Rating: 7.5/10Release: 3 November 2022 Label: Strong Music Productions Symon Muzyka, the folk-metal project of Belarus band Dialectic Soul released a new album last year. To keep things simple the album is called ‘Symon Muzyka II’, since this is their second release.The band managed to create a very nice album … Continue reading →
Rating: 5.6/10 Release: 17 November 2022 Label: Independent Karan Han’s new album, while presented as Folk Metal represents all of the problems purists and critics usually have about the subgenre. If the album were not presented as Folk Metal or if it were in fact presented as regular Folk Music … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 20th December 2022 Label: Independent / Bandcamp “Reshout for War” contains four melodic death metal songs with the inclusion of folk elements. To understand this release, you have to go back to 2012 when the “leaping” Basques released their first opus “Shout for War”. The month of … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 25 November 2022 Label: Independent The four titles “Nature Emerge” follows two albums released respectively in 2015 and 2018. In Argentinian metal pagan we already knew Skiltron, Triddana, Tersivel, so to avoid being forgotten Folter the only member of Vorgrum offers an interlude which will keep fans … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 16 December 2022 Label: Independent From all sides and from all countries, we are now assailed by Pagan productions and this one comes to us from Romania!! Their compatriots from Bucium and E-an-na had already broken down the doors and now it’s the turn of the “big … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 10 February 2023 Label: Threeman Recordings Fredlös are a new Folk Metal band from the small Swedish town of Norrtälje and feature among its ranks, none other than former Entombed guitarist, Alex Hellid. With that elephant removed from the room, I’m sure you are more interested in … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 20 January 2023 Label: Reaper Entertainment Piracy has many times been associated with our favorite music. Running Wild in classic metal, Alestorm in folk metal, Swashbuckle in death thrash. The genius of the guys and the girl from Baden-Württemberg is to have made the synthesis of all … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.0/10 Release: 25th November 2022Label: Deaf Shepherd Germany Fiddlers Green have recorded a nice holiday album here. It is festive while still sounding Celtic and folksy. Opening with a twin bill of Merry Christmas Everyone and Merry Christmas Everybody certainly gets one in the spirit. The songs are similar … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 25th November 2022 Label: Independent It took O’Hamsters a while to release a new album. The pandemic got in the way, but we all know what happened in the Ukraine this year. But the band decided to release this album now, since it’s no use to keep … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 31 October 2022 Label: Eternal Legacy Records As the saying goes: “nature abhors a vacuum”. Starting from this premise, the trio from Dublin has somehow taken up the torch from another Irishman (from the North this one): the immense Gary Moore. It should be noted that at … Continue reading →
