The name Stydwolf translates to “Battle wolf”, and derived from the Edda. The name is synonymous with “Fenris”. This project started in 2007 as a martial industrial one-man army (Demo’s “Weltstorm” and “Heitelân”), but pretty soon other influences like military pop and neofolk made an entrance into the electro-acoustic sounds (CD “Ljocht”, 2009). The latest Strydwolf CD “Dunkle Wälder” (2011) is focussing mainly on romantic neofolk, and was released by SkullLine.

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Falkenstein is a pagan neofolk project hailing from Germany. Named in 2007 by Tobias F., the name refers to the Falkenstein-mountain in Pfronten/Bavaria Germany

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Après trente ans de silence le groupe Sourdeline vient de se reformer.
Sourdeline a été dans les années 70 un des représentants du courant folk prog en France.
Il a enregistré 2 LP pour le label Discovale La Reine Blanche et Jeanne d’Aymé .ces deux albums devenus introuvables seront bientôt reédités par Guerssen music.

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I’m glad I’ve found this amazing neofolk band from Portugal. It seems to me somehow similar to other neofolk composition I’ve heard but it the variety of instruments and melodies creates neoclassical Portuguese esthetics (although I haven’t been to Portugal and do not know much about it).

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Cerebral Pain – a headache, or something more? This project started to fully expand Tiago Marques ideas in the music fields. Experimenting with a lot of instruments, but remaining very close to his accordion. Expect some portuguese folk ideas mixed with classical music, electronica, industrial, heavy metal… and so on. He learned all the instruments by himself, and still has a lot of difficulties reading music.

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IANVA (pronounced “ya-noo-ah”) was born as the meeting of a group of musicians with different backgrounds united by the common goal to give sense to forgotten words as “passion”, “boldness” and “dignity” and by the will to preserve those few own things of the Italian.

Many are the names involved in IANVA: Mercy e Francesco La Rosa – both already known for their work in Malombra, Il Segno Del Comando and Helden Rune, three cult Italian projects with strong roots in old school “dark sound” (in the ‘70s meaning of this term) atmospheres; Stefania T. D’Alterio, ex singer of Wagooba, a peculiar combo inspired by cinematic-rétro atmospheres with a touch of irony, and one of the very few Italian pens interested in weirdness and so called “apocalypse culture”; Argento and Azoth, members of Italian top black metal band Spite Extreme Wing (and their cult side project Antropofagus). Last but not least, classical trained musicians Fabio Gremo and Giuseppe Spanò (from prog-rock band Daedalus), Fabio Fabbri and Davide La Rosa, and last but not least the new entry Fabio Carfagna (already part of Malombra too) complete the roster.

These different paths, are just a little contribution to the IANVA project which is completely devoted to its concept and its musical Italian character, with wide influences form the very first excellent Italian new wave, to the Masters of the Pure Art of Film-score (as Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai, Armando Trovajoli, Franco Micalizzi, Stelvio Cipriani, Guido and Maurizio De Angelis…); keeping always in mind ideal protagonists as Scott Walker and Marc Almond and chansonniers as Fabrizio De Andrè, Piero Ciampi and Jacques Brel. A declaration of love to good old glittery nocturnal ballads of Britain’s most decadent glam tradition, and to those totem figures of Italian mainstream as Mina, Gabriella Ferri, Milly, Mia Martini, Milva, Dalida, Massimo Ranieri and Lucio Battisti.

The only concession to “actuality” is some attention to some of the best and most refined representatives of today’s folk noir scene WITH NO HIDDEN POLITICAL AGENDA (and far away from most of the pale so called neo-folk bandwagon), which enrich the peculiar mélange of this sound and concept, coming from the past, but cast in the future: ARCHEOFUTURIST. .

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Irish & Scottish mixed with other european traditional music

Uplifting songs, sing-along ballads, bawdy tales and a bit of the brew are trademarks of Beer Belly, a five-piece band from Slovenia. The aim of the group is to present the sound of Irish reels and jigs, Scottish bagpipes and traditional Celtic music through live performances and to surprise with arrangements of various irish bands as well as with the music of their own Members of the band come from a wide and varied assortment of musical backgrounds including folk, classical, rock and jazz styles. This rich history, plus their passion for this difficult but enjoyable musical style sets them apart from many of the groups in their country. Other particularities of the band are also the accordion which plays bagpipe lines and the great kilt, which they wear at open-air festivals.