The Finnish pagan metal artist Vermilia has just release an official music video for her song ”Ruska”, taken from her latest album ”Ruska” (2022).
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Vansind – ‘Mørket’ (2023)
Rating: 8/10 Release: 17 November 2023 Label: Mighty Music Vansind is a six-member Danish folk metal band and Mørket (“The Darkness”) is their first full-length album. My preview is really what I like what to hear. I was familiar with them from their 2021 modest hit “Den Farefulde Færd”, which … Continue reading →
Ilmarinen – ‘Gold’ (EP 2023)
Rating: 8/10 Release: 29 September 2023 Label: Independent / Bandcamp Ilmarinen is a big, six-member Dutch folk metal band in a traditional sense, and “Gold” is a very short, two-song EP. It appears to be their third release and a marked improvement over their earlier works: the editing is a … Continue reading →
Sabhankra released ‘Rotting Helios’.
The wait is over! Sabhankra released their new EP. They bring you the next Sabhankra EP “Rotting Helios” and clouds of the looming darkness. Get ready for 12 minutes of hate and pain, mixed and mastered by Nikos Palivos at Nik Haunting Studios, Greece. Tracklist
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Mourning Wood released a first single ‘Heathen Hooray’ .
Evilon – ‘A Warrior’s Way’ (2023)
Rating: 9/10 Release: 8 September 2023 Label: Independent Evilon (a portmanteau of “evil” and “Avalon”) is a Swedish band calling themselves folk metal. Typically, I’ll open these reviews like “BandName is an n-member band of SomeGenre”, but it seems the band is restructuring and some folks have departed. At the … Continue reading →
Primordial – ‘How It Ends’ (2023)
Rating: 10/10 Release: 29 September 2023 Label: Metal Blade Records The Irish band Primordial are back with their tenth full-length album on Metal Blade Records. The Irish band has 32 years of career, full of albums, hits and tours. This follow-up to 2018’s “Exile Amongst the Ruins”, “How It Ends” … Continue reading →
New Single Varang Nord & Aktarum
Cabrakaän – ‘Aztlán’ (2023)
Rating: 8/10 Release: 17 November 2023 Label: Independent Cabrakaän is a five-member symphonic folk metal band from Toluca, Mexico… just outside of Mexico City in the heart of what was once the Aztec empire. This is where they draw a lot of inspiration for their songs. Aztlán is their third … Continue reading →
New Video Aztlan
‘Revolucionarios’, from Mexican folk/death metal group Aztlan, is taken from the album Revolución. The concept of Aztlan is to expose the Mexican culture from ancient times like Aztecs and Mayan to the present day with the sound of Mariachi and Prehispanic Music through a world full of mysticism.
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