I’ll be honest – reading the announcement that Canada’s Crimson Shadows would, after 11 inexplicably long years, finally be releasing the full-length follow-up to the stellar Kings Among Men, caught me at a bit of a crossroads with how to react. On the one hand, that album was such a blistering, impressive debut that, over a decade […]

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again, Canada has a killer, underrated folk viking metal scene; Battlesoul, Vesperia , Valknacht, Will of the Ancients, Valfreya, Trollwar, Nordheim, Battlesoul, and of course Blackguard are all fine acts to rival their Finnish peers. Well, poised to make a move to the top of the scene is Toronto’s Crimson Shadows […]