Paddy and the Rats started way back in 2008, but they kept on paving a way over the sea with their music. This path lead to Napalm Records and some point. Now the band hits the shores once again, this time with their sixth album ‘From Wasteland To Wonderland, time to have a chat with these Hungarian outlaws. We stumbled upon Joey in the harbor and got him to talk.
Rating: 8/10 Release: 1 April 2022 Label: Independent Dirty Shirt is back with a new album ‘Get You Dose Now!’ When you see the coverart it’s obvious this is not the usual stuff. Where lots of the bands featured on Folk-metal.nl tend towards the more nostalgic aspects of folk-music. No, … Continue reading →
Dutch metalband Vanaheim released their first full length album ‘Een Verloren Verhaal’. As the title shows they made a switch to Dutch for their lyrics. Overall this album is a huge step forward and they pulled it off without losing their identity. And there are more nice things with Vanaheim… The guys are all very involved and they all took the time to answer our questions.
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Tuatha de Danann is one of those ‘well known unknown bands’, starting way back in history and still playing. Influenced and with an obviously great fascination for Skyclad the band is representing a small but strong piece of the folk-metal scene in Southern America. That must be reason enough to have a little chat with these guys and so we did. Bruno took the time to talk about his great band.
Continue reading →Rating: 9/10 Release: 20 February 2022 Label: Bandcamp Listening to Bucium’s new album ‘Zimbrul Alb’, I take a short peak at the review of their previous album ‘Mioriţa’. This was a great album, but lacked a bit of metal. Would that be better this time? Well, first of all, ‘better’ … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.0/10 Release: 28 Januari 2022 Label: Metalville Harpyie released a new album ‘Blutbahn’. Well, reading back my previous reviews, it’s obvious I’ m not always ‘in love’ with the German Medieval metallers. But once again I pulled the short straw.The band is on the move the last years, their … Continue reading →
It looks like the pandemic is over its peak and we’re getting back to something more like our usual life. Many people have died, our hearts go out to all of the families who suffered.
In the shadow of all this a lot has happened as well. Bands decided to call it a day, after all the struggles, venues which couldn’t handle the long time without events and had to close down. Festivalorganisations which suffered from financial issues and lots of spilled energy.
But now the darkness fades little lights are gaining strength and the feed the hope we can leave Covid behind us. One of this little lights is coming from France and it’s growing and gaining strength. Actually it has absorbed so much energy it will soon burst out and a beautiful festival will be held again and we can hardly wait experience live bands and festival atmosphere again. We had a little chat with Nathaniel of Golden Stone Events about the sunset of the new festival age, with a little bit ironic name: Dark Medieval Fest.
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 14 January 2022 Label: Independent The first debut-album this year is ‘ Immortal Tradition’ by Ritva Nero.When first looking at their info the tag Party Metal Folk gave me ideas of Korpiklaani and such bands. But as lead instruments Soprano Saxophone, Finnish Bagpipes and Nyckelharpa are used.But … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 3 December 2021 Label: Napalm Records The Swedish Shanty/Pirate Folk outfit Ye Banished Privateers crawled through the docks and bars and gathered a real ‘different’ Christmas feeling. This conspiracy lead to an album with 11 swashbuckling Christmas shanties.Are you unfamiliar with Ye Banished Privateers? You should listen … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 30 July 2021 Label: Independent Almost 4 years ago Wolfstavar released their first album ‘Gesang der Meere’. A band with potential but with a bit of a, as we say in the Netherlands, sound of 13 in a dozen.How will they have developed after all this time? … Continue reading →
