Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries The drink-friendly Italians are back at it. The cover artwork and the name of the album prove that there’s no paradigm shift here. Two glasses of red wine and a beautiful woman, and We Don’t Drink … Continue reading DIVISION S: We Don’t Drink Alone
Year: 2025Label: Far From… Records Oh, great! Another one of those albums. Those albums, which are such a potpourri of styles and genres, that trying to describe it is an exercise in futility. In other words, a reviewer’s dream. I … Continue reading NAPSORVADÁS: Without Idols
Year: 2025Label: Heidenvolk Though they have slowed down their pace, German Darkwood remain a staple of contemporary neofolk. With their distinctive, and distinctively German sound, the group consisting of Henryk Vögel and supporting musicians, play no small part in keeping … Continue reading DARKWOOD: Verlorene Welt
Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries First impressions can be deceiving. Especially in music, especially if you are somewhat knowledgeable in a genre. Sometimes it leads you to pin into place an artist or album very quickly. “Oh, this instantly brings to … Continue reading ALYA SERPENTIS: The Sky Falls Down
Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries In their almost 20 year long recording career, Dark Awake have been nothing if not prolific. Discogs lists 16 full length albums and half a dozen of shorter releases, which translates into way more than one … Continue reading DARK AWAKE: Dämmerung
Year: 2024Label: self-released Arriving at Finnish Vesper Kenning’s third full-length album which, according to the band, concludes the “Terrestrial vortex trilogy”, a grander picture starts to emerge. The group remain as enigmatic as ever, perhaps even more so, but the … Continue reading VESPER KENNINGS: Eldritch Winter – A Novenary Of Hiemal Contemplations
As most of you probably realize by now, 2024 is over and we’ve entered 2025. For those of you who haven’t, consider this a public service announcement. Anyhow, let’s take a look at some of the noteworthy releases of last … Continue reading A year in summation: 2024
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
Release year: 2024Label: In Illo Tempore/Gladivs Records To me, neofolk has always been a very European form of music. I say this without any kind of prejudice or bias; just like I’ve always considered blues and country to be thoroughly … Continue reading SUN VESSEL: A Seed Fallen To Earth
Release year: 2024Label: Last Day Of The North Finnish Šamane are an act I’ve been following with some interest ever since their debut album Kaukana virtaa Eufrat (2019). The debut album was a bit of an uneven affair, combining elements … Continue reading ŠAMANE: Solstice
Only Death Is Real 