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Vallorch

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LOCATION :  Venice, Veneto, Italy Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Sara Tacchetto : vocals, redpipe, whistles Leonardo Dalla Via : bass, vocals Massimo Benetazzo : drums Folk : keyboards Riccado Gianni : violin Past members : Matteo Patuelli : guitar, vocals Andrea Rampin : bagpipes, accordion, tin and low whistles, xylophone Francesco Salviato : fiddle Alessandro Baldo : bass Fabio Ceccato : bass Martina Mezzalira : violin Mattia Buggin : lead guitar Marco Munari : guitar Paolo Pesce : accordion, keyboard, hurdy gurdy HISTORY : Marco, Matteo & Massimo created Vallorch in December 2010 and the others joined a few months later. Several line-up change. The band name comes from a Cimbrian village in Italy. Lyrics are connected with the Asiago and Cansiglio plateaus, home of the Cimbri, a small population of unknown origins who speaks a Germanic language. RECORDINGS : Stories Of North, EP 2012 Neverfade, album 2012 Until Our Tale Is Told, album

Arraigo

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LOCATION :  Capital Federal, Argentina Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Pablo Trangone : vocals, keyboards, bombo legüero (drum), peruvian cajón Federico Bertoli : guitar, charantarra, vocals Leandro Ramogida: guitar, vocals Javier A. Espeche : bass Federico Prieto: drums, bombo legüero HISTORY : The members of Arraigo are influenced by a lot of musical genres like Grunge (Nirvana, Pearl Jam...), Punk Rock (Green day, Offspring), Metal (Helloween, Megadeth, Dream Theater...), local bands (Hermética, Almafuerte, Divididos, Pappo, Piazzola, José Larralde and Atahualpa Yupanqui) but they find the roots they were looking for into the traditionals argentinian musics & dance (Tango, Candombe, Zamba, Chacarera, Carnavalito, Vidala, Chamamé). From these influences, Arraigo founded during 2004 and two years later was released one first EP entitled "Rancho Sur”. RECORDINGS : Rancho Sur (South Ranch), EP 2006 Fronteras y Horizontes (Frontiers and Horizons)

MuyzKKubuN

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LOCATION :  Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Yari Ruiz : vocals, lead guitars Daniel Ramirez : bass Hector Orozco : keyboards Juan Felipe : rythmic guitar Jonathan Giraldo : drums Past members : Juan Jose :  rythmic guitar Alejandro Valencia : flutes HISTORY : MuyzKKubuN formed in 2009. MuyzKKubuN is a variation of the word Muysccubun that means (Muisca Language). Muisca is a colombian indian tribe. They combine in the lyrics a mystical concept about mother nature and pagan heritage. They splitted during july 2014 but come back with a new line-up in may 2017. RECORDINGS : Demo 2012 In The Name Of Our Gods, album 2013 WEBSITES : Facebook Bandcamp Youtube Contact :   muyzkkubun@gmail.com Find more information on Sword Chant : - Band news

Eldensky

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LOCATION :  Calgary, Alberta, Canada Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Beren Tol Galen ( Maglor ) : vocals, all instruments : - Electric guitars (mainly my Ibanez Prestige and occasionally an old Jay Turser vinta GE Series strat-style)  - Electric bass (simple Fender borrowed from a friend)  - 12 strings acoustic (Takamine G Series) as well as a little 6 string classical that I purchased from a small music shop in La Paz, Bolivia - Keyboards (M Audio Axiom 61 ~ using numerous software samplers including: Native Instruments as well as Nexus...I believe there was even some from Xpand 2 in there...) - Drum Programming (all completed through the included Digirack plugins [Xpand 2, etc.] with Pro Tools 8 (A DAW that I have decided I will never use again ~ I have since begun switching over to Reaper since the release of Maglor's "CotF")  * "The keys covered basically all instruments aside from guitars and drums heard on "From Forgotte

Vingard / Skaldic Soul

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LOCATION :  Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Rogério Malgor : lead vocals, rhythmic guitar Gordo "Goblin" Bardo : whistles, flutes, banjo André Fernandes : lead guitar Luca Bresciani : bass, vocals Julio Cesar : drums Past members : Odair Otávio : synth Emerson Arruda : drums Raul Pauletto : drums Murilo Martins : drums Guilherme Torresin : drums Rodrigo Menegatti : drums Pedro Diogo Bresciani : guitars Matheus Baren  guitars Gabriel Martins  : guitars Renato Whistler Santos : great highland bagpipes, uillean pipes, bodhrán, Irish flutes, tin whistles Lui Marestoni: lead guitar, clean vocals HISTORY : The band founded in 2006 in Brazil. They have released one single and one EP in 2007 and 2008 and then, they tried to release their debut album "Thunderforge", planned for 2014 but the band split up while october 2013. The "Thunderforge" album will never see the daylight in the future. April