RMR’s 2023 Top 10 Records

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2023 started slowly. And at first, the RMR crew wasn’t quite sure where it would all lead to – or end. And by the word ‘end’, I mean the end of RMR. A lot of soul-searching went into this year’s continuation of a steady flow of reviews. Same as other music sites out there, we had our severe doubts if running a review ‘zine wasn’t just a fucking waste of internet space or not. Brutally put, nobody gives a damn about review sites anymore – apart from those looking for free marketing. So, if you’re reading this, then the leftover … [...] Click to raid more!

Vvon Dogma I – The Kvlt of Glitch (2023) – Review

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The RMR review pipe of early 2023 seems to attract all types of abstract or out-of-the-box pieces. Records that usually should not co-exist with all that metal over here. But somehow, they still do. Funky, huh? But – you see – comfortable metal tropes are good for the soul. Yet sometimes you need to push the boundaries until you meet the glitch. Kvltish technocrats brutally unchained!


Back in 2017, Vvon Dogma I‘s Communion fascinated us in a geeky yet disturbing kind of way. This one was so out of the box, it almost didn’t make it onto our … [...] Click to raid more!

Black Passage – The Veil (2019) – Review

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Never, ever cease to look for those mutineers. For those bands that step outside the proverbial boundaries that somehow appeared. Invisible borders, not necessarily decreed by law, but more often by elitist popularism.

Driven by few to imprint their beliefs onto the masses that oftentimes gladly submit to the yoke of unified thought control and overcooked political correctness. A very Orwellian world, but one that we do see emerging more and more these days.

In music, ‘specialists’ will categorize everything that sounds into genres. And it seems that more is better and less truly sucks. Funny enough, they frown severely … [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: In Communion with Vvon Dogma I!

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The RockmusicRaider offices just love those jewels all of a sudden ejected from the nameless masses of music creations. Like some sort of magic volcano gone to the other side. And specifically tasty are those bands that consciously and purposefully defy styles and currents. By this definition, they threaten to become their very own genre – a victim of their own success if you will. We had them before on RockmusicRaider with bands like Dirty Sound Magnet and their self-declared modus operandi aptly named Creative Rock. 

Into this category fall the eccentric geeks of the Canadian band Vvon Dogma I[...] Click to raid more!