By: Nick Score: 7/5 Label: Universal Records To kick it right in, the new Subway to Sally is which you expect form this band. A very solid album, without strolling of their, own-made, path of German Medieval folk. For the people who are not familiar with Subway to Sally, it’s … Continue reading →
By: Nick Score: 8/10 We experience more and more there are band form other countries, less traditional folk-metalcountries, meaning all not Northern Europe countries, are give folk-metal a try. Nekrogoblikon is such a band, inhabiting California, USA. Something which began as a side-project, rapidly grew in a six-piece band. Like … Continue reading →
By: Nick Score: 6,5/10 Fimbulvet is a German four-men piece, making a kind of Pagan-blackmetal. The band is grounded in 2003 and ‘Frostbrand – nach flammen sehnsucht’ is their third full-length album. The songs are sounding very fast and heavy, with strong alternations within the songs. The singing consists of … Continue reading →
Baroeg open Air Zuiderpark, Rotterdam 24 September 2011 On a late summer day when the sun shows her best side it was time for Baroeg Open Air. A free festival which reached its 4th edition. In a nice big park, where you can comfortably lie down, fair prices and above … Continue reading →
By: Nick Score: 6/10 To be honest, I have to say, I’d never heard of this band, at the time I got this CD in my hands. Tersivel is an Argentinian band releasing their first full-length with ‘For one Pagan Brotherhood’. This band consist of three members, completed with a … Continue reading →
Summerbreeze 2011 Dinkelsbühl (DE) 18-20 Augustus 2011 Summer Breeze is one of many metal festivals in Germany. With only 20,000 men remains a small-scale festival, not as massive as for instance another German Wacken. Here too metalheads from all over Europe gathered for three days of beer, party and metal! … Continue reading →
Wacken 2011 4-6 Augustus 2011 By: Nick Wacken… Every self-respecting metalhead knows this festival. Standard on the first weekend of August attract some 90,000 men from all over the world set out to go to ‘The Holy Wacken Land’ for three days of celebration, drink and of course Metal! At … Continue reading →
By: Nick Score: 6/10 Bolero, a band of apparently contradictory a lot. With the début album ‘Voyage from Vinland” entitled, I initially thought it was going to be a Finnish band. Nothing is less true, this quintet is from Canada. The second mistake I made in my interpretations of the … Continue reading →
Hoernerfest 2011 Location: Brande-Hörnerkirchen (DE) 1 – 2 Juli 2011 Photography: darkradiation.de It’s time to travel to the far-away Brande Hörnerkirchen in Germany. In this small village in the middle of nowhere, the annual folk-festival ‘Hörnerfest’ takes place. The festival, which took place for the 6th time, has about 2000 … Continue reading →
By: Nick Score 8/10 With Saltatio Mortis you know in advance what you can expect; a nice pot typical German folk rock. So that’s also the case with the new album “Sturm aufs Paradies. Saltatio Mortis hold on tight to the style that we like of these seven. As one … Continue reading →
