The longboats of the distinctly Viking flavoured touring festival Heidenfest are looming off the coast of the UK ready to ravage the UK leg of their power metal ramage this October.
The 6 band bill headed by Finntroll will be the biggest bill of its kind seen in recent years with each band playing a different flavour of Battle/Folk Metal. Heidenfest sounds a rallying cry to all heathen warriors, pagan brothers and [...]

Sounding a battle cry to all heathen warriors! A horde of battle minded, folk and pagan metal artists are storming across Europe with the Heidenfest Festival.

Personally I love the use of odd instruments in music. I consider myself on some level to be a Glockenspiel fetishist even. in my fandom of the myriad worlds of rock I’ve noticed time and time again the cycles these odd instruments go through. You’ll hear one band use a mini organ and two months [...]