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Isatha - Pan

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Villagers of Ioannina City – Venceremos Review

It’s been seven years since Villagers of Ioannina City released the incredible Age of Aquarius, and six since…
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It’s been seven years since Villagers of Ioannina City released the incredible Age of Aquarius, and six since I first heard it. It hasn’t left my regular rotation since, helped by an absolutely crazy live show at 229 in London in 2022. But the world is a different place since 2019. Age of Aquarius was a fundamentally happy record, with some lyrical messages exhorting striving for better buried in a lot of psychedelia. Venceremos, meaning “we will overcome,” is far more grounded. The psychedelia is almost gone from the lyrics and toned down in the music. Though it remains a Greek folk/prog rock record, Venceremos is heavier, and lyrically a far more straightforward protest and call to action for life in the 2020s.

Fortunately, this works out. Venceremos is still immediately identifiable as Villagers of Ioannina City. Greek folk melodies and heavy use of Greek traditional bagpipes and clarinet give the band a unique sound, to a foreign audience at least. Alex Karametis’ vocals are distinctive as well. The songs are long and evolve and shift organically—adopting protest music hasn’t turned them into a punk band. But there is a noticeable shift into prog metal. “Home” and “The Ruiner” have parts that remind me of Disillusion, both in composition and in sound, particularly a little vocal processing. There’s also a little more of a post-rock twist in places. “No Fear” in particular reminds me of the emotional post-rock sound of bands like Overhead, the Albatross.

There are some absolute bangers on Venceremos. “Ghosts in the Sky” in particular is fantastic. Building a seven-minute song around fundamentally one melody is a brave choice, but it’s a great melody, and it’s handed off between instruments and vocalists as the song progresses. “Here and Now” is the closest to the more uniform sound of Age of Aquarius, as the longest and most overtly positive song on the record. “The Ruiner” is bleak, heavy, and discomforting, building up into a furious chant as the song ends. Opening track—other than the obligatory intro—”Home” opens with a clean guitar melody that reassured me that VIC still have it the moment I heard it. You know as the song iterates on it and drifts into an atmospheric section that it’ll be back in the climax, but that doesn’t make it any less effective when it does. There are no weak songs here. Were I to really scrabble around for complaints, the fadeout ending on “No Fear” is a bit cheap.

There’s a female vocalist on nearly every track. Her appearances are mostly quite subtle, but on the hypnotic opening and bridge of “Ghosts in the Sky” and the duet near the end of “Venceremos,” she delivers some of the album’s best moments. She’s uncredited as far as I can tell, which is a bit of a shame. Similarly, Dimitris Brentas on wind instruments is credited in the promo materials but not on the Bandcamp page. I’m not really sure what that’s about, as the tightly integrated traditional instruments are such a big part of what makes Venceremos a success. The main trio are no slouches, of course. I particularly like Akis Zois’ bass work on “Venceremos.” Frontman Alex Karametis isn’t the most technical of vocalists, but he has a very pleasing tone that fits the music well. Likewise, his guitar work is intricate and interesting rather than flashy.

I’d always rather a band evolve than try to recapture the magic of a particularly brilliant album. Venceremos is why. It’s still Villagers of Ioannina City and still excellent, but it does something different, and that means I want to listen to both it and its predecessor. Among many excellent songs, “Ghosts in the Sky” is my SotY candidate #1. The 2020s have proven difficult to engage with musically. Venceremos is cathartic, angry, grounded, but still ultimately offers positivity, and that’s exactly what I needed.

Rating: Excellent
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: Stream/FLAC1
Label: Napalm Records
Websites: vicband.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/villagersofioanninacity
Releases Worldwide: September 18th, 2026

Today's music:

ZAAN Elephant Band - "万马奔腾"

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AMASEFFER (Israel) presenta nou àlbum: "When the Lions Leave Their Den (Exodus Part II)" #Amaseffer #ProgressiveMetal #FolkMetal #Octubre2026 #Israel #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

Today's music:

Heidevolk - Drink met de goden (Walhalla)

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Netherwilds – Peasant Rising Review

When 2026 started, I had no history with indie rock group Tokyo Police Club’s frontman David Monk or…
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Netherwilds – Peasant Rising Review

When 2026 started, I had no history with indie rock group Tokyo Police Club’s frontman David Monk or…
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Netherwilds – Peasant Rising Review

When 2026 started, I had no history with indie rock group Tokyo Police Club’s frontman David Monk or…
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If the rest of this album is even half as good as Return the Goat, this is going to feature on a lot of year end lists. Canadian (folk/black/hardcore) metal rules!!

https://netherwilds.bandcamp.com/album/peasant-rising

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When 2026 started, I had no history with indie rock group Tokyo Police Club’s frontman David Monk or his viral TikTok peasant-sona Worm Chewer. But when the lead single of Monk’s avant-garde “peasant metal” side project Netherwilds dropped—”Return the Goat”—Peasant Rising immediately shot to my most anticipated release of the year. That snapshot of blackened hardcore folk was wild in a way I couldn’t have anticipated. The promise of a concept album following Worm Chewer’s peasant revolution involving mud mages, witch hunters, and Druidic battlemechs only sweetened the deal.1 But I’m also seeing high expectations for an untested band’s debut in Peasant Rising, something that could easily smite Netherwilds’ fairytale ending. Is Peasant Rising a kingmaker, or are Netherwilds’ ambitions…feudal?

To my knowledge, nothing else sounds like Peasant Rising. Netherwilds pushes thrash, industrial, hard rock, black metal, and doom through a sieve of eclectic Refusedesque hardcore and romanticized medieval folk. Between EDM drums meeting crossover thrash on “Helm Yeah,” “Dungeon Song” trading hypnotic folk with blackened blasts, and theater choir setting the stage for double-f’d-up tuff groove on “The Fall,” there’s always something novel happening with Peasant Rising. Like a ye olde Systemme of a Downe, every disparate genre thrives symbiotically in Netherwilds’ sound, stacking strength upon strength into a distinct, singular identity. Two ubiquitous factors tie Peasant Rising together sonically: folk aesthetics and insanely catchy hooks. Led by Monk’s bouzouki, folk instrumentation offers continuity whenever Netherwilds jumps from hardcore riffing (“Farmer’s Armoury”) to Slayer-informed thrash (“Return the Goat”) to acoustic industrial groove (“Blight!”) and back. With this creativity come well-earned earworms. Hear the radio-ready “The Ballad of Sir Gregory” or the atmospheric “Cry in the Hay,” or any one of the bombastic choirs across Peasant Rising and you’ll be humming them before you know it. It’s one thing to sound one-of-a-kind; it’s another to also sound as sharp, vital, and catchy as Peasant Rising.

What makes Netherwilds’ genre witchcraft so compelling is how it forwards the narrative told on Peasant Rising. Aided by many short narrative interludes,2 Peasant Rising tells a story of desperation, oppression, and revolution. Each beat is met with an appropriate musical identity. Worm Chewer’s belligerently drunk early ideations of rebellion are captured in the raucous ragers of “Peasant Pit” and “Helm Yeah,” while his tighter, more focused calls to revolution in “The Fall” and “Return the Goat” come later. SepticFlesh-like symphonic death riffs and choirs on “Heretic” characterize the seething sanctimoniousness of the king’s Inquisition, while the grimy Sabbathian doom riffs on “Wickermech” sell the monstrosity of its titular war machine. Guitar solos are few on Peasant Rising, but when Worm Chewer feels badass on “The Ballad of Sir Gregory” or unspeakably livid on “Return the Goat,” you’d best believe they come out ripping. Netherwilds play with an ear for hooks and a mind for narrative, portraying Peasant Rising’s tale in convincing earnestness.

That earnestness is what most surprised me about Peasant Rising; I never expected to be as moved by Netherwilds as I was amused by them. Eager to hype up Worm Chewer’s “Siege Proof Hovel” or “show these nobles who’s King of the Crops” (“Peasant Pit”), Netherwilds are just as equipped to bear the cruelty of the ruling class and show Worm Chewer at his lowest: “cry in the hay and call it a prayer” (“Cry in the Hay”). Encapsulating Peasant Rising’s narrative identity is one brilliant metaphor: the goat. The object of jilted remorse on “Peasant Rising,” the goat transforms as Worm Chewer radicalizes (“Siege Proof Hovel”), suffers oppression and degradation (“Dungeon Song”), and galvanizes the Humble Horde (“Farmer’s Armoury”). By the time we reach “Return the Goat” in Peasant Rising’s climax, the goat isn’t just a metaphor for the peasants’ labor being exploited by the parasitic nobility but also Worm Chewer’s self-respect and dignity. “Take me for no fool,” he implores. Despite the farce of Peasant Rising, I must oblige.

Merging grand storytelling, dark humor, a keen social consciousness, and some of the wildest compositions out there, Netherwilds swing Peasant Rising like a battering ram against the gates of Metaldom. Rarely has a record been so affecting as it is fun as Peasant Rising. Inventive and approachable, high-minded and down-to-earth, Netherwilds lived up to the hype and then some. The boon of hard labor and relentless creativity, Peasant Rising is a debut Netherwilds can hang their helmet on. Don’t be the village idiot; take up your pitchfork and get with Peasant Rising.

Rating: Excellent
DR: 83 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: King Volume Records
Websites: netherwilds.bandcamp.com | facebook.com
Releases Worldwide: October 9th, 2026

Ho realizzato questa locandina, per il concerto di festeggiamento dei Vent'anni di Lou Quinse🏴‍☠️🔥

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Gåte – Sigil (2026)
(10.476) Timo (9,0/10) Folk/Rock/Metal
Label: Season of Mist
VÖ: 25.09.2026

(...) Für mich haben GÅTE einen Seltenheitswert. So vielschichtig und spannend hört man Folklore selten, dabei ist die Band alles andere, aber nur nicht gewöhnlich (...)

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TANNENBART (Països Baixos) presenta nou àlbum: "Vrijbuiters, bunzingjagers en stropersvolk" #Tannenbart #BlackMetal #FolkMetal #Octubre2026 #PaïsosBaixos #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

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From operating on the outskirts, Germany’s Firtan now barely need an introduction. Their sweepingly dramatic, folk-infused brand of pagan blackened death has made them an increasingly prominent name in the scene, aided by their consistency in delivering a record nearly every two years since 2018. Despite this pace, the quality has also remained consistently high, with review after review here praising the music’s balance of grace and viciousness, even if opinion has sometimes differed on the magnitude of the flaws. I am now the third AMG incarnation to tackle the band, ready to be carried away on the path to enlightenment Helios charts. Shooting for the moon sun, Firtan project a stratospheric arc that Helios is compelled to describe, but which, if missed, would land the album comfortably amongst the neighbouring stars.

Helios continues the trajectory predecessor Ethos began, dialling up the atmosphere with resonance that bleeds off hanging guitars and prominent violin whose urgent vibrato slips in and out of the forefront. I found myself making frequent favourable comparisons with Amiensus’ recent material in scale and deft interweaving of tremolo, string, synth, clean and harsh vocals, and syncopated rhythms. Correcting previous missteps of sacrificing potency through forced adherence to straightforward second-wave or blackened death strictures, the soundscape cohesively melds the “trv”ly heavy with the truly ethereal with only the shadows of uncertainty. Yet again, there are those parts where Firtan execute a build or dissolve layers of refrains with such brilliance they chase away any possible clouds of doubt. And this time, the sky is all but clear.

Perhaps Helios’ greatest asset is its immersiveness, as it captures both the ecstatic wildness of Marter but with a robust through-line of dovetailing themes and deeper atmospheric layers. Whether songs truly bleed together or transition through a breath of silence is immaterial, so potent has Firtan’s mastery of dramatic composition become. Melodies reference and reinforce one another across the record, shifting into grander (“The Hierophant Way”) or darker (“Ambrosia”) or more uplifting (“Helios”1) versions of a central theme. Duets of male/female cleans rise and fall together with the crescendo and diminuendo of the instrumentation (“Kalika’s Tongue” “Helios”), elements coalesce in escalation as plucks and chimes and violin climb with magnificent grace, then drop out to enveloping stillness (“Solis Currus,” “Ambrosia,” “The Hierophant Way”). Beyond the shared thread, the turbulent aggression maintains a sense of mysticism and pathos in the shared effort and blurred boundaries between acoustic and electric violin and shiveringly smooth resonant strums that punctuate it (“Solis Currus,” “Ascension”). Even when Firtan forego softness entirely, the movements are tinged with a vibrancy, following as natural outbursts of violence, threaded through as they are with the scream of strings and churn of riffs now twisted from their melancholia into adamancy—sometimes resulting in the best riffs of the album (“Wide Open Eye,” “The Form Revealed”).

Thus it’s mainly small things holding Helios back. Despite the skill Firtan display in shaping their compositions and creating an engrossing overall flow, they undermine it a little on the structural side. The closure brought by the epic penultimate track “The Hierophant Way” is slightly weakened by the concluding acoustic “Shadows of a Dawn Unborn,” but then the bonus track cover of Bathory’s “Man of Iron” is brilliant, sounding like something the band might have penned themselves and working as a fine substitute closer. There’s also room to acknowledge the pattern into which most songs fall, where heavy and/or grandiose arrangements drop into some version of stripped-back strums and cleans around the midpoint, before ramping back up. The execution is generally so successful that you’re too immersed to notice—let alone care. And despite being an hour long—longer including the bonus track—Helios practically flies.

Trying to score Helios is challenging but ultimately futile. It represents so magnificent a leap beyond Ethos that it surely touches greatness, and it’s almost impossible not to be swept up in what feels like Firtan’s most immediate and enrapturing album to date. Yet I can understand those for whom its imperfections cast too great a shadow. What you make of Helios is personal, but there’s no doubt it belongs in the celestial spheres of the band’s discography and modern black metal as a whole.

Rating: Great
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: AOP Records
Websites: firtan.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/firtanofficial
Releases Worldwide: October 2nd, 2026

LÈPOKA (Espanya) presenta nou àlbum: "Rebelión animal" #Lèpoka #FolkMetal #Octubre2026 #Espanya #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

Song: Shtorm
Band: #Arkona
Album: Khram
Year: 2018
Genre: #FolkMetal

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Today's music:

NiNi Music x RYUJIN – Turn the Tide

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DAINSLEIF (Estats Units) presenta nou àlbum: "Daudi Fenris" #Dainsleif #MelodicDeath #FolkMetal #Setembre2026 #EstatsUnits #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

Today's music:

VARG - Morgenrot

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ГРАЙ (Rússia) presenta nou EP: "В омут" #Грай #Pagan #FolkMetal #Setembre2026 #Rússia #NouEp #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

PINCÉE DE SÈVE (Suïssa) presenta nou single: "Syndrome Malin" #PincéeDeSève #FolkMetal #Setembre2026 #Suïssa #NouSingle #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

VERKER (Estats Units) presenta nou àlbum: "Twilight... (Røkkr, Act I)" #Verker #AtmosphericBlack #FolkMetal #Setembre2026 #EstatsUnits #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

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The HU - The Men

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MOURNING WOOD (Països Baixos) presenta nou àlbum: "Rise & Shine" #MourningWood #FolkMetal #Setembre2026 #PaïsosBaixos #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

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Today I was reunited with Vintersorg. Have a song!

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Das beste aus #Myrkgrav #Otyg #Finntroll und #Ensiferum in eigenem Stil und gutem zugänglichen Songwriting. So klingt die neue #Grimner Scheibe #Stormvingar 😍
https://bandgrimner.bandcamp.com/album/stormvingar
Songtipp: Där Mjöd och Högmod Flödar🎶🎸🪈🥁
#metal #powermetal #folkmetal