It looks like another Paganfest contender has entered the scene. Scottish blackened folk metal band Cnoc An Tursa recently released their debut album The Giants Of Auld in the UK (don’t worry, it’s coming to North America in late March), and it is quite an introduction to the band. Let’s just say that [...]
Eluveitie has confirmed that vocalist/hurdy-gurdyist/flautist Anna Murphy will miss their upcoming tour with Sabaton to recover from an ongoing health problem. Muprhy fell ill suddenly during Eluveitie’s South American tour and was forced to fly back to Switzerland, where she has remained in recovery since. The band, which has kept mum on the [...]
I’m going to be sad when it’s like, 2041 and lists with titles like this will no longer make sense. In the meantime…
12. Ensiferum – Unsung Heroes
Ensiferum took their time with this one, and it shows. 2012 didn’t see a whole lot of folk metal releases, but the few I got [...]
Photo credit: Patrick Lux/AFP/Getty Images.
If you go to a lot of shows — say, at least 50 a year — there are certain trends that you’ll begin to notice. They’re not stereotypes, and they’re not necessarily bad, they just are what they are. The first time I was ever directly called [...]
Recently HearEvil.com caught up with Anna Murphy (Hurdy Gurdy) from the folk metal band Eluveitie to tak about all that’s going on with Eluveite, as well as her solo projects and what’s next for Eluveite.
It’s hard to believe that it was a decade ago that Eluveitie started setting the folk metal world on fire, but alas — the band is celebrating their 10th anniversary by releasing a 2-CD Digipak bundle called The Early Years. Among other exciting tidbits of the band’s history (including their first full-length album [...]
Winterhymn are: Umbriel (violin), Draug (lead guitar, vocals), Ulfr (rhythm guitar, vocals), Warg (bass), Exura (keyboard), Sieven (drums).
Being an American folk metal fan is pretty rough. Every year, you wait anxiously to see some 5-band combination of your favorites (which somehow never includes your FAVORITE favorites — *cough* Týr *cough*) to [...]
As if it wasn’t good enough news that Paganfest, a much-celebrated folk/Viking metal fest, is coming back to the United States after passing the US over in 2011, Turisas has put the icing on the cake by announcing that they will headline Paganfest 2012! Turisas has been at the forefront of [...]




