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Folk band HERZGESPANN released their debut album entitled "Wann geh'n wir nach Haus". Below is their official video for the second track of the album.  Contact the band to order your copy.

OMNIA band published a trailer related with their new album " Naked Harp " out now. Title: "One Morning in May" Music: Traditional English/J.E. & S. Evans-van der Harten Played by Jenny from OMNIA

LOCATION :  Helsinki, Finland Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Sami Ferm : vocals, flutes Aleksi Kulmala : lead guitar Leo Lemmetty : rhythm guitar, backing vocals Jarmo Luopa : bass, backing vocals Anton Nisonen : drums Irene Penttonen : keyboards HISTORY : Founded around 2006-2007, the band VETTEN ÄPÄRÄT means to represent the second generation of Finnish folk metal with low-tuned guitars and traditional acoustic melodies. They said : "We drive to be a fresh take on the whole genre. Blending in different types of metal to the basis of folk with the concept of not limiting ourselves to any specific style". RECORDINGS : Sydäntalven Viha, single 2014 Syntyi Talven Kyynelistä, album 2016 [ details ] WEBSITES : Facebook Twitter Vkontakte Youtube Instagram Bandcamp Contact :   vettenaparat@gmail.com Find more information on Sword Chant : - Band news - Interview  2016

Finnish band  VETTEN ÄPÄRÄT plans to release their debut album early 2016. The record entitled "Syntyi Talven Kyynelistä" (Born from Winter's Tears) is a collection of their work from nearly 10 years. 13 tracks will complete the full length. "Musically, it will be a mix between tracks of acoustic instruments and a variety of modern metal. We try to give space to our acoustic elements with purely acoustic tracks. On the other hand, some songs will be raw modern folk metal" , they added. Regarding the lyrics based on a fantasy story, they said : The story of the album follows mainly a serf (peasant) who is forced to leave his family and join a crusade-like adventure as a servant. Traveling with an army to a land that calls humans to it for different reasons. long the side we witness battles fought and lost as the calling land’s spirits of nature wake to wage war on the humans. The nature awakens as a counter-reaction because of it’s disregard by the huma...

NIDHOEGGR released their album " Nach Der Schlacht " (After Battle). Contact the band to place your order.

FUCHSTEUFELSWILD album available for pre-order as a limited edition is entitled "Weltenmeer". The full length will be released on December 10th. Find some previews on their youtube page . TRACKLIST : 01. Prolog 02. Weltenmeer 03. Zauberkreis 04. Drei Bänder 05. Till 06. Sirenengesang 06. Wie der Wind 07. Sieben Kugeln

Previously announced during August , the new EP entitled "Triptych" by NORTHERN OAK is now released for free download . TRACKLIST : 01. The Court of Owls 02. Ellan Vannin 03. A Portrait 04. The Court of Owls (Instrumental) 05. Ellan Vannin (Instrumental) 06. A Portrait (Instrumental)

LOCATION :  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Frakkur The Wise : Irish bouzouki, violin, vocals Sir Thomas Samæl Friedrik Rex I : baritone guitar, vocals Sophie the Tavern Wench : keyboards, hurdy-gurdy, backing vocals Sieur Le Brave : lead guitar, backing vocals Le-Tappeux du Pied-Chaussé : mandolin, flute, backing vocals Stormblood : bass, backing vocals Le Brigand : drums Past members : Arnaud Tremblay Roy : bass David Massicotte : drums Alexandre Pitre : lead guitar Vincent Lalumière : keyboards Philippe Pageau : keyboards HISTORY : The Distoriam members founded the band in 2010 as Vinlanders and then, they changed the bandname for the current one. RECORDINGS : Demo 2011 Les Voyageurs, maxi 2015 [ details ] Chapter I : Vinlanders, album 2015 [ details ] Distrollbar, split album 2017 [  details  ] WEBSITES : Facebook Twitter Youtube Bandcamp Contact :   distori...

LOCATION :  Stockholm, Sweden Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Jonathan "Fisk" Johnson : vocals Samuel Byström : drums Måns Carlbring : guitar Anton Trollmania ( Illdåd , Bergsvriden) : guitar Stefan "Öltomten" Stolica (Bergsvriden) : recorder Sten Oskar ''Trollpung'' Johansson (Nordanvind, Bergsvriden) : bass Sebastian Rosengren : violin Past members : David Wall : drums Carl Andersson : guitar Pamela "Trollgumma" Wasiluk : vocals HISTORY : Pamela "Trollgumma" Wasiluk and Stefan Stolica founded the band in October 2010. Norse mythology and nature are their main themes. RECORDINGS : Rise of the Forest King, demo 2012 Gryning, EP 2015 [ details ] Hörgr, single 2016 [  details  ] Skymning, album 2016 [  details  ] Humlegården, single 2020 WEBSITES : Midvinterblot.com Facebook Twitter Youtube Bandcamp Contact :   Midvinterblot@hotmail.se Find more information on Sword Chan...

LOCATION :  Galway, Ireland Status :  Active Music :  Celtic Folk MEMBERS : Dominic Keogh : bodhrán Danny Diamond : fiddle David Munnelly : acccordion Jonas Fromseier : Greek bouzouki, banjo HISTORY : Mórga are a four-piece playing high-energy, souped up Irish traditional music, inspired by the music of the 1920s & 1970s RECORDINGS : Mórga, album 2009 For the Sake of Auld Decency, album 2013 WEBSITES : Facebook Soundcloud Youtube Contact :  N/A

LOCATION :  Genappe, Wallonie, Belgium Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Nico De Wolf : guitar Vincent Duquesne : guitar, keyboard Julien Hauchart : bass Martin Raif : drums HISTORY : Founded in 2012, the Belgian band SKÅL plays Instrumental folk metal. They recorded some tracks available on their website. RECORDINGS : Plug & Drink!, album 2018 [ details ] WEBSITES : Skalmetal.be Facebook Twitter Youtube Bandcamp Contact :   skalbelgium@gmail.com Find more information on Sword Chant : - Band news

NEKROGOBLIKON shared on youtube one previously unreleased track titled "Get In The Bag". It was written and recorded during the Heavy Meta sessions.

LOCATION :  Saint Petersburg, Russia Status :  Active Music :  Folk Metal MEMBERS : Valentina Tsyganova :vocals, recorder Alexander Klimov : guitar Ivan Budkin : bass, growls Pavel Malyshev : drums Past members : Anastasia Smelova : violin Anastasia Guseva : violin Alexander Afanasjev : guitar Anastasia Pestrjaeva : flute Artem Shukjurov : bass Konstantin Gnidkin : bass, violin, keyboard Dmitry Bojenok : guitar Alexander Preobrajenskiy : bass Svetlana Sulimova ( Troll Bends Fir ) : violin HISTORY : Alexander Klimov founded the band named Overrun in that time during 2006. Valentina Tsyganova (vocals), Dmitriy Bojenok (guitar), Alexander Preobrajenskiy (bass) and Pavel Malyshev (drums) joined but several line-up change since the band's creation..Violin interefered with the band one year later. Summer 2008, Overrun becomes Woodscream .  RECORDINGS : Замок троллей, single 2008 Исток девяти миров, single 2009 Pentadrama, EP 2010 Svarted...

"Unter den Eichen" is the new single by DVALIN . You can buy the song passing by Itunes or Amazon websites. The song is taken from their upcoming album entitled " Aus dem Schatten "  planned for next year and available for pre-order.

ZGARD band released their new album entitled "Totem" :

"And Thus We Raid", the new album signed IMMORGON is now released in digital and CD  here .

I interviewed Zândhio from the band ARANDU ARAKUAA  who released their second album " Wdê Nnãkrda ", a month ago. We talked about this record, the band and more things which get an importance and deserve to be asked as well. 01. Hi Zândhio! You founded ARANDU ARAKUAA back in 2008. How have you got the idea to make folk metal music related with indigenous people ? It is closely connected with the place where I was born and lived until my 24 years old, near the Xerente Indigenous land in the Tocantins state, Amazonia – Brazil. Earlier, I was blessed by the spirits of my ancestors with the gift of art, in particular to compose music and the time came when I noticed that need to use this gift to honor them and in favor of our struggle.

The new OMNIA album "Naked Harp"  that is a more personal release by Jenny is now released. You can order the record dedicated to the Celtic Harp  to the band store . TRACKLIST : 01. One Morning in May 02. The Flutterby Set 03. Eleanor Plunkett 04. The Fairy Queen 05. Dil Gaya 06. Bridget Cruise 07. Jenny's Tits 08. Planxty Irwin 09. Love Birds 10. En Avant Blonde 11. OMNIA medley 12. Anam Cara 13. Uvil Uvil 14. Luna 15. O'Carolan's Dream Total playing time: 48:03 minutes

Find here two SALTATIO MORTIS videos playing unplugged, tracks from their new album " Zirkus Zeitgeist ".

Chilean band KNIGHTHOOD made a video for the song "Within Roots" taken from their debut album " Tales Of Ania ". Pictures available on the video are shot from the Paganfest III.

A new lyrics video is for the band I interviewed early this month, VALLORCH . The video deals with "Until Our Tale is Told" song taken from their new album out now.

WOLFHORDE published a lyrics video for the song "Fimbulvetr" taken from " Towards the Gates of North " album to be released on January 22nd of 2016.

MÅNEGARM released another new video; dedicated here to the fourth track of the new album .

UNREST FATALIST will release their album "Rising Anger" during 2016. This is the tracklist of the full length : 01. Taken by streams 02. Run away 03. Fight for your life 04. An old rite 05. Celtic war 06. Reminiscence 07. Invasion 08. Dawn of wrath 09. Raise your waipons 10. Holy massacre

ICETHRONE will release their third album "Winter Tales" on December 20th of 2015. The album can be pre-ordered at Nemeton records . TRACKLIST : 01. La Chiamata Dei Lupi 02. Dreams Of Death 03. Immortally Oath 04. Pay With Your Blood 05. Canto Di Orfeo 06. Medusa 07. Winter Tales 08. Beyond The Nine Words

SUIDAKRA will release a new album in 2016. This is entitled "Realms Of Odoric". The title of the record appears to be like the name of a side project by Kris Verwimp together with Arkadius Antonik; one project up since 2013. The full length made of 13 tracks, is planned for 2016. One bonus track will feat. on the digipack version.

VERSENGOLD made a video for the song "Spaß bei Saite" taken from " Zeitlos " album.

The Pirate Metal band from Spain RED FLAG CREW released "Tides of blood". You can order the full length on  Bandcamp . TRACKLIST : 01. The awakening 02. Kraken 03. Vulcano 04. Half-man 05. Die 06. Scurvy dog 07. False paradise 08. Coral reef 09. One Piece does exist 10. Mermaids 11. Red Flag Crew 12. The betrayal

December 5th, MORHANA will release their debut album through Art of the Night Productions. The full length is entitled "When the Earth Was Forged".

FÄNGÖRN   are currently working on their next record. The EP is yet untitled, but that is planned for the end of the year or early 2016.

LUAR NA LUBRE will release their new album that is entitled "Extra Mundi" on December 4th. Above is the artwork. Sound :

VINTERBLOT revealed the second track taken from  " Realms of the Untold " album available for pre-order as Limited Edition (2 Panel Digipak, Patch, Pin and Poster) on   Bandcamp .  Code7 and Plastichead will take care of the worlwide distribution of the album, starting from January 2016.

French band WERGELD released their first EP entitled "Warriors from the black forest". You have to contact the band to order your copy. The cost is 5€ + shipping. TRACKLIST : 01. Coming from the black forest 02. Ouer fona Rhin 03. Frejya 04. 40 years of war 05. Niebelungenlied

FORJA released "Tornant de la Batalla" EP available here . TRACKLIST : 01. Tornant de la Batalla 02. El Foc 03. Víbria 04. Rancúnia Today, they have also published one video that is about battle... This is the video :

December 20th, 2015 is the release date for the fourth studio album entitled "Padre" (Father) signed HORDAK . 10 tracks cover the full length completed with additional guests appearances : - José Luis Frias (TROBAR DE MORTE, ex- FOLKEARTH ) – flute - Laura Camón Botella – violin - Lavín Uruksoth ( CRYSTALMOORS ) – vocals - Wulfstan ( FOREFATHER ) – vocals

The title for the new BUCOVINA album is "Nestrãmutat". This is the artwork :

" Naked Harp " album by   OMNIA   is now available for pre-orders. Get your copy to the band webshop . Release date unchanged and will be on November 27th.

I interviewed Stark Cordwain from THE DREAD CREW OF ODDWOOD . The Folk band is recording their new album "Lawful Evil" coming out next year. 01. Hi Stark! THE DREAD CREW OF ODDWOOD are currently in the studios recording the new album “Lawful Evil”. Is everything alright there ? We haven’t run into any issues in the studio, although we seem to be running dangerously low on whiskey. Oh wait, nevermind! There is another bottle right here! Everything is perfectly alright now. We’re fine, we’re all fine here, now. Thank you. How are you ? 02. “Lawful Evil” is the fourth album of the band. Musically and lyrically, what can we expect ?

DARKEST ERA released " Gods and Origins " - vinyl with a limited pressing. TRACKLIST : 01. An Dagda 02. Elohim You can purchase the record here . Teaser :

AETHYR releases " Towards the Realm of Nothingness " again but remastered. The band said the following : After releasing our album "Towards the Realm of Nothingness" on May 2015 we've been workign these days on the remastered edition of it, we were not happy at all with the sound quality of the original version so we remix it a bit and remastered for the physical version of the album that will be published via Red Rivet Records (Suidakra Japanese releases, Opera Magna), a Japanese Label we have signed with for the release of this album. You can get your digital copy for free download like you can support the band with some money. :)

The young band BATTLE TALES from Switzerland released their first demo. TRACKLIST : 01. Sweet Melodies of Fury 02. Bloodlust Invoked 03. War of the Pints Have a listen :

"Through Time" is the title chosen by Canadian one-man band NEVERFROST for the debut album available in digital and physical versions.  Contact the band to order a copy.

Early 2016, ROMUVOS band will release their album "Infront Of Destiny" under No Colours records. The one-man band ROMUVOS is now a band within four band members. You'll get the opportunity to see them live next year.  Beside is the artwork.

For the five years anniversary of the first record, NORTHSONG will remake and re-release  "Winter's Dominion" EP. Release date is same as 2011 : June 24th!  The quality of the record, coming out next year, is much improved from the original tracks. Expect more bonus tracks than the original EP.

February 26th, EREB ALTOR will release an album "Blot Ilt Taut" in tribute to Quorthon & BATHORY . TRACKLIST : 01. The Return Of The Darkness And Evil 02. Woman Of Dark Desires 03. A Fine Day To Die 04. Blood Fire Death 05. Song To Hall Up High 06. Home Of Once Brave 07. Twilight Of The Gods * Tracks order may change.

The second album entitled "Along the Path" by the italians EPHYRA is now released in Europe. America will have to wait December 4th to get it. Digital is available here. TRACKLIST : 01. Melancholy Rise 02. Human Chaos 03. All At Once 04. Cruel Day 05. Flaming Tears 06. Hope 07. Last Night 08. Riding With The Sun 09. Land's Calling 10. No Dream 11. Alive Guests appearances from Davide Cicalese (Furor Gallico), Silvia Bonino (Folkstone), Lisy Stefanoni (Evenoire), Mattia Stancioiu and more are in this record.

MÀNRAN released a new track titled "Trod".  You can purchase on bandcamp . Digital only. Trod by Mànran

Today is the day for all MÅNEGARM fans since their new and S/T album is out now! You can listen the record and puchase it passing by Napalm records .  This year, MÅNEGARM celebraes the 20  years anniversary of the band. TRACKLIST : 01. Blodörn 02. Tagen av daga 03. Odin owns ye all 04. Blot 05. Vigverk - del II 06. Call of the runes 07. Kraft 08. Bärsärkarna från Svitjod 09. Nattramn 10. Allfader

This is the new video by ELVENKING  : The track is taken from " The Night Of Nights " boxset to be released soon.

This year, Chris Welsh ( SUN AND MOON DANCE ) created one new project together with Darrell Fishel. Chris plays Tagelharpa while Dulcimer played by Darrell. The name for this new band is THE SKALDS SONGS and this is one first track from the project : They are currently working on the debut album for this band.

Njardar's Vogn is a new song signed ELIWAGAR . She said : Fully experiencing the storms this autumn and feeling the beautiful dark energies of the rain and the leaves falling down, life returning back to the roots, to Mother Earth, inspired me this song. So I put up together some autumn movies I made to accompagny it. This is the song :

TRIDDANA published one new track taken from the forthcoming album " The Power & The Will ".

This is the complete tracklist for the double live album by VERSENGOLD planned for December 4th : CD1 01 Intro 02 Zeitlos 03 Wem? Uns! 04 Kein Trinklied 05 Hoch die Krüge 06 Sol’s Reel 07 Frühlingsgruß 08 Immer schön nach unten treten 09 Schon immer Mal 10 Wolken 11 Im Namen des Folkes 12 Spaß bei Saite 13 Ich und ein Fass voller Wein 14 Weinfass Tune

The band published the following : "Sad news... today is a sad day for Finsterforst, as we have to inform you that Hannes will leave the band following our last Raunächte Tour gig in Berlin. Hannes wants to proceed with other things in his life and wouldn't be able to find the time and right motivation to go on as a full time member of Finsterforst. While we are sad he's leaving, we also deeply respect his decision to make a clear cut before our friendship might suffer from problems that would definitely arise with one member of the band not being fully committed to it.

Folk band  OMNIA  will release their next album by November 27th. The record is entitled "Naked Harp". They said me the following : Many OMNIA fans and other musicklovers have asked if it would one day be possible for Jenny to make a more "personal" CD dedicated solely to the magical musick of the Celtic Harp... We are proud to announce that finally: here it is!! A beautifull and timeless musickal journey into the realms of Dreams and Faery for all lovers of OMNIA, Loreena McKennit, Clannad and Enya. Filled with tunes and song all performed by Jenny and lovelingly illustrated with unique fantasy drawings of the Harp-Fairy herself made by the award winning Spanish artist Victoria Frances!! A CD for Dreaming, a CD for Comfort, a CD for Healing... let the veil fall away and experience the "Naked Harp"! Enjoy!

CELTIBEERIAN published "Blood Of A Guiltless Town" video - acoustic version.

December 4th will be released a double live album by VERSENGOLD . Pre-orders can be to this page .

ULKAN NEWEN released a new song that is available for free download but because virus, I met there; I advice you don't download the track from the source avaialble on the youtube page. I told the band... So, enjoy the track :

MÅNEGARM will release their new album in three days. Taste the full album here :

Below is "Tubilustrium" song signed DYRNWYN. The track will be available on their debut EP entitled " Ad Memoriam " and to be released at the beginning of December.

DAËNA revealed the first track taken from " Legends " demo coming out early 2016.

French band FENRIR shared two studio reports regarding their new album " Legends of the Grail ". You can hear a part of the Folk song "Rocky road to Dublin" in the second video. :)

By the end of the year, French band TELPERION will release their debut album which is entitled "Ahead Of Time". The record will see the daylight because one succesful crowd funding, supported by Sword Chant. TRACKLIST : 01. Ahead of time 02. Black crows 03. Hooded man 04. Far from the pain 05. Spinning beer 06. Wind rose 07. Release your soul 08. Final Hour 09. Bonus track: Hooded man

NORTHSONG released a new track entitled "Titan".

Find the artwork and tracklist for the SUS SCROFA EP " Sinistre Sylve " coming out this month : 01. Aures sunt nemoris 02. Panthéisto Devoto 03. Sinistra sylva 04. La Confrérie des frères loups

Band  SIG:AR:TYR will release the new album "Northen" during March 2016. November 20th will be the Cd-digi reissues of the previous records of the band by Hammerheart records and now available for pre-order .

"Fauler Zauber" album by VROUDENSPIL is out now . Details below. TRACKLIST : 01. Wiedergänger [ sound ] 02. Knochensack 03. Püppchen 04. Fauler Zauber 05. Irrlicht 06. Seelenfänger 07. Hundeleben 08. Am Weltenrand 09. Vampirat 10. Rebellion 11. Leviathan 12. Neue Welt

One part of this article is nothing related with Folk Metal, or Folk Music, but I do because Fraternity.  First of all, I don't stand racism, fascim, antifa, sects... and everything that play with souls and hate. I like this Earth too much. I think our beliefs have to be without somebody to guide you. I think that if you think yourself as a pagan because Music or somebody close to you, this is wrong minded. These can open a lane bringing knowledge but it can't go far more. Now, if you are a pagan because you and only you decided so, taking infos here and there for your own knowledge and see if those are alright with your way to think things....So, you have taken the right decision for your own. Things must be deeply personal about religions and beliefs. Now, if you disagree with me, I'm sorry for you but Freedom of speech is a nice thing.

TENGGER CAVALRY released one EP live "NJ Transiit: Live in Clifton" You can get it passing by Itunes .

NoiseArt Records published one first track taken from the DVALIN debut album coming out next year .

After several line-up change, VOLOH will finally release on Bandcamp their debut album in digital on December 12th of 2015. Physical format will be a few days later.  The record is entitled "Gromovi nad Trebišćem" and means "Thunders over Trebišće". Trebišće is a small place on the famous croatian Učka mountain, also called 'the slavic Olympus'. The place is below the mountain peak "Perun", called after the slavic god of thunder. Interestingly, in old slavic 'Trebišće' means 'sacrificial altar'. TRACKLIST : 01. Čiji to dvor na gori stoji 

The new album entitled "Profan" by KAMPFAR is out now. Find album details below :

VANIR (DK) band will release "Aldar Rök" EP to the end of this year or early 2016. TRACKLIST : 01. Black Legion 02. Pretorian 03. Unrepentant 04. Broken Throne 05. Wrath of Sutr 06. The Serpent 07. Drukvisen

This song is entitled "Oaken Weave" and this is a creation by ACCURSED YEARS. Enjoy.

BLAKYLLE unveiled their second track titled "Windmal"  :

FEJD will release their new album "Trolldom" in 2016. This is the tracklist for now but it may change : 01. Härjaren 02. Trolldom 03. Ingjald Illråde 04. Hednaland 05. Glöd 06. Vinternatt 07. Svart 08. Bed för min själ The artwork will be made by Kris Verwimp, again.

French band FENRIR plans to release their new album in 2016. 13 tracks will complete "Legends of the Grail" album which deals with the legend of King Arthur. A second and acoustic CD may be in the planned digipack. FENRIR will start a crowdfunding campaign in a few days, for one help with the mixing and mastering of the record and, Sword Chant will support their project for sure. If the band earns more, they will make one official video. The artwork is almost done and vocals recordings ending this week. I'll come back with them, soon.

"Hundimäng" is one OORT track from "Laula laula suukene" album and here is the video : The following are album details :

ELVENKING will release a Live album made of 2 CD's & DVD. The content is a full live show @ Pordenone, Italy. Find also the six official videos of the band. The length for both CD's and DVD is more than two hours. The digipak is entitled "The Night Of Nights". Here's the track listing : CD 1 01. The Manifesto 02. Trows Kind 03. The Wanderer 04. Runereader 05. Pagan Revolution 06. She Lives At Dawn

ZARIA unveiled their first video that is for the seventh track of their album " Po poti življenja " released last year.  The song is called "Pozabljeni svet".

VORNA made their first official video ever! The chosen track is "Yksin" (Alone) and this is taken from their new album " Ei valo minua seuraa " (No Light Follows Me) planned to be released on December 4th. You can preorder their new record passing by their label .

LÓCHRANN released a new video song entitled "Red Storm" and Roger Malgor from the band  SKALDIC SOUL sings on Chorus there. Enjoy! :)

The young German band BLAKYLLE released their first demo song on Soundcloud. The song title is "Wo uralte Wasser fließen" and means "Where ancient waters flow". Have a listen :

BAKSZTAG released a new single online. The tracks are : 01.Smoke over Trafalgar 02. Żagle Chwały (Sails of Glory)

These are the artwork and tracklist for the upcoming STEIGNYR album entitled " The Prophecy of the Highlands " coming out in 2016. TRACKLIST : 01. The Valley of Dragons 02. Sons of Earth 03. Wild Land 04. The Last Era 05. Wolf's Lair 06. Hammer of Agony 07. The prophecy of the Highlands 08. immortal Whisper 09. The Warrior's Path 10. The awakening of Revenge 11. Spirit of Victory 12. The grave of Heroes The artwork describes "death of Mother Earth at the end of the mankind and the extermination of human liberties".

Initially planned for September , the new album "All For Rum And Rum For All" full of ten tracks by LAGERSTEIN will be released on February 2nd, 2016. 

Above is the Lyrics video for the opening track of the new album " Månegarm " by the band ,  planned for November 20th .

SALTARELLO made a live official video for the song "Valhalla" taken from their new album " Cliff of the Dawn " out now.

ALAN STIVELL 's new album is entitled "Amzer" (time). The record is available in digital here and CD in various shops.

SVARTBY  released their first videoclip for the song "Bog Bar" taken from the new album " Swamp, My Neighbour ". 

From now, you can listen to the new  VINTERBLOT  song entitled "Evoked By Light". The track is taken from their new album " Realms of the Untold " available for pre-order on   Bandcamp .  The record will be out on January 25, 2016.

Our great supporters from Latvia, VARANG NORD unveiled a preview of their new album " Master of the Forest ".  The full-length will be available in digital on December 8th while the CD version is planned for 2016.

Canadians LE VENT DU NORD released a video for the song "La Marche des Iroquois" taken from their new album "Têtu" available in digital on bandcamp and CD to this page .

EPHYRA unleashed a video for the third track taken from "Along the Path", their new album coming soon . OFFICIAL VIDEO :

VALKENRAG published an official video for the second track of their new album  :

"Waldgeist" is a new track taken from the IMMORGON debut album " And Thus We Raid " to be release on November 27th. The band made a lyrics video for the song :

HAMMER HORDE  released a new video for the song "Unholy Harbingers of War" taken from the album  "Fed to the Wolves" coming out this December 1st.

SATANAKOZEL releases under Soundage productions their new album "North".

I interviewed Leo from VALLORCH regarding their  second album out now, and the band itself. 01. Hi Leo ! VALLORCH comes from Italy… How’s the Folk Metal scene over there ? Hey there, Sword Chant people! It’s a pleasure to be here.  Of course, the Italian Folk Metal scene is awesome: There are a lot of bands with a great potential, and we had the pleasure to play with a lot of them. They’re all really nice people, too! It’s very active and electrifying, and it’s an honour for us to be a part of it. 02. I think the band name comes from a Cimbrian village in Italy... Are your lyrics connected in one way or another to the Cimbrian language or village ?  Yes, we have had our share of Venetian tradition in the first album (The “Anguana” is a traditional Venetian creature, and “Endless Hunt” was inspired by the legends surrounding Theoderic the Great), but we decided to firmly turn things around with “Until Our Tale Is Told”.

Interviews, reviews, and the listings for releases from 2009 to 2016 are now available on this site! The bad news are things like artworks or tracklists are gone for releases before 2014, but I don't think that's a big waste.  However, you can find some articles related with releases in 2013 here because this blog site is up since august 2013. Some forums are no more. The page "they need you" from this website improved too.

Welcome! So, this is the new shape of the website. I hope that you like as i do. :) Founded in 2007, Sword Chant was born with a forum. Official forums for Swedish bands Fejd & Månegarm were in Sword Chant and many artists joined along with listeners too. We had a good time in the forums of Sword Chant. Nowadays, social networks changed this so, transition will be here. Expect more change in the future coming soon. Some things will appear better again, while I still don't know for some others. We will see! : -)