Neofolk

Ritual neofolk. Spain.

The famous Lithuanian folk-rock band ATALYJA presents its third album: its solar theme is revealed not only through lyrics but also via fresh and sunny sound. The album uniquely combines solid rock composition, world improvisation and experiments, while the multicoloured instrumentation is adorned by traditional Lithuanian kanklės, bagpipe, violins, along with Indian bansuri and tabla. The sound is solid, delicate and inflaming. The twelve tracks include charming Samogitian songs, Latvian mythological saga, interpretations of sutartinės (glees), few surprising compositions and a dramatic culmination "Eglė's Curse" (motif from the epic Lithuanian fairy tale). The album is dedicated to the Millenium of Lithuania.Presented in a white 4 panel digipack.

Orchestral militant dark ambient neofolk. Germany.

Orchestral martial ambient neofolk. Germany.

Martial bombastic neofolk. Germany.

Neofolk. Digipack. China.

DARKHER is an intriguing, haunting trip through the mind and spirit of UK artist Jayn Maiven, a West Yorkshire-based vocalist / songwriter whose powerful, captivating music is characterised by doom-laden riffs, haunting, spine-tingling vocals, soul baring songs, layered with storm clouds of Guitars. Creating extraordinarily dark music full of contrasts, including both chilling loneliness and the warmth of hope, the sound of DARKHER is veined by both an unsettling atmosphere of encroaching dread and a deep, otherworldly confidence. DARKHER's first release, 'The Kingdom Field' EP (2014), epitomized her broodingly intense music and created a stir across scenes, being hailed as "beautiful, teeth-edging horror" and "utterly brilliant". Her debut album, 'Realms', impressively proves that the fire of great expectations raised by the debut's spark were more than justified. The album features nine distinctive, dynamic and dramatic tracks that are impossible to resist. Songs such as the...

The sinister yet beguiling images that DARKHER aka Jayn Maiven paints with her ethereal vocals, guitars, and added strings conjure iridescent cinematic scenes in which it becomes hard to tell whether there lies beauty in darkness or if it is the other way around. With her sophomore full-length "The Buried Storm", the guitarist, composer, lyricist, and producer has clearly succeeded to even improve the beloved alchemic musical formula that was firmly established on DARKHER's debut album "Realms" in 2016. DARKHER were conceived as the sole brainchild and solo-project of Northern English singer and guitarist Jayn Maiven in 2012. The dark and melancholic yet also massively heavy sound on the self-titled debut EP "Darkher" 2013) combined with the distinct vocals of the shy pre-Raphaelite beauty caused an audible buzz – particularly in the doom scene and led to the following EP "The Kingdom Field" (2014) appearing via Prophecy Productions. Despite not even having an album out, DARKHER were...

Martial industrial folk. Digipack. France.

Martial industrial folk. Digipack. France.

Martial industrial folk. Digipack. France.

Martial industrial folk. Digipack. Germany.

Ritual dark ambient / neoclassic martial industrial / hypnotic tribal folk. Belgium.

Dervenn in Breton means «oak», the sacred tree of the ancient Celts. Wood is the matter of our instruments and our breath is the «wind that shakes the Barley»… even if we are living in the era of digital and numeric realities. The soul is still musical and deeply tainted by the landscape of Brittany, by the musicality of it, by the symbolism of it. Arthur, Perceval, Merlin, we still share their quest for truth and beauty when riding our cars… No commercial folklore, no infatuated «world» or «ethnic» music, no archeological mythology nor so-called traditionalism. Just our true modern Breton music. Beauty and breath of the arthurian past speaking a present day, but not vulgar, musical language. «Gwad Roueel» («royal blood») is the first act of the quest, a personal and emotional evocation, using both traditional «celtic» instruments (bag pipe, Breton oboe, transverse flute, Irish whistle and bodhran) and modern ones. Invention and respect of the past are the key words, poetry, melody...

Pagan folk. Argentina.

Dark ambient neofolk. Digipack. Belgium.

Just in time for the millennium, Fire + Ice came up with another genre classic: Ian Read gathered something of an all-star cast of the genre in the studio (Michael Cashmore, Douglas P. from Death In June, Joseph Budenholzer from Backworld, and Annabel Lee and Michael Moynihan from Blood Axis, amongst other notables) to record twelve songs that often reflect some of the more esoteric aspects of Norse mythology in a poetic manner.