Tag Folk
Enough of all that noisy stuff, time to step back and soothe the savage breast. What better way to do so than immerse yourself in some tranquil Nordic folk? Time to shut the world outside away and get back to… Continue Reading →
My introduction to new medieval folk troupe Ravenhymn was at Warhorns Festival and I think it’s fair to say it wasn’t the best introduction. With backing tapes and other miscalculations and misfortunes it was no doubt a bit frustrating for… Continue Reading →
Three things that rarely – if ever – fail to at least pique my interest when it comes to music are, in now particular order: cool band name, cool concept, and cool album names. These weaknesses are how I originally… Continue Reading →
Sludge, doom and post-metal all are stated as being on the menu from this Chicago based outfit. They may well be new to us but are on their third album and this one at first glance seemed to be a… Continue Reading →
A sentence from the original announcement for Brother Dege’s new album Aurora by his label Prophecy Productions I felt hit the bullseye, because it promised the very thing that a lot of people seek, myself included, from the music they… Continue Reading →
Based on the theme of darkness and light, “the two voices” as the artist behind Iterum Nata calls it, this album crosses numerous genres, amongst them folk and neo-folk, black and doom metal and progressive rock. Our senses are made… Continue Reading →
Well, this is a difficult one. Maybe I’m having trouble rating the album because it’s neither metal nor dark nor extreme and thus different from the majority of the stuff we review. Or maybe the difficulties that I’m having stem… Continue Reading →
Hand of Kalliach are a husband and wife duo from Edinburgh who mix melodic death metal and Scottish folk music to great effect. That is the bare basics now onto the wicked mix that Corryvreckan contains in its bubbling pot. The… Continue Reading →
If you are searching for obscure music, music that explores sounds off the beaten metal paths, I, Voidhanger Records from Italy is a good place to start looking. Among the many releases and the wide spectrum of genres you are… Continue Reading →
Sweden meets York on this debut album from Helga. “Wrapped in Mist” passes through the lands of Swedish folk and progressive metal, with post-rock, black metal, pop and some cellos and violins thrown in. A haunting female voice precedes a… Continue Reading →
This band from Cyprus have apparently been around since 2011 according to the PR blurb but 2017 according to Metal archives but this is indeed their debut. The PR promises epic, NWOBHM with folk and when the jaunty guitar run… Continue Reading →
As is unlikely to have gone unnoticed by anyone who’s read more than say…two of my past reviews, my favourite band of all time is Alcest, and has been for a very long time now. One of many reasons they’ve… Continue Reading →