Rating: 8/10 Release: 21 April 2023 Label: Independent Eterknight is a band from Mexico whose music is described on the web as a mixture of epic and symphonic metal with death and folk components. They’ve been active for 12 years and now it’s time for them to present us their … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 24 March 2023 Label: Napalm Records German folk rock icons Subway To Sally want to inspire hope with their 14th studio album named “Himmelfahrt” (translated “Ascension”). This album marks a turning point in the thirty-year career of the German band, which has always explored the various abysses of … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 5 May 2023 Label: Dark Essence Records The Norwegian band Lumsk after 16 years will release their fourth full-length “Fremmede Tone” (translated as “Foreign Tones”), in which there are 12 tracks. As well as the previous “Der Vilde Koor” was based on the texts of the Norwegian … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 20 May 2023 Label: Mighty Music “Der Var Engang…” (“Once Upon a Time…”) is Trold’s first album after having tantalized (trolled?) us with singles, and what an absolute delight! It’s a breath of fresh air… a salve on a burn… the first bite of a key lime … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 28 March 2023 Label: Independent The five horsemen of Karelia are proud to present us their 4th album dedicated to their land! 8 years was the time needed for them to bring us this new work and since we’re talking about Satanakozel, it is certainly been worth … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 18 July 2017 Label: Rock Studio Illdåd is a pretty unknown folk metal project from Sweden with just a person behind it, multi-instrumentalist Anton “Trollmania” Tordås, who also works in other metal projects such as black/folk metal band Bergsvriden, known for macabre themes and lyrics concerning the … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.8/10 Release: 11 Februari 2012 Label: SoundAge Productions A reviewer of this fanzine once used the formula “One of the more famous amongst the unknown” to describe a band and now I’ll just mention it again to describe the Russian band Leshak because I believe no tag fits this … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.6/10 Release: 24 March 2023 Label: Despotz Records Cruachan, the pioneering Folk Metal band from Ireland have returned to the studio with their first offering since Nine Years of Blood in 2018. Even though they weren’t actively in the studio, they had been active on social media with what can … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/11 Release: 10 March 2023 Label: Independent The Romanian E-An-Na have just released their latest studio work called “Alveolar”. It consists of 14 tracks ranging from purely metal songs with incursions of various folk instruments and acoustic songs full of Romanian folk instruments with, often, the integration of electronic … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 28 April 2023 Label: Trollzorn Records One man bands are taking over the world! It’s the 5th review in a row I write about a one man band’s work: now it’s the turn of the German band Fimbulvet and, here we go again, I’ve never heard previous … Continue reading →
