Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 28 April 2023 Label: Trollzorn Records One man bands are taking over the world! It’s the 5th review in a row I write about a one man band’s work: now it’s the turn of the German band Fimbulvet and, here we go again, I’ve never heard previous … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 12 December 2005 Label: Skaldic Art Productions I am reviewing Rivendell’s discography to celebrate the return of its only member Gerold Laimer after 17 years of inactivity, and this is his third album Farewell: The Last Dawn. For the ones who have never heard about this project, … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.8/10 Release: 28 April 2003 Label: Skaldic Art Productions I am reviewing Rivendell’s discography to celebrate the return of its only member Gerold Laimer (also known as Falagar) after 17 years of inactivity, and this is his second album Elven Tears. For the ones who have never heard about … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 14 August 2000 Label: Skaldic Art Productions I am reviewing Rivendell’s discography to celebrate the return of its only member Gerold Laimer (also known as Falagar) after 17 years of inactivity, and this is his first album The Ancient Glory. For the ones who have never heard … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: April 2009 Label: Indepent One thing I’ll always love about folk metal and metal in general is the variety of things and stories to sing. An impressive amount of bands have often followed this artistic path and many of their singers decide to pleasure us listeners with … Continue reading →
Rating: Release: March 2023 Label: Independent Telperion are a young formation from France who’s released an album in 2015 and brings us a new work entitled “Of Saviors and Conquerors” with 4 songs. Heavy, power and of course folk are the subgenres they tag their style with, and in this … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 1 March 2023 Label: Unsigned Bulgarian folk metal acts are something pretty unknown and yet very original. You can recognize a bulgarian song in a field of other folk metal tracks from kilometers. Progressive tunes and strange tempos such as 7/8 are what makes Bulgaria special from … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.3 Release: 14 April 2023 Label: Trollzorn Red Rum are a young pirate metal formation which has been active for the latest 12 years. Coming from United Kingdom they bring us our new album after a full length in 2015 and a more recent EP released in. Their music’s … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 10 March 2023 Label: Flowing Downward Burden of Ymir is a one-man band from Canada that I sincerely have never heard of before now. Its music is described as a mix of folk and black metal but this time there’s a bit less black and way more … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 6 January 2023 Label: Independent / Bandcamp It is my first time listening to this polish band’s material and I am even not really keen on black metal but I have now heard their latest ep “prolog” and I’ll admit that I didn’t have too bad of … Continue reading →
