The Grey Forest Band

The Gray Forest is a Neofolk band from Santiago, Chile. The Gray Forest is inspired by the interaction of man with nature and its essence.

They seek to interpret the sensation that makes them feel the smell of humid earth, the rays of sunlight that seep through the leaves and the complexity of the roots that form intricate figures.

MEMBERS:

Juan Manuel - Composer, Lead Guitar and Voice

Juan Ignacio - Drums

Gabriela - Voice and Chorus / Anaís - Cello

The Grey Forest - The Grey Forest

Nøkken + The Grim

Nøkken + The Grim is the call of ancient spirits for humankind to remember the forgotten song of nature, the animality, the beauty, the  brutality. It is music for the wild and untamed. Nøkken, the Norse spirit of horses and water, is joined by Ajatar, the Finnish dragoness, and Peryton, once the Magyar white stag, now black with soot.

The band has been featured on Brutal Resonance and has performed on Austin’s  Pagan Pride festival, Me Mer Mo Mondays sponsored by Self-Sabotage Records, and has recorded for several film scores under Brian  Satterwhite.  Nøkken (Justin Scheibel) is a soloist in the forthcoming horror film Sour Bear under composer Brian Satterwhite, host of KMFA 89.5's "Film Score Focus." Peryton (Stephen Ian Savage) is film composer and electronic artist who's score to the short-film "Where You Used to Be" recently premiered in Columbus, Ohio.

Nøkken + The Grim was formed in Austin, Texas in 2015. Their soundscapes evoke a time in which the human embodied its primal, animal nature. These wild spirits channel many styles of music and folkloric traditions into surreal and intense staging with costumes and animal masks, evocative of older shamanistic pathways and drawing heavily from Nøkken's Magyar and Germanic heritage.

Nøkken, in Norwegian folklore, is a water horse spirit and shapeshifter. In bygone times, the creature would lure trespassing humans to drown in rivers and lakes with seductive fiddling pulled from the heart of nature. Nøkken is joined by Peryton, The Black Stag on electronics and winds. Formerly the White Stag of Hungarian legend, his fur and feathers have turned black with the soot of modern industry. Now he seethes with the electronic pulse of technology. Ajatar, the Finnish witch of the woods, is the misunderstood mother of woodland spirits, thought to be a bringer of pestilence. Her form is that of a serpentine dragon, and she performs on viola. These shapeshifters of Norse and Magyar folklore have emerged from the forests and streams to perform animalistic, heathen music for human civilization at the brink of the ongoing war between our Mother Earth and human greed.

MEMBERS:

Nøkken - Justin Scheibel - Lead Violin, Manager, Producer

Peryton, The Black Stag - Stephen Ian Savage - Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer, Electronics

Ajatar - Karli Leal - Violist

Nøkken + The Grim - Discography

Trickster God (2018)

Treason to Our Nature (2018)

Overhead Freeway (2018)

Kreiviskai

Neofolk- / Ethno-Ambient- / Darkfolk-act from Tver. The Kreiviskai music is based on Tver song folklore, Krivitch mythology, the archetypes of the people of swamps and forests, the noise of the age-old Okovo forest, the tranquility of unhurried Tver rivers. The act has found its present form on the crooked evenings of the 2013 Winter Solstice. Then a record Zemmis Supnāi (Pruss. "Dreams of the Earth") was recorded in an improvised studio on the outskirts of the historic Tver suburb. A few years earlier, the participants of the act were selected to complete the concept of “Dreams of the Earth”, delving into local mythology, collecting a variety of ancient instruments, studying the folklore techniques of ancient Tolshchina. All current members of Kreiviskai are from the Balti ethnofuturistic project Tver.

Creativity Kreiviskai is dedicated to the rich and difficult fate of the territory of the Upper Volga, where history is intertwined with mythology, Russian with Lithuanian, and the truth - with a curve ...

"Nonregnum" is the second full-length album made by Kreiviskai, the band from Tver, playing at the intersection of folk, ritual and ethnographic-ambient genres. After the authentic and incredibly atmospheric debut album "Zemmis Supnai", released in 2014, the musicians took a significant step forward and literally drove everyone crazy with their ritual single "Dāinas – Dwāi wangas”, which was released in the cold autumn of 2016.

Dainas was the first warning of that we should expect something extraordinary from the second album of this band.

Admittedly, Kreiviskai didn’t disappoint anyone. "Nonregnum" is a truly fundamental work with amazing diversity and above all conceptuality, which wasтexpressed both in external design of the release and in itsтsound. Without losing touch with authentic source and traditional instruments, the band generously enriched the original “archeo” with epic as well as the whole web of “audio-futurum”, woven from such genres as martial, neoclassic, post-folk, darkwave and even black-metal.

The members of such bands as COMPASS MAURI, HAGL, ARCANORUM ASTRUM and PRAGNAVIT have also took part in the creation of the album.

Kreiviskai - Discography

Nonregnum (2018)

Zemmis Supnāi (2014, remastered 2018)

Dāinas - Dwāi Wangās (Single) (2016)

Grift

With strong ties to predominantly Swedish poets and artists, Grift want to convey the sense of melancholy and existential questions that artists and thinkers throughout history always have felt a strong need to express. Grift’s ambition is also to evoke the mood some people are in great need of; the mood you can’t express through other mediums than music, images, and in some cases even through words. This kind of escapism is about breaking the chains of everyday given norms, and for a short moment becoming a stranger lost in a state of uncertain homelessness.

Grift began as a duo in 2011, with Erik Gärdefors performing vocals and strings, and J. Hallbäck handling the drums. After a few evenings in Erik’s studio ”Eremitaget Liesmia”, the band had recorded what would become ”Fyra Elegier”. The Swedish label Nordvis Produktion offered the band to release the material as a mini CD in 2013, and later the same year, Blut und Eisen released it as a MLP. Built upon a concept stained with inspiration drawn from great elder poets like Johannes Edfelt, Pär Lagerkvist and Dan Andersson, among others, Grift delivered raw but melodic music in a new, yet at the same time traditional way.

In 2014, Grift recorded a new song entitled ”Skarprättaren”. The lyrics for this song was influenced by the old tale ”Körkarlen”, which was written by Selma Lagerlöf and later made into a silent film by Victor Sjöström. The main character in the story prays in the New Year’s Eve, and exclaims in despair: ”Gud, låt min själ få komma till mognad, innan den ska skördas!” (”Lord, let my life come to maturity before being harvested!”) The desperation in this prayer was something that caught Erik and got him to write the lyrics for the song. It turned out that the band Saiva from the northern Sweden, was interested in doing a split 10” MLP with Grift. And in February 2015, this cooperation between the north and south parts of Sweden was released.

At this time, Erik already had started to record the band’s debut album, “Syner” . J. Hallbäck left the band, so suddenly Grift became a one man band. To make the album more varied, Erik invited four guest musicians who contributes with their special skills. Daniel Blomberg from the crust/hardcore band M:40 sang on one song. Daniel Abrahadabra known from The Ascendant and Excessum played a guitar solo, and he also helped Erik to mix the album. Andreas Pettersson from Saiva and Stilla sang with his clear vocals on one song, and on the last song Andreas Brink played lap steel. It is said that “Syner” will be released in September 2015.

During the year 2016, Erik decided to make a split LP with the Ukrainian legends Drudkh. This year Erik also wanted to try to make acoustic strip-down versions of Grift songs, and in the autumn he played his first solo concert in Germany. In connection with this evening, a cassette with two acoustic versions of "Dödens dåd and "Svältorna" was recoreded and released.

The year 2017 has begun intensively. The second full length album, "Arvet" has been recorded and produced by Erik. A cassette with only acoustic songs has been recorded live outside in the woods where Grift comes from. And a lot concerts (both solo and with the whole band) will be carried out during the year!

MEMBERS:

Erik Gärdefors - vocals & instruments

LIVE BAND:

Erik - vocals & guitar

Daniel Abrahadabra - guitar

Henrik Gustafsson - bass

Johan Hallbäck - drums

Grift - Discography

VILSNA ANDARS BONING (2018)

ARVET (2017)

VANKELSTEG – MOT OKÄNDA HEMBYGDER (2017)

SAMHAIN CELEBRATION (2016)

HÄGRINGAR / BETRAYED BY THE SUN (2016)

SYNER (2016)

SKARPRÄTTAREN / SJIEDVÁRRE (2015)

FYRA ELEGIER (2013)

Argonath

Dungeon synth music based upon celtic mythology of Ireland.

This project is now under the name Sreng.

"Argonath settles for a survey on a variety of topics which becomes a tableau of ancient memories and dreams"

"the music is organic and as you listen it dawns on you that the music is Irish rather than beating you over the head..."

MEMBER:

Daithí Ó Mathúna

Argonath - Discography

Lugnasad (2018)

The Cattle Raid of Cooley (2017)

Journey to the Otherworld (2017)

The Great Hunger (2017)

Dark Stories of the Sidhe (2017)

Foreign Fantasy (Isegrimm Split) (2017)

Melodies of the Past (2017)

Kilcrea Keep (Demo) (2016)

Tower of Glass (2018)

Gaol (2017)

Evilnox

Evilnox is a russian musical project, performing a musical style known as medieval dark  ambient.

The project was founded in January 12th, 2012, in the city of Mineralnye Vody (Russian for Mineral Waters).

The music itself is a mixture of medieval melodies, dark ambient, and black metal, combined with a melancholic and dismal atmosphere

Rux Minn - all music; guitar noises, bass, keys, samples, drum programming, art

MEMBERS:

Rux - all music; guitar noises, bass, keys, samples, drum programming

Evilnox - Discography

Faint Glimmer Of Cursed Moon Over The Dark Woods (2018)

The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn (Remastered) (2018)

Twilight At The Woods (EP) (2018)

Songs Of Silver Midnight (Reissue) (2018)

Honey Moon And Blackened Stars (2018)

The Return To Ancient Lands (Reissue) (2017)

Dark Passages Of Winter (2017)

Dark Times Of War And Witchcraft (2017)

When Darkness Falls (Compilation) (2017)

Forgotten Scrolls (Compilation) (2016)

Into The Misty Forest (EP) (2016)

Songs From Twilight Kingdom (2016)

Beyond The Black River (EP) (2016)

The Nights Of Deadful Silence (EP) (2016)

In Crystal Mirrors Of Winter (EP) (2015)

Nighttime Birds Awoke The Dead (2013)

Voices From The Dark (2013)

Age Of Blood And Fire (2013)

The Land Of The Lost Souls (Demo) (2012)

Idisi

Medieval-fusion Russian girl band Idisi - a project, which unite medieval music tradition and magical un_reality of fantasy realms.

MEMBERS:

Stasia — bagpipes, chants

Katarina (Rapunzel) — bagpipes

Alena Boo — bagpipes, vocal

Alena El — davul

Idisi - Discography

Yaga (2018)

Eiris Sazun (2018)

Arathgoth

Arathgoth is a Band "Atmospheric Black Metal, Celtic, Pagan, Dungeon Synth & Dark Ambiant" from the Forgotten Lands

MEMBERS:

Arathgoth

Arathgoth - Discography

Dreams of the Sylvan Elves (2018)

Guardians of the Fall (2016)

Return to the Old Castle (2016)

Memories of Torment (2015)

Rise of the Three Moons (2015)

Book of the Night​-​Legends (2014)

Dark like Space (2014)

Between Demons and Witches (2014)

Brutal winter (2013)

Man with no fate (2013)

Interplanetary Travel (2013)

The Season Of Ashes (2012)

Carnifexian

From the shores of the Baltic Sea comes a mysterious stranger with an old axe on his back and an old book in his hands. A black hood conceals his many secrets, but fear not; he is here to tell you a story. A story told beneath the banner of old school dungeon synth, hearkening back to dark medieval times – when not every hero was good and not every tale told held a happy ending. Rest thy weary bones by the fire and behold the legend of Carnifexian.

Lineup:

Carnifexian

CARNIFEXIAN - Discography

Age Of Spiked Mace (2017)

Dark Ages of Valor, Magic, and Steel (single 2017)

Meus

Meus is an instrumental Neofolk outfit based in the United Kingdom.

Lineup:

Tom Snelgrove

Meus - Discography

Miserere Mei Deus (2017)

September (2016)

Downpour (2016)

Wolcensmen

WOLCENSMEN is the Epic Heathen Folk project of Dan Capp, England.

Wolcensmen began its journey in 2013 with the release of a 3-song demo CD. This edition of 30 hand-made CD-Rs was given to friends, as Wolcensmen was initially intended to be just a small creative outlet for the man behind the project, Dan Capp. Dan had played in a number of bands; of varying styles, all metal-related, but looked back to his teenage years when he had crafted short acoustic passages of music inspired by the likes of Ulver, Opeth, Empyrium and Wongraven. These long-lost cassette recordings had been praised by friends at the time, so Dan decided it was time to rekindle that old flame.

The demo songs were uploaded to bandcamp, and through a series of chance circumstances, Deivlforst Records of Germany took an interest, offering to re-release the demo on cassette with the addition of two bonus tracks (songs that had been recorded as one-offs for compilation albums). The growing popularity of the demo demanded a debut full-length, and with the encouragement of Deivlforst, work began on this in 2015 and culminated in the release of ‘Songs from the Fyrgen’ in November 2016. The reception to the debut album was phenomenal and despite no structured press campaign the initial CD pressing sold out in six months, with overwhelming praise from the underground press.

The inspiration for Wolcensmen was always, quite simply, those deeply atmospheric acoustic-guitar compositions which occasionally flowed from within the extreme metal scene of the 1990s. Wolcensmen’s purpose is to draw upon those folkloric moods and aesthetics and to explore the mystical Heathen culture of North-Western Europe.

In October 2017 the first live performance of Wolcensmen songs took place in England’s Lake District. Following this, work began on the writing and planning of a sophomore album and further live shows.

Lineup:

Dan Capp

Wolcensmen - Discography

Songs from the Fyrgen (2016)

Demo (2013)

Треустье (Treuesti)

The seaside neo-folk project Treuesti was founded in 2006 in Ussuriysk. For four years, the project participants attempt to connect Russian folklore motifs and rock directions. The result was the album of 2010 "Through the hole of centuries". The next self-release was "Shirez-vonrez", recorded by the founder of the project in 2013. A year later, in Vladivostok, the project was assembled in a new composition, which recorded "Phoenix" (2015)

At the moment, the goal of the project is to record a new album "Dark Romances" The album is almost ready.

MEMBERS:

Matvey Mugir

Треустье - Discography

Дымок кадильный (2016)

Феникс (2015)

Ширез-навырез (2013)

Сквозь дыру веков (2010)

Urze de Lume

Legends and myth, rites and cries

Stories past, living new life in the hands of today. Living the present, that in future will be Past.

Awakening the old. As free as the wind blown by wood and echoed by the vibrating perring fur.

Back to the land, to grass, to heather, to honey, to being.

The wolf howls under the moon

Fear covers the snow, like expanding music.

Coarse yet finished. So claim the artisan’s hands.

Urze de Lume represent a homage to the past. Strongly inspired by the Iberian tradition, their music aims to celebrate the roots which identify a people and bind them to their land.

Their repertoire transmits the surviving soul of an era in which man and nature walked hand in hand, with respect for the land, the occult and its origins.

The main features of Urze de Lume is the use of Iberian ethnic instruments such as bagpipes, war drums, horns, ancient stringed instruments among others. This combination blossoms into a powerful and unique sound that summons the very deep Lusitanian roots.

MEMBERS:

Ricardo Brito

Tiago Matos

Hugo Araújo

Gonçalo do Carmo

Urze de Lume - Discography

As Árvores Estão Secas e Não Têm Folhas (2018)

Vozes na Neblina - Limited Special Edition (2017)

Vozes na Neblina (2017)

Geada Negra - Version 2017 (2017)

Caminhos da Urze - Limited Special Edition (2015)

Caminhos da Urze (2015)

11 (2014)

Ibéria Oculta (2012)

Raiz Ibérica (2014)

Ulvesang Band

Ulvesang is the collective effort of three individuals sharing an interest in melancholic, naturalistic, neofolk/darkfolk music. Our influences will be obvious to those familiar with the genre, but we strive to build our own unique take on a pre-established sound. We hope to build stories and ambiance with our music, and build songs that follow some thematic progression.

Line-up:

Alex Boyd

Ana Dujaković

Laura Màrr

Ulvesang - Ulvesang 

Tracks

The Purge

Taakeferd

Two Rivers

Wolf's Passage

Litherpoan

A Town of Ash

Across the Burning Canyon

Arms in Pledge to Ellis