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Alphayn brings Old Tales to the Audience

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Interview with Alphayn

Dear Folk Metal community my name is Juergen and it is my pleasure to introduce myself to you as a new interviewer for Folk-Metal.nl. I am based in the city of Vienna in Austria and will focus in the future on the Folk Metal scene in Central and Central Eastern Europe and hope that I can introduce to you some interesting news and interviews of bands which are active in our area.
Today I would like to introduce to you to one of the most well known Folk Metal band of Austria, namely Alphayn. Please find the interview below:

It is my pleasure to meet you and thanks a lot for your time. First of all I would kindly like to ask you to introduce yourself to our readers.
Cari: “Hi to everybody, we are Alphayn, a Folk/Viking Metal band from Vienna and we are active as band since 2012. We already released two full studio albums namely “Heimkehr” in 2014 and “Wanderschaft” in 2018.”

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Gjallarhorn Into Poetry

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Gjallarhorn Interview

Ukraine’s Gjallarhorn have made an epic comeback of sorts in 2019 with a brand new concept EP called “The Black Tower”. This is their first new music in a few years (not including singles) and they have picked up where they left off with a contender for EP of the year for me. We were lucky enough to have 3 member answer questions for us in Onswar, Nameless and Doomor regarding their “return”, the new EP and the concept behind it, the latest from Ukraine and a few other things…check it out….

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Interview with Jon of Steignyr

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steignyr myths throught the shadows of freedom

Steignyr released their new album ‘Myths Throught The Shadows of Freedom’ a little while ago. Jon Thorgrimr, vocalist and guitarist of the band answered our questions.

Hi there, congratulation with the new album. Are you satisfied with the reviews on it?
“Honestly yes, people have to be critical, otherwise everything would be perfect and boring.”

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Epic Comeback

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Achsar Interview

It was nice to get a folk metal related release from Slovakia this year in the form of a new EP by Achsar. Formed in 2004, it has been 5 years since their debut album (“Septentrionalis”) and they have finally gotten back together with “In Battle I Was Born”… 5 tracks, 18 minutes of epicness and a great comeback of sorts for them. I was able to have vocalist Milan and guitarist Peter answer some questions regarding the new EP, the long layoff, playing live and a few other things…. check it out…..

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The Rumjacks Interview

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After they have delivered a fabulous album last year The Rumjacks will be touring through Europe a lot this year. Time to drown ourselves in the Celtic Punkscene with Johnny of The Rumjacks.

Hi, guys how are you doing?
“Doing really well! Just starting off the European summer at the moment. Began the year with some UK shows and doing some acoustic songs…bit of down time, now gearing up for a busy 2019 from now on.”

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Unsigned and Free

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Munarheim Sebastian

Munarheim Interview

After the EP ‘Liberté’ in 2013, and the albums ‘Nacht und Stürme werden Licht’ in 2014 and ‘Stolzes Wesen Mensch’ in 2015 we had to do without new releases of Munarheim for a while. But now they’re back with a beautiful new album ‘Willens & Frei’, delivered in German and international edition. The style of the band is a very exclusive one with distinctive vocals, harsh, sad, full of pain. There is a nice contrast of these vocals with the light flutes and whistles and there are these awesome choirs and orchestrations. Time to chat with singer Sebastian about all these things.

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Forgotten Song from the Rhodopes

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Interview with Eli of Aegonia

Aegonia

We recently received the new album of Aegonia. A mystical mix of Doom, Gothic, Melodic Metal and Folkore. The band is hailing from the beautiful country Bulgaria. A county I like to visit for the nature, folklore and food, but where the tourism is starting to spoil things along the black sea coast. The band likes to visit the the beautiful area of the Rhodopes and is inspired by nature and folklore. About time to have a chat wil Eli, the violin-player of Aegonia.

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Bergatagen Interview

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Be warned…….there is a band of trolls coming to tear your head off with some amazing new music. Sweden’s Bergatagen have just issued their debut album “Bärsärkatoner” and it will definitely screw you up. Filled with classic troll black metal and some folky touches, it is definitely a contender for debut of the year for me. Two of the trolls, Svartgrimme and Huggsint answered some questions for us lowly humans regarding the name, the music and the possibility of mangling the crowd if they ever played live…check it out…..

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