Rating: 8/10 Release: 24 May 2024 Label: Independent Valfreya is a four-member Canadian blackened folk metal band with some symphonic elements. There are two amazing guest musicians for the album, which is their fifth, counting acoustic releases. It’s a concept album, and that really shines through in parts, but is … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 26 April 2024 Label: Independent The Jolly Jackers are a five-piece punk folk metal band from Budapest, Hungary, and when I wrote a review for their last album, I was, perhaps, too critical. They’re amazing. Great, punchy vocals are met with a whistle, fiddle, and a great … Continue reading →
’Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 31 May 2024 Label: Black Lodge Records Wormwood is a Swedish melodic black metal band and The Star is their fifth album. I love melo-death and its genre brethren, and this has all the hallmarks: atmosphere, distorted guitars and vocals, and that instantly-recognizable syncopated drum beat. Wormwood’s … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 16 Febrary 2024 Label: Ex Cathedra Records Leah is a Canadian heavy metal singer and “The Glory and the Fallen” is her sixth album. The Leah website sets up the lineup: “The … new release features appearances from renowned musicians Mark Jansen (Epica, MaYaN), Timo Somers (Arjen … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 16 February 2024 Label: Mighty Music Vanir is a six-member melodic death metal band out of Denmark and “Epitome” is their seventh album. They’ve got the standard folk metal lineup with vocals, bass, guitars, drums, and a keyboard. I was only familiar with their older work, and … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 8 December 2023Label: Independent Nemoreus is a six-member Austrian folk-metal band and Orcunadoras is their highly-anticipated second full-length album, originally released as four EPs. The band has a great sound: moody, atmospheric metal with folky additions of a flute, fiddle, and bouzouki. Fabian Zechmeister’s mostly-English vocals are … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 24 November 2023 Label: At Dawn Records From North is a five-member Swedish folk metal band, and “Raven Banner” is their second full-length album, and what do you mean I have to stop listening to it and write a review? The line-up lists only the standard tools … Continue reading →
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 →
