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Witnesses – Joy (2024) – Review

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The RMR crew just survived the latest attack from the masters of the weird. A record so out of the box that the Review Desk struggled with its overwrought alternative and strangely proggy airs. But such free-wheeling records (almost) always get the better of us. They are – want it or not – an essential part of the fabric holding our freaky and often strangely vulnerable metal music together. And that makes us always return to that particular well of spooky offerings and lost souls.

And this time, the ornamental album cover first captured our attention. A rich and … [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: Besra are looking for Equilibrium!

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Suicide Records, huh? Once I started to get the feel of Besra‘s newest blurb Equilibrium, the choice of the label began to make perfect sense. This is dangerous melancholy writ large on a canvas of pvre desperation. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

The RMR crew somehow missed the band’s 2023 piece Transitions. But as fall sets in with the usual weirdo weather patterns, decaying leaves, and overall melancholy, this new EP quickly attached itself to the folks over at the Review Desk. ‘Ô solitude! Ô Misery!’ That kind of thing, right?

Well, Equilibrium just roared onto … [...] Click to raid more!

Anciients – Beyond The Reach of the Sun (2024) – Review

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The new Opeth record is still some 60 days away and Mastodon are only musing about writing a new one. But right now, we hunger for some feisty and heavy progressive soundbites heading our way. Specifically, since one Mikael Åkerfeldt1 decided to reintroduce growls in his future prog release. Luckily, the Canadians from Anciients were ready to step in for about a month now. And they got heavy written into their DNA. In spades.

Anciients is yet another band valiantly sailing right past us back in 2016. So, some eight years later we’d all but forgotten about them. It … [...] Click to raid more!

Sons of Arrakis – Volume II (2024) – Review

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Ah yes, Dune, a sci-fi classic authored by Frank Herbert back in the ’60s. Full of worms, sand, desert heroes high on drugs, and Ninja-style fights. But it’s also a novel that never quite clicked with yours truly. Despite all that, I nonetheless went to see the latest movie and was – utterly unimpressed.

The movie’s a big and technically astute production but it also seriously lacks substance, decisive action, and suspense. Some critics put this down to a severe case of ‘following the book’. And there is some truth in that. But a movie needs to be exciting, not … [...] Click to raid more!