By: Yvette and Nick Photography: Hansemeister.com Location: Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany A heat wave has passed over Europe, but this doesn’t stop Folk-metal.nl from visiting various festivals this summer! This week we travel to Brande-Hörnerkirchen in the north most part of Germany, for the annual Hörnerfest festival. Hörnerfest offers a variety of … Continue reading →
By: Nick Bornstedt, Germany 14-5 / 16-5 2015 The most common discussion when the festival season starts is always about which festivals to visit, especially since there’s so much choice nowadays! There’s just one festival that’s been on the calendar as soon as the previous edition ended, and that’s the … Continue reading →
Paganfest Extended 013, Tilburg, The Netherlands (22-03-2015) Photography: Paganfest Extended, Turbinehalle, Oberhausen, Germany One of the places to be if you are into pagan, folk and viking metal is the annual festival Paganfest. After being cancelled last year, the Paganfest tour has returned to Tilburg with an XL tour, featuring … Continue reading →
Rating: 9,5/10 Release: 6 February 2015 Label: Nuclear Blast Enslaved is back, and how! After the marvelous RIITIIR, originating from 2012, it would be hard to match this work of art. However, Enslaved managed to do it. The Norwegian band which started out as a pure black metal band came … Continue reading →
Release: 13-2-2015 Label: Deaf Shepherd Recordings Twenty-five years and not a single sign of weakness; Fiddler’s Green. With ’25 Blarney Roses’ they give the fans a small present because this year the 25th birthday of the band is celebrated. The present is in the shape of a best-of CD. Well, … Continue reading →
By: Nick 7 Februari 2015, Bibelot, Dordrecht, The Netherlands It’s becoming more or less a tradition nowadays; the Wolfstijd festival in February. That this is not a bad thing is clear; Wolfstijd not only serves us the top bands within the Folk-metal genre, but in the black- and power-metal as … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 23-1-2015 Label: Napalm Records Finsterforst is back! Three years after the fantastic ‘Rastlos’, the band is back with the album ‘Mach Dich Frei’. Since Rastlos is one of my favourite pagan-black albums, my expectations were really high for this album. However, did the band manage to fulfil … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 28 November 2014 Label: Trollzorn Records Although Obscurity has been present in the scene for quite a while, it was not until last summer when I had the pleasure to get to know them. The German Viking death-metalband who came into existence in 1998 were present at … Continue reading →
Rating: 5.5/10 Release 4 October 2014 Label: Independent Haeredium is a band which originates from France. Founded in 2009, they finally released their debut album. This piece is entitled ‘Aurora’, and within 50 minutes the band has their chance to convince me. Although this is their debut, the band worked … Continue reading →
Alestorm is hot. And although this band is one of the main examples of ‘you love it or hate it’, it seems this band is here to stay. With their 4th album released almost two months ago, Alestorm was ready to plunder Europe. A tour with Troldhaugen (finally!), Crimson Shadows … Continue reading →
