Rating: 7/10 Release: 1 December 2017 Label: Inverse Records Every time an album, or in this case an EP, is released with the word ‘Wolf’ in it, I want to know what’s going on. Since several decades I am a wolf stuff collector. I blame my wife, because she told … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 27 October 2017 Label: Nuclear Blast Shortly after ‘Evocation II’ Eluveitie gives us ‘Rebirth’. A single metal track, very unlike the acoustic album that was released this summer. Although somewhere you can find connections in melodies and lyrics. Apart from that, Eluveitie is fully back on the … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 25 September 2017 Label: Independent Only a couple of months after releasing their EP The Slavic Convenant Incursed is back with their fourth full length album Amalur. Interesting to see in what way the album adds to what we have already heard. In truth, I was expecting … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 24 August 2017 Label: Independent / Bandcamp Yes, you are right of course. Forodwaith is basically a melodic death metal band. Second album from the guys from Belarus is consistent with the style of their debut album. Only just enough folky elements for a place in the … Continue reading →
Date: 28 September 2017Venue: Luxor Live, Arnhem (NL) With a somewhat small tour though Europe, Ensiferum present their new album Two Paths. My colleague Jeff is right in stating that this album will bring the band new fans, where some of the old fans might struggle to like the increase … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 15 August 2017 Label: Independent Greece doesn’t only produce black metal giants like Rotting Christ. Kosmogonia started life as a melodic death thrash metal band. Nowadays, after a few line-up changes they play folk pagan metal. Next year we may expect their debut album. Meanwhile the 4 … Continue reading →
Morgarten, Nightland, Misanthropia Arnhem, Willemeen, 01 September 2017 As the band explained earlier, Morgarten is the name of a historical battle in Switzerland. It’s also a folk metal band from that country. Exactly a year after having seen the band in Zwolle, Morgarten is back in Holland. This time in … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 31 July 2017 Label: Independent / Bandcamp What is It with EP’s these days? A lot of bands start life with an Ep or maybe two .After that, they start making full albums and never look back. And yet somehow nowadays bands return to producing EP’s after … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 31 July 2017 Label: Independent / Bandcamp How often do we have the chance of listening to folk metal from South America? Not often. Sepultura are well known for their tribal influences of course, yet still are basically a thrash metal band. Angra make progressive power metal. … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 8 June 2017 Label: Independent / Bandcamp One man projects often fail because this one man doesn’t master all the instruments. Or he does, but doesn’t know how to write a proper song. Or he knows how to write one song properly and then endlessly copies himself. … Continue reading →
