Folk Metal
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Amorphis Heeds Bogotá at Auditorio CEG This October
Relocated to Auditorio CEG, the Finnish band plays its fourth Bogotá night on October 9th with a stand-in bassist and…
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Verker Finally Completes ‘Twilight… (Røkkr, Act I)’
Eight years after it was teased, Rune Richards completes Verker’s solo debut, setting Norse twilight against Indo-European myth.
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Dreadnought Step Into ‘Wars of Spirit // Wards of Light’
On their sixth album, the Denver band pairs a Finnish black metal producer with a folk-doom lineage shaped for wider…
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Grimner Reinscribes Its Own Runes on ‘Stormvingar’
Grimner reinscribes a 2012 song into ‘Stormvingar,’ pairing a returning singer with Swedish folk metal reaching beyond Scandinavia.
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Fejd Chart a Colder Corner of Norse Myth on ‘Nifelheim’
On their fifth full-length, Sweden’s Fejd set Old Norse cosmology’s coldest primordial realm against a folk metal culture already primed…
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Jotungrav Root Their Debut ‘Elegi’ in Norse Rebirth
Jotungrav’s debut album turns Norse myth into a four-song elegy on loss and rebirth, extending a documented tradition with reach.
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Finsterforst Keep Faith With the Black Forest on ‘Still’
Finsterforst return with a sixth album after seven years, carrying Schwarzwald folklore and blast-beat severity to listeners far from the…
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Crowen: Discovering a Soul with ‘Where The Darkness Falls’ to the Voice of ‘Ember Wraith’
Crowen’s 2024 EP, ‘Where The Darkness Falls,’ was a masterwork that revealed a new folk-driven voice. The new single ‘Ember…
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HÉR: Evoking a Powerful Ritual of Presence on Their Debut ‘Monochrome’
The Polish ensemble HÉR, featuring members of the country’s avant-garde jazz scene, announces its debut, ‘Monochrome.’ This is a work…
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Equilibrium: Striking a New Balance from Six Years of Silence with ‘Equinox’
After a six-year silence marked by internal turmoil and a lineup reset, the German folk metal pioneers return. ‘Equinox’ is…
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Danheim: Danish Nordic Folk Project Releases ‘Heimferd’ Single from October Album
Danish Nordic folk project Danheim releases ‘Heimferd’ as the title track from its upcoming October album, marking the first new…
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Panopticon: The Geography of Longing in ‘Songs of Hiraeth’ and ‘Laurentian Blue’
With the dual release of the black metal retrospective ‘Songs of Hiraeth’ and the melancholic folk of ‘Laurentian Blue,’ Panopticon…
