Rating: 9/10 Release: 23 September 2022 Label: Independent At its heart Alvenrad’s sound is a bombastic take on melodic blackened folk metal, but they enrich and elevate it with innovative prog flourishes, orchestral strings, wind instruments and vocals ranging from rasping black metal to soaring clean singing and choral chants. … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 22th October Label: Independent / Bandcamp Warning at Goblin Hovel everything is special. Don’t expect happy folk metal like Korpiklaani, but musicians who do nothing like the others. The listener when he buys an album is challenged by the cover. The latter are UFOs symbolizing the content … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 17 September 2022 Label: Independent In September 2022, Folk Metal band from Sweden has released a new EP ‘Heavenly Demons’, which is the follow up to their full length 2021 release, ‘The Formorian Horde’. It should be noted that ‘The Formorian Horde’ was voted Best Debut Album … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 24 June 2022 Label: Independent first came across Hordak way back in 2006 on their “The Last European Wolves” album and have followed them, sporadically, ever since, so I knew what to expect from their new offering. Or so I thought. The opening track is a blend … Continue reading →
After two years of being postponed, for obvious reasons, the Folk Metal faithful were finally able to descend on the small Swedish town of Norrtälje for the second installment of Månegarm Open Air. Thankfully the line-up from the planned 2020 festival remained mostly unchanged as the majority of the bands, … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 2 September 2022 Label: Independent Just a few hundred miles from where I sit penning this review is a band who takes power/symphonic/folk metal to a whole new level. The band I am talking about is Aeternam. I came across this band back in 2017 and found … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 3 September 2022 Label: Independent In addition to aggressiveness, power, melody and wild rhythms, there is another element that should prevail in all styles of folk metal: fun! From the happiest Scandinavian folk metal to edgy black folk, there should always be a sense of fun and … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 26 August 2022 Label: Napalm Records The power of folk is upon us comrades! Indeed, the covert melding of power and folk metal has slowly creeped into our foreground and has taken me among others by a stormy surprise. A very talented example of this maturing phenomena … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 12 August 2022 Label: NoCut Entertainment As soon as you press play, you’re met with the keyboard intro of Volhov, which wouldn’t be out of place on a modern Melodic Death Metal album. I have to admit that this threw me a little at first, but as … Continue reading →
Rating: 4/10 Release: 17 August 2022 Eight years have passed since the release of their debut album “Vocaloid Zanmai”. The band, which has also released many original songs, has decided to release “Vocaloid Zamai 2” in its 8th anniversary year! The new album could be called the “Vocaloid Greatest Hits”, … Continue reading →
