Rating: 9/10 Release: 1 December 2023 Label: Independent Idaslet is a six-member Danish folk-metal band and Nu Skrider Dagen Under (“Now the Day Slips By”) is their debut full-length album. Their sound is power metal with harsh but understandable Danish vocals supported and folk-ified by some lovely accordion work. Some … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 27 October 2023 Label: Independent Odraedir is a five-member epic folk metal band from the Czech Republic, and “Vengeance” is their second album– the first one of this decade. It’s a banger, and it’s far more polished and professional than 2017’s Legends of the Dark Times. It … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 20 October 2023 Label: Running Wild Productions Nemoreus is a six-member Austrian folk-metal band who probably don’t even need this amount of introduction. I wrote reviews for chapters one and two, and I’d recommend going back and reading them first. So, two points make a line and … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 27 Oktober 2023 Label: Independent Solarcycles is a five-member Dutch folk-metal band and, excitingly, Lunar is their first full-length album. Personally, I’ve been looking forward to it for more than a month, and I’m really pleased with how it turned out: folk and rock melding with nature … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 1 September 2023 Label: Independent Ekyrian is a huge nine-member folk metal band from Spain and “Cuentos junto a la hoguera” (“Stories by the Campfire”– as depicted by the lovely album art) is their third album. We’re in the lush forests of the “folk” side of folk … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 13 October 2023Label: Napalm Records Varg is a five-member German dark power-/melodic death metal band from Germany and Ewige Wacht (“Eternal Watch”) is their eighth album since they started releasing these in 2007, which is some amazing longevity in this business. “Varg” is Swedish/Old Norwegian for “wolf”, … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
