Rating: 7/10 Release: 1 February 2023 Label: Mors Lucerna Records Imagine a mixture of Korpiklaani, telling us about the American gold rush migration in the 19th century, all sung in Russian, French and English, mixed and mastered in Finland in 50th minutes of folk metal. If you got this far … Continue reading →
In a distant Slavic land, a fire can be seen high upon the mountain. As one draws closer, the melody of a female angelic voice, a violin and tambourine can be heard faintly in the distance. You move closer to the sound, it intrigues you, stirs thoughts and emotions within your mind and soul. As you approach, the band Lysa Gora enchants you with their music and stories. You sit and talk about their music and other things….
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Following the release of Cruachan’s new album we reached out to the band about their new release, and the information about their current works, stories about their collaborations, and side efforts followed.
Continue reading →Rating: 8/10 Release: 2010 Label: Independent One of my main interests in the musical field is made by all those albums I would define “godforsaken”, and lots of good releases slowly become included in this class as time goes by. Us Auter Zyt, the only full-length from a one-man band … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 7 April 2023 Label: Independent Valensorow is a four-member band out of California, and Shorestank is an amazing mash-up of absolute chaos and mayhem. It’s definitely folk metal, but rather than weighing down the metal with melody, the folk parts are in the pit moshing with the … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 12 May 2023 Label: Independent It’s been a while since we’ve done a Łysa Góra (meaning ‘bald mountain’) album. Łysa Góra is a five-member band whose past albums have been folk-forward and acoustic. This album is unique in its electric guitar and bass magic, and sadly, it’s … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.0/10 With Facebook’s move to efforts like the metaverse, new and exciting opportunities for artists and businesses are being made available. How many of these opportunities enrich the consumer is still being seen, and the more cynically minded might take issue when an internationally known band like the Hu … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 21 April 2023 Label: Independent Eterknight is a band from Mexico whose music is described on the web as a mixture of epic and symphonic metal with death and folk components. They’ve been active for 12 years and now it’s time for them to present us their … Continue reading →
We saw a huge amount of releases in 2022, as bands came out of the isolation of Covid-19 to record together again and show the world that you can’t silence the metal. Månegarm was one of those bands and what a release they gave us. “Ynglingaättens öde” was named Best Album of 2022 on folk-metal.nl and it is a pleasure to interview a band I have followed since 2015. Månegarm’s inception was in 1995, and has provided some awesome metal over the past twenty-eight years.
Rating: 9/10 Release: 24 March 2023 Label: Napalm Records German folk rock icons Subway To Sally want to inspire hope with their 14th studio album named “Himmelfahrt” (translated “Ascension”). This album marks a turning point in the thirty-year career of the German band, which has always explored the various abysses of … Continue reading →
