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Video: Týr find The Rune (2025)!

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Týr are back with news, straight from their cold islands of the Faroes. And, as is often the case, the RMR crew was keen to hear what the old metal Vikings are up to on their stormy rock outcropping up there in the North. After all, they need to improve on their latest record. And soon.

Discreet voices whispered of a new clip, a harbinger of an equally new record to come. A one-shot video called The Rune (2025). And this piqued our interest because we didn’t know what to expect.

It could have been the countenance of … [...] Click to raid more!

Traversus Navigate – What?

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Alright, RMR’s pickup of progressive pieces has been slow in 2025, to put it mildly. So, better start late than never. Spotlight on, pointed directly on the Dutch act Traversus. Navigate is their newest EP, and it’s a strange animal. Not weird in any confused way, but it takes some chutzpah to mix Hard Rock with Progressive Metal and a ton of Gothic Metal in the fray. That’s dangerous waters with a lot of unseen reefs to navigate through.

And whilst not going there outright, Traversus navigates pretty closely to the likes of Haken and early Leprous. And … [...] Click to raid more!

One Eternal for Stortregn!

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Usually, the RMR crew doesn’t respond to shoutouts to cover very short blurbs like that one. But here Stortregn appeared on our radar with a pretty loud bang. Impermanence of 2021 was the latest piece the review desk picked up, and it was a feisty one. For some reason, Finitude didn’t make it onto our review pipe, and it probably should have.

Now, we’re hearing that Romain Negro is seriously out the door and a new vocalist – Franck de Luca – is now in charge of destroying any sense of reasonable clean singing. And that is where the main … [...] Click to raid more!

Alien Realms, as imagined by Vortex!

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Ah, so many vortices out there in the Metal Multiverse. It’s a fascinating choice for a band name, as you never know where you will end up once the vortex sucks you into its terrible embrace. And theories are legion out there, with the most likely outcome that you will simply die if the thing is lethal enough. No mystery there.

So, this here Vortex is the Canadian pendant from Quebec. A band born back in 1998 with a penchant for Melodic, Symphonic, and Blackened Death Metal and an urge to discover uncomfortable Alien Realms. And would there be … [...] Click to raid more!