Tag Folk
It is time to escape to the tranquil and pastoral Austrian Tyrol. Watch that cow-pat it’s freshly laid and still steaming, ouch, damn bitey bugs, achoo, stupid hay-fever. Ah it’s OK, still in the comfort of the living room, but… Continue Reading →
We all look for something in music, whether it is an escape, relaxation, or an exhilarating and uplifting effect – music is different things to different people at different points in time. The artform’s relevance is fluid and changes constantly… Continue Reading →
Wardruna are something of an enigma. Over recent years, they have grown from a very niche act into an international name regularly selling out large venues with their interpretation of Norse folk (a label which does not really do their… Continue Reading →
Epic traditional folk songs and mystical auras were what we experienced on “Ansur : Urkraft” (2017), Byrdi’s outstanding last album. Describing it simply as “Scandinavian nature music” is in fact an epic understatement. “Avantgarde Norse folk music”, which is the… Continue Reading →
As long-time readers will know, Ave Noctum likes not just to provide state-of-the-art reviews of all things short, nasty and brutish (and that is just the reviewers), but also to ensure that our mission of education is met. Therefore, for… Continue Reading →
Boasting former members of Nordjevel, Alsvartr and Dødheimsgard, I presumed that Varde was going to be a brutal barrage of barbaric black metal. I was wrong. This is a far more measured, almost cerebral, approach to the genre. This is… Continue Reading →
And now for something a little bit different… It’s time to shuffle the deck and pick some cards from the Minor and the Major Arcana of musician Jeff Grimal, formerly of The Great Old Ones. Fate is very much in… Continue Reading →
The first thing that this album’s arrival had me do was give me a nudge in the direction of what I guess we could refer to as sister act Blood Ceremony and see if there was any news on forthcoming… Continue Reading →
Back when I was a nipper in the 90s…. Ok, just in my 30s…. I was exploring the odd world of what I like to think of as “post -Norwegian black metal weirdshit”. Elend, Monumentum, Mortiis era 1, Ahkenaton’s Divine… Continue Reading →
The world of metal has its heroes and villains, those that stand out as paradigms of goodness, respect and an adherence to the metal code of honour (Ronnie James Dio, Steve Harris, Chuck Schuldiner, The Koller Brothers, Steve Brodsky et… Continue Reading →
Another band from Portland, Oregon, the town where seemingly everybody makes music, and in many cases music of the darker kind. A new band from musical Portland, where people – the mayor included – are standing up against Trump, his… Continue Reading →
The second release by David Mako away from his doom metal bands and into his doom folk guise. Now as I sit here writing the sun is out, its warm and…. Yeah, not exactly sunny music this. So, pull the… Continue Reading →