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Review: Night Crowned “Tales” [Noble Demon]

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In 2020 Night Crowned became probably the biggest new name with their debut longplay Impius Viam. After a year and a half these guys have evolved their ideas ...
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Interview with Sam of RED RUM

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Ahoy! Can you tell us about the inspiration behind your new album “Book of Legends” and what sets it apart from your previous releases? Ahoy! Book of Legends ...
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Music Video: KORPIKLAANI “Krystallomantia”

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Finnish Folk Metal Superstars KORPIKLAANI have released a new single called ‘Krystallomantia‘ which sees the band couple their trademark sound with their most politically influenced lyrics to date. The melancholic, ...
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Audio interview: KORPIKLAANI

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Carla Morton conducted an interview with Korpiklaani‘s Jarkko Aaltonen, where he talked about the new album Jylha, Korpiklaani vodka (spruce flavour), his other band Coronary and other stuffs. ...
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Review: Varang Nord “Pārķiuņa Uomurs” [Sliptrick records]

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What do we hear in the distance? A war horn through winter and mist! Varang Nord attacks and the world knows the fury of the warriors from the ...
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Valfreya – Release Music Video For “Warlords”

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Canadian Melodic Black/Folk Metal band Valfreya release music video for “Warlords”, the song taken from band’s second full-length album “Promised Land”. Watch “Warlords” here on band’s official youtube channel Music & production: Valfreya | Filming ...
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Review: Korpiklaani “Jylhä” [Nuclear Blast]

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After three great and a couple of controversial albums, it seems that Finns Korpiklaani reconsidered their music and once again found their sound. Anyway, their previous album Kulkija ...
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KORPIKLAANI – Release Music Video For “Niemi”

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With only 4 weeks remaining until the release of their 11th studio album Jylhä, Finnish Folk Metal Superstars KORPIKLAANI are happy to present another new song to their ...
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Latvian Pagan Metal Group VARANG NORD Sings With Sliptrick Records

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Varang Nord is a folk metal band from the cold woodlands of Latvia. Their songs praise mighty battles, bloody sacrifices to the Old Gods and joyful northern feasts with ...
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Review: Finntroll “Vredesvävd” [Century Media Records]

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In the last few years there were a lot of folk metal bands whose careers has ended, or they had a complete style change. But there is one ...
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Review: Twisted Mist “Orbios” [Music-Records]

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Melodic folk death metal band Twisted Mist from French Reims this year has released their third album “Orbios” through Music-Records, in the same charming medieval style. Their music ...
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Review: MIDGARD “Tales Of Kreia” [Sliptrick records]

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Ukrainian band Midgard has released three full-length albums during five years of existence, and this year they have released conceptual folk album “Tales of Kreia” (via the label ...
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Video interview with Kosmogonia

Video interviews
Interview video with Kosmogonia – Folk/Melodic Death Metal band from Greece. https://www.facebook.com/Kosmogoniafolk/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/36usdp94gezFC4WPb6re1C ...
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Video interview with Protokult

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Interview video with Protokult – Folk metal from Canada. https://www.facebook.com/Protokult/ ...
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Review: Varg “Zeichen” [Napalm Records]

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The last Varg‘s album Das Ende aller Lügen was released four years ago, in 2016. In this time the band released EP Götterdämmerung, changed the line-up and revisited ...
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Interview: Rumahoy

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In July Rumahoy released their second album Time II: Party. We immediately decided to talk to frontman Captain Yarrface about the album, Pirate Metal, parties, piracy (noble or ...
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Review: Rumahoy “Time II: Party” [Napalm Records]

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The self-proclaimed “Best True Scottish Pirate Metal Band In The World”, Rumahoy after quite a short time release their second album, appropriately named Time II: Party. Here my ...
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Review: Ensiferum “Thalassic” [Metal Blade Records]

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Lo and behold, Ensiferum celebrates 25 years anniversary this year and I still think it’s a “new and promising” Folk/Melodic Death Metal band. I mean, I know about ...
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Review: VERIKALPA “Tuoppitanssi” [Scarlet Records]

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The Finnish folk band Verikalpa released their second album “Tuoppitanssi” on Scarlet Records this February (the first album was released on Inverse Records). Despite that Verikalpa exists for ...
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Review: Æther Realm “Redneck Vikings From Hell” [Napalm Records]

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There are lots of European bands, which play traditionally American music. But there are also some opposite examples: American bands that play quite European Metal. Since 2010 Æther ...
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