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Noumenia – Echoes (2025) – Review

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Alright, these folks caught the seasoned old wizards of RMR’s Best off guard. For about two seconds, the sinners of the review desk thought this was about the Death Metal doomsters of Noumena, the band without the I. Nice try, guys.

But no, here we deal with a much more modern quirk of the metal multiverse. The band is called Noumenia, and they’re looking for Echoes. A record that seems to emerge straight from ‘core country yet again. Not a direction we want to turn into too often. But this Band o’ Strange Sisters screamed themselves into … [...] 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!

Lacuna Coil – Black Anima (2019) – Review

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Lacuna Coil like wordplays. Already their own band name is one, which translates to something like empty or blank coil. Now, their newest full-length album Black Anima (anima = soul in Italian) names stuff in the same vein. I kinda liked this idea already, together with this ominous album cover. All this goodness smacks of change. And change is what we need more of from this band.

Now, already their 2016 record Delirium seriously stole from our coveted stock of brownie points. This one had true promise and was written under duress so I understand, with a gazillion of band … [...] Click to raid more!