Sunday 12 February 2012

FOLK METAL NEWS 12/02/12

Finnish folk metal giants Korpiklaani have announced release dates for their forthcoming album, Kunnia. The album is due for release on July 18th in Finland and July 20th for the rest of the world. Exciting news is coming thick and fast from the band, following last week's announcement of the title of their new album, which is still in production.

Making their now-customary appearance on our news pages, Eluveitie have again made headlines this week. Having recently released a video for new song 'A Rose for Epona', the band have released a second video – this one for 'Havoc'. The video was again produced by Polish studio Grupa 13, who also made the video for 'A Rose for Epona', and consists mostly of footage of the band performing in a dungeon. 'Havoc' is the 10th track on new album Helvetios, which was officially released last week.




Shangren continue to release a trickle of previews for upcoming release Rise of the Dynasty, this week teasing fans with a new preview trailer, 'violent strings from the Morin Khuur' – a traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument.

As well as the aforementioned release from Eluveitie, there were several other new folk metal releases this week. This week saw the release of an intriguing album from French Antiq Label, D'Anjou en Vasconie, la très grande Chasse d'Hellequin. This three-track split release from pagan metal bands Anceisural Eritance, Hanternoz and Ilbeltz features a different interpretation from each band of a traditional Breton story telling of the demonic hunting party of Hellequin (more commonly known as Harlequin in English), seeking the damned souls of evil men. 

This week also saw the release of the highly-anticipated new Leshak album, Pustosvyat. You can download a free three-track taster at Leshak's Bandcamp page.

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