Coming off a strong stretch of albums like Under the Red Cloud and Queen of Time , I had really high hopes that Halo would ascend to the l...

Despite its introduction of Simen Hestnæs, I.C.S. Vortex, into the Borknagar lineup, and onto the radars of metal fans the world over, Th...

I always got a sense with Quintessence that Borknagar wanted more of a 'sure thing' alongside their Norwegian peers after the so...

True North is arguably the most 'friendly' or accessible album in the entire Borknagar line to date, and I don't mean that as...

Some people love the Three Tenors, some love their G3 guitar god tours, but I've got my Winter Thrice , an album that teams up all thr...

The reintroduction of ICS Vortex into the Borknagar lineup was a truly momentous occasion; although I can understand the draw towards pla...

The sole Borknagar album not to appear on Century Media Records, they kept it in the family by putting this one out through the esteemed ...

For the Elements is another of those pretty senseless and shady compilations of previously released material which arrived at a peculiar t...

I tend to abhor the 'acoustic album' as a rite of passage, which is unusual since I have no problem with well-written acoustic son...

I admit that I struggled to remember much of Epic before going back into it, or at least any 'highlights' of the album that have ...

The replacement of ICS Vortex with Sweden's Vintersorg on the vocals was one that took some time getting used to, as I've long bee...

The Olden Domain was the first Borknagar record to hook me, having picked it up alongside its eponymous predecessor at an import record ...

Numen has always stood out among Europe's pagan/black metal pioneers for its use of the Basque language for its lyrics, and for conve...

Folk metal records always make me nervous, as I've come across so many tacky and goofy examples in the genre that seem as if their ent...

Queen of Time might not ingratiate itself upon listeners who tuned out to Amorphis after their death and doom roots, but if you've b...

A band that has granted me such listening pleasure over the past few decades can surely be forgiven the occasional dud, and thus it wasn...

Once the Spring arrives, and New England receives its inordinate amount of random, record-setting, deep summer temperature days, I find my...

Svartby is a Russian band highly fond of Slavic and Swedish folklore, especially those aspects that go bump in the night, steal your chil...

While a large percentage of the pagan/folk metal crowd seems to have reduced itself to a band of lively, gallivanting minstrels who have w...

Equilibrium face the same challenges as most of their pagan metal peers, that is that their audience seem just as much comprised of LOTR ...