It’s the taste of something larger than life that what drives many fans of fantasy to the genre as very few things is more fun to imagine up than tales that could never possibly happen that are simply rife with … Continue reading Stone Sovereign – Tales of Myth & Madness
A split is sometimes my best friend as it pulls double duty, sometimes more, in doing me the service of providing two different sounds from two different bands in one neat package, effectively giving me two different listening experiences. It’s … Continue reading Itnuveth / Cult of Self Destruction – Black Viking Alliance / Nihil Verum Nisi Mors
The vast number of times ethnic influence has been found amongst music is something truly staggering in its own right, but it’s with the worlds of folk and such other genres where the inclusion of different cultures always makes for … Continue reading Tamerlan – Infinigrammaton
There are many times that I’ve listened to folk metal that doesn’t have any folk instruments and I just feel as though the music in question is missing some paramount to it becoming truly good, but everything has an exception … Continue reading Týr – Hel
You know, when 2019 came around I actually realized just how many awesome bands were going to put out albums very soon for us to eat right up and for me to go crazy over. I still have acts like … Continue reading Dwarrowdelf – Of Dying Lights
To understand the importance of the name of Saor is to know the name of an act whose wild success in the underground has been the stuff to make the Scottish act a modern phenomenon that takes metal to previously … Continue reading Saor – Forgotten Paths
It’s every new year that many of us come back together pretty soon after coming together at the end of the last year to announce our favorites of the previous months that we all now talk about what we have … Continue reading Transcending Obscurity Records – Label Sampler 2019
Going into 2019, there was really only one band that I had on my radar for any sort of delivery of pagan metal in a way where the folk elements are especially emphasized is Wormwood. But, given how there’s still … Continue reading Norrsinnt – Dåvahugg
History has been a long favorite subject of mine simply because there’s so much of it to sift through that you can never know truly all of it and there’s always something new to learn. I’ve always been entranced by … Continue reading HolyArrow – Fight Back for the Fatherland
I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it again: there is no other single style that can capture the ever-changing spirit of nature better than atmospheric black metal. We’ve gotten an absolute array of acts that have blown … Continue reading Elderwind – The Colder The Night
