Rating: 6/10 Release: March 2012 Label: SoundAge Productions The Russian folk-metalband Kalevala has released an acoustic live-album. Kalevala is normally not very metal, their music can be considered as folk-rock with every now and then a song which is more metal, but they’re also playing songs which are almost pure … Continue reading →
Rating: 10/10 Release: 23 March 2011 Label: Stygian Crypt Productions Guitarviolence! Let’s start the review like the CD itself starts. Folkodia is a folk-metalproject with all kind of musicians from all over the world, with ‘Legends and Myths’ they released their 5th album already. Well, guitar violence, were my last … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 14 February 2012 Label: Maple Metal Records Folk-metal from Canada, something you don’t see that often. Valfreya comes from this faraway land, and try to entertain us with their first full-length called ‘Path to Eternity’. While this band is (as they say) quite popular, I’d never heard … Continue reading →
Rating: 4/10 Release: 1 March 2012 label: Independent From France emerges Drakwald, six people who try to combine elements of traditional folk and Scandinavian death-metal. This sounds a bit like almost all the folk-metalbands nowadays, so is Drakwald able to add something new and original to the scene? In short, … Continue reading →
Rating: 4/10 Release: 3 May 2012 Label: Independent To promote themselves, the Colombian band MuyzKuBBuN released a Promo EP, which can be listened to on their facebook page. The first track of this EP is ‘The Mallet shows its Honour’, it starts of with a very happy tune, I’m still … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 15 June 2012 Label: AFM Records In my opinion, black metal can be divided in two kinds: the one is the kind of noise you don’t even dare to trouble your terrible mother-in-law or your annoying little brother with, since it just sounds terrible. The other kind … Continue reading →
Rating: 10/10 Release: 25 March 2012 label: SoundAge Productions Rarog exists for quite a while, although they suffered form quite a lot of member changes. The band was in the past a guest at the CD-release of the, also Russian, band Arkona. So we have at once something to compare … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 1 May 2012 Label: Independent Vesperia, a band which isn’t known by many people, is it? Vesperia is the new name for the Canadian band we knew by the name of Bolero. They released an album last year which pleased me very much. There were some issues … Continue reading →
Rating: 10/10 Release: 1 March 2012 Label: Savage Prod Folk-metal.nl received a tip about a French band Fenrir. Of course we immediately added them to the bands on our website, but we also found out, they had just released an debut album “Echoes of the Wolf”. And while we tried … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 20 April 2012 Label: Independent Grimner releaded a ‘mini full lenght’ “Färd” entitled, they were of the opinion the quality of the recorded songs didn’t allow them to drop one of these songs. The first track is Vargamarsch, a nice intro with some choir-like vocals in the … Continue reading →
