Rating: 7/10 Release: 27 November 2014 Label: Independent Germany’s Jörmungand may be familiar to some of you as they have existed as one entity or another since 2009 whether as Jörmungand or for some time as Soulreaver. They have returned to the Jörmungand name and issued their first full length … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 15 December 2014 Label: Independent Annwyn are an up and coming folk metal band from the Netherlands and have just released their first EP with Journey On. Formed in 2013, they have already gone thru a few personnel changes in their short history and hopefully have now … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 8 October 2014 Label: Independent From the dark reaches of Pennsylvania and New Jersey USA emerge the mighty Duskmourn with their debut album. Previously, they had released a terrific 3 song self-titled EP in 2012 which reminded me of a mix of a few different North American … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 22 December 2014 Label: Independent Having just reviewed their “Beer Bloodbath” EP, I was anxious to hear the newest full length from the mighty Incursed from Spain. It was obvious that there was a definite progression from the first full length (“Fimbulwinter”) just after hearing the couple … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 21 November 2014 Label: Independent It has been a long 4 years since Brezno released the “Viharnik” EP which featured 4 songs of epic folk metal. I enjoyed the EP but I thought the songs were OK and sounded a little forced with production that lacked an … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 29 November 2014 Label: Independent Pospolite Ruszenie is an Polish band blending old Polish music with solid rock, but there’s a difference, they don’t use the old folkmusic for this purpose, but medieval theme’s. There aren’t of lot of bands blending these genre’s, what makes the sound … Continue reading →
Rating: 6.5/10 Release: 14 November 2014 Label: Wolverine Records We got a little taste of the new Malasañers sound a little while ago when the vinyl issue Welcome to the Folk Punks Show, a Celtic Punk compilation, was released. Malasañers isn’t the loudest band on this album, on the contrary. … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 28 November 2014 Label: Trollzorn Records Although Obscurity has been present in the scene for quite a while, it was not until last summer when I had the pleasure to get to know them. The German Viking death-metalband who came into existence in 1998 were present at … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: November 2014 Label: Heidens Hart Records I always am a little skeptical of words like “re-issued” or “re-mastered” when an album that was released previously is put out again. Imagine now seeing another re-issue of an album that originally was released in 1999, re-issued in 2002 and … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 11 November 2014 Label: Independent This release was announced a long time ago. And until the releasedate there was not much to be found about Rannoch Moor. But now this is split album is released we discovered Rannoch Moor is a kind of project in which three … Continue reading →
