Rating: 8/10 Release: 28 June 2006 (original) Label: Oskorei Music A number of Munruthel albums is rereleased. Recently we published a review on Folk-metal.nl on the debutalbum of Silentium, a project which would evolve in Munruthel later. That album had to be seen as a collector’s item in my opinion. … Continue reading →
Rating: 5/10 Release: 3-8-2012 Label: Nuclear Blast The Finnish band Korpiklaani releases their eighth studio-album this year. A murderous pace, which is not becoming them well. After some disappointing performances, the albums begin to deteriorate. Korpiklaani turns over a new leaf with Manala. The first track ‘Kunnia’ doesn’t start with … Continue reading →
Rating: 5.5/10 Release: 15 May 2012 Label: Independent Often in folk-metal, in my opinion even more than with other subgenres, I have the idea that a certain band has potential, but that the elaboration of it results in putting the CD next to the others, hardly listening to it again. … Continue reading →
Rating: 5/10 Release: 21 March 2012 Label: Frenteuropa Records Sometimes, but just sometimes, you’re quickly finished as a reviewer. This was also the case with the split of Stworz and Fall. Stworz is a Polish Pagan-metal band, Fall is another band that specializes in black / doom-metal. Together they have … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 1 September 2012 Label: Casus Belli Musica Viter is a relatively new Oekrain band, making Folk’n’Industrial according to themselves. A description which will make a lot of people ask themselves ‘what should I do with it?’ But let it be clear from the beginning, Viter is different. … Continue reading →
Some people don’t know ‘Zwarte Cross’ . Don’t aspect it to be a standard musicfestival. The Zwarte Cross is a (motor)cross spectacle which started many years ago with an illegal (Zwart-Black) motorcross. To spice it up a little there was also a band present. Nowadays this event has grown out … Continue reading →
By: Thijs Rating: 4/10 Release: 2012 Label: Svarga Music Silentium – The Ancient`s Wisdom Fromt the very first track it’s obvious; Silentium – The Ancient’s Wisdom is as underground as you can imagine. A large collection of ambient soundscapes, no more than that. This is obviously a debutalbum wheThe compositions … Continue reading →
Score: 8/10 Release: 16-7-2012 Label: Listenable Records Waylander, a band known by most of us, a band which with us for about 300 years and will continue to do so, but has never got out of the average bands, until… Everybody who knows Waylander, and everybody who knows me, knows … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: June 2012 Label: SoundAge Productions Despite the fact FängörN is still searching for a label they decided to release a follow up for the debut album ‘Mysterious Land’. The band evolved from the heavy metal scene and the previous album had a huge heavy metal stamp and … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 14 July 2012 Label: Independent Warseid releases another EP, with the fantastic title “Where Fate Lies Unbound”. It’s immediatelly clear this is an Northern American band, the music of this kind of bands is somewhat polished to our European standards. Another thing which is obvious is the … Continue reading →
