Sword Chant

LOCATION :  Madrid, Spain Status :  On hold Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Rubén Ramírez : bass Iván Herrero : lead vocals Iván Leria : lead guitar Pablo "Drakhai" Cantalapiedra : drums, backing vocals Noel Barajas : flute, dulzaina (sort of bombard), violin, backing vocals Past members : Carlos : bass Álex : bass Pedro : keyboards Sergio : guitar, backing vocals Marta Sacri : recorder, whistles, mouth harp HISTORY : Ex-Pagan Fire members Drakhai and Sergio founded HEID during summer 2011. Several line-up change in the band since 2012. RECORDINGS : Heid, Demo 2013 [ free download ] Voces de la Tierra Dormida, EP 2014 [ details ] Alba, album 2016 [  details  ] WEBSITES : Facebook Twitter Soundcloud Youtube Contact :   heidmetal@gmail.com Find more information on Sword Chant : - Band news

LOCATION :  Ippesheim, Bavaria, Germany Status :  Split-up Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Manuel Hiller : vocals Steffen Schultheiß : guitar Tobias Herrmann : guitar Björn Bayer : bass Simon Dittrich : drums Past members : Sascha Fragner : guitar Marco Scheider : bass HISTORY : DELIRIUM is a Pagan Metal band from Franconia's district from Bavaria, Germany. DELIRIUM, founded while summer 2006, started as a Black/Death metal band but things changed with a new line-up. The band is inspired by their location in history, its landscapes and paganism. The first demo of the band was without bass player and Björn Bayer joined three months after the release. The band split-up on january 13, 2023. RECORDINGS : Asatru, demo 2009 [ free download ] Frankenblut, album 2011 Das Erbe der alten Zeit, EP 2013 Wolfshenker, promo 2014 [ details ] Urkraft, album 2019  [  details  ] WEBSITES : Facebook Twitter Youtube Instagr...

LOCATION :  Medellín, Colombia Status :  Split-up Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Úlfhedinn Blodsverd : vocals Ygg Bólverk : guitar Vingtor : bass, accordion, tin whistle Báleygr : guitar, keyboard Thorvald : drums HISTORY : Inspired by Scandinavian mythology, HORDE THOR was born while february 2002 in Medellín, Colombia. They describe their music as "Folk'n'Troll Metal". RECORDINGS : Horde, demo 2007 Fatherland, album 2008 Fatherland, single 2009 Roots, EP 2011 Fire, EP 2012 WEBSITES : Youtube Contact :  hordethor@gmail.com Find more information on Sword Chant : - Band news

For our latest bands battle, I promised one interview for the winner band. Since GRIMTOTEM won that battle, I interviewed Carolina Rebolledo then. Here we go: 01. Hello Carolina! Back in 2011, You founded GRIMTOTEM. How came the idea ? Hello Krissy! The idea came when I met José, Victor and another past member in 2011. It was hard to find people who had those kind of interests at that time, so we thought that it would be interesting to form a band mixing all those influences, then we started to cover a couple songs. About the name of this band,it was inspired just in our chilean totem called "rehue" in mapudungun language. We chose it in the end of that year. 02. Your lyrics are mainly about Chilean History. Do you have any particular favorite history from Chile ? Of course! my favorite one so far is "La guerra de Arauco" (Arauco war). I've been living in that city for 13 years, but many other cities were involved into this 300 years war between ...

How was born the idea of ELD? Well, I am also the founder of a folk metal forum called "Sword Chant" since november 2007. This  website  & I involved into a constant will to support bands by promoting them, sharing their news... Sword Chant ever invited bands to promote themselves over the forum and their news are shared by myself in all the social network pages of Sword Chant. Meanwhile, I met many artists from everywhere over the internet. They show me they appreciate my free work with Sword Chant & sometimes, ask me advices or some things listeners and medias don't need to know... I've been pleased to help them, ever.  ELD is the result of their demands to me. Before ELD, I helped some bands to get some gigs: - FEJD @ Cernunnos Festival 5 (2011), FR - KRAMPUS @ Samhainfest 2 (mini tour-2012), CZ - WAYLANDER @ Cernunnos Festival 6 (2013), FR Now, I hope to help some more the bands under the banner of ELD. You can contact me by...

LOCATION :  Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Oliver König ( Finsterforst ) : bass, backing vocals Phillip Thienger : guitar, vocals Chris S. : guitar David Kempf : drums Klara Bachmair : violin Past members : Neves Sänger : guitar Simon Philip : guitar, backing vocals Linda Biermann : keyboards Martin "Troll" Lindner : drums Marius Zeinhofer : guitar HISTORY : FIRTAN was founded by Phillip Thienger, Martin Lindner and Neves Sänger in the beginning of 2010 in South Germany and the name means "profane" in old German. Once the band had a full line-up with Linda Biermann and Oliver König who joined FIRTAN at the end of that year, they attemped a demo all together but Neves Sänger decided to leave them while august 2011 due to differences with the other bandmembers. So, the demo was never released. Several line-up change in this band... RECORDINGS : Wogen der Trauer, EP 2013 Niedergang, album ...

Minsk folk metal band Litvintroll brings to general attention the second album "Czornaja Panna" (“The Black Lady”)  which has marked the ending of the way which lasted for 3 years since the moment of the debut disk release in long-ago 2009.