Rating: 6.5/10 Release: 21 March 2015 Label: Independent Celtic Metal from Russia? I’m always curious what’s behind these kind of bands. Celtic Metal, is just like the celts, spread across a wide territory, with it’s own rites and tribes. From Japan to Argentina, and as it seems now they’re in … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 20 February 2015 Label: Nail Records The bearded Danes called Svartsot prepared more music for rape and pillage, this time they called it Vældet which means overwhelmed. It has been a few years since their last record Maledictus Eris (2011) and since this is one of my … Continue reading →
22 Februari 2015 @ La Machine du Moulin Rouge, Paris Photography: psychopathia-melomania.com On a rainy weekend in February, Folk-metal.nl travels to France for the annual Parisian festival Cernunnos Paganfest. The 8th edition of the festival, that also happens to be a medieval fair, is held in the venue ‘La Machine … Continue reading →
Photography; Ton Dekkers29-12-2014 013, Tilburg, The Netherlands In honor of the 20th anniversary of the legendary album Tales of the Thousand Lakes Amorphis has decided to do a special tour this year. The appetizer of tonight is the Swedish doom formation Avatarium. Musically it’s closest to bands like Candlemass, only … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 21 October 2014 Label: Independent The third full length album of the French NightCreepers is finished and the world may finally listen to Hreidd. After Alpha made a pretty good impression on me in 2012, I’m very curious about this new release. As you may expect after … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 27 October 2014 Label: Indie Recordings In 1993 a group of lonely warriors from the historical Haugesund came together. These Einherjer, as they are called, want to show the world the culture in which they have grown up. Barely a few kilometres away from the site where, … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 25 December 2013 Label: Haarbn Productions The fun part of writing for a website is that sometimes you get to review bands, you can’t even pronounce, let alone having heard of it before. And sometimes these bands seem to come from nations you’ve never heard any metal … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 2014 Label: Independent When you hear this title and band-name, of course you think of a group of rebelling Scots who overflow us with bagpipes until they’ve become independent. No, not this time, these men in black tartans come from Belgium. And for the bagpipe punks between … Continue reading →
6 September 2014 Dynamo; Eindhoven, The Netherlands Finally, a small folk-metal event with an super awesome line-up full of young, talented bands that’s not 7 hours away from here. Indeed, this year The Netherlands have one of these amazing festivals too, Into the Forest is it’s name. In the city … Continue reading →
Photography by: Toni B. Gunner – www.mondkringel-photography.de Wacken Open Air, I don’t think that this Metal Mecca has need for any kind of introduction. Every year tens of thousands of metalheads from over the entire world gather here for some days in the capital of metal called Wacken, just 1800 … Continue reading →
