Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 26 November 2023 Label: Independent I have to admit I lost BoB’s tracks a bit since their 2016 album ‘My Drinkin’ ain’t Done’. The vocals didn’t really work for me. But listening to their new full length ‘Drink, Holler and Dance’ made me realise this influenced their music … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 3 October 2023 Label: Independent / Bandcamp The Celtic Punk band Manky Melters released an first EP called ‘One More Round’. What can you expect? Well, Manky Melters is high energetic Celtic Punk in the style of Irish Moutarde and Jolly Jackers. Giada takes care of the … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 24 November 2023 Label: At Dawn Records From North is a five-member Swedish folk metal band, and “Raven Banner” is their second full-length album, and what do you mean I have to stop listening to it and write a review? The line-up lists only the standard tools … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.3/10 Release: 1 December 2023 Label: Trollzorn Records There’s no need to start with the band’s lore: the name Skiltron has rightly been amongst the greatest names in the field of folk metal, for the good and relevant contribution the members have been giving to the genre since their … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release:13 October 2023 Label: Lupus Lounge The Icelandic band Fortið are back with their seventh album titled “Narkissos”. With this seventh album, while not denying their purely Nordic lyrics, the Icelanders face in this seventh album the Greek myth of Narcissus, renewing the concept describing the obsession for … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 1 December 2023 Label: Independent Idaslet is a six-member Danish folk-metal band and Nu Skrider Dagen Under (“Now the Day Slips By”) is their debut full-length album. Their sound is power metal with harsh but understandable Danish vocals supported and folk-ified by some lovely accordion work. Some … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.7/10 Release: 3 November 2023 Label: Independent Unlike a lot of the more progressive influence Folk Metal bands out there, Germany’s Dvalin has returned after a hiatus of several years to bring out a new EP entitled, “Ravenous Dreams”. In reality, the album is really only three tracks, as … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 18 September 2023 Label: Independent Moriquendi, a small group from France, has recently released a new acoustic EP, thus marking their return after a seven-year hiatus, with their last work being a blackened folk metal album called “Kanopëa”. Now they have left their metal roots and officially … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 27 October 2023 Label: Independent Odraedir is a five-member epic folk metal band from the Czech Republic, and “Vengeance” is their second album– the first one of this decade. It’s a banger, and it’s far more polished and professional than 2017’s Legends of the Dark Times. It … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 20 October 2023 Label: Running Wild Productions Nemoreus is a six-member Austrian folk-metal band who probably don’t even need this amount of introduction. I wrote reviews for chapters one and two, and I’d recommend going back and reading them first. So, two points make a line and … Continue reading →
