To the long time readers of this blog, Dalriada needs no introduction.
(But I'll do it anyway just for the sake of everyone else)
The Hungarian Epic Folk Metal band have release one of the best Folk Metal albums of 2011, Ígéret (Promise). It had an innovative sound, introducing some female harsh Death Metal voice in the mix of speedy Hungarian folk with epic riffs.
They have just release their seventh album, Napisten Hava, and I can't avoid being disappointed.
First of all, to make it clear: Napisten Hava is a good album, probably the second best of Dalriada's career. Second, I already knew that topping or even matching Ígéret would be very difficult. These are not the motives of my disappointment.
I'm disappointed because I felt Ígéret like a breath of fresh air pointing to a new an unexplored path in Folk Metal, and I was expecting them to follow that path, sometimes failing, others hitting the nail, but moving forward.
Instead, Napisten Hava is a step back, in a way that is closer to their older albums than the previous one.
Of course it isn’t all bad. The catchy speedy Folk is there, and also the epic riffs, but the female death voice has almost disappeared, and with it the aggressiveness that made me like Ígéret so much.
Here is the song from the new album that still holds on to a bit of aggressiveness.
Dalriada - Borivók Éneke
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