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French Folk-influenced five-pieced combo Haeredium reveals new details from their second full-length album “Ascension“, which is going to be released worldwide on March 15th, 2019 through Art Gates Records. Like for the band’s debut album “Aurora” in 2014, the cover art for “Ascension” has been designed by the band’s guitarist Quentin, aka Peony. The new album has been recorded at Le Kid Studio, produced by Haeredium, mixed and mastered by Denevér Hangstúdió. Pre-order options and Read more…

Finnish epic folk symphonic black metal band Avathar breaks its many years silence, returning with their first full-length album after 15 years! Avathar is a Tolkien inspired band formed back in 2000 as a two-piece project (Witch King and Scatha) until summer 2005. ‘Avathar’ is the name of a dark land in the south of Aman in between the mountains and the sea in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth. Ungoliant used to dwell there before she and Melkor destroyed the Two Trees Read more…

Epic atmospheric folk black metal band Cân Bardd, the personal project of Malo Civelli from Switzerland will release its second full-length album called “The Last Rain” on February 22nd, 2019 via Northern Silence Records. Influenced by bands such as Caladan Brood, Elderwind, Saor and Gallowbraid, Cân Bardd was founded in 2016 by then 18 year old Malo Civelli, with the purpose of creating an outlet for his feelings and ideas that would be at once heavy and aggressive, Read more…

Swiss epic pagan folk metallers Norvhar from Lausanne will release their debut EP “Kauna” on February 16, 2019. Apart for the digital release, “Kauna” will be also available if physical CD edition, self-released by the band. Formed in 2018 from the ashes of the band Harmoniks, Norvhar consists of six skilled musicians, all of them with stage experience. After about three years of work on this EP, it seems important for the band to explain the Read more…

Lochrian Poem is one of the newest projects of Andrei “Solomonar” Oltean from Sibiu Romania (also in E-an-na, Prometheic, Shades ov Sha’arimrath, Transylvanian FolkCore Orchestra, ex-Prohod, ex-Hoia Baciu, ex-WarChant). With this band he explores an experimental atmospheric folk doom metal sound, with a very unique sound and constant changes of mood and musical styles… After a couple of singles, the debut full-length album of Lochrian Poem, entitled “Snow” has just been released digitally on January 4th, 2019. It Read more…

East African atmospheric black metal band Krummholz has just released its debut 2-track EP entitled “Rooted in Despair” via Naturmacht Productions (through the label’s Underground Series). Krummholz is the sound of nature glorified, ambushed and maligned. Breaking forth from the drier spaces of mankind, this East African collaborative effort unites the morose vision of Noktal with the transcendental force of Seeker and the somnolent musings of Victor Rosewrath. “Rooted in Despair” varies the majesty of the Read more…

Japanese folk metallers Yomi from Latvia have just released their third full-length album, entitled “Land of the Rising Sun“. The lyrics of the album revolve around the period of Japanese history between 1274 and 1281 – the time of an attempted Mongolian invasion. From the initial skirmishes at Tsushima to the infamous Mongol defeat by the Divine Winds (‘kamikaze’, in Japanese), the album takes listeners through battles, blood, fear and an occasional reflection upon the conflict, finally turning Read more…