By: Rein Rating: Release: 19 September 2016 Label: Music Kickup To keep the fans happy while waiting for the next full album Finish sextet Vorna releases a single. This time, you can take that literally, because it only contains a single song. They had been moving from black metal to … Continue reading →
By: Rein Rating: 6.5/10 Release: 15 September 2016 Label: Independent Another Russian band on the scene. The country delivers one band after the other. A lot of it is dark and moody. On the other side there is a lot of light, party metal on the other side. That’s where … Continue reading →
Dynamo Eindhoven, The Netherlands Date: 02 Oktober 2016 It’s starting to be a little tradition. A one day folk / pagan metal festival in the fall in the south of Holland. For the third consecutive year metal fans from the entire country assembled to celebrate their favourite music. With about … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 15 September 2016 Label: Stygian Crypt Productions Some bands and albums are difficult to make your mind up about. What sort of music do you hear? What do you like and what not? This is not the case with the new album from Russian Stojar. We hear … Continue reading →
By: Rein Rating: 9,5 / 10 Release: 13 September 2016 Labek: Independent In case you wondered, yes we do have discussions about whether to review a certain album or not. These discussions are about two questions. One: is it metal enough? Two: is it folky enough? If one of the … Continue reading →
By: ReinRating: 7.5/10Release: 2 September 2016Label: Einheit Produktionen Anyone who is familiar with the works of Aethernaeum will know that these Germans play black metal with a folky side. The latter mostly coming from the cello player. This single is an in between, to kill the time for the fans … Continue reading →
By: Rein Rating: 8/10 Release: 9 September 216 Label: Casus Belli Musica Celtic Pagan metal from Spain, brought to us by six experienced musicians. Crystalmoors were founded in 1995 and are now releasing their third full album. It took them 13 years to deliver their first album, so the 5 … Continue reading →
By: ReinRating: 5/10Release: July 2016Label: Independent A new band in town. From Italy, eight men band Aexylium enters the world of folk metal. That in itself is a good thing. Nice to see that the scene is still growing. The band releases their first EP, containing three songs. What to … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 12 August 2016 Label: Nuclear Blast A much anticipated album from one of the most popular pagan folk metal bands around. Previous album Erdentempel was not to everybody’s taste. Mostly because a lot of fans thought it was too, well frivolous maybe. A song like Wirtshaus Gaudi … Continue reading →
By: Rein Release: 22 July 2016 Label: Independent / Bandcamp As a reviewer for our beloved e-zine, you are blessed. You get to hear the finest music, often before the rest of the world does. You like folk music, you like metal, what more could you possibly want? Every once … Continue reading →
