Album Reviews

Kreator Celebrate A Sweet 16(th Studio Album) With 2026’s First Must-Have Metal Record Krushers Of The World

Look, we already know that 2026 is bringing the final Megadeth record before they hang it up for good and that Anthrax is finally ready to release their follow-up to 2016’s For All Kings… but we think your favorite Thrash record of the year is already here. Because in just [...]

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Ceremony Shadows Kick Off 2026 With Smashing New Mini-EP, Inclusion On This Year’s Verboden Festival

Ceremony Shadows kicked off 2025 with single “Reclaim” leading into their debut LP Ascension and while we’re not sure if there’s a whole other album on the way just yet we do know that it seems like CS is starting this new year in a similar fashion with not only [...]

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25 in ’25: A List Of (Mostly) 25 Albums That Were Listened To Over And Over And Over Some More In The RNRF Offices To Distract From The Outside World In 2025.

2025 was a weird year personally for us and even weirder music-wise! We thought we had our Top 5 of the year locked down by June then something rolled up to our digital inbox in late summer and completely floored us/threw off the early ending we thought we had for [...]

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Osis Fuse Post-Punk With Classic Orange County And DC Styles For A Fun And Frenetic Collection Of Songs On New EP

OC/DC was what we thought Osis was called… but as it turns out it’s a sound, a movement, a feeling! And if Boston’s Osis is the sound of that feeling then the feeling is raw, unbridled modern Punk Rawk raucousness. Or, if you want to be literal about it all, [...]

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RNRF Local Look ’25 (Or how we learned to do nothing but re-listen to everything we’ve already reviewed over the past 360+ days in a span of a few days)

Y’know what? We did this to ourselves. We’re not complaining at all. It’s just when we’re hours upon hours into this thing then we wanna know who exactly is to blame. And it’s us! But let’s backtrack for a sec, okay? We expanded our year end list a few years [...]

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Joshua David Thayer Makes Some Modern Malkmus, Tweedy On Grand Alternative Folk Of So Little, Close To Nothing

More often than not, we miss out on perfect timing to cover an artist or album and are just waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce once again with some appropriate posts. Joshua David Thayer is one of those artists that’s been on our radar for some time yet eluded [...]

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