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Ominous Ruin – Requiem (2025) – Review

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Ha! 2025 didn’t yield its usual crop of brutal Death Metal pieces yet and we’re behind on quota. Management is fuming and will be cutting benefits if the review desk won’t get a move on.

So, luckily, our scouts found an obscure Extreme Metal band from the Bay Area that stubbornly stuck to the smelly underbelly of the alloy-laced underground. Meaning, despite endlessly riffing about stages and soundscapes, they didn’t quite get to that breakthrough yet. The famed metal nirvana many a band attempted to reach but few ever did.

So, let’s explore. Ominous Ruin state that they did something … [...] Click to raid more!

Parius – The Signal Heard Throughout Space (2022) – Review

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Did you ever hear about the Wow Signal? A limited, short burst of data that seemed to hint at intelligent origins. ET, where art thou, that kind of thing. Well, many of you might not be aware of the story, it all happened back in 1977. And it was very short-lived, too. Somewhat of a microburst that vanished as quickly as it appeared. But it still got the undivided attention of the technician because it truly stood out from everything else.

Funny enough, I just enjoyed a short analysis of the incident on one of my YouTube channels. Their … [...] Click to raid more!

Seven Nines And Tens – Over Opiated in a Forest of Whispering Speakers (2022) – Review

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The RMR crew always has its feelers out for new or newish styles and – indeed – genres. You see, rock ‘n’ roll has been around for a while. And metal – well – starts to disintegrate into an overused and abused jumble of grades of metal that seem to go nowhere. Or at least, it ain’t really going where nobody went before. In other words, nobody was able to come up with something really new, and that’s been the case for many a decade.

So, we’re kinda excited to see those Post Metal somethings trickle in. They boast clean … [...] Click to raid more!