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Elvenscroll – ‘Never To Be Mourned’ (EP 2020)

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Rating: 8.7 Release: 6 November 2020 Label: Inverse Revords When listening to Elvenscroll’s latest release, one will find that true to the album’s name, there is nothing mournful about it. In fact, below the soaring melodies, there is a rather nuanced and incredibly expansive track-list on offer that holds up … Continue reading →

Skálmöld – ’10 Year Anniversary – Live in Reykjavík’ (2020)

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Rating: 9.1/10 Release: 16 October 2020 Label: Napalm Records Skalmöld’s 10th anniversary effort Live in Reykjavik not only checks all the boxes for a great live album, with excellent fidelity to the studio releases, a good audience, and minimal filler but due to the wide range of Skalmöld material can also … Continue reading →

Vikings and Soothsayers

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Aether Realm Interview

After reviewing their new album, Redneck Vikings from Hell, I reached out to Aether Realm for an interview. The guys from the band seemed very open to the idea, and we got some excellent meaningful answers in reply about the background of the album, how the pandemic affected the industry, and some of their self-referential songs.

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Noituma – ‘Tervahauta’ (2020)

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Rating: 8.0/10 Release: 28 February 2020 Label: Independent / Bandcamp Noituma’s latest effort Tervahauta, from start to finish is highly reminiscent of Helloween’s first keeper album. Despite the stark difference in genres, both Tervahauta and the Keeper albums have an overarching concept but each song sounds almost completely different from … Continue reading →

GOD The Barbarian Horde – ‘Forefathers: A Spiritual Heritage’ (2019)

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Rating: 8.3/10 Release: December 2019 Label: Earth and Sky Productions For those who aren’t aware, the latest release from self-styled Barbarian Metallers, GOD, is in fact an infamous lost album that were recorded in Portugal in 2009 under a different name. While two of the tracks have been released previously, … Continue reading →