Rating: 8.9/10 Release: 14 Februrary 2025 Label: Independent Cave Growl’s latest effort, “the Ace of Beer” packs a full package ranging from high speed folk glazed melodies, to mid-paced death metal tinged numbers, going all the way into pure europower territory. Readers might be asking, aside from making Rhapsody blush … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 4 January 2025 Label: Independent Regnum Noricum has always been one of the more fascinating Celtic War Metal groups. There are a few groups that play more brutal veins of blackened folk metal who have largely remained underground or disbanded. Bran Barr from France was one this … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.7/10 Release: 7 November 2024 Label: MDD Records Suidakra’s new effort is like their previous effort Wolfbite a competent and well-written album that proves conclusively that the ferocity and bite of the album preceding it was not luck, there is no doubt after a series of acoustic experiments and … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.9/10 Release: 30 August 2024 Label: Inverse Records As advertised, Wolfhorde’s Bloodmoon Symphonies is a melodic and sometimes heavy release that plays with various ambient orchestrations and delivers a competent, rich product sometimes at the expense of aggression. Bloodmoon Symphonies, Wolfhorde’s latest effort, has several compelling songs throughout it, … Continue reading →
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: 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: 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: 8.5/10 Release: 23 November 2023 Label: Independent Celtibeerian’s latest effort “Nertos” comes in the wake of a single released a year back, entitled “Rise”. What is noteworthy here, is their single was not a teaser for this album, it was a message the band had they wanted to convey, … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.7/10 Release: 27 January 2024 Label: Independent Avalon’s new effort boasts well rounded influences from rock, decent folk melodies, and very poetic songwriting across the board. Like their name suggests, their specific themes involve the British Celtic legacy, but very much in that romanticized Arthurian vein. It takes that … Continue reading →
