By: Michel Well, something different now. ‘Swiebodnosc’ by the Polish band Pospolite Ruszenie. Let’s clear up some matters at once. There’s a difference between Pagan- and Folk-metal. Pagan metal is concerning the lyrical themes, they’re about paganisme, old gods and that kind of stuff. In folk-metal this are also theme’s … Continue reading →
By: Michel Score: 8/10 Last Wail, I’d never heard of them until Folk-metal.nl got their CD, isn’t this a shame, or is the debut-album of this Russians worth listening to and should they get more attention? No fighting warriors or complicated soundscapes, but a nicely played quiet intro, this is … Continue reading →
By: MichelScore: 8/10 Most bands start with recording a demo, as promotion or just to experience how it all sounds, so you can adjust some things for times when they can sign with a label or make a production of their own. This also goes for Drakum, the band released … Continue reading →
By: Michel Score: 6/10 The Russian formation Beer Bear released a very good album in 2010. In 2011 we only get an EP. On this EP Folk’n’Roll of course the track Folk’n’Roll, and this sounds rather… Folk’n’Roll. On one hand you get typical elements of rock’n’roll, on the other hand … Continue reading →
By: Michel Score: 7/10 With the motto ‘Why should you be allways cheerful … ‘ the bassist and singer of Russian humppa band Bear Bear started a side project. Bear Bear, the name says it all, is a party folk-metal band which lets cheerful bears live adventures on a beer … Continue reading →
By: Michel Score: 8/10 The Russian band Dragon Tears re-invented theirselves, changed their name into Nordverg and released a debutalbum entitled ‘Crimson Dawn’. The album starts of with an intro which isn’t really a strong one, I’ve heard them much better. It’s a kind of a prelude, showing a glimpse … Continue reading →
By: MichelScore: 6/10 Avven is a Slovenian band which released the album Kastalja in 2011 already, but they asked us to do a late review on this one, something we do with pleasure, of course. Immediately at the first song, you know what they’re up to. Again it becomes clear … Continue reading →
By: Colin Score: 6/10 We all know folk-metal and related genres have crossed the big waters. Trollband is a Canadian duo combining trolls with Black-metal. When you get to listen to it, the black metal is immediately clear, I guess they listen a lot to Kampfar, because that’s the music … Continue reading →
By: NickScore: 8/10 Sometimes, an album needs time to reveal it’s true beauty. Only after countless times of listening, you can hear the beauty behind the work, the magnificence of the music which seemed dull and boring after the first time of listening. Aquilus delivered exactly such an album with … Continue reading →
By: NickScore: 9/10 The Hungarian band Dalriada, I believe not many people are familiar with this band. Even if it is told this band is active from the start of 2003, by then using the name ‘Echo of Dalriada’, still a lot of people won’t know the band. After 5 … Continue reading →
