Rating: 8/10 Release: 4 June 2016 Label: SoundAge Productions Looking for catchy folk metal from Russia? Look no further. Debut album from Krovavyi Rif is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face. If you don’t mind a bit of tongue in check, you should check this band out. They … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 8 May 2016 Label: Indepent What do we know about Foxtale? Not a lot really. We do know that they are a bunch of Moscow based folk metallers. This is their debut EP, containing an intro and 3 full songs. An intro on an EP, is that … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 6 May 2016 Label: Northern Silence Productions Strange how you can have the feeling that some bands are around much longer than they actually are. The name feels familiar, you think you have seen them multiple times at all the pagan festivals, the vocals and sound are … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 17 June 2016 Label: SoundAge Records In a genre where most bands come from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, it’s nice to notice bands from more and more countries. China is up and coming, the scene in France is far from dead and once in a while we … Continue reading →
Venue: Baroeg, Rotterdam, Netherlands Date: 24 April 2016 With their last album ‘Winter thrice’, Norwegian Viking / Pagan / Folk band Borknagar got the attention of the entire metal world. Before this album, they were deemed mediocre, not outstanding in any way. Unobtrusive, not bad, but not extremely good either. … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 7 May 2016 Label: Independent Now this is something you don’t hear every day. Pagan metal from France. These five guys are pretty productive. Since their founding in 2012 the band have released a demo, a split album and a full album, this being their second full … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 20 May 2016 Label: AFM Records German metallers Suidakra have been a reliable part of the metal scene for more than 20 years now. Sometimes more leaning towards black metal, often on the edge of melodic death and always with some folk elements incorporated in their style. … Continue reading →
Rating: 2/10 Release: 25 March 2016 Label: Shaytan Productions Previous ratings on our site were not very hopeful. Al Namrood from Saudi Arabia usually only score average points on every one of their releases. The only fact that they come from a region in which folk metal is rather rare … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 13 December 2015 Label: Cold Woods Productions And now for something completely different. It is not often that bands from the Far East make their appearance on our site. One would think that part of the world is full of myths, stories and folk as well as … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 29 January 2016 Label: Independent From the Czech Republic Emerald Shine make their debut with a four piece EP. First recordings are always interesting. New music, new players, maybe the first mini-album of your future favourite band. You never know. Having heard the EP multiple times I … Continue reading →
