The week’s essential intake is here! It’s New Music Friday for September 11th 2026!
Tag Archives: Folk Metal
Valhalore Unveils Acoustic Reimagining of Breakout Single “Horizon”
Australian folk metal outfit Valhalore returns to “Horizon” , their first new music since 2019 and the song that launched a new chapter for the band, with a dreamlike acoustic reimagining that strips the track back to its emotional core. Stream “Horizon – Acoustic” now from Reigning Phoenix Music. Continue reading
NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: New Music Release Radar for August 21st 2026
Another Friday, another avalanche of new riffs! Here is your preview of the new Rock and Metal albums releasing on 8.21.26!
Hammerfall Announce Freedom World Crusade North American Tour with Evergrey and Elvenking
HammerFall announced the Freedom World Crusade North American Tour 2026 with special guest Evergrey and support from Elvenking across 22 dates this September and October, including a special concert cruise in New York City on September 15. Montreal is already sold out. Tickets at hammerfall.net/tours. Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Rakinua – Esi Um Ninu – Heal Us, Mother
With a creative vision based on ancestral tales from the Raetic tribes of northern Italy, Rakinua isn’t your standard folk metal band. The brainchild of singers/lyricists Velis Calyra and Madame Noctinebra, this progressive Dark Folk collective differ from many other European and Nordic folk acts by adding Progressive Metal elements into their otherwise distinctly archaistic sound.
Party Like It’s 793 Mead, Metal, and Viking Festival Returns to Milton, Delaware
The “Party Like It’s 793” Mead, Metal, and Viking Festival returns to The Brimming Horn Meadery in Milton, Delaware, June 4th through 7th, for a full weekend of heavy music, Norse history, armored combat, and mead. Eighteen bands, five dollars at the door, and a portion of every ticket goes to animal welfare. Get tickets below. Continue reading
CONCERT REVIEW: Lord Of The Lost – The Birthday Massacre – Wednesday 13 – Live at Theater Of The Living Arts
Who in their right mind schedules a tour in the Northern U.S. and Canada for January and February? Apparently, Lord Of The Lost does, and on a brutally cold evening with just a sliver of the moon showing, they brought the appropriately named Dark Winter Tour to the Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia. Joining them for this subarctic madness were The Birthday Massacre and Wednesday 13. Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Amorphis – Borderland
Despite thirty-five years in the business, Finnish sextet Amorphis’ fire has not dulled. Borderland (Reigning Phoenix Music) is the melodic Death Metal group’s fifteenth album, and it is the same multi-layered mix of Death, Folk, and Symphonic, only this time there is a greater emphasis on melody, and it is not as heavy and bombastic as Halo.
ALBUM REVIEW: Fell Omen – Caelid Dog Summer
A solo project from darkest Athens, Fell Omen is the brainchild of Greek multi-instrumentalist Spider Of Pynx (a.k.a. Dimitris Corax Augoustinos). A combination of old-school Metal, Dungeon Synth, Punk and classic Black Metal, Caelid Dog Summer (True Cult Records) is the band’s second album, their first, Invaded by a Dark Spirit, only landing in February of this year. A busy little Black Metal bee indeed. Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Svartsot – Peregrinus
“Danish Folk Metal.” That was the promise. Svartsot delivered on the promise. Delivered splendidly. I’m not sure if Ghost Cult Magazine has a Danish-speaking reviewer on staff, because the thing’s not in English. There might be a song or two in English, but the vocals are gutteral-grunt incoherent-style Metalcore. So, after a brief discussion of the rather complicated story of this concept album about a Thirteenth Century Crusader, I’ll spend the rest of this talking about the music of Peregrinus (Mighty Music). Continue reading