Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 7 April 2021 Label: Independent “By the spirit of freedom, breaking the shackles” is the title of the new full length from Stozhar, the 5th in their career. A seven tracks album with nice melodies and catchy rhythms. It’s indeed a short album having 42:27 minutes in … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 6 June 2019 Label: Stygian Crypt Before you go nuts translating this, it is the newest album from Stozhar (or could also be Stojar I believe) entitled “Cold Battles In The Arms Of Winter”….. more or less. Yes, they are Russian hailing from the Yaroslavi region and … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 15 September 2016 Label: Stygian Crypt Productions Some bands and albums are difficult to make your mind up about. What sort of music do you hear? What do you like and what not? This is not the case with the new album from Russian Stojar. We hear … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 5 June 2014 Label: Stygian Crypt Productions How could we have missed this album? It was released in 2014 and I am glad we found it yet. It seems that almost all of the folk metal these days is from Eastern Europe and Russia. And the standard … Continue reading →
By: Gur Rating: 8/10 Release: 24 April 2013 Label: Stygian Crypt Productions This Russian band from Yaroslavl, which lies 250 km north of Moskou, is doing thing right from the start. Eight songs which are all very nicely put together. We all know very nice accordion, mixed with metal and … Continue reading →
