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Towers, an essay by The Machinist!

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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

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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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Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence (2025) – Review

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Brutally effective Death Metal had a difficult stand over here this year. And bands going beyond that with outstanding skills and a nuclear determination to get there were nonexistent. True, the reasonably feisty Castrator grated on our turntables this year. But we also got more tepid, sewage-infested material, and more of that than we ever wished.

The Canadians from Cryptopsy landed in the unsavory, noisome catacombs of our review pipe back in early 2025. Not something the RMR crew readily enjoys when beach-time starts winking at ye and summer’s on its way. Especially when a piece calls itself An … [...] Click to raid more!

The Reticent – please (2025) – Review

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The Reticent is known to wallow deeply in the rough seas of mental disturbances. Already, On The Eve of a Goodbye got us a taste of suicidal urges brought to fruition and the aftermath experienced by those left with the living. The Oubliette broke the news about Alzheimer’s in intricate detail. And I could relate to that, given that I have been relentlessly exposed to both issues. Not first hand, mind you. I wouldn’t be writing reviews, else. But close enough to get a real taste of the inner workings of them.

The difficulty with both aforementioned records was always … [...] Click to raid more!