Rating: 5/10 Release: 28 July 2013 Label: Independent Zakon Velesa released a demo in 2013. Zakon Velesa exist of two members, which are responsible for the music and the lyrics. To perform live, they have a couple of ‘live-musicians’. There are not much recordings of a nice quality of this … Continue reading →
Rating: 7,5/10 Release: 27 May 2013 Label: Independent True, I have to admit there’s is a lot of crap in folk-metal, and a lot bands sound like each other. But honestly in which music-genre isn’t this the case. But every now and then a great musician stands up and invents … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 7 September 2013 Label: Independent AfterGod is an Italian band which exist for quite a while, but since they found a female singer they have reworked their songs and concentrated on the recording of a demo. This demo is entirely on Soundcloud. The demo starts with the … Continue reading →
Rating: 8,5/10 Release: 4 December 2010 Label: Prime Cuts Music ‘The leading warriors of Australian Battle Metal’, this is how the members of the Australian band Claim the Throne call themselves. Actually this title doesn’t do justice to the great musical diversity that is reflected on their albums, for battle … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: May 2013 Label: Independent ‘Epic power metal from the Canary Islands, that must surely be worth a listen’ was my first thought on the album ‘Insula Invicta’ by the Spanish band Fallenhall. The band released a demo in 2010 and now releases its first full-length album with … Continue reading →
By: Astrid Rating: 6/10 Release: 28 December 2013 Label: Coretex Records Auld corn brigade started out in 2006 in the cellars of an distillery. They combine Irish folk with punk, a kind of music which is at it’s best, consumed live. The sloppy character of the punk is difficult to … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 17 December 2014 Label: Independent DyrnWyn possibly is a name you’ve never heard of before. That can be right, because with Fatherland, DyrnWyn releases their first demo. Or at least, I think so. Since all information on their bandpage can only be found in Italian, and I’m … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 5 December 2013 Label: Independent The crossover between punk and folk seems to be quite popular in Spain. A nice thing is, the Spanish bands aren’t all clones of Flogging Molly. Band like The Fatty Farmers and Brutus’ Daughters showed us the creativity of the Spanish folk. … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 9 November 2013 Label: Independent Ephyra is a band which exist for a few years now, but they changed their style over the years and added fantasy and medieval elements to their music. All these years of experience can be noticed in their music, when you make … Continue reading →
By: Astrid Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 2013 Label: Independent Started in 2012, this band originally counted just two members: the singer and the bassist. The music goes from medieval to folk and metal, and has a calm decent pace. And all of a sudden, five other artists popped out of nowhere … Continue reading →
