Birthed as the human race is being challenged and ravished like few times before and inspired by the inexcusable acts and wrongs it has brought forth over the years, Néfastes is a vicious and violent incursion of sound and animosity… Read More ›
Black Metal
Nature Morte – Messe Basse
Life at times is a balance of dark and light, especially in recent times; a journey where shadows court every joy and hope beckons from within torment. Experiences vary from moment to moment, person to person but it is a… Read More ›
Project Silence – Infinity
It has not proved too hard for us at The RR to be hooked on the creative animus of Finnish industrialists Project Silence these past years ever since the release of their debut album 424 in 2012. Even as their… Read More ›
Nebelhorn – Urgewalt
Urgewalt is the third album from Nebelhorn but for us the first time we have come across the one man project from Germany. This may be the situation for a great many, fans and bands alike, as it gets harder… Read More ›
Architect Of Disease – The Eerie Glow Of Darkness
Architect Of Disease is a black metal band from the Polish city of Łódź; a band with a sound infested with death metal malevolence among other extreme flavours and a technical prowess and imagination which just entices attention. We have… Read More ›
Owl – Orion Fenix
There are places and experiences you fear engaging in but still feel compelled to immerse in; dark and imposing yet inescapably seductive propositions which lure and ensnare despite their ravenous shadows. Orion Fenix is one of those propositions or rather… Read More ›
Pavillon Rouge – Dynasteia Klub
Continuing the conflict in their self-acclaimed “War on the dancefloor”, French metallers Pavillon Rouge are poised to unleash their latest assault in the shape of third album Dynasteia Klub. It brings an escalation in their sonic violence, drama, and virulent… Read More ›
Calligram – Askesis
UK set Calligram has a sound which somehow manages to be as seductive as it is debilitating, though even that kinder temptation is fiercely invasive and senses crushing, and comes to a tumultuous and compelling head within the band’s new… Read More ›
Something visceral this way comes: entering the wicked clutches of Skitarg
Like hell’s harlequins with dark intent entangled in pestilential rage and humour, Swedish extreme metallers SKITARG is an encounter which violates the senses at every turn and pleasures an appetite for “heavy, violent and evil metal” just as eagerly. The… Read More ›
Cranely Gardens – House of Decay
Allowing no hiding place, House of Decay is a tempest of psychotic noise and vicious dexterity; quite simply one of the best things to escape the extreme metal scene this year. The EP is the venomous creation of US band… Read More ›
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