Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 27 May 2022 Label: Napalm Records Let’s start by addressing the (pink) elephant in the room… This is not the album I expected Trollfest to make in 2022. After all, they’ve spent the best part of two decades releasing seven albums of high octane, fast and furious … Continue reading →
Rating: 7/10 Release: 19 March 2021 Label: Napalm Records Well, it has been quite a while since Trollfest released their latest masterpiece ‘Norwegian Fairytales’. An highly appreciated album over-here. After this silence, True Norwegian Balkan Metallers found it was time to shake things up a bit. The band is well … Continue reading →
Pumpehauset, Copenhagen, Denmark31 May – 1 June 2019By: Assia What is a semi American metalhead to do for their first Scandinavian holiday but to attend a festival in one of the most eclectic cities in the world? Udgårdsfest 2019 seeks to prolong itself as a two-day festival celebrating Viking-pagan-folk-metal music … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.2/10 Release: 18 January 2019 Label: NoiseArt Records If it was a secret before, it certainly shouldn’t be now, TrollfesT deeply embodies my alter ego #trollpy. So of course, I leaped at the opportunity to review their latest homage onto our lot. Norwegian Fairytales is their (holy crap) eighth … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release 24 February 2017 Label: NoiseArt Records Folk metal to me is the most diverse metal subgenre out there, it’s complete with its own genres within itself, and no written rules to regulate what is truly folk metal or not. Anything goes from the haunting and majestic. Epic … Continue reading →
By: Yvette and Nick Photography: Hansemeister.com Location: Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany A heat wave has passed over Europe, but this doesn’t stop Folk-metal.nl from visiting various festivals this summer! This week we travel to Brande-Hörnerkirchen in the north most part of Germany, for the annual Hörnerfest festival. Hörnerfest offers a variety of … Continue reading →
Theatre of Living Arts; Philadelphia, USA 28 May 2015 TROLLFEST/KORPIKLAANI/ENSIFERUM Phil and I are made are way down to the venue which was over 80 miles away so we left at 5 o’clock or so to get there….luckily traffic cooperated and we were at the venue right before 7PM finding … Continue reading →
Rating: 8,5/10 Release: 4 May 2015 Label: Independent Hearing that Trollfest had a live release coming out was both a time to reflect on the past and to ponder the upcoming future. The past comes back to me because of seeing them on this tour (Paganfest USA) 2 days after … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 28 March 2014 Label: NoiseArt Records Madness. Pure and utter madness. This can only concern one band of course, and that’s Trollfest! This band, which already from their founding was doing whatever they feel like, is back with their 6th full-length. Where the previous album dealt mainly … Continue reading →
Location: Geiselwind, Germany The news about Bayern was pretty bad lately. Heavy rainfall, flooded basements, mudslides and landslides. But still the line-up of the very first edition of Beastival was irresistible, so we jumped in our car for this new German festival. Sabaton, Kreator, Kataklysm, Wintersun and many other great … Continue reading →
