Tag Archives: folk metal

Artist: Einvigi Album Title: Monokroma Label: Einheit Produktionen Date of Release: 1 March 2024 And there it is. That feeling you get when you discover a new band, and they make an immediate impact on you. Once again, I owe a debt of gratitude to social media as it was a recommendation from a follower  Continue Reading »

Artist: Iterum Nata Album Title: From The Infinite Light Label: Nordvis Produktion Date of Release: 15 March 2024 Another late-night trawl through my promo offerings led me to this release, and I was immediately intrigued. The accompanying press release described the music on this album as: “Fusing the brooding narratives of Nick Cave, the avant-garde creativity  Continue Reading »

Artist: Isenordal Album Title: Requiem For Eirênê Label: Prophecy Productions Date of Release: 8 March 2024 There’s a time and a place for some funeral doom metal and, as I have discovered, that time is now. And it’s all thanks to a band that I knew nothing about until last weekend when I was standing  Continue Reading »

Artist: Hand Of Kalliach Album Title: Corryvrekan Label: Prosthetic Records Date of Release: 23 February 2024 There’s something in the water right now in Scotland. The land to the North has never been the most prolific in terms of heavy metal exports, with only a small handful of names coming to mind when I try  Continue Reading »

Artist: Borknagar Album Title: Fall Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 23 February 2024 For some reason, completely unknown to me at this point, ‘True North’ completely passed me by. Released towards the end of 2019, I can only assume that I took a temporary leave of my senses. Under any normal circumstances, new  Continue Reading »

Artist: Elvenking Album Title: Reader Of The Runes – Rapture Label: AFM Records Date of Release: 28 April 2023 There’s being late to a party, and then there’s being really late to a party. It’s only taken a quarter of a century and eleven full-length albums, but I have finally dived headlong into the world  Continue Reading »

  Artist: Oak Pantheon Album Title: The Absence Label: Independent Release Date of Release: 20 January 2023 What do you get when you seek to blend black metal with folk and post metal, alongside a fair few other ingredients? The answer is, you get Oak Pantheon and, more specifically, their third full-length album, ‘The Absence’.  Continue Reading »

Artist: Wind Rose Album Title: Warfront Label: Napalm Records Date of Release: 10 June 2022 I have taken a listen to this mainly because I was asked to by a loyal and supportive reader of manofmuchmetal.com. If it hadn’t been for this request, it’s quite likely that I would have let this album drift past  Continue Reading »

Artist: Amorphis Album Title: Halo Label: Atomic Fire Records Date of Release:  11 February 2022 My love affair with Amorphis began back before the turn of the Millennium, not long after they released ‘Tuonela’. This is still one of those albums that I revere and listen to on a rather frequent basis. However, even so,  Continue Reading »

Artist: Ensiferum Album Title: Thalassic Label: Metal Blade Records Date of Release: 10 July 2020 If there was a time to go back to a band and try again, it’s now, when time is in great supply and I have a mind more open than at any time previously. Despite being around for two decades,  Continue Reading »