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ORPHANED LAND - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR Folk Metal
AL-NAMROOD - Kitab Al-Awthan Folk Metal
CHTHONIC - Takasago Army Symphonic Black Metal
SHANGREN - Warriors of Devastation Folk Metal
ACID BATH - When The Kite String Pops Sludge Metal
AMON AMARTH - With Oden on Our Side Melodic Death Metal
AT THE GATES - Slaughter of the Soul Melodic Death Metal
BRUJERIA - Brujerizmo Grindcore
BRUJERIA - Marijuana Grindcore
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY - Inflikted Groove Metal
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY - Blunt Force Trauma Groove Metal
THE CHASM - Procession to the Infraworld Death Metal
DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER - Licht Melodic Death Metal
EMPEROR - IX Equilibrium Symphonic Black Metal
ENTOMBED - Inferno Death 'n' Roll
FEAR FACTORY - Demanufacture Industrial Metal
FINNTROLL - Ur jordens djup Folk Metal
FU MANCHU - In Search Of... Stoner Rock
FU MANCHU - The Action Is Go Stoner Rock
GIANT SQUID - Cenotes Atmospheric Sludge Metal
KORPIKLAANI - Ukon Wacka Folk Metal
MACHINE HEAD - Burn My Eyes Groove Metal
MELVINS - Stag Sludge Metal
MELVINS - (A) Senile Animal Sludge Metal
NAILBOMB - Point Blank Industrial Metal
NAPALM DEATH - Fear, Emptiness, Despair Death Metal
ORPHANED LAND - Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven Folk Metal
RAMMSTEIN - Reise, Reise Industrial Metal
SAMAEL - Blood Ritual Black Metal
SAMAEL - Ceremony of Opposites Black Metal
SAMAEL - Above Black Metal
SEPTICFLESH - Communion Death Metal
SEPULTURA - Schizophrenia Thrash Metal
SEPULTURA - Beneath the Remains Thrash Metal
SEPULTURA - Roots Alternative Metal
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - City Industrial Metal
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - Strapping Young Lad Industrial Metal
SWANS - Filth Metal Related
TYPE O NEGATIVE - Life Is Killing Me Gothic Metal
MORBID ANGEL - Domination Death Metal
MAJESTIC DOWNFALL - Temple of Guilt Death-Doom Metal
CORONER - No More Color Technical Thrash Metal
CORONER - Mental Vortex Technical Thrash Metal
CORONER - Grin Groove Metal
EMPEROR - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk Symphonic Black Metal
EMPEROR - In the Nightside Eclipse Symphonic Black Metal
FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE - Agony Brutal Death Metal
FINNTROLL - Nifelvind Folk Metal | review permalink
WINTERSUN - Wintersun Power Metal
AL-NAMROOD - Estorat Taghoot Melodic Black Metal
AL-NAMROOD - Astfhl Al Tha'r Black Metal
CHTHONIC - Bú-Tik Melodic Black Metal
ALESTORM - Captain Morgan's Revenge Folk Metal
ALESTORM - Back Through Time Folk Metal
BEHEMOTH - Evangelion Death Metal
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - Sonic Brew Heavy Metal
BOLT THROWER - Honour - Valour - Pride Death Metal
BONGZILLA - Gateway Stoner Metal
COFFINS - Buried Death Death-Doom Metal
DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER - Moral & Wahnsinn Melodic Death Metal
ENTOMBED - Wolverine Blues Death 'n' Roll
FEAR FACTORY - Soul of a New Machine Death Metal
FEAR FACTORY - Obsolete Industrial Metal
FU MANCHU - Daredevil Stoner Rock
FU MANCHU - Return To Earth '91-'93 Stoner Rock
GODFLESH - Selfless Industrial Metal
KATAKLYSM - In the Arms of Devastation Death Metal
KORPIKLAANI - Voice of Wilderness Folk Metal
MACHINE HEAD - Through the Ashes of Empires Groove Metal
MORTICIAN - Hacked Up for Barbecue Grindcore
MORTICIAN - Chainsaw Dismemberment Grindcore
MORTICIAN - House by the Cemetery Grindcore
MELVINS - Gluey Porch Treatments Sludge Metal
MELVINS - Stoner Witch Stoner Metal
MYRATH - Desert Call Progressive Metal
NAPALM DEATH - Inside the Torn Apart Death Metal
NAPALM DEATH - Leaders Not Followers, Part 2 Death Metal
NAPALM DEATH - Breed to Breathe Death Metal
OPPRESSOR - Agony Technical Death Metal
THE PIT - Disrupted Human Symmetry Death Metal
RAMMSTEIN - Sehnsucht Industrial Metal
RAMMSTEIN - Mutter Industrial Metal
RAMMSTEIN - Rosenrot Industrial Metal
RAMMSTEIN - Liebe ist für alle da Industrial Metal
RAMMSTEIN - Völkerball Industrial Metal
RAMMSTEIN - Rammstein - Lichtspielhaus Industrial Metal
RAMMSTEIN - Völkerball Industrial Metal
SEPULTURA - Arise Thrash Metal
SEPULTURA - A-Lex Groove Metal
SEPULTURA - Blood-Rooted Groove Metal
SOULFLY - Prophecy Groove Metal
SOULFLY - Dark Ages Groove Metal
SOULFLY - Conquer Groove Metal
SOULFLY - Omen Groove Metal
STATIC-X - Machine Industrial Metal
STATIC-X - Shadow Zone Industrial Metal
STATIC-X - Cannibal Industrial Metal
MUSHROOMHEAD - XX Nu Metal
GWAR - Hell-o! Hardcore Punk
GWAR - America Must Be Destroyed Thrash Metal
CANNIBAL CORPSE - Vile Death Metal
CANNIBAL CORPSE - Gore Obsessed Death Metal
CANNIBAL CORPSE - Hammer Smashed Face Death Metal
CARCASS - Heartwork Melodic Death Metal
CARNIVORE - Retaliation Crossover Thrash
CORONER - Punishment for Decadence Technical Thrash Metal
DOLMEN - Anhelos Ancestrales Folk Metal
AL-NAMROOD - Atba'a Al-Namrood Folk Metal
CHTHONIC - Seediq Bale Symphonic Black Metal
CHTHONIC - Mirror of Retribution Symphonic Black Metal
ACID BATH - Paegan Terrorism Tactics Sludge Metal
BEHEMOTH - Abyssus Abyssum Invocat Death Metal
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - Mafia Heavy Metal
BONGZILLA - Amerijuanican Stoner Metal
BROKEN HOPE - Loathing Death Metal
BRUJERIA - Matando Gueros Grindcore
ENTOMBED - DCLXVI - To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth Death 'n' Roll
ENTOMBED - Same Difference Death 'n' Roll
ENTOMBED - Unreal Estate Death 'n' Roll
FEAR FACTORY - Fear Is The Mindkiller Industrial Metal
FEAR FACTORY - Remanufacture Industrial Metal
GIANT SQUID - Metridium Fields Sludge Metal
GODFLESH - Streetcleaner Industrial Metal
MELVINS - Ozma Sludge Metal
NAILBOMB - Live at Dynamo Industrial Metal
NAPALM DEATH - Harmony Corruption Death Metal
NAPALM DEATH - Utopia Banished Death Metal
NAPALM DEATH - Diatribes Death Metal
NAPALM DEATH - Greed Killing Death Metal
OPPRESSOR - Elements of Corrosion Technical Death Metal
RAMMSTEIN - Herzeleid Industrial Metal
RED FANG - Red Fang Stoner Rock
SKINLAB - ReVoltingRoom Nu Metal
SEPULTURA - Morbid Visions Death Metal
SEPULTURA - Chaos A.D. Groove Metal
SEPULTURA - Against Groove Metal
SEPULTURA - Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation Death Metal
SEPULTURA - Under a Pale Grey Sky Groove Metal
SOULFLY - Soulfly Nu Metal
STATIC-X - Wisconsin Death Trip Industrial Metal
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing Industrial Metal
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - Alien Industrial Metal
TOTENMOND - Fleischwald Deathcore
TYPE O NEGATIVE - Bloody Kisses Gothic Metal
PANTERA - Cowboys From Hell Groove Metal
PANTERA - Vulgar Display of Power Groove Metal
PANTERA - The Great Southern Trendkill Groove Metal
PANTERA - Reinventing the Steel Groove Metal
PANTERA - Official Live: 101 Proof Groove Metal
GWAR - Scumdogs Of The Universe Crossover Thrash
GWAR - This Toilet Earth Thrash Metal
GWAR - Ragnarök Crossover Thrash
GWAR - Carnival Of Chaos Heavy Metal
GWAR - The Road Behind Thrash Metal
GWAR - Skulhedface Thrash Metal
CARCASS - Wake Up And Smell The... Death Metal
ULTRASPANK - Ultraspank Nu Metal
EVER FORTHRIGHT - Ever Forthright Progressive Metal
SUPERJOINT RITUAL - Use Once and Destroy Sludge Metal
ABSCESS - Seminal Vampires and Maggot Men Death Metal
BRUTAL TRUTH - Kill Trend Suicide Grindcore
FUDGE TUNNEL - Teeth EP Sludge Metal
MISERY LOVES CO. - Misery Loves Co. Industrial Metal
NAILBOMB - Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide Industrial Metal
NAPALM DEATH - Scum Grindcore
PITCHSHIFTER - Industrial Industrial Metal
SEPULTURA - Nation Groove Metal
SOULFLY - 3 Nu Metal
OBITUARY - World Demise Death Metal
OBITUARY - Back From the Dead Death Metal
FETISH 69 - Antibody Industrial Metal
ANAL BLAST - Vaginal Vempire Death Metal
BESTIAL WARLUST - Blood & Valour War Metal
FEAR FACTORY - Digimortal Industrial Metal
KINGDOM OF SORROW - Kingdom Of Sorrow Sludge Metal
MACHINE HEAD - The Burning Red Nu Metal
PITCHSHIFTER - Deviant Industrial Metal
SOULFLY - Primitive Nu Metal
MORBID ANGEL - Heretic Death Metal
STATIC-X - Start a War Industrial Metal

Metal Genre Nb. Rated Avg. rating
1 Industrial Metal 32 3.63
2 Death Metal 29 3.69
3 Groove Metal 20 3.85
4 Folk Metal 12 4.38
5 Sludge Metal 10 3.60
6 Grindcore 8 3.81
7 Nu Metal 7 3.07
8 Thrash Metal 7 3.93
9 Symphonic Black Metal 6 4.42
10 Melodic Death Metal 5 4.30
11 Stoner Rock 5 4.10
12 Death 'n' Roll 5 3.80
13 Black Metal 4 4.50
14 Crossover Thrash 3 3.67
15 Heavy Metal 3 3.67
16 Stoner Metal 3 3.83
17 Technical Thrash Metal 3 4.33
18 Technical Death Metal 2 3.75
19 Progressive Metal 2 3.75
20 Melodic Black Metal 2 4.50
21 Gothic Metal 2 4.00
22 Death-Doom Metal 2 4.25
23 Deathcore 1 3.50
24 Brutal Death Metal 1 4.50
25 Alternative Metal 1 4.50
26 Atmospheric Sludge Metal 1 4.50
27 Hardcore Punk 1 4.00
28 Metal Related 1 4.50
29 Power Metal 1 4.50
30 War Metal 1 2.50

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FINNTROLL Nifelvind

Album · 2010 · Folk Metal
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The Swedish word Nifelvind translates roughly as something like “wind from the underworld.” The Nordic underworld, of course, is a frozen wasteland. But to those hardy people who live above 59° north latitude, this “underworld” is manifest in the hills and tundra and forests on which they build homes, a landscape the Nifelvind scours raw. Having lived through several harsh Minnesota winters, I can attest to the reality of the Nordic underworld. I’ve leaned into its –40° fury and felt the sweat freezing my skin to my coat. It’s far more frightening than any Christian hell I can imagine. Red-hot caverns quaking in a furnace heat? Nonsense. Little red men with barbed tails and pitchforks who forever torment our condemned souls? Nothing more than threadbare clichés.

With each new album of blackened folk metal, Finntroll has consistently tied mythology, fantasy, and the mysteries of the underworld to the roots of their homeland. Once again the band has outdone itself. Nifelvind, the sixth full-length album from Trollhorn and Co., avoids the obvious thematic pitfalls of more straightforward black metal while combining the aggressive Finntroll sound with lively—at times almost joyous—undercurrents of folk instrumentation, called Humppa: Finnish polka. These joyful melodies, often structured in the background, somehow both complement and contrast the blackened guitar rhythms and raw, growling vocals until the fury begins to feed on itself, and drives the music forward. It’s a strange mix that works quite well in the single “Solsagen” (Tale of the Sun) and the track “I Trädens Sång” (Within the Song of the Trees), both songs that convey a sense of desperation, sadness, perhaps even lunacy. In a place so far north that the sun sets for months at a time, who wouldn’t dabble in a little madness? A little rage mixed with a little ecstasy? In order for a people to endure such harsh, unforgiving climes and rugged landscapes, they must give in, smile in the face of fury, and become part of it. That spirit of endurance, and the joyful melodies that sustain and balance it, permeate Nifelvind. While I am able to pick out a word or two of vocalist Vreth’s chopped Swedish, the meaning behind the lyrics is lost to me. That loss becomes mysterious. The music’s tone and intensity are the only guides through this wilderness, and I’m exposed to its naked hostility throughout.

When I arrive finally at the carnivalesque whimsy of “Under Bergets Rot” (Under the Mountain’s Root), I can’t help but give in to the madness. During the chorus I sing along with the backing vocals (Whoa-oh!). I’m tempted to stop whatever I’m doing and tap my foot, or bob up and down like a bird, or challenge a stranger to a wrestling match. The song's creepy-party vibe suggests “Do it just for the hell of it! You’ll be fine! We’re all in this together!” The band’s novel approach to black /folk metal could hardly be called bland, much less cliché. This is Finntroll doing what they've always done. This is Finntroll doing what they do best

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