Tag: Folk
Ensiferum – Winter Storm Review
Maybe you’re one of those unfortunate souls whose attention was drawn elsewhere when Ensiferum’s Thalassic redrew the folk metal band’s boundaries ever so slightly in 2020 – unfortunate because that slight boundary push reinvigorated a …
Grendel’s Sÿster – Katabasis Into The Abaton Review
Would we even have heavy metal today if it weren’t for folk music? Let’s just go with a hearty “NO, BY HELL, WE WOULD NOT,” considering that our genre’s golden architect—Black Sabbath—was certainly influenced by …
Moisson Livide – Sent Emperi Gascon Review
Let’s just come right out with it: Moisson Livide’s debut album is a magical, righteous, utterly triumphant display of blackened folk metal. Hailing from the region in the southwest of France historically known as Gascony, …
New Model Army – Unbroken Review
[As is customary, artwork by the indomitable Joolz Denby] Here is a random drawing of a dusty (possibly deranged) individual roaming the hills of New Mexico and enjoying some New Model Army. True: It is …
Panopticon – The Rime Of Memory Review
Here in the Midwest, winter symbolizes nature’s aging process and the failure to sustain existence. Freezing winds pierce the skin like a final goodbye. Vegetation disappears like time itself. The harvested fields empty like an …
Valdrin – Throne Of The Lunar Soul Review AND Video Premiere
[Cover Art by Lucas Ruggieri] I promise all of this will make sense, so stick with me. In 1986, a young protagonist emerged for the first time from the land of Hyrule, a land I …
Wayfarer – American Gothic Review
I love a good image or gimmick. But sonically, I need a sense of realism that I can sink my teeth into for that image or gimmick to really resonate, ya know? Years ago, when …
Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar Review
[Cover art by Astrid Bergdahl] Malokarpatan is an incredibly rare breed of band. Not so much in style, as their medieval, folklore-charged, melodic and progressive black metal isn’t all too rare over metal’s history, but …