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Waylander – Kindred Spirits
Pagan metal by way of Kreator? Huh. Strange bedfellows indeed. “Echoes of the Sidhe” fires off “Kindred Spirits” with its uptempo push and riffwork that centers around a palm muted, thrashy crunch....
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Finsterforst – On Forgotten Paths…
The mist is rising from the Black Forest and within it’s curling folds of mystery, finds the epic tones of Germany’s Finsterforst unveiling a vibrant union of folk black metal by way of Quorthon....
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Sivyj Yar – The Dawns Were Drifting As Before
Hey! Glad you could make it. I hope the rain wasn’t too bad on the drive over. Could I get you some coffee? No? How about some obscure one-man slavonic heathen meta- Wait! Come back! It’s better than...
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Fluisteraars – Dromers
At times the words spill upon the page with ease, especially when listening to far-above average quality music that grabs one by the flabby cheeks and forces you to listen up. Often though, fifteen to...
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Ifing – Against This Weald
When you find yourself constantly looking abroad for new sounds, it can be easy to ignore what’s going on in your own backyard. I’d only recently heard of Ifing, a band to be found a scant two hours...
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Panopticon – Roads To The North
For an album ostensibly taking as its lodestar such traditionally-expected-in-black-metal concepts as winter and the general direction of North, Roads To The North could be a remarkably surprising...
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Northern Oak – Of Roots and Flesh
Progressive and blackened folk metal is quite often found and heralded in countries like Ukraine and the like, but jolly old England in the past has its share of bands and tends to gravitate towards...
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