Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 17 March 2023 Label: Independent I must be dreaming. Firkin has taken some time from touring to duck into a recording studio!Their last recording, “Into the Night”, was an amazing EP that lives on one of my regularplaylists, so I was excited to get my hands on … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: March 2023 Label: Independent Telperion are a young formation from France who’s released an album in 2015 and brings us a new work entitled “Of Saviors and Conquerors” with 4 songs. Heavy, power and of course folk are the subgenres they tag their style with, and in … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: June 2022 (Australia) / April 2023 (Europe) Label: Earth and Sky Productions In 2022, Perpetual Dawn released their first full-length, self-titled album! Knowing that this is a one-person affair, and looking at the green and brown, earthy-colored album cover and track listing, I was half-expecting a file … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 1 March 2023 Label: Unsigned Bulgarian folk metal acts are something pretty unknown and yet very original. You can recognize a bulgarian song in a field of other folk metal tracks from kilometers. Progressive tunes and strange tempos such as 7/8 are what makes Bulgaria special from … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.3 Release: 14 April 2023 Label: Trollzorn Red Rum are a young pirate metal formation which has been active for the latest 12 years. Coming from United Kingdom they bring us our new album after a full length in 2015 and a more recent EP released in. Their music’s … Continue reading →
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: 8/10 Release: 2 December 2022 Label: Heidens Hart Records Fans of their last album, 2018’s “De Roep van het Woud” (“The Call of the Woods”) will be quite pleased with “Voorbij de Nevelen des Tijds” (“Beyond the Mists of Time”). This really feels like the next step in Theudho’s … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: December 2022 Label: Heidens Hart Records I’m listening to this on the heels of Voorbij de Nevelen des Tijds (“Beyond the Mists of Time”) from 2022. This 2008 reissue is recommended for Theudho fans, but it might leave you lacking if you took the same trajectory that … 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 →
