Rating: 9/10 Release: 23 February 2024 Label: Century Media Records Borknagar is a Norwegian heavy metal band from Bergen, founded in 1995 by Øystein Garnes Brun. The band’s style combines black metal and folk metal with progressive and melodic elements. Borknagar’s lyrics often deal with philosophy, paganism, nature and the cosmos. Fall is the follow up to 2019’s successful True North release and sees the departure of Vintersorg … Continue reading →
By: Stu Rating: 9.5/10 Release: 27 September 2019 Label: Century Media Records Where to start with a new Borknagar release? Let’s face it, the band have rarely put a foot wrong in their near 25-year career and are one of the finest examples of the Progressive Folk / Black Metal … 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: 10/10 Release: 22 January 2016 Label: Century Media Records I am done flipping thru my thesaurus to find superlatives for Borknagar, let us just say that twice they have been my album of the year (2000’s Quintessence and 2012’s URD). Unfairly, they will release their new album “Winter Thrice” … Continue reading →
Rating: 10/10 Release: 26 Marc 2012 Label: Century Media Records Borknagar. Up until recently I’d never heard of them. Still, this band is already founded in 1995, and with Urd they release their 9th studio album. Time to listen thoroughly to this record! Borknagar brings us ‘Avant-garde black metal’, a … Continue reading →
