Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 28 April 2023Label: AFM Records Elvenking is an Italian band that, since its inception in 1997, has walked the road to its musical identity with courage and bravado, before reaching the audience with “The Pagan Manifesto”.With this chapter, the Italian band presents the second part of the … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 10 March 2023 Label: Flowing Downward Burden of Ymir is a one-man band from Canada that I sincerely have never heard of before now. Its music is described as a mix of folk and black metal but this time there’s a bit less black and way more … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 24 February 2023 Label: Napalm Recotds Finally after 5 long years, we have a new Heidevolk release! Hail the Gods! Starting off the album is “Hagalaz”, which features both singers, Daniël den Dorstighe and Jacco Bühnebeest. They each complement each other and pull together some great harmonies … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 6 January 2023 Label: Independent / Bandcamp It is my first time listening to this polish band’s material and I am even not really keen on black metal but I have now heard their latest ep “prolog” and I’ll admit that I didn’t have too bad of … Continue reading →
Rating: 5.6/10 Release: 17 November 2022 Label: Independent Karan Han’s new album, while presented as Folk Metal represents all of the problems purists and critics usually have about the subgenre. If the album were not presented as Folk Metal or if it were in fact presented as regular Folk Music … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 10 February 2023 Label: Threeman Recordings Fredlös are a new Folk Metal band from the small Swedish town of Norrtälje and feature among its ranks, none other than former Entombed guitarist, Alex Hellid. With that elephant removed from the room, I’m sure you are more interested in … Continue reading →
