Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 2 April 2022 Label: Independent / Bandcamp The Royal Spuds released a new project this week titled,”Roots of Life”. I saw the artwork for this on the bands Facebook page and I was really impressed. I think it is one of the best covers I’ve seen in … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 18 March 2022 Label: Metal Blade Records Okay, I must confess to all of you. I have never been a big fan of live albums. I realize that bands often release them so fans can capture that concert experience without being there physically. In my experience, very … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 7 Januari 2021 Label: Independent Cheerful and powerful. This is the EP that Skál presents us from Finland. A sound that can remind us of the style of other bands from that country, with happy overtones and all the energy from metal. In this short work, Skál … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 8 April 2022 Label: Rockshot Records I’ll start with a caveat; I’m a huge Skyclad fan. In fact, they are my favourite Folk Metal band and one of my all-time favourite bands, full stop. With that in mind, given that Theigns & Thralls is a new project … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.0/10 Release: 8 April 2022 Label: Mighty Music Danish Folk Metallers, Heidra have returned with another album, the latest installment in the story that started with their first concept album. This release makes some departures from the musical style from Awaiting Dawn but isn’t far removed from what one would … Continue reading →
Dutch metalband Vanaheim released their first full length album ‘Een Verloren Verhaal’. As the title shows they made a switch to Dutch for their lyrics. Overall this album is a huge step forward and they pulled it off without losing their identity. And there are more nice things with Vanaheim… The guys are all very involved and they all took the time to answer our questions.
Continue reading →Rating: 5/10 Release: 8 October 2021 Label: Independent / Bandcamp Bring to Bear is a symphonic folk metal band hailing from the United Kingdom. In October 2021, they released their debut three song EP “Light and Shadow”. Bring to Bear continues with the symphonic ‘beauty and the beast’ style of … Continue reading →
Tuatha de Danann is one of those ‘well known unknown bands’, starting way back in history and still playing. Influenced and with an obviously great fascination for Skyclad the band is representing a small but strong piece of the folk-metal scene in Southern America. That must be reason enough to have a little chat with these guys and so we did. Bruno took the time to talk about his great band.
Continue reading →Rating: 9/10 Release: 21 January 2022 Label: Scarlet Records / Bandcamp Verikalpa are the next in a line of great Folk Metal bands from Finland, following in the footsteps of such luminaries as Moonsorrow, Finntroll, Korpiklaani, Ensiferum and Turisas. Lofty company indeed, but with this, their third album, Verikalpa have … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 20 Februari 2022 Label: Bandcamp Listening to Bucium’s new album ‘Zimbrul Alb’, I take a short peak at the review of their previous album ‘Mioriţa’. This was a great album, but lacked a bit of metal. Would that be better this time? Well, first of all, ‘better’ … Continue reading →
