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This is a very unusual and interesting project. Fifteen musicians from six different countries have participated in creating “A Nordic Poem”. The result is a good album settled in the folk or pagan Metal genre. It features all standard elements for this kind of music, traditional and some exotic instruments, lots of atmosphere of long ago elapsed times, some more intense parts needed to picture certain atmospheres and more. Although constantly being your standard folk metal album it does have some variations that stops it from being diverse or unimaginative. So, calm and melancholic periods are replaced by shorter ‘traditional metal’ ones, and then again those pagan atmospheres come to the stage. Song structures are good, and the use of instruments is intelligent, no exaggerations. When we are at it, I love to remember a joke about how folk metal musicians are saving princes trapped in castle guarded by a dragon. On the contrary to Black metallers who slain the dragon, burn down the castle and sodomize the princess before sacrificing her, folk guys come playing medieval music on strange instruments which gets the dragon asleep after a while and then they leave forgetting to free the princess. Well, although the joke sounds funny to me, it’s not the case here. I should mention that the production is somewhat more raw than usual, but this appealed to me. I guess it was hell of a job to compile all these recordings arriving from across Europe. So, to all people interested in folk / pagan music, this might be very interesting to you.
| Tracklist |
| 1. (Intro) The Pipes Are Calling |
| 2. Wolfsong In Moonlight (Fenris Unbound) |
| 3. Horned Trolls And Mystical Folk |
| 4. Rhyming With Thunder |
| 5. Eldritch Sorcery And Faery Runes |
| 6. In Odin’s Court |
| 7. Storm Ravens Come |
| 8. Gryningssang |
| 9. Gaelic Valor |
| 10. Outro |
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