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Best Debut-Album 2019: Nr. 1 Elvarhøi

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Elvarhoi Dansen Later Fra Graven Ater

1. Elvarhøi – ‘Dansen låter fra graven åter’
With 25 out of 40 points Elvarhøi managed to claim the title ‘Best Debut-album’ this year. Voted ‘best’ by two members, they reached the first place. After 15 years of existence they released their debut-album.
” A now brainer this releasedate, because it’s Elvarhøi’s 15 anniversary.
Despite the fact I won’t advise this schedule to any other band, it can be heard for sure. When you listen to ‘Dansen låter fra graven åter’, you can’t imagine this is an debut. The musicians are not only skilled they obviously know what they want and can achieve this together. “

Congratulations Elvarhøi!

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Best Debut-Album 2019

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Aegonia The Forgotten Song

5/6. Aegonia – ‘The Forgotten Song‘
On a shared 5th and 6th place there are two album with 15 points, the first one is the Bulgarian band Aegonia.
“Overall, there is clearly a praiseworthy amount of effort that went into creating the album in terms of the editing and musical skill required. The group’s mastery of composition can be found by simply looking at the classical influences on this album alone, which manage to steer the entire album in a neoclassical folk direction while keeping enough Metal influences in the mix to keep their credibility.”

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Forgotten Song from the Rhodopes

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Interview with Eli of Aegonia

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We recently received the new album of Aegonia. A mystical mix of Doom, Gothic, Melodic Metal and Folkore. The band is hailing from the beautiful country Bulgaria. A county I like to visit for the nature, folklore and food, but where the tourism is starting to spoil things along the black sea coast. The band likes to visit the the beautiful area of the Rhodopes and is inspired by nature and folklore. About time to have a chat wil Eli, the violin-player of Aegonia.

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