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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 this list (Hell, we’re STILL […]

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Testament Bring A Fiery Metal Fury To Epic 14th Full-Length Para Bellum

There’s always only been one Thrash band for us. Sure, we love Slayer and respect the hell out of Metallica. Megadeth tends to be uneven but still a’ight and while we initially got into the band during the John Bush era (We know!), we’ve grown to love all there is [...]

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RNRF X Salem Horror Fest 8: “Official Selections- Shorts & Interludes”, Full Moon Glory Hole

Is there a Sam Huntington (Being Human, Good Girls, Superman Returns) renaissance that we were not aware of??? We recently caught Huntington in a small role in the big, badass The Last Stop In Yuma County (From director Francis Galluppi and starring the fabulous Jim Cummings, go track it down [...]

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Spooky SZN Sounds: Ceremony Shadows, “Future Past Collapse”

The honor of the first “Spooky SZN Sounds” offering of the season goes to Ceremony Shadows! We figured this would be as good a place as any to highlight “Future Past Collapse”, the latest sonic concoction from the Portland-based Electro/Darkwave trio, as they’ve already managed to grace the site several [...]

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Gretchen Shae Invites You To The Inauguration With Proles’ Masterful Post-Punk Debut Release

Gretchen goes Goth. Sort of. Well not really but we love alliteration, okay? And we’re not talking out our ass too much because while Gretchen Shae & The The Middle Eight may have been more a Rawk outfit there’s no denying the dark underbelly that tantalized each and every track [...]

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RNRF X Salem Horror Fest 8: “Official Selections- Shorts & Interludes”, Frankenbabes From Beyond The Grave!

We were not privy to the apparent internet sensation that was Onyx The Fortuitous as it was happening. Instead we randomly came across a trailer for the movie of the same name (Onyx The Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls) because it looked fun and “Oh look! It’s Barbara Crampton [...]

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Blackbraid Bring Beautiful Black Metal Sounds To The Masses On III

It almost feels like a fever dream to talk about the newest album from Blackbraid as the record was announced last year with a fairly firm release window so it has been in the collective consciousness for some time. But now it’s time to wake up and bask in the [...]

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