Malevolent 2024: Rough-hewn, blasphemous, and feisty!

Malevolent 2024 Series - Devils on a rampage

After an excellent crop of malevolent items showcased in the Year of the Dark Lord 2022, last year’s blood-thirsty urges didn’t warrant such a list. Allegedly. But for 2024, these terrible 365 days, there seems to be enough material to slake our thirst for the dark and daemonic. To the point that vile Death and Black Metal records started to pile up over at the RMR office. The consequence? RMR ended up with too much material than would be good for this here list. So, we had to make a choice. Only records exuding the vile breath of Astaroth were … [...] Click to raid more!

Ellende – Todbringerin (2024) – Review

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Remakes only sparsely grace our review pipe. There must be a couple at best, and that’s for good reason. Usually, the RMR crew prefers the raw material, the stuff that came before, the real thing. And not some crazy-ass remix with – Loki forbid – some atrocious synth-pop elements added for fun. You get all kinds, y’know, and not everything is pretty.

But – as always – exceptions do apply and Ellende is one of them. Since the 2022 piece Ellenbogengesellschaft hit our turntables, the RMR crew holds this artist in the highest esteem. Thus, Todbringerin will get a shot … [...] Click to raid more!