Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 26 August 2022 Label: Napalm Records The power of folk is upon us comrades! Indeed, the covert melding of power and folk metal has slowly creeped into our foreground and has taken me among others by a stormy surprise. A very talented example of this maturing phenomena … Continue reading →
Rating: 6.5/10 Release: 25 February 2022 Label: Mighty Music Let’s assume my absence on this particular blog and overall folkmetalish webosphere commune has been profuse – guilty. But let’s also opine, potentially warranted, and is in fact driven by symptoms of a global pandemic – guilty, guilty. I never foresaw … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 27 August 2021 Label: Black Lodge Records “Another day, another Swedish Black Metal band” you might think to yourself and I would partially agree but as all things subjective, this is equally a welcomed and rejected perspective to which I’ll simply assume you’re moving forward with the … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 5 February 2021 Label: Helheim Records If this grossly long overdue review is any indication of how little of our genre I’ve listened to recently, I don’t know what would be. To be frank, I only first heard of these Incursed Spaniards when taking the assignment months … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 20 November 2020 Label: MDD Records We all long to abandon the inevitable perceptions and scars of time that plunge us into a jaded existence, saturated with inescapable trauma or if we’re lucky, joy so very consequential in our every opinion and decision, forcing us into biases. … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.6/10 Release: 18 September 2020 Label: Century Media Records Not sure about the rest of ya’ll, but 2020 has thoroughly thrust my inner ear off balance and utterly derailed any semblance of a moral compass off course, life experience vertigo in the new age or something. Irrespective of personal … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 15 May 2020 Label: Independent Is it okay keep asking what a weird time it is we live in? Every week there’s some horrific new reality to accommodate and ingrain into our routines. Not to mention all the personal aspects irrespective of societal crisis. A well timed … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 28 April 2020 Label: Independent / Bandcamp What an interesting adventure Allelic is with the stunning, perhaps watercolor, landscape cover alone enough to reel the weary listener in. The seemingly one-man Canadian collective out of Montreal has one thing down to a science; the combination of old … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 17 April 2020 Label: Mighty Music The planned intent for reviewing Vanir was loads of extensive research as well as a long backstory deeply involved in reminiscing last year’s holiday in Denmark for Udgardsfest. The end result, as with all expectations, leaves less to be desired with … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.0/10 Release: 21 February 2020 Label: Inverse Records he Finnish Blood of Kalpa (lose translation of Verikalpa) return with Tuoppitanssi after their debut of Taistelutahto in 2018, with a solid showing in my colleague’s review around the time I joined Folk-Metal.nl. Let’s just say these guys produced more songs in … Continue reading →
