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Darkher – The Buried Storm (2022) – Review

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When Darkher hit our turntables back in 2016, the RMR deckhands – at first – thought that this would be some trve competition to Extreme Metal acts like Myrkur. But Realms turned out to be more Loreena McKennit than it would ever hit Amalie Bruun’s backyard.

And whilst that may be so, her depiction of frugal dark and subdued doom continued to fascinate us. Her minimalistic streak, those carefully crafted blurbs of tasty doom stuck with us like some ice-cold and wet power glue to our skin.

Now, Jayn Maiven (formerly Wissenberg) made us wait for new material for … [...] Click to raid more!

Dordeduh – Har (2021) – Review

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I confess. The RMR deck crew never heard of Dordeduh until we discovered Har. And at first, it was just the somewhat bizarre band name that struck me. But then, we have seen worse in this weird metal multiverse. Much worse.

And once I fired up the piece, I also understood that this was not in a language that I speak1) but some Eastern dialect. As in Eastern Europe – or Central Europe in modern speak.

And sure enough, I finally figured that it is Romanian, and that’s interesting. Because their lands positively gorge with dark tales and … [...] Click to raid more!

Helrunar – Vanitas Vanitatvm (2018) – Review

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RockmusicRaider Review - Helrunar - Vanitas Vanitatum - Album Cover Nostalgia. The yearning for some long-vanished swathes of time. Events you once enjoyed, and somehow they still feel good today. And you (kind of) wish to travel back in time and be there again. The feeling is some sort of retroactive déjà-vu, a vague sentiment of useless comfort – most of the time. But in reality all of that is lost in the corridors of time. And will never, ever come back.

Or will it?

Because the German Black Metallers Helrunar serve a very special ritual with their 7th full length record Vanitas Vanitatvm (vanity of vanities). The record really … [...] Click to raid more!