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: 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: 7.4/10 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 →
’Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 31 May 2024 Label: Black Lodge Records Wormwood is a Swedish melodic black metal band and The Star is their fifth album. I love melo-death and its genre brethren, and this has all the hallmarks: atmosphere, distorted guitars and vocals, and that instantly-recognizable syncopated drum beat. Wormwood’s … Continue reading →
Ratïng: 8/10 Release: 15 November 2023 Label: Independent The fifth chapter of the Swedish dirty swamp was released right before the end of 2023 by the speakers of the haunted, scary house of Bergsvriden. Musically, it configures as a pleasant surprise to black metal fans of all lands, while a … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 19 April 2024 Label: Scarlet Records The Finnish band Verikalpa, originally from Oulu, will release their fourth album “Tuomio”, to be released on Scarlet Records. This new album consists of 12 tracks, all in the typical style of the band, with tracks that wink to a sound … Continue reading →
