Rating: 6/10 Release: 11 November 2013 Label: Independent Desperate, seeking a way through thick spider-webs, strung in a dark cave. That’s the feeling I get when I’m listening to Lucian the Wolfbearer’s new album ‘The Haunting’. A magnificent title of this album, because I have the oppressive feeling like I’m … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 26 February 2014 Label: Independent Folkyria is a rather new band, formed in 2012. But they decided it’s time to let the world know what they’re up to, so they released an EP ‘Triad of the Gods’. How do you make Folkyria? Take a large amount of … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 28 March 2014 Label: NoiseArt Records Madness. Pure and utter madness. This can only concern one band of course, and that’s Trollfest! This band, which already from their founding was doing whatever they feel like, is back with their 6th full-length. Where the previous album dealt mainly … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 22 February 2014 Label: RecordJet In 2013 we already got a slight hint of Munarheims capabilities with the EP ‘Liberté’. Now it’s finally time for the first full-length of this German band which got, besides the beautiful artwork, the title ‘Nacht und Stürme werden Licht’. First things … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 24 February 2014 Label: Independent … of Conquest, the third album of these Canadians. Clearly these men are working hard on new material. Heavy metal with Powermetal sailing the seas of Folk-metal. Fanfare 1516, another album hosting sails in the year 1516. A long intro grows into … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 9 February 2014 Label: Sound Age Productions Once upon a time, there was this great Russian band called Beer Bear. Their latest records was called ‘The invisible line’, but the line drawn in their record, wasn’t that invisible. The change they like to make from happy beer … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 14 February 2014 Label: Sound Age Productions Wolf Rahm’s search for a label failed and that’s why they decided to release their album themselves at the Russian social media VKontakte. But who failed here? Surely the labels which didn’t sign this band. So, the band was fortunate … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 2 February 2014 Label: Independent It is definitely a misconception that bands cannot deliver good quality with their debut album. Of course it is always difficult to set a standard the first time, and a certain degree of quality is expected from many seasoned bands, but amongst … Continue reading →
Rating: 6,5/10 Release: 7 February 2014 Label: Trollzorn German Mittelalterrock, that’s something we know, for sure! While most people don’t know more bands than for example Subway to Sally or In Extremo, there are many, many more bands in this crowded subgenre of the folkrock/metal. Ingrimm is one of them, … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 1 February 2014 Label: Independent The thing I’m always a little scared of when black metal is concerned is that it will probably be another one of ‘those bands’ of which we already know thousand of a dozen. I was pretty prejudiced when I started listening to … Continue reading →
