Rating: 9/10 Release: 12 July 2024 Label: Reigning Phoenix Music ‘Tales From The Thousand Lakes’ is the second studio album from Amorphis released in 1994. It is a concept album based on the Finnish epic, Kalevala. The album showcases their signature sound incorporating melodic death metal, with a touch of … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.7/10 Release: 7 June 2024 Label: Better Noise Music The new life album offered up by the Hu combines the best of a studio remix and a live album in one package. On one hand we are presented with sure-fire classics, as is usual for a live recording, but … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 24 May 2024 Label: Independent Valfreya is a four-member Canadian blackened folk metal band with some symphonic elements. There are two amazing guest musicians for the album, which is their fifth, counting acoustic releases. It’s a concept album, and that really shines through in parts, but is … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 18 May 2024 Label: Independent Sekengard is a Baltimore-based six-member folk metal crew. I’m proud to say that I’ve seen these folks live, and the lead singer and violinist is a bit of a Baltimore legend. Their first album, a self-titled, five-track affair debuted back in 2015 … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 26 April 2024 Label: Independent The Jolly Jackers are a five-piece punk folk metal band from Budapest, Hungary, and when I wrote a review for their last album, I was, perhaps, too critical. They’re amazing. Great, punchy vocals are met with a whistle, fiddle, and a great … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 31 May 2024 Label: Napalm Records Following Týr’s latest effort, Battle Ballads, the band have hammered out another album. Their forthcoming compilation album collects the “best of” from the napalm years. Now those who have read one of this reviewer’s takes on compilation albums know there are … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 31 May 2024 Label: Hammerheart Records The Canadian one-man band SIG:AR:TYR is coming back with a new 9-tracks album called “Citadel of Stars” that will be released on the 31st of May. This album is coming after 8 years since the last album called “Northern” and it can … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 12 April 2024 Label: Metal Blade Records After releasing a live album and doing some extensive live work and holding the banner of Folk Metal high during the lockdowns, refusing to play the Spotify imaginary singles game, and generally being shining example of what it means to … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 22 March 2024 Label: Napalm Records The Australian pirates are back. Alestorm released an EP called “Voyage of The Dead Marauder“, released via Napalm Records. The EP comes as a successor to their epic seventh studio album, “Seventh Run of a Seventh Rum“, and consists of 5 … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.4/10 Release: 2 February 2024 Label: Independent Wandering Oak’s new album is a short but serviceable journey through ambient soundscapes, rumbling bottom-heavy riffing underlined with meaty growls, and soaring, dark and epic symphonies. It never reaches that almost ethereal highs of the black metal landscapes, neither does it reach … Continue reading →
