Wolfheart

Finnish frontrunners Wolfheart have proven themselves to be one of metal’s most captivating acts of northern heritage and one of the fastest rising bands in the international melodic death metal scene. Over the course of the last two years alone, the band has remained relentless with the release of their highly acclaimed full-length, Wolves of Karelia (2020) and Skull Soldiers EP (2021), gaining massive praise from fans and press alike with their icy tales of battle and triumph. The new album, King Of The North, picks up right where Wolfheart left off - taking every aspect of their trademark sound of colossal melodies, growling vocals and driving drum rhythms to searing new levels. Each song on King Of The North is dedicated to a different story of Finnish mythology - underlined by Wolfheart’s grand, crushing songwriting and production…

Finnish frontrunners of icy melodic death metal Wolfheart have proven themselves to be one of metal's most captivating acts of northern heritage and one of the fastest rising bands in the international melodic death metal scene. Over the course of their career, the band has remained relentless with the release of their highly acclaimed 6 full-lengths, gaining massive praise from fans and press alike with their wintery tales of battle and triumph. The new album, "Draconian Darkness", picked up right where Wolfheart left off. Taking every aspect of their trademark sound of colossal melodies, growling vocals and driving drum rhythms to searing new levels. "Draconian Darkness" is showcasing what Wolfheart's music is known for: deep, dark, and beautiful melodies combined with powerful and raw energy.

Finnish frontrunners of icy melodic death metal Wolfheart have proven themselves to be one of metal's most captivating acts of northern heritage and one of the fastest rising bands in the international melodic death metal scene. Over the course of their career, the band has remained relentless with the release of their highly acclaimed 6 full-lengths, gaining massive praise from fans and press alike with their wintery tales of battle and triumph. The new album, "Draconian Darkness", picked up right where Wolfheart left off. Taking every aspect of their trademark sound of colossal melodies, growling vocals and driving drum rhythms to searing new levels. "Draconian Darkness" is showcasing what Wolfheart's music is known for: deep, dark, and beautiful melodies combined with powerful and raw energy.

Emerging from dusky woods, the untamed and forlorn nature of Finnish quartet WOLFHEART leads them to one of the most picturesque regions of their home country, Karelia. Just as wildlife itself maintains harmony through a violent clash of the beautiful and unpredictable, Wolves of Karelia explores the previously coined genre of winter metal -smoothly connecting a traditional approach towards extreme genres (‘Reaper’) with atmospheric or acoustic details (‘the Hammer’, ‘Horizon on Fire’), crowned by the instrumental interlude, ‘Eye of the Storm’. With the noted complexity of their fifth album, WOLFHEART master the art of sonic storytelling through eight multi-faceted stylistic eposes with a virtuosity of riffs, guitar solos, and abrupt tempo-changes. Above all, however, Wolves of Karelia attack with complex arrangements and melodically-grasped melancholy, creating a release as bewitching and intense as it is atmospherically resonant.

Their sound being forged deep in the frigid ruthlessness of the icy scandinavian landscapes, Wolfheart is set to dive into a new chapter of its existence with the upcoming album ‘Constellation of the Black Light’. The Finnish four-piece prove their sheer skill to write compositions of utmost brutality throughout the album, and hold their stand on how Winter Metal ought to sound…

Released at the height of the European goth metal craze, Moonspell's Wolfheart was a surprisingly accomplished effort by a band originating in the unlikeliest of places, heretofore relatively metal-free Portugal. Diligent students of their northern European neighbors, the bandmembers had yet to develop a wholly original voice, but quickly proved they'd done their homework by incorporating the genre's trademark elements (morbid lyrical schemes, dreary and melancholy riffs, ambient keyboards, demonic chorales) into the grandiloquent opener, "Wolfshade (A Werewolf Masquerade)." Singer and group instigator Fernando Ribeiro (here named Langsuyar for maximum crypt-defiling effect) alternates death grunts and a guttural baritone style obviously inspired by Type O Negative's Peter Steele as he leads his troops through multi-faceted but often overly ambitious compositions…

Tyhjyys, the new album by Finland’s Wolfheart, is a moody album, shrouded in fog, happy to stew in cold and detached misery. It has actually shown itself to be an excellent soundtrack for the rain-drenched and fog-shrouded drives home from work in the month since its release, the perfect encapsulation for grey skies and dense mist rolling in off the water.

A unique and solemn spell seems to shroud every spot as soon as Portuguese alchemists Moonspell enter the stage – and it was a very special evening indeed when the band played an exceptional show at the Campo Pequeno arena in their hometown Lissabon on February 4th, 2017…

Moonspell continues to delve into slow, Gothic doom-metal on Sin/Pecado, with occasional samples and electronic percussion popping up in the atmospheric arrangements. Still, the band has not yet quite recaptured the spark of their debut, Wolfheart.
2019 Deluxe version with 3 bonus tracks.