It’s always a great sight to see a long line stretch out from the entrance to Clwb Ifor Bach on a week night. The line consists of Viking warriors and pirates, not to mention the bloke dressed as both. Passers by stare and laugh to themselves as a girl clad mostly in furs and war-paint […]

SILURIA are one of the few current UK bands that are embracing the rising interest in the combination of folk music and metal. Hailing from Wales, there is no shortage of musical history or cultural heritage to draw from. Could Siluria be the UK’s answer to the current scene making waves in Finland and Scandinavia? […]

The Bloodstock team are pleased to announce that Scottish folk/power metallers ALESTORM have been added to the bill for BOA 2008.Alestorm were formed in Perth in 2004 as a two-piece under the name Battleheart playing self-styled ‘True Scottish Pirate Metal’. After releasing an eponymous EP in 2006, they expanded their line-up in order to play […]

Swiss folk metallers, Eluveitie, have their new album “Slania” available for streaming on their MySpace page.
The track listing is:-
01. Samon
02. Primordial Breath
03. Inis Mona
04. Gray Sublime Archon
05. Anagantios
06. Bloodstained Ground
07. The Somber Lay
08. Slanias Song
09. Giamonios
10. Tarvos
11. Calling The Rain
12. Elembivos
The album is due out in the UK on 18th February through Nuclear Blast records.

Finnish folk metal band MOONSORROW have released the following details regarding their forthcoming EP:
The release date of “Tulimyrsky EP” is set to March 26th by Spikefarm Records. Although called an EP, the length of this opus is somewhere past one hour. It consists of one new song, two covers and two old demo songs reworked.
Looking […]

Nuclear Blast have created a new EPK (electronic press kit) for Swiss, Celtic folk-metal band ELUVEITIE in the run up to the release of their second album ‘Slania’ which will be relased on February 14th. The video the concepts and lyrics of the music and allows us to hear some small samples of the new […]

KORPIKLAANI have announced the release details of their upcoming 5th studio album and the first single from it. The album is called ‘Korven Kuningas’ and will be out Nuclear Blast records on March 21st.

‘Korven Kuningas’ translates to mean ‘King of the Woods’, showing a continuation of the woodland themes in the music and lyrics.

The Bloodstock team have just announced that Tyr have been added to their increasingly impressive 2008 line-up. Tyr are joining Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, Eluveitie and Moonsorrow in the UK for Paganfest. So that means there are two chances to see some of these terrific folky metal bands! Yay!
The one-armed God of War—the bravest of all—became […]

Swiss folk metal band ELUVEITIE will release its new album, “Slania”, in Germany on February 15, 2008 via Nuclear Blast Records. According to a press release, the CD is “the perfection of the first album, but still there is enough room to give some new influences a chance. Expect nothing less than a masterpiece of […]