Undantagsfolk

Undantagsfolk are a duo hailing from Västra Götaland, Sweden. Their barren folk music, based on arcane tales originating from rural Sweden, is performed on harmonium and nylon stringed guitars interwoven with ambient vocal harmonies. Members Elea (NOÊTA) and Erik (GRIFT), each expertly stir, in their own intensely personal way, the stripped-down expression of loneliness and melancholy that has become pivotal to their musical vision. Their seven-inch debut EP "Den Ondes Fingrar" is set to be released January 4th, 2019, through Nordvis.

Lineup:

Elea (NOÊTA)

Erik (GRIFT)

Undantagsfolk - Den Ondes Fingrar (2019)

Einherjer

Founded in 1993, Einherjer's albums are heavily folk influenced, while others have a more traditional symphonic black metal sound. Their lyrics retell Norse legends, and each of their albums has its own theme. The band split up in early 2004 after releasing the album Blot in December 2003, but later reformed .

The word Einherjer is the modern Norwegian version of the Old Icelandic Einherjar meaning either"Those who fight alone" or "Those who belong to an army". According to both the Poetic and the Prose Edda, the Einherjar are prominent fighters who, upon their death on the battlefield, are brought to Valhalla by the Valkyries to feast and battle with each other until the coming of the final battle of the gods, Ragnarok.

Historically, the concept of Einherjar is thought to have been linked to Odinic beliefs and cults spawned sometimes during the late Heathen-period.

Lineup:

Frode Glesnes - bass & lead vocals

Aksel Herløe - lead guitars & vocals

Ole Sønstabø - lead guitars

Gerhard Storesund - drums

Einherjer - Discography

Norrøne Spor (2018)

Mine Vapen Mine Ord (single) (2018)

Kill The Flame (single) (2018)

Spre Vingene (single) (2018)

Dragons of the North (2016)

Av Oss, For Oss (2014)

Nord og Ner (single) (2014)

Norron (2012)

Lustre

Lustre is the musical project of Henrik Sunding who goes under the pseudonym "Nachtzeit". Lustre began in 2008 after the dissolve of The Burning. Prior to both, Sunding also used to be a drummer of the band Hypothermia.

Unlike most Black Metal artists, Lustre uses guitars and vocals as background instruments and instead uses keyboards and synths as the primary instrument. Lustre's lyrical themes include nature, darkness, mysticism, and spirituality.

Lineup:

Nachtzeit

Lustre - Discography

The First Snow (Single) (2018)

Still Innocence (2017)

Sagor I Natten (2016)

Där Föddes En Längtan (2016)

Blossom (2015)

Neath Rock and Stone (Single) (2014)

Wonder (2013)

Of Strength and Solace (2012)

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)

Legacy Of Silence

the band was born in the summer of 2014, from a union of ideas among the three founders: Marco Salusso, Simone Macchia and Gianluca Mondo.

The goal is immediately clear: to unite the strong love for fairy tales and for the singer's land with the guitarists' will to create a new, melodic and technical genre, extremeized by the powerful rhythmic deathcore of the drummer Alessandro Torchio.

The first training in May 2015 releases the two single While Obscurity Fills my Eyes and Return to the Forest, in which he decides to experiment with the use of the hurdy-gurdy.

A few months after the release of the pieces, Carola Del Pizzo, keyboard player, leaves the project.

After exactly one year, in May 2016, after several dates in Turin and several misadventures due to continuous changes of members, the band released two new singles: Hopeless Land and Haunt the world.

Shortly after the release of the pieces, due to different visions, the historical drummer Alessandro Torchio and bassist Federico Cimbarle leave the training.

The umpteenth blow to the group, which suffers a setback lasting more than six months.

In the meantime the music composed by the band undergoes strong stylistic contaminations thanks to the entry into the project by Luca Capurso, a transverse flute, which with its technique and compositional know-how gives a whole new dimension to the pieces produced by the group.

In the late winter of 2017 the drummer Alberto Ferreri is introduced into training, as the spring wind pushes the band towards new goals: in seven months the Legacy of Silence record, self-producing totally, the first EP Nightfall.

The band then launches in the preparation of the first album, which will be released in late spring 2018.

The Legacy of Silence continue to compose and play throughout the Piedmont, trying to expand beyond the homeland to bring to the ear of several people their stories, daughters of our woods, daughters of our land, daughters of our most ancient fears .

Lineup:

Alberto Ferreri - Batteria;

Luca Capurso - Flauto;

Gianluca Mondo - Chitarra main e Voce;

Mark Greyowl - Voce Leader;

Simone Macchia - Chitarra Leader;

Legacy Of Silence - Nightfall

1.Inquisition

2.Misfortune

3.Elil

4.Nightfall

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)

TORULF

Torulf is a Nordic Tribal artist from Sweden that weaves the old with the new.

Västerled is the debut album of Torulf, a Nordic Tribal artist from Sweden.

Nordic Tribal is the sound of spiritual heritage weaved together with the present.

TORULF - Discography

Västerled (2018)

Blodsband (2018)

Ragojka

We are a group of occasional igri. We have emerged as an offshoot of the LH group of the Veles people, who is engaged in the reconstruction of the old Slavic ceremonies. Since we know from history that part of the ceremonies was always music, we wanted it to sound even on our rituals. Since it is nowhere documented how the music of our ancestors looked, we tried to create it on the basis of Slavic folklore. Gradually, we added folk songs, especially of the Southern and Eastern Slavs.

Ragojka - Discography

Putování po zemích slovanských

Vynášení Morany

Písně Baltoslovanské

Veles rok

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vael folk band

Panfolk music band from Madrid (Spain). We mix numerous styles of the world with our own traditional music.

Until being officially founded in October 2016, the project went through several previous stages looking for concepts and objectives on which to work.

It was not until the first months of 2017 that the band closed its current formation of seven musicians and began to compose seriously his first work, taking good care of the project's official announcement.

September 2017 has been the chosen month to show all the work done since the beginning.

MEMBERS:

Macarena Pingarrón - Nyckelharpa, voz, pequeña percusión.

Violeta Moreno - Violín, coros.

Daniel Iturriaga - Whistle, low whistle, gaita gallega, cítara, canto gutural, coros.

Guillermo García - Percusión, davul, bodhran, didgeridoo, coros.

Camilo García - Guitarra clásica, coros.

José M. Vicente - Guitarra española, coros.

Teresa Peciña - Zanfona, flauta travesera, whistle, gaita gallega, peq

ueña percusión, voz, coros.

Vael - Mure - Demo 2017

Draugurinn

Draugurinn was born during the winter of 2008 and has since then released 3 ritualistic dark ambient albums as well as individual songs written for releases with Panphage (swe), Skogen (swe) and Nawaharjan (ger). When (and if) performing live, each performance become unique since every live act serve unique and different purposes. So far this has append twice..

The creations are usually results of ritual acts where shaman drums, bones, the sounds of nature and vocals acts as instruments. Draugurinn finds her inspiration in the wisdom of Nature, the old ones and among the shadows.

Draugurinn - Discography

Myrkraverk (2017)

Ísavetur (2015)

Dauðadá (2010)

Kjell Braaten Music

Kjell Braaten started his music career at the age of eight years, in the local school band. He started out composing his own music when he turned ten.

At the age of twenty, he had educated himself to be a conductor and worked as a teacher for the local school bands.

Kjell Braaten started to record and produce his own music when he was twelve.

In 1994 (at the age of nineteen) he entered the Norwegian academy of sound engeneering (Norsk lydskole – now NISS).

Since then, he has contributed as a musician on about forty and produced about thirty albums.

Current projects

Kjell Braaten - Acoustic music performed on ethnic instruments

Vikingmusikk - Nordic historical music and lectures

Skaldatal - Performances of myths and sagas

Sonono - Arabic-Nordic world music

Ran - Historically inspired pop music

Wardruna - Stand in musician

Kjell Braaten - Discography

Kyst - Single (2018)

Moonsong (2017)

Acoustic Oscillator (2016)

Treefolk

Treefolk, is more than a folk music group, it is a company dedicated to Musical Animation specialized in thematic markets, adapting its costumes and music with its own label to the event you need.

Treefolk is formed by 3 people with a long career and musical training, which allows them to adapt to any topic.

Having two very distinguished and defined musical blocks, on the one hand the medieval folk format and on the other an Arabic format, both with instrumentation, music and totally different costumes. His repertoire is original and they are also

registered in the SGAE.

MEMBERS:

Gaita: Chico

Percusión

Bombo: Ale

Tambor: Jose

Treefolk . Discography

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Gracias

The Peglegs

A drunken haze that took its form in the early 2017 following an ep named Gallows Play in the may of the same year. The Peglegs have since put out singles, doing gigs and changed form all the time evolving and finding their own way of doing things. Mixing rock, punk, metal and folkmusic in its different forms in addition with the traditional instruments that go with it the band makes sure that theres no boring moment. Currently the band consists of four

MEMBERS:

Aapo: vox, whistles, violin and Bouzouki.

Riku: drums, perc and vox.

Timo: guitar

Eero: bass.

The Peglegs - Discography

Gallows Play (2017)

Latest releases can be found on bands youtube page as part of exclusive single hulabalooza. Dont also forget to check the first album on spotify!

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6m2sjmaWj19YUrhUBMPHnW

The Midnight

Midnight were formed in 2003, inspired by the magical sound of Blackmore's Night. The choice to be called "Midnight" is not accidental: "midnight" is a metaphor not only of a past time, but also a "mysterious elsewhere" the magic hour of the night for excellence, where fairies and elves dance in the woods, the wizards prepare their spells and the witches gather under a large walnut tree. "Minstrels" thus, offering melodies inspired by celtic, medieval and renaissance sweet ballads but also lively rhythms drawn from popular culture and folk music. All made more attractive from setting and costumes inspired by fantasy. The show intends to make reliving, through musical notes, scenery and costumes, the charm and enchantment of the "fantasy literature" a kind of narration between epic and fantastic, magical and mysterious, where narrated events are set in a time and a world imaginary in the "middle land" the linking ring between a permanent medieval, an improbable future and an alternative universe populated by magical creatures.

"The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. 'tis almost fairy time."

(from "A Midsummer Night's Dream” by William Shakespeare).

MEMBERS:

Federico Vannucchi - chitarre acustiche, Irish bouzouki, ghironda, Irish mandola /

Giulia Del Bravo - voce /

Massimo Paggi - basso acustico /

Graziano Ridolfo - batteria, percussioni /

Luca Floridi - tastiere /

Chiara Becherini - backing vocals /

(plus special guest)

Savino Pantone - violin/viola /

Gaspare Bartelloni - flutes/bombards /

The Midnight - Discography

THE MIDNIGHT (2013)

NIGHT TRIBUTE Live In Florence - Saschall Theater (2008)

Ritual Duir

In January 2018, it was born "Ritual Duir"

Ritual Duir is a project by the singer Rose Avalon, former singer of the Pagan folk band "Cuelebre"

“Ritual Duir” is created in honor of the trees, the forest and its fauna. They pay rituals, druidic knowledge, the connection with the elementals of the forest, guardians of nature, sap and roots. Let’s walk together and barefoot to feed ourselves with the energy of the big and magic oak.

MEMBERS:

Rose Avalon 

Obscurus Orbis

Year 2007, august 8th, is bands original date of foundation. After many practice sessions and changes in bands formation, we finally formed in what you can see today.

Band members met travelling to various medieval themed events. We all desired to reconstruct a medieval atmosphere that comes with medieval music and sound of musical instruments of that time, that allows the listener to feel the full nature of this shadowy, medieval world and leads the audience with musicians, back in time, on the days when men were brave knights, women – beautiful princess and the earth was still flat.

Band uses the loudest bagpipes, rauschpfeifs, string instruments and various drums. Obscurus Orbis is also the only group in Latvia, which uses hurdy-gurdy. We have performed at the Hanseatic Day’s in Pärnu and Kaunas (Estonia and Lithuania), Festival-mediaval (Germany), medieval festivals in Norway and many other events in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland and Romania.

MEMBERS:

Lord Mortis - bagpipes, flutes.

Veina - hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, flutes, vocals.

Barbarian - kobza bass, vocals.

Serge - irish bouzouki, guitar.

Elina- drums

Obscurus Orbis - Discography

Secundum Artem 2015

Primus Inter Pares 2012

Johnny Nocash - the Celtic Outlaws

In February of this year Johnny Nocash released his EP titled the Celtic Outlaws, no doubt a great EP to be able to enjoy some good beers with friends or in a quiet place just

Country/Folk Rockers Johnny Nocash and The Celtic Outlaws’ new self titled release is a gritty rockers dream and a new country fans nightmare. No filter and no holding back, if you're offended by “bad words” and the idea of drinking till your liver shuts down, this probably isn't the album for you. If you're a fan of gritty and high energy music or music with meaning and emotion, Johnny Nocash and The Celtic Outlaws

Johnny Nocash - the Celtic Outlaws

I put the links where you can get this great album

PAGINA WEB: http://www.johnnynocash.com/

BANDCAMP: https://johnnynocash.bandcamp.com/

Barzonia

A Viking Folk band from Zuera (Aragón, Spain)

The Barzonia group, with its musical repertoire based on traditional bagpipes and percussions, recreates with its music and clothing the atmosphere of the viking raiders who, when seeing them, one imagines come from the northern countries, from far north its Zuera of origin. In 2014 he released his first album, El Asalto, and four years later, a new attack brings us his second album, Desembarco, in the purest folk-metal style or, as they define themselves, Viking-folk.

MEMBERS:

Victor (Tarota, fuego, sastre)

Miguel (Charrasco, fuego)

Juan (Percusion)

Jose (Tarota, Bajo)

Eugenia (Bombo)

Carlos (Dulzaina, Oratoria)

Anchel (Gaita, dulzaina, tarota, etc.)

Alberto (Gaita, dulzaina, adalid)

Ainhoa (Animacion, baile, P. percu)

Barzonia - Discography

Desembarco (2018)

El Asalto (2014) 

Liholesie (Лихолесье) - Fables (2018)

Here another great band that in the month of April released a new EP entitled 'Fables' that will take them with their music to a world of myths and rituals

Fables is distant echoes of ancient myths and rituals. Fables is music, that traveler hears in the songs of forest birds, in the howl of the northern wind, in the creaking of branches, in the silence of a starry night and in the sound of his own heart. Fables is dreams and visions that we will forget after awakening, but will remember at the last moment…

Fables (2018)

I put the links where you can get this great album

BANDCAMP: https://liholesie.bandcamp.com/album/fables

Heather Wasteland

HEATHER WASTELAND (Χερσόνησος, 3-bass Heretical Folk Art created by Cimmerian metalheads in neo-medieval metal way) was founded in the spring of 2001.

A distinctive feature of the group was the presence of two bass players (Sergey Pavlov and Alexander Vetrogon) and a drummer (Anatoliy Polovnikov) in the band’s line-up, and an intended refuse to use guitars.

HEATHER WASTELAND existed until the spring of 2002, having managed to play only two concerts. Their debut 12-minute performance created a furor owing to the music itself and the unrestrained energy at the stage that moved the bored crowd. The group became a discovery of the festival, and a concert photo of the raging front man was published in a very conservative newspaper. So, the group remained memorable long after the show for a long time.

In October of 2014, the band was reunited with the original line-up, but also recruited the third bass player (Andrey Anikushin).

HEATHER WASTELAND’s music is marked by the uncommon approach to folk metal, and interest in obscure or “forbidden” topics of pre-christian and medieval periods of European history, often in the esoteric context.

In 2015 HEATHER WASTELAND recorded 4 tracks for their debut EP “Under The Red Wolfish Moon” to be self-released in digipak CD format in December, 2016.

Mix by Andrey Ignatenkov, a sound engineer with high level of the concert experience owing to work with Joe Lynn Turner, Goran Bregović, Arkona, Bonfire, De-Phazz and many more at the concerts in the Crimea. Mastering by Iurii Kuz’kin, who is well-known to the fans of Slavonic pagan metal owing to his work with Chur, Oprich, and “Triunity” project.

Cover art by Njard, who is well-known for his cooperation with Ghost (Sweden), Grand Belial's Key (USA), Horna (Finland), Absurd (Germany), Sacrificia Mortuorum (France) and many more.

All EP tracks are already included in several CD- and digital compilations. The first official video “Tre Sverd” turned in a good score of views at Youtube and several social medias, and exceeded 10 thousand views in total over three months. The video is also included in a DVD-compilation of Terroraiser Magazine (Ukraine).

In the spring of 2016 Heather Wasteland recorded a neo-medieval cover version of the song “Personal Energy” for the official international tribute CD of Pestilence (the Netherlands, jazz/death metal). A chorus of growling trolls was recorded by Ind (Grenouer, Tartharia).

MEMBERS:

Anatoliy Polovnikov - drums,

Alexandr Vetrogon - 6-string bass,

Andrey Anikushin - 5-string bass,

AR - 4-string bass

Heather Wasteland - Discography

Under The Red Wolfish Moon (2016)

Under The Red Wolfish Moon (single) (2016)

Personal Energy (Pestilence cover) (2016)