Rating: 7/10 Release: 19 November 2010 Label: Mayhem Music Not too long ago I wrote the review on the new Trollfest album, apparently I’m going to be trolled again. Another troll review of mine, this time it’s are the Norwegian trolls from the mountain Faanefjell. A young band formed by … Continue reading →
Nackt II Jovel, Munster 30 maart 2011 By: Michel Subway to Sally with their second acoustic tour in Munster (Germany). I feel I have to explain two things: 1. Why wasn’t this concert in the eventcalendar of Folk-metal.nl? The answer is: in 2011 we draw a line at about an … Continue reading →
Location: Turbinehalle, Oberhausen (DE) 13 March 2011 Photography: Metalshots.com (Paganfest Tilburg) Wow! What a lineup, paganfest has in store this year. By far the best since 2008, when I first went to this annual tour. When we entered the venue, we received a fistful leaflets and even a cd with … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 2011 Label: Independent This demo immediately start with nice spherical synthesizer. After this the rest of the band joins in and it’s clear what’s the band is after. Solid metal, unterspersed with spherical keys. Raw vocals en solid lyrics, which can easily be shouted along. ‘Under siege’ … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 4 March 2011 Label: NoiseArt Records After the band stood out in a very positive way the album “Blutaar”, it is obviously we’re waiting to see what the successive album will be doing. After a solid intro called “Jagd” tt can go either way. The wolves howl, … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 7 March 2011 Label: Sleaszy Rider Records A request came to us, the Dutch band Encorion wanted us (even though the album was already released for a while) to review their “Facing history and ourselves” album. The album they released it in late 2010. And as representatives … Continue reading →
Rating: 10/10 Release: 25 January 2011 Label: Century Media Records For anyone who doesn’t know this band: play this CD “The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR” and you know immediately where they’re from. The Middle-east is dripping of this album. The description Middle Eastern metal which is used by the … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 2011 Label: Trollzorn The second album of Ignis fatuu. Would the band with “Neue Ufer” go in a different direction, where the band surprised us pleasantly with their debut album “Es werde Licht”? And they immediately open strong there, with a nice tune, but direct in this … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 29 April 2011 Label: Trollzorn Records The first track of the new CD of the Thuringian pagan metal band sounds really like a revelation. Voiced with great atmosphere that we were already accustomed to of these German nature lovers, but on this CD, this is even more … Continue reading →
Release: 23 March 2011 Rating: 10/10 Label: Spinefarm Records Where the previous album ended (“Novembre”), this album continues. The new Crimfall open with “Dicembre”. A cinematic opening, later supported by a massive orchestration. Next, a thin violin and then… metal. Wow, what an opening for this album, I was immediately … Continue reading →
