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Azagatel – SOL
Label: Nekrogoat Heresy Productions – NGHCD15
Format: CD, Limited Edition
Country: Portugal
Released: 22 April 2018
Style: Dark Folk
New EP from the Lusitanian Pagan Black Metal banda Azagatel. In this EP they are exploring their Dark Folk face full of the belical feeling of the Lusitanian Warrior!
:werra: – Vente Vent
Label: Lichterklang – LK042
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Released: 23 Mar 2018
Style: Neofolk
In March 2017 :werra: will bring a fresh gust of wind to the Neofolk scene with their new release “vente vent”. Six years after their debut “MMI-MMV” the musicians return with a full-length album that is interconnected by the motive of the wind of change.
The album is comprised of catchy tunes, driving melodies and dreamy songs. It stands in the tradition of its predecessor with both original lyrics and traditional poetry set to music. The band – which has grown into a trio since the debut – continues to bring new accents to traditional Neofolk. Especially the accordion adds more dynamic and depth while preserving the distinctive :werra: sound.
Arditi – Spirit Of Sacrifice
Label: Equilibrium Music – EQM032
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: Portugal
Released: 2011
Style: Modern Classical, Industrial
Originally issued in 2004, “Spirit of Sacrifice” was ARDITI’s second full-length album, a release that would not only establish them as one of the leading projects in the Martial Industrial scene, but also one which brought along the controversy that seems to come with such a post. Concerns regarding ARDITI’s imagery and their references to the Italian Futurist Movement prompted some of the press to refuse any coverage of the band, leading to timid promotion for the album upon release, as the original label discreetly retracted from a more active role in its exposure. The name ARDITI gained something of a cult status nevertheless, as their followers grew steadily in numbers and new alliances were forged. These included a colaboration with TOROIDH, at the time a recently established project by Nordvargr of MZ.412, which resulted in the “United in Blood” album. Shortly after, ARDITI would also come to be invited by the notorious Swedish Black Metal band MARDUK to contribute material to a couple of their albums.
Urze De Lume – As Árvores Estão Secas E Não Têm Folhas
Label: Equilibrium Music – EQM045
Format: CD, Album
Country: Portugal
Released: 10 Mar 2018
Style: Folk, Neofolk
On their third album, URZE DE LUME turn inwards for a soothing journey which illustrates not only departure, but also homecoming, meticulously setting to music memories imbued with both nostalgia and longing.
“…The trees have grown dry and bare, as have I…”
On their third album, URZE DE LUME turn inwards for a soothing journey which illustrates not only departure, but also homecoming, meticulously setting to music memories imbued with both nostalgia and longing.
“As Árvores Estão Secas e Não Têm Folhas” is the second and final chapter of URZE DE LUME’s ode to Autumn, in a follow-up to the acclaimed “Vozes Na Neblina” EP released in early 2017.
Although predominantly focused on guitar-based pieces, the leading role in “As Árvores…” is often taken over by the rebec, a bowed stringed instrument whose fiddle-like timbre brings forth an archaic, medieval-like, character to the album’s instrumental canvas, which further expands on occasion to include wind instruments, discreet percussions and bagpipes. The intentionally minimalist aesthetics seem to match the beauty of bare trees to perfection, yet URZE DE LUME’s use of multiple field recordings allows the hues of autumn to embed deeper into the music. Now and then, they turn also to narrated poetry to lead us further into the recesses of remembrance, urging the embrace of loss as one welcomes back nighttime, the cold, and a sense of void for times bygone that the arrival of Autumn inevitably brings about. This is the season where days start to run increasingly shorter and quieter, much like the lives of those to whom URZE DE LUME dedicates this solemn work.
Bonds to both Nature and tradition are at the heart of the band’s rendition of Dark Folk, and both skillfully come together on this acoustic introspective incursion into life’s ever-looming solitude.
URZE DE LUME are:
Gonçalo do Carmo
Hugo Araújo
Ricardo Brito
Tiago Matos
Música por Ricardo Brito
Gravação e Mistura por Ricardo Brito em Arnade Studio
Masterização por André Eusébio em Lemon Drops Media
Artwork por João Monteiro
Urze De Lume – Vozes Na Neblina
Label: Equilibrium Music – EQM029
Format: CD, EP, Digifile
Country: Portugal
Released: 17 Mar 2017
Style: Folk
Urze de Lume take on a more quiet stance, in contemplation of the beauty of Fall.
Two new instrumental tracks, as well as two preludes narrated by their friends and brothers-in-arms Àrnica. The semi-transparent CD disc is housed in silver-printed black carton stock, in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies.
01. Vozes na Neblina I | 02. Quando as Nuvens Escurecem | 03. Vozes na Neblina II | 04. Outono Eterno
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Àrnica – Cabeza De Lobo
Label: Equilibrium Music – EQM035
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: Portugal
Released: 2017
Style: Ur -Folk
A Wolf’s head shape is tearing apart the mist. Howlings in the distance bring silence to an end, the throbbing of blood now resounding in wardrums.
For well over 10 years, ÀRNICA have been patiently carving their niche in the Neo-Folk scene. The genre’s free form aesthetics have served as a perfect starting ground, yet were quickly subdued by ÀRNICA’s own vision as they delved into Iberian lore and tradition to find both a wealth of musical references and the spiritual elements that would shape them into a unique entity.
Well acquainted with the Post-Industrial school of experimentation and sound manipulation, ÀRNICA were quick to make good use of its tools and techniques. Loops, samples and field-recordings merge seamlessly into traditional acoustic instrumentation, adding fine details and rural textures to their vivid portrayal of a world forgotten. This primal legacy to which ÀRNICA are devoted further manifests through the savage drumming, the warhorns and the battle cries, as sound ultimately transforms into a mesmerizing ritual.
Following numerous live appearances, which have brought ÀRNICA to share the stage with bands like WARDRUNA, DEATH IN JUNE, BLOOD AXIS or TYR, the band now join Equilibrium Music for their third full-lenght album, one which successfully captures the raw archaic energy of their shows into recorded form.
Much like an alchemic transmutation of lead into gold, ÀRNICA’s new offering shapes Ur-Folk into Ritual music, distilled under the scorching sun of Iberia to bring one of the most menacing and intense releases ever related to the genre. The album speaks of an old ruler that inspired his kin to fight back against those who sought to take their ground, back in an age forlorn where man and beast were as one. Now, more than pay mere tribute, ÀRNICA call upon Cabeza de Lobo to lead the Wild Men once again, in a much needed return to wilderness
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The Dark Red Seed – Stands With Death
Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO 214 LP
Format: Vinyl 12″ EP
Country: Germany
Released:14 Sep 2017
Style: Neofolk
The Dark Red Seed is the musical outlet of Tosten Larson, guitarist for Seattle dark folk musician King Dude. A self-coined ‘metaphor for the heart’, The Dark Red Seed represents a direct reference to life – and death – itself. The duo, which also includes King Dude engineer Shawn Flemming, is now about to release its debut EP, “The Dark Red Seed Stands with Death”.
Described as ‘a study of death’, “The Dark Red Seed Stands with Death” is a dark, dusty discourse on the departure and ultimate dissolution of life; a powerful expression of absolute loss shaped through Larson’s haunting, Cash-like delivery. Each of the EP’s three songs represents various aspects of death (the death of America, death of culture and death of reality through technology and globalization), drawing on deep feelings and unanswered questions to create living, breathing sound.
“I know when death comes for me I will most likely run away with blind fear,” Larson says. “I’m sure when death comes, I will almost certainly cling to life until my dying breath and pray to someone else’s god for salvation. But in life, I try to approach death as the ultimate acceptance. Whatever death and a possible life thereafter means to each individual, death is the only place where we might find answers. For in life there are only questions. Death is the one thing that awaits us all.”
Raised in Kalispell, Montana and currently based in Portland, Oregon, Tosten Larson began his classical instruction as a young boy sitting at his grandmother’s piano. Firmly rooted in the traditions of American music, Larson’s sound is equally shaped by art rock such as Swans and Six Organs of Admittance, Eastern masters like Kayan Kalhor and Ravi Shankar, and hard rock staples such as Led Zeppelin and Neil Young. Though he wears his influences on his sleeve, his music attempts to defy category and carve its own path.
The Dark Red Seed’s first full-length album, “Becomes Awake”, is already in the pipeline and tentatively scheduled for a summer 2018 release. The record is described as a detailed concept album that can be thought of as an answer or sequel to “Stands with Death”.
Edition:
– Vinyl MLP
Tracklist:
1. The Antagonist
2. The Tragedy of Ålesund
3. The Master and the Slave
Doom of Valyria
– WARG
Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH 132 CD
Format: CD, Album, Jewel Box
Country: Spain
Released: 02 June 2017
Style: Folk, Folk Rock
WARG is the second album of Doom of Valyria, consist of seven epic tunes that sound to past ages and bloody battles.
Folk music set in fantastic literature like Song of Ice and Fire and The Warlord Chronicles.
As a curiosity you can listen a personal view of the song “When the chains are broken” from the band Twin Obscenity included in the album WARG
Track List:
1 WARG
2 SAMHAIN
3 EL PUÑO DE LOS PRIMEROS HOMBRES
4 BERSERKER
5 SONS OF THE NORTH
6 LEGACY
7 WHEN THE CHAINS ARE BROKEN ( TWIN OBSCENITY COVER)
Recorded, mixed, produced and mastered by Antonio Fructoso Notario
All songs written by Nemhain except “When the chains are broken” ( Twin obscenity cover)
Lyrics
Warg and Sons of the North written by Pilar Fernández.
El Puño de los Primeros Hombres written by Noé Molina.
Berserker and Samhain are taken from the Bernard Cornwell saga The Warlord Chronicles.
When the chains are broken written by Twin Obscenity
All the lyrics translated by Abel Fernández Feijóo
Guest mercenaries musicians:
Rodrigo Tenorio Márquez plays xeremia and flute
Lluc Barbon Ferriol plays violin and viola
Antonio Fructuoso male choirs and cymbals
Noé Molina male choirs
Design
All design by Infecta
Cover painted by Silvana Massa
Logo designed by Ramón Grifé
Photos by Carlos Dominguez
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The Wyrm – Gente de Muertos
Label: Gradual Hate Records / Series: El Lobo y La Espada L.E. 08
Format: CDr, Limited Edition 50 copies, Wooden box with pyrography
Country: Spain
Released: 19 Mar 2017
Style: Neo – Folk, Dark Folk, Dark Ambient, Black Metal
En los campos de batalla, los cuerpos que caían muertos, quedaban insepultos.
Nadie podía hacerse cargo de ellos. Nadie excepto los que acompañan al señor de los caídos, ellos eran los primeros en llegar siempre.
Los cuervos y los lobos.
Lobos y cuervos hacían acto de presencia siempre los primeros, como una avanzadilla, como una fría ola que llega desde lo profundo de los bosques y de las montañas. Al olor de la sangre vertida, queriendo llevarse su tributo carnal, los lobos y los cuervos deberán realizar un pago por ese pedazo de carne llevada. Alimento sagrado para animales sagrados.
Dicho pago será el deber de acompañar las almas de los guerreros difuntos al lugar de donde cuervos y lobos surgieron. Deberán acompañar a las almas de los caidos en batalla hacia lo profundo del bosque, hacia lo profundo de la montaña. Y es ahí, que ayudados por la bruma y las nubes bajas que rodean los primeros y antiguos bosques, emprenderan el vuelo acompañados por los cuervos, y sus corceles seran tormentas, y sus nombres serán olvidados, aunque nunca se hayan marchado, como el señor de los difuntos que les capitanea, el que perdió un ojo por el conocimiento secreto primero y se ahorcó para convertirse en el invierno.
Y aunque se les conozca con mil nombres de hueste , de güestia, estantiga o estantigua, cuando se les vea y el incauto pregunte por su nombre, sólo uno le darán a este:
Gente de muertos, somos gente de muerte.
Durante el invierno del 2016 al 2017, The Wyrm ha compuesto y grabado 10 temas que son los 10 cortes de su último trabajo sacado con GH Récords bajo el titulo:
Gente de muertos. Grabaciones, muchas de ellas de campo, recogiendo el ambiente de enclaves mágicos de distintos lugares sagrados que el propio artista ha ido grabando a lo largo del 2016 como pueden ser entre otras, picas de ajusticiamiento, cuevas, heremitorios como el de Civica o distintos lugares de carácter sacro en Burgos, Valladolid, Coria, o castillos como el de Belmonte o el castillo de Alarcón entre otros.
10 temas que recogen en esencia pura al arquetipo del invierno, más un track dark ambient y otro de puro black metal.
Un trabajo conceptual que se ha gestado durante todo el año 2016 que esperamos hagan las delicias de los fieles seguidores de The Wyrm.
Pre-Order: 19,50 €
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Bandcamp: https://gradualhaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/gente-de-muertos
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Lost Salt Blood Purges – Only the Youngest Grave
Label: COD noizes – SHUM3
Format: 2 × CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Russia
Style: Experimental, Ambient, Neofolk, Post Rock, Drone, Noise
“Only The Youngest Grave” explores the disparity of melody and dissonance and how they affect one another. This album is a ritual journey through unsteady musical soundscapes where esoteric drones are changed by neofolk strings and reflective post-rock passages and then disappear in blasts of harsh noise.
Regular double CD version in a jewel case with a full colours 4-pages booklet made of the heaviest paper with a matte lamination and UV stencil varnish printing. The second CD “Lethean” contains previously unreleased bonus track (this one).
Michael Snoxall – all percussion, guitar, violin, keyboards, field recordings, sampling, programming, tape & vinyl manipulation, saxophone, flute, recorder, ocarina, voices, composition, production, design.
Buy: 11 € http://www.gh-records.com/1333-lost-salt-blood-purges-only-the-youngest-grave.html
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