Danish composer, vocalist and classically trained multi-instrumentalist, Myrkur (Amalie Bruun), announces her upcoming full-length album “Folkesange“, due out March 20, 2020 via Relapse Records. Through Bruun’s crystalline vocals, an array of traditional instruments and storytelling, “Folkesange” offers listeners an immersive, emotional and transcendent experience that resonates in today’s turbulent times. Myrkur has always paved her own path and challenged underground preconceptions of heavy genres. Just after newfound motherhood, Bruun set out on a journey into the very heart of the Scandinavian culture that marked her own childhood with the release of her Read more →

Chinese epic folk black metallers 殒煞 (Vengeful Spectre) will release their debut full-length album on January 15th, 2020 via Pest Productions. 殒煞 (Vengeful Spectre) is a new band forging black metal with traditional Chinese folk music elements. Established in the spring of 2019, they completed the writing of the first track “慟啸”, which was included in the compilation CD of new wave of Chinese black metal “Death Kult Over Black Congregation” released via Pest Productions. The band quickly gained wider attention in and outside of China based on this excellent single with desolate atmosphere. 殒煞 (Vengeful Spectre) now return with a 36-minute self-titled conceptual album. The consecutive six chapters describe a story of eastern swordsmen Read more →

Canadian folk metal band Trollheims from Québec has recently released its debut self-titled full-length album in several digital platforms. The band was formed in the early 2010′s in Québec, Canada and released a demo back in 2012. After a break that started in 2013, the band members eventually got back in touch and decided to work on new songs for their debut album “Trollheims“. The band talks a lot about the rage that haunts us which is reflected through a specific character, the “pathfinder”. The lyrics of the album describe his journey through a land named Trollheims. The pathfinder encounters several obstacles such as giants, dwarves and much more…

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1. The Fall of the Ancient          Read more →

Croatian folk metallers StriboG from Zagreb will soon release their second full-length album, entitled “Tvoje Kraljevstvo Zeleno” 10 long years since their previous album, the debut “U Okovima Vječnosti“, which was released back in 2010. The new album will be available in digital format by the end of January 2020, but it will be also out in physical CD edition hopefully on February. “Tvoje Kraljevstvo Zeleno” which translates to “Your Kingdom Green” is an 11-track album with almost 1 hour of Croatian folk metal and is completely recorded, mixed and mastered by StriboG’s guitarist Ivan Mrkoci. The band has revealed the album tracklist and the cover artwork, with the beautiful photo by Maja Midžor. Once again the lyrics is a mixture of Croatian and Read more →