Following in the wake of Fortíð‘s highly praised sixth album, “World Serpent”, the band now released a the two-track EP “Dómur um dauðan hvern” (“Judgement of Everyone Dead”). Here’s a lyric video for the second track of this EP. The Icelandic pagan black metal trio revealed the lyric video single ‘För’ (“Journey”) as a tasty sample …Continue reading →
Five years since the release of their much-acclaimed album, ‘Vuur Van Verzet’, February 24, 2023 will see Dutch folk metal collective Heidevolk return with their seventh studio album on Napalm Records – continuing to keep the pagan flame burning!
Turkish Folk Metal band Kara Han, founded by Tunç Demirağ in 2016, released their 5th studio album “Kara Kam”.The group, which deals with Turkish Culture and Mythology from the Huns to the present in their songs, did not break their line in this album. Featured in the album, “Gardaş! Siz …Continue reading →
Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 21 October 2022 Label: Independent / Bandcamp mewhat surprising, but it is unquestionably worth the wait. Bringing to mind such Pagan Folk Metal heavyweights as Obtest, Skyforger and Metsatöll, this is a definite statement of intent from this young (ish) five-piece. When I pressed play on my …Continue reading →
The group from San Sebastian Biersbreaker will publish their latest EP Reshout for War in digital format on December XX through Gargoil Tavern Records, which will be available on the band’s Bandcamp page and from December XX on the main digital distribution platforms. In 2022 it will be ten years since …Continue reading →
Italian folk/power metal SpellBlast hails from Bergamo, an Italian city northeast of Milan, in the Lombardy region. Born in 1999, they have released four full length albums with a new album ‘Classified – V’ due out soon. ‘Horns of Silence’, their debut album, was released in 2006 and involved some folk influences with lyrical themes inspired by fantasy tales and J.R.R. Tolkien references. In 2010, ‘Battlecry’ was released with themes involving ancient Norse mythology. ‘Nineteen’ was released in 2014, and the band took to executing a crowdfunding campaign, thus creating a concept album based on the Stephen King book ‘The Dark Tower’ saga. The album took previous folk themes and morphed them into more of an “old west” direction. The last album, released in 2018 titled ‘Of Gold and Guns’ brought us another concept album. The band chose to keep the old west direction, but using legends and references to figures that helped shape the old west in the United States. Spellblast has had some notable guests on some of their releases, such as, Elvenking’s singer, Damnagoras, as well as Fabio Lione from fellow Italian power metal band Rhapsody of Fire.
Kampfar will release their new album today. “A horse in the distance, rider atop in lavishly coloured garb, enters the valley. He calls himself a shepherd, a collector for the ones above. Singing to himself in a foreign tongue, the calm melody betrays the fire beneath his words. He is …Continue reading →
