2022
Roundup: August Abundance
Written by Kep, Melinda, Barlovv, and Jangel Well what do you know, we’ve made it through 2/3 of the year and the world is only simultaneously on fire and flooding and also ships are getting […]
Folk Metal
2022
Kep’s Mid-year Top 10 Albums, 2022
Written by Kep Six months of 2022 are down for the count and lots of great metal has already hit our ears. Below are my top 10 album of the first half of the year, […]
2022
Album Review: Tzompantli – “Tlazcaltiliztli”
Written by Kep Tzompantli – TlazcaltiliztliDeath/doom from California, USReleasing May 5 via 20 Buck Spin There’s a movement of indigenous metal happening in the underground right before our very eyes, and not a moment too soon if […]
2022
Album Review: Kvaen – “The Great Below”
Written by Kep Kvaen – The Great BelowBlack/speed/pagan metal from SwedenReleasing March 25 via Black Lion Records Let me take you back almost exactly two years, to late February 2020. The 28th and penultimate day of the […]
2022
Album Review: Pillaging Villagers – S/T (Crossover Thrash)
I love it when I can have a good time with an extreme metal record. Genuinely fun bands are getting harder and harder to come by nowadays, but luckily for us, we now exist in the same timeline as Pillaging Villagers. […]
2021
Album Review: Feuerschwanz – “Memento Mori” (Folk Metal)
Written by Chrisy Release Date: December 31st Folk Metal from Germany Label: Napalm Records Simple humour is not uncommon in the music world. It’s even less uncommon in the world of Metal with bands dabbling […]
2020 Albums
Album Review: Sopor Aeternus And the Ensemble of Shadows – Island of the dead 7.6 (Dark Folk)
Throughout history have existed many artists with a troubled soul (and at times body) who ventured beyond the realms of artistic norms and created their own version of reality and purpose of art. They have worked within all mediums of art and more often than not, their conception of matters has been a somber, and times even, grotesque one. Maybe most famous among them that one can think of would be Vincent Van Gogh, the Dutch Painter whose personal calamities are as legendary as his art is; Alexander Pope, the English physical deformity led to his aggressively pessimistic outlook on life; Sylvia Plath, the American poet whose suicidal inclinations led to her The Bell Jar and of course her demise at the young age of 30. […]
Folk Metal
Interview: Nytt Land (Folk, Siberia)
Interview by Mass Hailing from the frigid taigas of Siberia, Nytt Land is a Nordic folk duo that incorporates ritualistic elements into their music to a mesmerizing extent. They have been involved with such endeavors […]
Folk Metal
Mongolian hunnu-rock band THE HU release new video for Wolf Totem, feat. Jacoby Shaddix (Papa Roach)
Are you familiar with hunnu-rock? It’s a one-of-a-kind mixture of Western rock music combined with traditional Mongolian instrumentation and throat-singing in the native language. THE HU has been making waves around the globe over the past two years with this signature brand, their first videos went viral. Several festival appearances and a European tour followed, as well as the release of their debut album “The Gereg“ in September 2019 (read our review here). […]
2020 Albums
Album Review: Aeternam – Al Qassam 9.2 (Melo Death)
Symphonic Folk Death Metal may seem quite vague and too broad a concept to apply to any musical production. But when it comes to this Quebec-based quartet, it is in every bit expressive of the work of the band. Aeternam’s brand of music is a whole scope of Middle-Eastern/North-African (MENA) folk sounds, a grand symphonic foundation and a ferocious death metal that molds all these elements into one fine alloy poured into a gargantuan cast of awe-striking grandeur. […]