Reviews by MétalNoir

Moonlyght was a progressive melodeath metal band hailing from North America's oldest European city, the French settling of Québec. They disbanded in 2008 with the departure of vocalist/guitarist…

Finland's folk metal scene is probably the world's most fertile one, spawning more and more bands with each passing year. Korpiklaani and Finntroll are no longer an isolated oddity in the Finnish…

ChthoniCis approximately the Far East's version of Brit nasty, filthy, evil metallers Cradle Of Filth. And as their idols, the Taiwanese are an ever-changing band. While the brilliant Seediq Bale…

True to their name, the Middle-Earth warlords produced a saga that tells the tales of the War of the Ring: Elves, Orcs, Hobbits and Dwarves evolving in the fabled lands of Gondor, Rohan and Mordor. If…

The first thing you have to know before you listen to Profugus Mortis is that it's not that much of a Folk release. Don't be fooled by the "Chasse-Gallerie" cover art: as a matter of…

Masha Scream's Russian wolf pack Arkona always bemuse me with its crushingly powerful and original sound, a mix of black metally brutality, folkloric bounciness and mystical research of ancestral…

Yeah, yeah, folk metal is a boring and unoriginal genre, billions of bands are popping out of the earth everywhere, blah blah blah SO WHAT? It's still an awesome genre and there are still bands out…

Profugus Mortis, who recently changed their name to Blackguard, already bemused me with an incredible debut that mixed black/gothic roots with Bodomesque extreme power metal, entitled ... So it Begins.