Archspire – Too Fast to Die (2026) – Review

Archspire - Too Fast To Die - Album Cover

Attention metalverse!! We got ourselves yet another case of nomen est omen in Extreme Metal. Archspire are back with a new red-hot item called Too Fast To Die, the successor to Bleed The Future1 from ’21. And boasting a moniker reeking of staleness that sounds so James Bond, you wanna throw up into a bucket.

But, this new piece may very well prove prophetic in more ways than one. So, fasten your seatbelt, speed will be of the essence this time and those traffic fines be damned.


One thing is clear, Inferi just grew themselves some competition. And … [...] Click to raid more!

Inferi – Heaven Wept (2026) – Review

Inferi - Heaven Wept - Album Cover

Hell’s calling. Sounds about right these days, doesn’t it? Inferi, meaning hell in Italian and kind of the same in Latin, the band called their outfit, first seen around these parts in 2006. And yes, I heard the theories that the band moniker derives from some Harry Potter fantasy. And if true, they need to grow up. But otherwise, ’tis yet another long-standing metal band that eluded the RMR crew for long years.

There goes Archspire was the RMR crew’s first mutual thought when Heaven Wept led off into the metallic yonder. And we weren’t all that wrong with … [...] Click to raid more!

Towers, an essay by The Machinist!

The Machinist - Towers - Album Cover

I know we brutally ignored them in 2025. The Machinist‘s sophomore album Contempt for Life kinda flickered about our peripheral vision last year. But it finally got nowhere near our review pipe. And we regret that. But, as always, hindsight is always 20/20.

But fear naught. Towers, the latest blurb from Manchester-based The Machinist, will nonetheless try to make its point. Sincerely so and with all due wiolence the RMR crew can stomach. And what’s up with this Northern English city? Methinks, it regurgitates brutality with abandon. Case in point, the RMR crew just enjoyed some bastardly encounters[...] Click to raid more!

Depravity – Bestial Possession (2025) – Review

Depravity - Bestial Possession - Album Cover

2025 had its share of Brutal Death Metal. And it went something like this: The horrors of Castrator led to Insatiable Violence, which again insinuated the Lust of Decay and finally ended in Depravity. The name of a band from down under that nicely finished this year of mixed reviews. Plus an astonishing number of rants to round things up some.

And while Extreme Metal had more difficulty making it over the threshold over here this year, this is still a pretty astonishing crop of metal atrocities. The grouchy old geezers over at the RMR Review desk took

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