The Flight Of Sleipnir used to release a new album almost every year, but now they've spaced out their release schedule significantly, so I can't blame anyone for not being familiar with them, and not knowing about how black, folk, and doom...

Sleipnir's latest flight has perhaps come later than expected; it seems like Odin's horse has been studying black metal in the interim.

If I told you that I have a fantastic blackened folk metal band for you to hear, you'd probably yawn and roll your eyes. After all, the style had become a tad overdone in recent years, has it not? You'd probably dismiss my suggestion as "just...