Into the Forest Festival 7-11-2015 Dynamo, Eindhoven, Netherlands The second edition of the Into The Forest festival in Dynamo Eindhoven, The Netherlands. After a successful first edition last year the festival (hosted by good friend and former folk-metal.nl colleague Nick Roovers) gets a sequel. This year the line-up has improved … Continue reading →
It’s time for the CD Release Party (or Straalschijf Ontketen Feest) for the newest member of the Heidevolk Discography. The Dutch formation has already played some of the song at the Paganfest tour but now it’s time to get this thing official. Rhovanion Starting this evening is the Dutch folk-metal … Continue reading →
7 Februari 2015, Bibelot, Dordrecht, The Netherlands It’s becoming more or less a tradition nowadays; the Wolfstijd festival in February. That this is not a bad thing is clear; Wolfstijd not only serves us the top bands within the Folk-metal genre, but in the black- and power-metal as well. It’s … Continue reading →
Location: Bakkerij, Castricum Date: 15 March 2014 On a cold Saturday night I travel to the small town of Castricum. Today, the one-day event So You can Rock is organised in the ‘Bakkerij’ in Castricum. Although the program has already started at 13:00 PM I am only there to review … Continue reading →
Photography: Don Bakhuizen Location: Archeon, Alphen a/d Rijn, The Netherlands Date: 7/8 December 2013 The first weekend of December of our agenda is as every year taken by the MidWinterFair, a folk-fair in the beautiful setting of open air museum Archeon. Next to countless stands with clothing, armor, weapons, books … Continue reading →
The world is full of beautiful things. If you want to escape every-day city life or the huge massive events, you have to pay a visit to FantasiaFest in Meppel, The Netherlands. On a quiet place in the middle of nature and old farmland there’s an old mansion ‘De Lindenhorst’ … Continue reading →
After two extreme hot days, it finally cooled down a bit on the Wednesday-night that Skiltron was about to set foot on stage of the Little Devil for their first European tour ever. With Rhovanion as their support it promised to be a great evening. Rhovanion Exactly at half past … Continue reading →
Date: 18–5–13 Location: Estrado, Harderwijk It’s a cloudy saturday evening when all metalfans from Gelderland head for a town called Harderwijk. Estrado is quite a new building with enough parking space and I must say it’s a beautiful hall. The first band of the evening was Myrkvar from Nijmegen. This … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 6 October 2012 Label: Independent As a Dutch based Folk-metal webzine we’re always very pleased with productions from our own soil. And however are neighbours in Germany are one of the leading countries in this genre we have some very nice bands in The Netherlands too. One … Continue reading →
Viatora Viatora had to get on stage as an opener of the festival, but there were only a handful of people. A pity, because they performed very well. Enthusiastic, fanatic, inspired they played their catchy folk-metaltunes. It sounded good. A pity there were only a few people, otherwise this could … Continue reading →
