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Flamekeeper – Flamekeeper (2024) – Review

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Ha! May 2024’s crop seems to yield a fair amount of Trad and Heavy Metal. Young bands with a desire to keep the flame of the spirit of the wizened old warhorses alive and start leading the charge. Greyhawk – for instance – just got a review on RMR and it was a revelation.

But – this will prove a challenge for Flamekeeper, the next contender. The bar has been set mighty high by the old, seasoned geezers of the genre and the potent new folk alike. Your belly needs to be afire with ferocious fervor and the power … [...] Click to raid more!

Litha – Litha (2023) – Review

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Oh boy. Yet another band whose name is Legion. There are so many Lithas out there, it truly boggles the mind. On top of that, the master supreme – Andrew Black – and his one-man outfit are difficult to find online. And that spells doom for good marketing. So, what are they going to do to stand out from that notorious crowd? A difficult proposition at best. But then, what can you do, the terrible underground takes it all, right?

And yet. This new self-titled record continued to fascinate the hell out of us. But it ain’t without pain … [...] Click to raid more!

Black Birch releases – Black Birch. Boon or bane?

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The Swedes from Black Birch are one of those bands. Fresh off the press in December 2022, they started to release a bunch of singles that – I guess – should serve as an investment into the future. Some sort of small-format Henry Metal. You know, the guy who released eight bad-quality LPs between 2017 and 2018, and since then, nada.

So, BB here decided to release one new track a month in 2023 with this here new EP – supposedly – as a go-between of sorts. A confusing strategy that’s ascerbated by the missing cover for the EP … [...] Click to raid more!

Coma Hole, Good ol’ Stoner, and some Grunge?

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Ah, the things you can do with a single bass guitar, a good drum kit, and smoky female vocals. Coma Hole here are one of the rare bands on RMR that will make do without the usual lead guitar. Instead, they slap dat bass as you’ve never seen before with sometimes amazing results. The last band that really made an impression like that on us were the dear departed ones of Riti Occulti.1 And that was back in – 2016.

So, here the RMR review board let Coma Hole‘s debut EP roar and they were truly intrigued. … [...] Click to raid more!