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Blacktail (Slavic Dark Fantasy Arrow Combat)
Here’s a game that’s simply amazing. Little else needs to be said, but here goes. I hadn’t heard word of Blacktail until I saw it drop on GeForce Now, but the premise intrigued me, as it’s essentially billed as an origin story of the legendary witch of Eastern Europe, Baba-Yaga. Taking place in a […]
Cursed Monk Records \ dark ambient \ dark folk \ drone \ Galway \ Grey Malkin \ haunted folk \ Ireland \ Ruairi O’Baoighill \ Scotland \ Waterford
ÚATH – S/T (Atmospheric Haunted Folk Drone)
Haven’t gotten a release like this in awhile. Actually, let’s change that to “a good release.” Folk of the dark variety can be an easy sell, at times, but it’s deceptive. Too folk and it lends itself a childish, “spooky” atmosphere that sounds more like background music during a Ravenloft sesh with only the […]
blackened folk \ dark folk \ Pagan Records \ Poland \ Vječnost
OLS – Pustkowia (Blackened Polish Pagan Folk)
OLS can do no wrong, okay? I don’t mean that because I so rarely get any good folk, dark or otherwise, and am thus looking for anything close to good, but because she just does. It’s just an ultimate truth. OLS is the best. I was first paganly blessed by her last full-length for […]
dark folk \ experimental folk \ Finland \ Kerkko Ulmanen \ Riina Peuhu \ Svart Records
IANAI – Sunir (Like Wow Finnish Experimental Folk)
Like wow, what’s with all these surprises this week that I almost missed WTF? This is one of those albums were perhaps but a few seconds in you’re absolutely passing out from its level of incredible and by the end you can’t believe it actually exists. Like how does someone write music this fooking […]
kariti – Covered Mirrors (Limited Edition White Vinyl)
A special co-release with Aural Music, Deaf Sparrow is proud to present the plaintive dark folk mastery of kariti, Covered Mirrors. Previously released on CD, this limited version comes packaged professionally on high-grade white vinyl and includes a bonus track never before released. 100 copies only! Please note, this is a PREODER. Vinyl production is […]
Antiq Label \ dark folk \ France \ Maéna
Wÿntër Ärvń – Abysses (Black Metal Folk Stuff)
A little late on this review, but I wanted to let Wÿntër Ärvń sink into my being more before I made my final decision. It was necessary, for I rarely receive folk that truly captures my attention, dark folk probably least of all. Not familiar sir, you think? Never, most of it simply fails […]
Aural Music \ dark folk \ Italy \ Paola Erre \ Russia
kariti – Covered Mirrors (A Dark Folk Emotional Purge through Loss)
To be honest I simply reworded kariti’s own Bandcamp blurb for my subtitle of this one because her words were so poignant alone but I didn’t want to seem totally incapable of thought. But thoughts are lacking today, as a rule. I’m at a total loss for thoughts and words, or better to say […]
dark folk \ pagan folk \ Pagan Records \ Poland \ Slavic pagan shit cool \ yarn skull
Ols – Widma (Dark Pagan Folk With Yarn Skull)
I was hesitant to review this at first, primarily because Poland’s Ols has an ass ton of fans already and is quite prominent in the dark folk underground. However, I decided it was necessary on two counts. One, I rarely get stuff like this, and two, everything else I was considering for review sucked […]
dark folk \ folk \ Goth \ Infinite Fog Productions \ occult \ occult rock \ post-punk \ Russia \ so Russian you'll with you were Russian \ Srub \ Сруб
Сруб (Srub) – Топь (Bog)
Here’s one that takes careful consideration, due primarily to the cultural background behind it, of which few would be aware outside of its home country. Eastern Europe often receives a great of the west’s insensitivity, primarily because so few understand anything of its history. Remember World War I? Yeah, read about Apis and learn a […]
