Posts Tagged ‘Folk Metal’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Friday, May 19th, 2023
Do you ever listen to music from another country and after a bit, you try to sing along? Like, it’s obvious that you don’t know let’s say Finnish; but you hear this song from a Finnish band, and you love the shit out of it and suddenly you think you know Finnish and are fluent […]
Tags: 2023, Black Metal, Folk Metal, Jeremy Beck, Kouta, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, December 23rd, 2022
A few years ago I discovered the folk metal genre. A variety of bands ranging from death to black to cultural and traditional metal were using these influences. I got hooked, whether bands were using the influence sparingly or full-fledged the variety of sounds became addictive to me and most of all these bands put […]
Tags: 2022, Black Metal, Folk Metal, Folkrim, Frank Rini, Inverse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, July 5th, 2022
For metal mastermind Andy Marshall, Saor has been a means of immersing listeners in his beloved Scottish history and heritage through a sprawling, intoxicating mix of incredibly atmospheric black and folk metal, dubbed colloquially by Marshall himself as “Caledonian Metal.” For all intents and purposes, while each of his previous albums certainly had some characteristics […]
Tags: 2022, Black Metal, Caledonian Metal, Folk Metal, Origins, Saor, Season of Mist, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
If you follow this site and my writings (you’re not the only one as I’m kind of a big deal), you might be asking yourself why a folk metal album is getting the review treatment from me. Instead, you should immediately be thinking the subject of this review is entirely worth your attention. It’s been […]
Tags: 2022, Bindrune Recordings, Black Metal, Folk Metal, J Mays, Nechochwen, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, February 7th, 2022
A well-respected colleague of mine once advised me that it was a bad idea to stay with a job or company for more than 10 years – and even that long was pushing it. The idea being, after a certain amount of time in the same setting, you begin to lose your passion for the […]
Tags: 2022, Amorphis, Atomic Fire Records, Folk Metal, Halo, Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, July 16th, 2021
I’m just gonna go ahead and start a personal series called “Dumbass Steve Discovers a Band That’s Been Around a Long Time but He’s Just Now Finding Out About.” I’ve officially made it a habit. In my defense, Pennsylvania/New Jersey’s Duskmourn (active since 2012) don’t appear to have any kind of super active social media […]
Tags: 2021, Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal, Duskmourn, Folk Metal, Melodeath, Melodic Death Metal, Steve K
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, May 3rd, 2021
As I made clear in my review of 2018s Nyárutó, Hungary’s Dalriada is one of my new favorite discoveries of the last few years. Their infectious brand of bouncy but still crunchy, ethnic folk metal is just fun as heck even after 10 albums. And album number 11 is no different. Continuing the seasonal/month named […]
Tags: 2021, Dalriada, Erik T, Folk Metal, H Music Hungary, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS. We need to talk about this. As I’m sure you’re all well aware, the world of metal is often filled with dominating trends – a band will grab everyone’s attention and a specific subgenre will start blowing the hell up as record labels scramble to find the next best example. As […]
Tags: 2021, Folk Metal, Gates of Hell Records, Heavy Metal, NWOTHM, Prog Metal, Steve K, Traditional Heavy Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Friday, October 23rd, 2020
I gotta hand it to Cruz del Sur – this label keeps taking me by surprise. Granted, this might be more to do with my apparent inability to just retain what is an obvious, unmistakable truth, but it seems like every time I venture into one of their new releases, I start off chuckling to […]
Tags: 2020, Cruz Del Sur Music, Folk Metal, Grendel’s Sÿster, Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Review, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
OK, this is an odd, but intriguing one. ( and for clarification its Wood-Scream, not Woods-Cream) Hailing from Russia, with a few releases under their belt and playing folk metal and being female-fronted, I was hoping for some sort of epic eastern European folk romps akin to Dalriada or Grai. But instead, I got a […]
Tags: 2020, E.Thomas, Folk Metal, Review, Self-Released, Woodscream
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Here is some super pleasant and fun Folk/medieval/’renaissance ‘ metal from France that has traditional instruments like Accordions, Bohas (courtesy of Skiltron’s Pierre Delaporte) Hurdy-gurdys and Tabor Pipes, traditional Gascon language, as well as some actual medieval tunes as bonus tracks on the CD. Now, this isn’t your expected folk metal, meaning it’s not your […]
Tags: 2020, Boisson Divine, Brennus Music, Erik T, Folk Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
North Carolina’s Æther Realm caused quite a stir with their astounding 2017 sophomore album, Tarot. Indulging in an addictive, intricate form of melodic death and folk. The album was my number one pick in 2017 and is regularly revisited several years later. With success comes high expectations, and prior to its release, worries had set […]
Tags: 2020, Folk Metal, Luke Saunders, Melodic Death Metal, Napalm Records, Review, Æther Realm
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, February 16th, 2018
US based folk/epic/viking metal is somewhat of a rarity. I’d have to go back to maybe Hammer Horde to find one that really hit everything on the head. But here comes Pennsylvania’s Frost Giant and their ambitious and often down right brilliant debut. Listen- there is a lot going on here- not just epic folk […]
Tags: 2018, E.Thomas, Folk Metal, Frost Giant, Review, Transcending Records, Viking/Folk Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
When I fall for a band, I fall HARD. In 2015 it was Vallendusk, and early last year it was Sabaton, and my latest infatuation has been with Hungary’s prolific Celtic/folk metal act Dalriada (formerly known as Echoes of Dalriada). I discovered them on Spotify while listening to the Asmegin radio station, the song “Hajdútánc” […]
Tags: 2018, Dalriada, E.Thomas, Folk Metal, Nail Records, Review