The RMR crew still scratches its mutual heads why on earth the Metal Archives refuse to admit Amaranthe into its Holy Halls of Fame. It’s not that RMR himself suddenly found some red-hot love for that particular band, far from it. And we’re confused. Because, Elize Ryd1 prominently resides in the Encyclopaedia Metallum but not her main band. And that led to even more heavy head-scratching over at the office tower.

The reason? She allegedly partakes in a band called ‘Raskasta Joulua’ (Heavy Christmas in Finnish, no less). Rocky X-Mas carols and old Nightwish songs, that kind of thing. … [...] Click to raid more!

A Dark Halo – Omnibus One (2023) – Review

Posted on by — Leave a reply
Listen on Apple Music
RockmusicRaider - Spotify Logo
A Dark Halo - Omnibus One - Album Cover

Ah, the woes of Pop Metal out there in the alloy-infested wild. Some of it is good, and most of it is bad. But they all are energetic to a point, somewhere up there with the Power Metal folks. Only that the majority of those records feels like a maniacal Barbie Cheesefest for grownups with a metal twist. And that netted some big bands like Amaranthe the might of our terrible banhammer. Theirs is just too much of a money grab with overdone tropes1 that we all heard a gazillion times before.

So, the RMR review desk’s loath to … [...] Click to raid more!

GLDN draw First Blood!

Posted on by — Leave a reply
Listen on Apple Music
RockmusicRaider - Spotify Logo
GLDN - First Blood - EP Cover

Music is emotion, right? A visceral thing that’s not easily explained. It can be a true feel-good experience, or then again, something scary. Now, the RMR crew unearthed some truly dark and evil artists during our tenure. Psychopaths, like the ones that would kill people, had they not started to make music that greedily feeds their blackened and charred souls. And, in truth, some1 won’t ever make it onto the ‘zine – even if we have their files and numbers on record.

There are others, of course. But still, no creatures of the light, mind you. Bands that create … [...] Click to raid more!