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This Gift is a Curse – Heir (2025) – Review

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Oh yeah, baby. Time to stop wobbling about strange soundscapes and back to burning off some mental fat. And that’s best done with unapologetic furious metal, stuff the usual classical music connoisseur would not touch with a ten-foot flagpole. Noisome metallic items that the RMR crew cannot really resist.

So, descend into This Gift is a Curse‘s unhealthy and wickedly heathen realm. An unwelcome apparition of a beast so vile it might make you decamp in a hellbent hurry. Meet the Heir, bow your head in submission, and be afraid. Very afraid.

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Allfather share A Violent Truth!

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Hells bells! We got ourselves another one of those bands thinking that a mere 27-minute airplay would melt the ice-cold metal hearts over at the RMR review desk.1 Usually, we’ll allow some leeway to punk records or some truly outstanding performance reaching us in short format. Yet, Allfather‘s A Violent Truth won’t hit any of those lofty standards, gruff fury and apparent eviscerations notwithstanding. And that means that this EP-ish piece here ain’t no candidate for an in-depth full review. Anger issues brutally untreated. ‘Soit’, as we say in French.

To be fair, though, the unforgiving rage … [...] Click to raid more!

Soothsayer – Echoes of the Earth (2021) – Review

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Why on earth did Heilung change names, move to Ireland, and chant ever more weirdly around the soundscape? But it’s not Heilung, they’re still firmly lodged mostly in Scandinavia. And their chanting didn’t deteriorate either.1 Besides, their earthy lore ain’t the same style as this one here.

It is the Irish band Soothsayer that – for some reason – decided to start their new piece Echoes of the Earth with some atrociously bad wailings on eternal repeat.2 Fringe probably exists solely to lull RMR into some sort of a transcendental state3 to accept more such bizarre garbage … [...] Click to raid more!

Alkerdeel – Slonk (2021) – Review

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I just finished writing a review that shall appear in the future. And I admit, it didn’t go well. Same as Alkerdeel‘s Slonk, this other record also advocates a mixture of sludge and doom, lost in ethereal wailings, muted riffs, and beastly drums. Only, it just doesn’t click, nor does it convey oomph or passion.

But Alkerdeel here truly deliver a ferocious brand of their very unique metal moonshine. And this on a bed of more or less authentic Black Metal vibes. A style that seems to fit the theme better than what others chose as their … [...] Click to raid more!