Rating: 7/10 Release: 30 October 2020 Label: Independent Barbar “O” Rhum are from Toulouse France. They are a pirate folk band and judging from this release they can play pretty much every instrument ever created. The album is filled with great individual performances on every type of string and key … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 31 October 2020 Label: Black Spark Records Just in case you think you already read a Burden Of Ymir review earlier this year, rest assured you did, and this isn’t the same one. This, in fact, is a whole new full-length review for “And Then Twilight Fell” … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.1/10 Release: 16 October 2020 Label: Napalm Records Skalmöld’s 10th anniversary effort Live in Reykjavik not only checks all the boxes for a great live album, with excellent fidelity to the studio releases, a good audience, and minimal filler but due to the wide range of Skalmöld material can also … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 17 September 2020 Label: Independent ShamRocks are a Ukrainian/American Celtic punk band. They are an energetic and talented group. The music is a wall of punk rock flavored with folk instruments and brass. Their versions of old standards like Leaving of Liverpool, Rising of the moon and … Continue reading →
Rating: 10/10 Release: 9 October 2020 Label: independent / Bandcamp I would usually say for a band to be in existence for 5 plus years and only have a single and an EP to show for it would be disappointing. In the case of Baltimore’s Isenmor, they get a major … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.2/10 Release: 9 October 2020 Label: Vertigo Berlin Spielleute is such a nice German word, in fact it says it all regarding to Saltatio Mortis. ‘Playing People’ would be some kind of English translation. Guys who don’t only make music, but where music runs through their vains. Not only … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 20 November 2020 Label: Trollzorn If you would have asked me in March 2020 what we could expect from this year in respect of Folk Metal I would had been quite reluctant to forecast anything. Nearly a half year later the situation looks quite differently. The year … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 13 October 2020 Label: Independent Way back in 2017, I reviewed the debut from Idaho, USA’s Forest KIng entitled “Lore Born”. It was (and still is) a solid Viking metal album and showed tons of promise. For the last 3 years it’s been quiet from this project … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 11 September 2020 Label: Independent / Bandcamp. Even being “behind the scenes” to a certain extent in folk metal, I am still shocked when an album just seemingly drops from out of nowhere with no notice. Case in point, the 3rd full length from Russia’s Svaskalver entitled … Continue reading →
By: Zach Rating: 9/0 Release: 18 August 2020 Label: Sliptrick Records Tales of Kreia is the third full release by the Ukrainian 4 piece band Midgard. Hailing from Kaniv, Cherkasy Oblast, this troupe of troubadours are a folk/viking metal band that sing about wide range of topics including Vikings, fantasy, … Continue reading →
