Sword Chant

LOCATION :  Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Rodrigo Berne ( Tuatha De Danann ) : guitar, 12-strings guitar, banjo, acoustic guitar, vocals Giovani Gomes ( Tuatha De Danann ) : bass, backing vocals Adriano Sarto : lead vocals Wilson Melkor ( Tuatha De Danann ) : drums, bongos, drum, rattles, ganza de pratinela, half moon tambourine Felipe Batiston ( Tuatha De Danann ) : keyboards, acoustic guitar, banjo, backing vocals Marcos Teixeira : transverse flute, whistles HISTORY : Rodrigo Berne founded the band in 2010. The idea for Tray of Gift's name came from a man who lives in the mountains of a town near Tray of Gift one (Varginha, Brazil). In this town, covered by stones are many mystical stories, beautful waterfalls and a good place to consume mushrooms. That man, who lives away from the people of the town, would have met Rodrigo Berne and offered him a tray full of mu...

LOCATION :  Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Status :  Split-up Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Gareth Graham : vocals, guitar, keyboards HISTORY : Gareth Graham founded this studio project "Asgardian" during 2010 and releases one first EP. The project goes on hold in 2013 despite a live line-up was in mind. The band comes back on november 13, 2016 and disappaers later. RECORDINGS : Frozen For Eternity, EP 2013 [  details  ] WEBSITES : Bandcamp Contact :  asgardianband@gmail.com Find more information on Sword Chant : - Band news

I interviewed Martha Gantner from HELROTH , also known as LilleFloytist in the forum.  Questons were made before the creation of that thread. 01. That new project HELROTH was born recently. How that project came to you all ? The idea to play together was in our minds already in July 2012, but those were just plans we didn't take very seriously at that time. We just felt our taste is very similar in music we like and we have a clear view of what we would like to play but that was back in our minds during summer, meanwhile we had a lot of concerts and the time went on and on. But then, we decided among us the “Under Folk Wings Fest” will be our last concert with VECORDIA, because the way that band took wasn't the one we wanted to go. HELROTH will be definitely heavier than VECORDIA and we would like to have more pagan oriented lyrics which VECORDIA never did. Maybe not in all our songs, but definitely in the majority of them. 02. You, Zapor and Ernest aren't ne...

LOCATION :  Gothenburg, Sweden Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Pontus Nilsson : bagpipes (sackpfeife), vocals Ida Persson : bass, violin Daniel Henriksson : guitar Mats Halldin : bass Björn Wallin : drums Past members : Johannes Hällström : bass Göran Hallmarken : hurdy-gurdy Kristin Svensson : violin, vocals HISTORY : Influenced by Garmarna, Nordman, Schelmish, Eluveitie, Apocalyptica or again Iron maiden, the band founded in 2008, with medieval themes in their lyrics. RECORDINGS : Black Magic Fools, EP 2011 A Jester's Confession, EP 2012 [ details ] Soul Collector, album 2016 [  details  ] WEBSITES : Blackmagicfools.com Facebook Instagram Twitter Soundcloud Youtube Bandcamp Contact :   blackmagicfools@live.se Booking :   tzbookingagency@gmail.com Find more information on Sword Chant : - Band news - Forged in Folk discussion

LOCATION :  Moscow, Russia Status :  Split-up Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Aleksandra "Ris" : vocals Aleksandr "Shmel" ( Kalevala , Svarga ) : bass, vocals Vadim Semenov : drums Rostislav Frolov : guitar Past members : Pavel Kuz'min : guitar Nikita Akselenko : guitar Alexandr Sinitsyn : guitar Vadim "Leshiy" Prokofyev : guitar Anna Bodrova : keyboards Nikolay Filatov : keyboards Natalya Romanenko : vocals Yara : vocals Nikita Polezhaev : drums Pavel Zhdanovich ( Beer Bear ) : guitar HISTORY : РарогЪ (Rarog) founded in 2004, but it takes its roots in the mid-nineties. Their lyrics and music are related with Slavic mythology and paganism. The band split-up in 2014. RECORDINGS : Аз Бога Ведаю! (Az' Boga Vedau!), album 2006 Взойди Солнце (Vzoidi solnce), album 2011 Сыны Сокола (Sini Sokola), album 2012 Кологод, EP 2013 [ details ] WEBSITES : Vkontakte Facebook Youtube Contact :  N/A Find more info...

LOCATION :  Warsaw, Poland Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Shaman : vocals Zapor : guitar Bania : violin Morwin : bass Marcin Ścierański : drums Past members : Ernest : violin Orthank : vocals Martha : flutes, backing vocals Jan Machalski : lead guitar Merol : guitar HISTORY : Martha, Ernest and Zapor founded Helroth in 2012 once they left their previous band. RECORDINGS : Demo 2013 Wataha, EP 2013 I, Pagan, album 2016 WEBSITES : Twitter Facebook Youtube Contact :   helroth.official@gmail.com Booking :  helroth.management@gmail.com Find more information on Sword Chant : - Band news - Interview  2012

I Interviewed Ermes Buttolo from AD PLENITATEM LUNAE  about the album, and more.  01. Your first album entitled « Tempus non est iocundum » will be out this December 29th and if I am correct, that title means “Time isn’t joyful” so I wonder, what is the album about ? Is it about the hard times of Europe facing economic crisis or is it something else like one reference in opposition to Carl Orff opera’s part from “Carmina Burana” so called Tempus est iocundum” (Time is joyful) ? Yes, it's an opposition to "Tempus est iocundum", which is a medieval song from "Carmina Burana". We chose this title to describe the life of the people in our region, Friuli (north-east of Italy), from 13th to 16th century. Life here has always been hard, until the Industrial Revolution, and we wanted to give voice to the people that could have lived here in those times. We didn't want to celebrate war heroes, kings or great men, but  rather the people you can consider "n...