Rating: 8.7/10 Release: 8 March 2019 Label: Metalblade The time is close at hand for Faroese Folk Metallers Tyr to release their latest work entitled Hel. In the previous months, Tyr has released some of the usual precursory content to tease the album, including several of the songs for online … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 15 February 2019 Label: Independent One of the albums I was looking forward to the most this year was the first full album by Turkish trio Kara Han. Their EP blew me away in 2018. Fantastic melodies, oriental influences, a very own sound within the boundaries of … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 8 March 2019 Label: Independent After a very dirtylisious album ‘FolkCore – DeTour’ Dirty Shirt is upto a new album again. The band sticks to their sound, Core, Folk, Punk, Metal once again all over the place, but again the band is on top of it everywhere.Of … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.3/10 Release: 4 April 2019 Label: Independent While there are definitely many bands who don’t always get the exposure they deserve I still maintain that in the case of East Anglia’s Atorc, this is especially the case. Their previous effort, Seven Songs of Swords & Ale, was arguably an … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 8 February 2019 Label: Independent / Bandcamp There are always one or two albums every year that make me gasp when I hear it the first time and Bergatagen got me with their seemingly debut album “Bärsärkatoner” (don’t ask me for translations as I couldn’t find any … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 17 January 2019 Label: Independent I would like to think I am pretty familiar with most folk metal bands here in the US but every now and again one springs up that I hadn’t come across. Considering that they are on the other side of the country … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 12 January 2019 Label: Independent There has been some great music coming from the Czech Republic over the last few years including one of my top albums with Cruadalach’s latest “Raised By Wolves” from 2018. This year coming up we will have a new one from Welicoruss … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 22 March 2019 Label: Listenable Records An agonising 7 years have passed since Waylander’s last album, “Kindred Spirits”, was released and the wait for new material is finally over. That said, Waylander have never been the most prolific of bands, having released only 5 albums, including this … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 18 January 2019 Label: Independent Fenrir is back with a new album. It has taken quite a while since their previous album ‘Echoes of the Wolf’. Their previous album was their debut and I was stunned by that one, back in 2012.Listening to their new album I … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.4/10 Release: 15 February 2019 Label: Avantgarde Music There have been many reviews in the past in which I’ve highlighted everything that can go wrong with the Black Metal genre, especially Atmospheric Black Metal. I feel the need to clarify again that I have nothing against Black Metal and … Continue reading →
