Rating: 6.5/10Release: 1 January 2021 Label: Werewolf Promotion Pagan Forest out of Kwidzyn (Poland) had been established in the year 1995 and already released three Demos in the 90s (1996,1997,1999), another Demo in 2004, a Compilation in 2005 and a Split with “Pure Pagan Craft” in 2018. The actual record “Bogu” is after … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 5 February 2021Label: Vegvisir Distribution 2021 seems to be a year so far with some projects with long hiatuses coming back with new releases. The new Skjaldborg just hit the internet as will the latest offering from Sweden’s Feskarn. Entitled “Ravens Way”, the new album will be … Continue reading →
Rating: 10/10 Release: 26 February 2021 Label: Einheit Produktionen We can all say that 2020 was pretty disastrous and hopefully 2021 will be much better. Once my end of the year lists were completed it was time to make a list of my most anticipated releases for 2021. In the … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 5 February 2021 Label: Helheim Records If this grossly long overdue review is any indication of how little of our genre I’ve listened to recently, I don’t know what would be. To be frank, I only first heard of these Incursed Spaniards when taking the assignment months … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 22 January 2021 Label: Trisol Musik Group Krayenzeit became starting from their foundation in 2011 since today to a fixed institution in the genre Mittelalter Rock (Medieval Rock) and are presenting us with “Staub & Tränen Teil 1: Aus der Asche” their meanwhile 5th full-length studio album, which had … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.6/10 Release: 5 February 2021Label: Nuclear Blast Records Korpiklaani surely counts to the epitomes of Folk Metal and therefore my expectations of their new album “Jylhä” had been quite high.Since their last record “Kulkija” it was never getting quiet around them and since then they released a “hundred felt” … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.2/10 Release: 12 March 2021Label: M-Theory Audio The Polish folk/pagan/black or as they call their style themselves “Polish root metal” band Varmia will release their third full length album “Bal Lada” on the 12.03.2021 via M-Theory Audio. The band’s name Varmia relates to the district Warmia in the North-Eastern part … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.1/10 Release: 8 January 2021 Label: Napalm Records While revisiting a load of the old Finnish Folk Metallers, I was intrigued to find that Korpiklaani had released an EP entitled ‘Niemi’. Now the answer to the question many readers will be asking at this point is: no, this time … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.7/10 Release: 9 Jauary 2021 Label: Independent From here to Beyond is a noteworthy album with because of how it succeeds at many difficult tasks. Firstly, there isn’t an overarching formula, and while there are some consecutive songs taking the same cues in terms of musical influences, there is … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 1 January 2021 Label: Independent Mexican Guitars mixed with Aztec Folklore and Melodic Death Metal are opening my folk-metal.nl year 2021 with the first track “Sangre por Sangre” from the second full-length release “Legion Mexica” by Aztlan. The seven-headed band out of Mexico City is once again … Continue reading →
