Rating: 9/10 Release: 8 March 2019 Label: Deaf Shepherd Recordings March brings some great Celtic punk every year and this year is no different. Fiddlers Green will release “Heyday” on March 8 and it is a great album. Self proclaimed as Irish speedpunk this legendary band has 13 studio albums … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.2/10 Release: 18 January 2019 Label: NoiseArt Records If it was a secret before, it certainly shouldn’t be now, TrollfesT deeply embodies my alter ego #trollpy. So of course, I leaped at the opportunity to review their latest homage onto our lot. Norwegian Fairytales is their (holy crap) eighth … Continue reading →
By: Jeff Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 18 January 2019 Label: Massacre Records 2019 may be known as a year with band reforming after long periods of inactivity….case in point the recent Pagan Reign album after 12 years and now the 3rd full length from Belgium’s Lemuria. Entitled “The Hysterical Hunt”, the … Continue reading →
By: Jeff Rating: 9/10 Release: Match 2019 Label: PRC Music. There are times when the “job” here at the site is incredibly easy, especially a reissue of an album I have heard plenty o’ times before. My friends in NJ’s Windfaerer have their killer release “Solar” being reissued this March … Continue reading →
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 →
By: JeffRating: 9.5/10Release: 8 February 2019Label: 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 and … Continue reading →
By: JeffRating: 7/10Release: 17 January 2019Label: 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 (the … Continue reading →
