Sword Chant

Sometimes ago, the band CELTIBEERIAN from Spain raised with success their crowd funding for their new album entitled "Keltorevolution" out now. You can contact the band to purchase it. TRACKLIST: 01. Singing To Our Land 02. Keltorevolution 03. Unbury The Horn 04. The Booze Song 05. Fields Of Celtiberia 06. Under Lug's Sight 07. Win Another Battle 08. Kladimoi (Swords) 09. Uer Keltum Brigubis (Over The Mountains Of The Celts) 10. Blood Of A Guiltless Town 11. This Simple Life 12. Eimos To Katum (We're Marching To War) 13. Lutiakoi (Lutians) 14. Eternal Knot (Outro)

Yesterday, the digital Folk compilation "Folk for the People" was released. This non-political project founded by Mich Rozek, the drummer of the Belgian Tribal Folk band Rastaban , aims to help victims of repression in Ukraine. 

LOCATION :  The Netherlands Status :  Active Music :  Celtic Folk MEMBERS : David : vocals, fiddle, tin whistle & accordion William : pipes, tin whistle & low whistle Maceal : vocals, mouth organ, ssqueezebox, Gitouki, bodhrán & tea-chest bass Past members : Dieb : vocals, gitouki, Mandolin, bodhrán & tea-chest bass HISTORY : The band founded in 1996. Dieb parts ways with the band in april 2022. RECORDINGS : Rakish Paddies, album 1997 Into Folk, album 1998 Alesia, album 2001 Spades EP 2004 Diamonds, EP 2004 Celtic Fire, album 2007 DVD Live, 2008 Double live CD, live album 2010 Clubs, EP 2012 Hearts, album 2014 Scotland's Story, album 2019 WEBSITES : Rapalje.com Facebook Twitter Youtube Contact :   info@rapalje.com Find more information on Sword Chant : - Band news

The debut album entitled " Blodshymner " (Hymns of Blood) by GRIMNER is released since today. You can purchase in their Bandcamp page and as a reminder if you didn't do it yet : you can download for FREE "A Call for Battle" EP to the same page!

Dear followers worldwide, I feel honored to be followed by so many people in Facebook and Twitter. 1,004 followers for my Facebook page and 556 for the Twitter page! This means a lot to me!

The band VINTERBLOT released in digital format their new single for their song "Triumph Recalls My Name". You can purchase this single in Itunes  or others to support the band. One official video for this song is since February :

The Canadian act  SCYTHIA  will tour Europe later in this year, and will promote their new album  "Of Conquest" freshly released, available on their  Bandcamp page . On March 5th of 2014, SCYTHIA contacted ELD and requested help to look for bands to share the stage with them for their upcoming European tour 2014. Since that day, SCYTHIA and myself are working hard together to make this tour possible and unforgettable.

The band TRAUCOHOLIK tells their album "Kalku" out since September 2013 . You can purchase the album here .  THE COVER ART FOR THE ALBUM : Concept: Perro Asmátiko

Three years after the release of their second full length entitled "Chants de guerre", the band VALKNACHT didn't rest and hard worked on their third album "Le Sacrifice d'Ymir" out since today and is available on the  bigcartel  of the band.  VALKNACHT is also working on their first European tour named "Souffle ancestral", together with CHASSE-GALERIE. Promoters can contact the label Hymnes d'Antan . This year, I interviewed Thorleif regarding this new album. 

Today, the band ELUVEITIE has been awarded as the "Best Live Act" in their country for the Swiss Music Award. The results for all categories for the Swiss Music Awards are available on  www.swissmusicawards.ch/en  and heres what they say on ELUVEITIE (click the picture to enlarge):

Now, you can preorder the debut album "Blodshymner" from GRIMNER on their bandcamp page:   http://grimner.bandcamp.com/album/blodshymner Ten tracks will complete the "Blodshymner" album which will be released March 21st of 2014. Below are trailers for the album:

LOCATION :  San Diego, CA, USA Status :  Active Music :  Pirate Folk MEMBERS : Captain Wolfbeard O'Brady : accordion, vocals Quartermaster Stark Cordwain : irish bouzouki, tin whistle First Mate Riven Rahl : toy piano Bosun Deckard Cordwain : mandolin Navigator Smithy Crow : bass The Legendary Pirate King Eric "the" Brown : oddkit (drums) Past members : Carpenter Ruba Jouba : guitar, vocals Gunmaster Castle : drums Finwe Theodore : ukulele Victor Crow : upright bass Elvil Rumsik : guitar HISTORY : The Dread Crew of Oddwood is a band founded in 2008 in San Diego, CA, USA. Inspired by Heavy metal, Folk metal and Celtic music, they describe their music as "Heavy Mahogany" when they don't as "folk metal" while I'll define them as "Pirate Folk" until further notice. Lyrics can be found to their website. RECORDINGS : Reign The Helm, album 2009 Rocktopus, album 2010 Heavy Mahogany, album 2012 Lawful Evil, a...

LOCATION :  Agro Pontino, Italy Status :  Split-up Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Solstafir : drums Dubnós : guitars Spiorad : accordion, keyboards Thanatos : vocals Dalk : bass Past members : Ensis : guitars Torc : guitars, acoustic guitars, bouzouki, tin & low whistles HISTORY : Solstafir and Torc founded the band in 2011 They released one demo and one album, and then, they disbanded in 2016. RECORDINGS : Korrigans, demo 2012 Ferocior Ad Rebellandum, album 2014 [ details ] WEBSITES : Facebook Twitter Soundcloud Youtube Bandcamp Contact :   korrigansfolkblackmetal@gmail.com Find more information on Sword Chant : - Band news

The Polish band TIME OF TALES released "Enter the Gates" EP composed of the following tracks: Enter the Gates Liar Journey Unknown Warriors of Fire You can hear these songs into the playlist of Sword Chant: If you like what you hear and want to support this band, you can order your copy by contacting the band to this email address: timeoftales@gmail.com

NEMETON RECORDS contacted me June 10th of 2013 because they were searching for some new bands. I suggested them the folk metal band AFTERGOD. And now, I am proud to announce NEMETON RECORDS signed a contract deal with the Italian band AFTERGOD! Indeed, that was a great pleasure for me to take part in this adventure and to help NEMETON RECORDS in their request but also, it's great to give opportunity to a talented band such as AFTERGOD and am sure many folk metal listeners will appreciate their music as I do already. Below are the AFTERGOD words: "We are proud and happy to work with Nemeton for our both growth and musical passion! We hope to keep on working hard for sharing the quality of italian emerging metal, helped and supported by the great job of our new Label! Endless thanks to all of our fans for the support you have been giving us all along and that you will give us for the times to come! A special thanks to Krissy from ELD for helping us in reaching this...