The last Skyforger record I covered was Kurbads back in 2010, and while that was a pretty damn good one, there were points where I felt th...

It was always inevitable that the success of a band like Amon Amarth would inspire some imitation, and listening through this German band...

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

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

Against All Odds is certainly competent enough as an execution of higher production standards within the pagan black metal niche, and it su...

With the enormously bold and expensive-sounding 2009 album Goi, Rode, Goi! , Moscow's Arkona established themselves as one of the forer...

Whoever would have guessed that Kampfar were interested in women's studies? Such is the concept behind Mare, their 5th and most access...

Along with their fellows Wodensthrone , Manchester's Winterfylleth represents one of the brightest hopes from the Old Country in terms ...

The latest album from Russia's Temnozor arrives hot on the heels of another pagan metal album, Nokturnal Mortum 's The Voice of Ste...

Slavogorje are a Croatian duo that mix neofolk, ambient and post rock elements with a dash of raw, pagan metal for a sound quite unlike mos...

Spain's Lux Divina have been around for over a decade now, releasing a few demos and an EP around the turn of the century, and taking t...

I should state that even though I did not completely love the 5th full-length effort from Czechs Cales , there is a certain balls out fervor...

The Fire of Awakening is the 7th full-length from Rob Darken's legacy under Graveland . Like most of his work, it's an acquired tas...

Menhir is a band who have made subtle mutations upon their sound, to slowly improve through the years into their current form, which has a ...

Though this Finnish band is only a recent discovery for myself, they have been releasing demos for some years, and finally produced a full-l...

Though the glorious, charging pagan black metal formula has been beaten nearly to death at this point in time, Minas Morgul differentiate t...

By this time, Arkona is poised to be one of the biggest success stories in the metal realms, with a solid back catalog and a new album whic...

Six years is quite the stretch between albums, but Hungarians Bornholm have put the time to good use, crafting a worthy successor to their ...

Aufbruch is the debut of Germans Asenblut , another in the endless saga of pagan black metal bands to hail from Europe in recent years. Tha...

Nidhøgg is a German band playing a mix of black/death metal with pagan folk influences. Their debut Siegeszug der Götter is a fairly well ...