Rating: 8/10 Release: 5 May 2023 Label: Independent Nemoreus is a six-member Austrian folk-metal band who probably don’t even need this amount of introduction. “Eluna” and “Mountain High” are deservingly famous in their own right. Their new EP is lavishly titled “Orcunadoras, Chapter 1: Warrior”. It’s only three tracks, or … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 1 February 2023 Label: Mors Lucerna Records Imagine a mixture of Korpiklaani, telling us about the American gold rush migration in the 19th century, all sung in Russian, French and English, mixed and mastered in Finland in 50th minutes of folk metal. If you got this far … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 7 April 2023 Label: Independent Valensorow is a four-member band out of California, and Shorestank is an amazing mash-up of absolute chaos and mayhem. It’s definitely folk metal, but rather than weighing down the metal with melody, the folk parts are in the pit moshing with the … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 12 May 2023 Label: Independent It’s been a while since we’ve done a Łysa Góra (meaning ‘bald mountain’) album. Łysa Góra is a five-member band whose past albums have been folk-forward and acoustic. This album is unique in its electric guitar and bass magic, and sadly, it’s … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 21 April 2023 Label: Independent Eterknight is a band from Mexico whose music is described on the web as a mixture of epic and symphonic metal with death and folk components. They’ve been active for 12 years and now it’s time for them to present us their … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 24 March 2023 Label: Napalm Records German folk rock icons Subway To Sally want to inspire hope with their 14th studio album named “Himmelfahrt” (translated “Ascension”). This album marks a turning point in the thirty-year career of the German band, which has always explored the various abysses of … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 5 May 2023 Label: Dark Essence Records The Norwegian band Lumsk after 16 years will release their fourth full-length “Fremmede Tone” (translated as “Foreign Tones”), in which there are 12 tracks. As well as the previous “Der Vilde Koor” was based on the texts of the Norwegian … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 20 May 2023 Label: Mighty Music “Der Var Engang…” (“Once Upon a Time…”) is Trold’s first album after having tantalized (trolled?) us with singles, and what an absolute delight! It’s a breath of fresh air… a salve on a burn… the first bite of a key lime … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.6/10 Release: 24 March 2023 Label: Despotz Records Cruachan, the pioneering Folk Metal band from Ireland have returned to the studio with their first offering since Nine Years of Blood in 2018. Even though they weren’t actively in the studio, they had been active on social media with what can … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/11 Release: 10 March 2023 Label: Independent The Romanian E-An-Na have just released their latest studio work called “Alveolar”. It consists of 14 tracks ranging from purely metal songs with incursions of various folk instruments and acoustic songs full of Romanian folk instruments with, often, the integration of electronic … Continue reading →
