Sword Chant

LOCATION :  Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde, Germany Status : Active Music : Folk Metal MEMBERS : Skaldir : vocals, guitars, bass and keyboards Morten : harsh vocals, lyrics HISTORY : Skaldir founded Ash of Ashes after the end of his previous band Hel. He started to write a song and kept compose after that. Then he approximately took a year's break, but eventually the longing for epic Metal became so big that Skaldir wrote more and more songs. During 2016 Skaldir had a phase in which he wrote half the album within a few days. After that he became aware of the direction in which he wanted to go. RECORDINGS : Down the White Waters, album 2018 Down the White Waters, single 2018 Springar, single 2020 Into Eternity, single 2022 To Those Long Forgotten, single 2022 Traces, album 2022 WEBSITES : Ashofashes Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Youtube Contact :   skaldir@kalthallen.de Find more information on Sword Chant : - Band news - Forged in Folk discussion

The new album by HEIDRA is out now. You can get it here . TRACKLIST : 01.Dawn 02.The Price in Blood 03.Rain of Embers 04.Lady of the Shade 05.A Crown of Five Fingers 06.The Blackening Tide 07.Corrupted Shores 08.Hell's Depths The Blackening Tide by Heidra

WOLFHORDE are on their way to release their second album titled "Hounds of Perdition" set to be released on january 11, 2019. The album wakes you up into a nihilistic dystopia of the dying world. The world of Hounds of Perdition is roaming with strange creatures and few people in the snowy and gruesome fields of nothingness. With their new album Wolfhorde go deeper into experimenting the world of music from unheard perspectives.

The band made a new video for the song Nacht Verweil, available on their recent album titled  Okeanos .

AKTARUM unveiled the artwork for Ragnatroll, their album coming out december 8, 2018 :

AKTARUM unleashed their new trailer focused on their album titled "Ragnatroll" coming out december 8th, 2018

French band SKALD will release their debut album "Le Chant des Vikings" on January 18. 2019. Have a  listen . They released a video :

MONGOL  released their new album "The Return" that you can get here . TRACKLIST  01. Prophecy Of The Blind 02. The Return 03. Sacrificial Rites 04. Takhil 05. Amongst The Dead 06. To The Wind 07. Dschingis Khan 08.The Mountain Weeps 09. River Child 10. Warband The band unveiled a new video and " To The Wind " song.

November 9th will be out the new EINHERJER album titled "Norrøne Spor". The band unveiled a video for "Spre Vingene" available in the forthcoming album : ARTWORK and TRACKLIST : 01. The Spirit of a Thousand Years 02. Mine Våpen Mine Ord 03. Fra Konge Te Narr 04. Kill the Flame 05. Mot Vest 06. Spre Vingene 07. The Blood Song 08. Døden Tar Ingen Fangar 09. Tapt Uskyld 10. Av Djupare Røtter

"The Blackening Tide" is the title for the new HEIDRA album to be released October 26th. Preorders are available right now. Here's the Tracklist : 01.Dawn 02.The Price in Blood 03.Rain of Embers 04.Lady of the Shade 05.A Crown of Five Fingers 06.The Blackening Tide 07.Corrupted Shores 08.Hell's Depths

Dear readers, artists and followers, It is with enthusiasm I announce Sword Chant comes back even stronger ! I together with my new collegue, Taravilyaion, will care of this site, supporting bands as we ever do. Before to join me, Taravilyaion was part of the Metal archives website. He will create bands pages here. Still, I will include those into the listings of Sword Chant and will do the other common things like sharing news, tourdates... About tourdates, I added some in the calendar and can add more of them. Sharing lyrics could be by us both, within all the required rules that involved - As always. If Sword Chant was on hold online, actually inner, it was not as I contacted hundreds of bands - and for technical issues, i contact them all one by one. ...Still, left some to contact, fixing the best possible that newsfeed issue,  as previously explained. My health didn't change or it became worse months ago and then, sometimes I may feel too ti...