Release year: 2024Label: Ambirial Mvsic Productions/Misantropia Records According to a statement included in the booklet of this album, Enter The Seasonal Ritual is, and I quote, “more a soundtrack to an unmade folk horror film rather than a conventional album.” … Continue reading THE CULT OF SUNLIGHT: Enter The Seasonal Ritual
VESPER KENNINGS: Wandering Suns And Harvest Moons – A Torchlit Dream Cycle In Eight Parts Release year: 2023Label: self-released I’m sitting here with Finnish Vesper Kennings’ new album spread out before me, laughing at something I said in my review … Continue reading Kennings of the sun and of the moon
KAELTE: Aus tiefen Höhlen Release year: 2023Label: self-released It’s always nice when an artist takes something we say to heart. In our review of German Kaelte’s previous release, the EP Alle Teufel Sind Blutsbrüder (here), we requested the next release … Continue reading From Kaelte’s deep caves
VESPER KENNINGS: Songs Of Verdant Bone, Eight Wreathen Hoorahs For Weary Hearts Release year: 2022Label: self-released It’s a couple of years now since I first became acquainted with the Finnish project Vesper Kennings through their two demos. Already on those, … Continue reading Singing of verdant bone
ELK TOOTH: Never Give All The Heart Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Industries Naysayers sometimes say that all neofolk is the same: simple, repetitive strummed acoustic guitar, understated male vocals, windchimes. Of course, I’ll grant them this much, there is a … Continue reading When to give all the heart?
KAELTE: Lieblingslieder Release year: 2021Label: self-released You can hardly be faulted for asking “Kaelte who?” – this German neofolk act aren’t household names even in the neofolk scene. I don’t have any recollection of how I first discovered them, but … Continue reading Kaelte revitalizing the old
DARKWOOD: Twilight Garden Release year: 2020Label: HeidenVolk There are only a precious few neofolk acts in the world who’ve managed to truly break out from the decidedly esoteric confines of the genre – apart from the old guard of Death … Continue reading Twilight Darkwoods
Only Death Is Real 