Tag Celtic
Ah yes: the windswept moors, endless days of rain, blue woad and blood sacrifice for cruel gods of the far reaches of the Western world. Unless you’ve been buried in a peat bog for the past decade, you won’t have… Continue Reading →
So it finally arrives, the new album by symphonic metallers Leaves’ Eyes, prior to which we got an indication as to the future direction the band would take with the release of the “Fires In The North” EP released in… Continue Reading →
Eluveitie is Chrivel Glanzmann’s band and it always has been. Right from it’s inception back in 2002 he assembled like-minded musicians to carry forward his vision for his band. Therefor, members may come and go but as long as Glanzmann… Continue Reading →
“It’s like village music” was the comment from the other end of the room where I was listening to this album. For sure “La Pèira Negra” sounds like a group of people have gathered with their multitude of mediaeval and… Continue Reading →
I don’t know why but I expected much more from this bands third full length which is based on the concept of the Viking invasion of Ireland. Claiming to fuse Celtic influences with metal is nothing new whatsoever and in… Continue Reading →
Wallachia is one Lars Stavdal, a Norwegian, and a number of supporting musicians. The band has been mostly active since 1995, since when there have been two albums. “Shunya”, advertised as a gloomy and personal work of atmospheric and symphonic… Continue Reading →
Referring to the fact that there are only four boats per week in winter from their native Isle of Eigg in the Hebrides, one of the band members of The Massacre Cave commented “if one is cancelled and we have… Continue Reading →