News Posts

Finnish pagan metal artist Vermilia released her first single ‘Vakat’ from the upcoming new album ‘Karsikko’, set for release in early 2025! Catch her the coming week on her Spanish tour, and later this season in Finland for a couple of dates like this year’s Melancholy Mass Festivals in Tampere and Helsinki!

Finnish pagan metal artist Vermilia shared her latest single ‘Nocturne’ with a video, a cover version of the old Finnish classic song of the same name and originally written as a poem by one of the greats of Finnish poetry!

Pagan metal warriors Ren Marabou and The Berserkers unveil the lyric video for ‘Holy Mountain (Helgafjell)’, the title track of their upcoming album, set to be released via Wormholedeath!

Irish pagan metal legends Primordial released their new album ‘How It Ends’ via Metal Blade Records, and shared a music video for the title track to celebrate. Also, catch them at the Vltima Ratio Fest 2023 that is going around Europe right now with the company of Paradise Lost, Omnium Gatherum and Harakiri For The Sky!

Iconic pagan metallers Primordial announced new album ‘How It Ends’ to be coming our way next month via Metal Blade Records and unleashed a first single!

Dutch pagan folk metal masters Heidevolk shared the acoustic title track of the upcoming new album ‘Wederkeer’, set for release next month via Napalm Records!

Dutch pagan folk metal legends Heidevolk release new single and music video ‘Drink met de Goden (Walhalla)’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Wederkeer’, set for release via Napalm Records in February!

Dutch pagan metal giants Heidevolk return with their new album ‘Wederkeer’ in February 2023 via Napalm Records and premiered a first single/video with ‘Klauwen Vooruit’!

Finnish atmospheric pagan/black artist Vermilia unleashed 2nd single ‘Tuonen Joki’ from her upcoming album ‘Ruska’!

HELSOTT has paid homage to pagan cultures, mythology, and history while keeping true to their American influences in their latest single!

Album Reviews

Árstíðir Lífsins on its sixth full length album “Aldrlok” recounts the timeless tales of old Norse history and turbulent times of change in Iceland. The nine cuts combine modern and classic black metal into an epic black metal album that stands unique in the band’s musical works, out via Ván Records.

Pagan metallers Thorondir show us how folk and black perfectly go hand in hand in this compelling new story of an album. Be sure to check it out !

Asenblut’s last EP came out in February and was called Legenden, find out what we thought here!

Arkona released Khram in January, check out our opinion here!

Heidevolk tells the story about Germanic tribes rising up against the Roman empire. Are you wondering too how this battle turned out? Check it out here.

Vintersorg takes us on a journey back to the roots of their musical journey that started in 1998… but with a little twist!

Russia’s finest folk metal revives its debut album with a re-recording!

Get ready for dancing and singing!

The Age of Gods starts here with Moonsorrow as their epic heralds!

Photo Reports

The Polish black metal institution Batushka brought their unholy sermon to the halls of Helsinki’s Vanha Ylioppilastalo and brought with them the Russian pagans of Arkona, the pretty epic Canadian Aeternam and Latvian vikings of Varang Nord!

Swedish industrial metal legends Pain are on tour throughout Europe right now, and we caught them at their stop at the Backstage venue in Munich, Germany. Bringing with them Finnish pagan metal giants Ensiferum, Swedish dark symphonic metallers Eleine and Japanese Ryujin, it was quite the night for heavy metal!

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Celebrating GRIMM’s 9th birtyday, and Lika Bosch’s birthday on Walpurgis night, in Asgaard, Gentbrugge, with a pagan/folk metal party!

A great night of Scandinavian metal with Shade Empire, Ereb Altor and Soulfallen!

Skálmöld + Alestorm = Skálstorm. Throw on top of that the cowboys of Bootyard Bandits and it results in one hell of a party night!

Steelfest 2018 was again a weekend filled with underground music celebrating black mass and pagan rituals. Check out the pictures we took at the event!

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Photo coverage of DWEF, Moonsorrow and Primorial from the Heathen Crusade show in Bruges (BE) on 15 April 2018

We went to check out the sold out Korpiklaani show in Antwerp a couple of weeks ago, check out the photos here!

An extensive collection of pictures of a unique event at a historical site with highly interesting and often almost magical bands!

The photo coverage of the 15th Anniversary of Dutch pagan folk metal heroes Heidevolk, supported by Ithilien who warmed the crowd up nicely!

Gig Reports

Last month, we got to go to the very last stop of the Polish black metal collective Batushka “Black Pilgrimage tour 2023” at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, with the good company of Arkona, Aeternam and Varang Nord!

On the 22nd of February I really had to pull myself together to leave to the venue of the Circus in Helsinki. This because it was a very, very windy, rainy and stormy Saturday evening in Finland. Reason to get some courage was the “Verisäkeet Alive”-show of Finnish band Moonsorrow, and one of the possible […]

Cowboys, vikings and pirates: a night any geek/kid would drool over came to live! Alestorm, Skálmöld and Bootyard Bandits blew the roof off Nosturi!

Warmth was brought to Nosturi by the Fins of Wolfheart and Brymir! Check out this review about their show from 30th of november in Helsinki, Finland

On 15/02/2018, together with around 1000 other metalheads, we headed towards a sold out Trix in Antwerp for an evening filled with folk- and paganmetal. Trollfest, arkona and heidevolk were opening for headliner korpiklaani.

Celebrating the release off their latest album, Will to Power (released with Century Media Records),  Arch Enemy went out on tour selling out venues by the hand full. This can be expected when a band like Arch Enemy takes the stage with Jinjer, Tribulation and Wintersun.

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Ithilien worth the watch and a great warm-up for the always great Dutch pagan metal outfit Heidevolk, celebrating their 15th anniversary!

The heralds of the gods strike down in Helsinki!

The heralds of the gods strike down in Helsinki!