Darkend – Viaticum (2024) – Review

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For some reason, Black Metal has become one of the strongest genres on RMR. The inherent mystique and ungodly debauchery with its deadly siren song always seem to draw us near that particular black fire. It’s like this irresistible invitation out of the dark void from the Vampyre. Or, the deal with the devil, if you will. The invocation of dark spirits and worse daemons of the kinds even the horrible Aleister Crowley dared not speak of. In short, the RMR crew sports a driving force of trve dark souls with that strange blackened inhuman hunger.

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Inno – The Rain Under (2020) – Review

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Our relationship with Gothic and Dark Metal has often been stop and go over the last years. True, Lenore S. Fingers won pretty high praises. Yet, other bands (somewhat) in line with Inno‘s The Rain Under, like the forgettable diatribe of Lindsay Schoolcraft, really made not much of a dent into the RMR deck crew’s cold metal hearts.

And it is often the tediously uniform singing style that rubs us the wrong way. As if someone took a fucking diary and reads from it. And, I daresay, Inno is also guilty of some of that. To what … [...] Click to raid more!