Schloss Broich, Mülheim an der Ruhr (DE) Cumulo Nimbus We’ve got a nice rest and very good breakfast, and then it’s time to got to the castle, we parked the car, I attached some armour plating and we’re ready to go inside. We’re staying in the shadow for awhile on … Continue reading →
Summerbreeze 2011 Dinkelsbühl (DE) 18-20 Augustus 2011 Summer Breeze is one of many metal festivals in Germany. With only 20,000 men remains a small-scale festival, not as massive as for instance another German Wacken. Here too metalheads from all over Europe gathered for three days of beer, party and metal! … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 15 August 2011 Label: Independent After two demo’s Morhana made a debut-EP called Morhana in 2011. On this EP are 4 tracks which weren’t on the earlier recorded demo’s. This EP’s starts with a fine intro with a nice violin in it. When the vocals start in … Continue reading →
Wacken 2011 4-6 Augustus 2011 Wacken… Every self-respecting metalhead knows this festival. Standard on the first weekend of August attract some 90,000 men from all over the world set out to go to ‘The Holy Wacken Land’ for three days of celebration, drink and of course Metal! At the festival … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 2012 Label: Independent Bolero, a band of apparently contradictory a lot. With the début album ‘Voyage from Vinland” entitled, I initially thought it was going to be a Finnish band. Nothing is less true, this quintet is from Canada. The second mistake I made in my interpretations … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 25 March 2011 Label: Napalm Records The two members of Vintersorg have once again delivered an album. All Vintersorg features are present again, Swedish lyrics about nature, spirituality, etc., with clean vocals. The cover is understated and beautiful, just the question remains how likely is it that … Continue reading →
Rating: 5/10 Release: 23 September 2011 Label: Independent Always fun, mail from Canada. Yes, of course, Europe is the cradle of folk-metal, but this doesn’t mean they can’t make folk-metal on the other side of the big waters. So, I played it, and again, and again. En in a musical … Continue reading →
Hoernerfest 2011 Location: Brande-Hörnerkirchen (DE) 1 – 2 Juli 2011 Photography: darkradiation.de It’s time to travel to the far-away Brande Hörnerkirchen in Germany. In this small village in the middle of nowhere, the annual folk-festival ‘Hörnerfest’ takes place. The festival, which took place for the 6th time, has about 2000 … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 2011 Label: Napalm Records With Saltatio Mortis you know in advance what you can expect; a nice pot typical German folk rock. So that’s also the case with the new album “Sturm aufs Paradies. Saltatio Mortis hold on tight to the style that we like of these … Continue reading →
Rating: 10/10 Release: 25 March 2011 Label: Napalm Records What more can you say about such a great album, otherwise then it’s great? With Mare Kampfar rises really above themselves. As Kampfar itself suggests, the new producer Peter Tatgren (which already has produced many famous albums) is a real improvement … Continue reading →
