Rating: 9/10 Release: 18 Februari 2022 Label: Independent “Tell the Wind” is the second full-length album from Slovenian six-member symphonic folk metal band Zaria, and the first to feature English-language songs! This band walks on the edge of the chasm of symphonic metal bands with operatic singers. I don’t like … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: June 2022 (Australia) / April 2023 (Europe) Label: Earth and Sky Productions In 2022, Perpetual Dawn released their first full-length, self-titled album! Knowing that this is a one-person affair, and looking at the green and brown, earthy-colored album cover and track listing, I was half-expecting a file … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 2 December 2022 Label: Heidens Hart Records Fans of their last album, 2018’s “De Roep van het Woud” (“The Call of the Woods”) will be quite pleased with “Voorbij de Nevelen des Tijds” (“Beyond the Mists of Time”). This really feels like the next step in Theudho’s … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: December 2022 Label: Heidens Hart Records I’m listening to this on the heels of Voorbij de Nevelen des Tijds (“Beyond the Mists of Time”) from 2022. This 2008 reissue is recommended for Theudho fans, but it might leave you lacking if you took the same trajectory that … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10Release: 3 November 2022 Label: Strong Music Productions Symon Muzyka, the folk-metal project of Belarus band Dialectic Soul released a new album last year. To keep things simple the album is called ‘Symon Muzyka II’, since this is their second release.The band managed to create a very nice album … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 20th December 2022 Label: Independent / Bandcamp “Reshout for War” contains four melodic death metal songs with the inclusion of folk elements. To understand this release, you have to go back to 2012 when the “leaping” Basques released their first opus “Shout for War”. The month of … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 25 November 2022 Label: Independent The four titles “Nature Emerge” follows two albums released respectively in 2015 and 2018. In Argentinian metal pagan we already knew Skiltron, Triddana, Tersivel, so to avoid being forgotten Folter the only member of Vorgrum offers an interlude which will keep fans … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 16 December 2022 Label: Independent From all sides and from all countries, we are now assailed by Pagan productions and this one comes to us from Romania!! Their compatriots from Bucium and E-an-na had already broken down the doors and now it’s the turn of the “big … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 20 January 2023 Label: Reaper Entertainment Piracy has many times been associated with our favorite music. Running Wild in classic metal, Alestorm in folk metal, Swashbuckle in death thrash. The genius of the guys and the girl from Baden-Württemberg is to have made the synthesis of all … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.0/10 Release: 25th November 2022Label: Deaf Shepherd Germany Fiddlers Green have recorded a nice holiday album here. It is festive while still sounding Celtic and folksy. Opening with a twin bill of Merry Christmas Everyone and Merry Christmas Everybody certainly gets one in the spirit. The songs are similar … Continue reading →
