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 →
Rating: 10/10 Release: 5 April 2011 Label: Spinefarm Records Earning a record-deal with Spinefarm Records, by winning a band-battle, gave Brymir the opportunity some time ago to release the debut album “Breath fire to the sun”. However, for a reason unknown to us, this never reached us, until now! Obviously … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 3 June 2011 Label: CCP Records After their strong album “Storm Over Scaldis, the Belgian band thought it was time to present the world a new album. The album opens strongly with “Last Flight of the Valkyries,” which both the female and male voice well in painted … Continue reading →
Location: Willemeen, Arnhem 4 juni 2011 Chain of Dogs Ladies and Ugly people, Tonight there’s a super performance in the program booklet of Willemeen in Arnhem. There is no folk-metal concert in Arnhem passed without our presence, and with bands like Chain of Dogs of all. The Limburgians started to … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 3 June 2011 Label: Napalm Records The Pirates of Alestorm have been in the studio again and managed to release a new album: Back Through Time. It is clear that there has been a lot of alcohol involved during the recording.Back through time is a fun sequel … Continue reading →
Willemeen, Arnhem 29 Mei 2011 Photography: Metalshots.com Not really knowing what to expect, I looked forward to this concert. Yes, Kampfar is awesome, I’d already seen them live and I thought it was really great. Yes, Vreid is very fat, although it’s not entirely my piece of cake. The rest, … Continue reading →
