Growls are also utilize at times and they give the music a touch of death metal along with one of the later tracks being very long and epic in length. Clean viking vocals are also utilized quite a bit throughout the recording while the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts.įolk instruments and acoustic guitars are also brought into the music at times while one track also introduces female vocals onto the recording. When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are done in a very melodic pagan metal style along with the vocals being mostly grim black metal screams.Īll of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them along with the riffs also bringing in a great amount of melody. Tremolo picking starts off the album and gives the musical more of a raw style while the faster sections of the music also bring in a great amount of blast beats. Manegarm are a band from Sweden that has been featured before in this zine and plays a viking form of black metal and this is a review of their 2019 album "Fornaldarsagor" which will be released on April 26th by Napalm Records. Fornaldarsagor turns out to be the most multi-faceted and uncompromising piece of concept art the Swedes forged so far and will feed the flames of heathen fires for a long, long time… NAPALM RECORDS. Warm violin interludes infuse most songs, lend an epic character to frost-clad metal tunes and fuel the listener`s imagination. Furious opening track ‘Sveablotet‘ marks a breathless start and lets majestic black metal flow into anthemic choirs and melodies, whereas ‘Ett sista farväl‘ weds melancholic folk spirit with fragile female vocals. Eight new tracks breathe new life into sagas and tales from a pre-christianized, pagan era that made Scandinavia into what it is today – and those sagas have now been wrapped in exciting viking metal. On Fornaldarsagor, Månegarm invite us to a journey through long-lost ancient times. He may or may not be identical to other mythological wolves such as Garmr, Fenrisulfr, Sköll and Hati. Mánagarmr is a giant wolf who, at the onset of Ragnarök, will devour the moon (Máni in Old Icelandic).
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