Rating: 9/10Release: 1 December 2019 Label: Yarko Music Production I have to admit I’ve been quite distracted of late, with the decade’s end and critical capacity of good music approaching, I’m a bit overwhelmed. Nonetheless, I managed to divert my attention for another installment of Long-term Underrated Bands and in … Continue reading →
Drakum will release their new album “Zombie Dragons from Outer Space” on the 31st Janurry. The record features the new infant choir of Berga (Catalunya) with their director Montse Ventura. It was something they wanted to do since the beginning of Drakum and they have finally done it. Their brutal voices will sound in the song of the same name on the album. It was an amazing experience.
The album can be pre-ordered at their bandcamp.
Folkstone released a video for the track ‘Fossile’.
‘Fossile’ is one of the tracks of their latest album ‘Diario di un ultimo‘.
They have encountered a lot of misery, but the band is back. They’re working hard on a new album called ‘ Vremena ‘. This album can be pre-ordered already at their VKontakte page. … Continue reading →
5/6. Aegonia – ‘The Forgotten Song‘
On a shared 5th and 6th place there are two album with 15 points, the first one is the Bulgarian band Aegonia.
“Overall, there is clearly a praiseworthy amount of effort that went into creating the album in terms of the editing and musical skill required. The group’s mastery of composition can be found by simply looking at the classical influences on this album alone, which manage to steer the entire album in a neoclassical folk direction while keeping enough Metal influences in the mix to keep their credibility.”
Hi everybody, it is my pleasure to meet you! Would you please be so kind and introduce yourself to our readers?
“Hi, we are Nemoreus, a folk metal band from Vienna in Austria. We are 6 musicians combining heavy soundscapes with traditional folk instruments, such as violin, tin whistles and an Irish bouzouki. The current formation is active since 2018, but the roots of our band go back till 2012.”
What does the name “Nemoreus“ stand for? Is there any meaning behind this name? How was the name finding process and why did you choose this name
Fabian: “First of all the name finding process was really chaotic, since we needed to change our name twice until everyone was satisfied. Nemoreus is an old latin word, which roughly translates to “ belonging to the forest “.”
Rating: 8.2/10Release: 13 November 2019Label: Darktunes Music Group With the exception of a digital single, The Svmmoner is the first new material Cernunnos has released in three years. Taking only a cursory glance at 2018’s single “Survivors” and comparing it to a song like “The Birth of Galatia” shows that … Continue reading →
Well, it’s December again. Time to make up our lists. Like you’re used to by now, you’ll get two lists from Folk-metal.nl. One with the best album of 2019 en one with the best debut-album of 2019.
Last year Zmey Gorynich with ‘Mother Russia’ was chosen best debut-album by our team.
This year four or our teammembers could find the time to rate the debut-albums. Each member rates all debut-albums we reviewed this year. While the rating in a review is ‘just the opinion’ of a single Folk-metal.nl teammember, it’s more than possible an album which received a lower rating ends up with a position higher then an album with a high rating.
And our opinions have never been so different as this year. You will announce a band on this list each day for ten days, to end up with our Number 1! After that we will continue with our album of the year. And don’t worry, there are album to be released this year, but we have already listened to the most of them.
Remarkable list from the beginning at the 10th place we find an album, which was chosen the best one by one of the four voting members.
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 15 November 2019 Label: Four Four / ABC Music Its no secret that I have a warm place in my heart for the Rumjacks. They are in the elite ranks of Celtic punk bands and I would love to see them live. Unfortunately I haven’t had the … Continue reading →
