News Posts

Last Friday, the highly anticipated third album by Auri, ‘III – Candles & Beginnings’, was released with Nuclear Blast and to celebrate they shared a lyric video for the track ‘Blakey Ridge’. Catch them live the coming months on their first tour ever!

Sowulo converses with death on the new single ‘Sōl ond Māni’, out now and another track unveiled of the upcoming album NIHT, out at the end of August via Season of Mist!

Auri is reaching out to touch your soul yet again with the release of their single ‘Museum Of Childhood’, the 2nd track to be unveiled of their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘III – Candles & Beginnings’, out in August with Nuclear Blast!

Faun release a very personal ballad with the new single and video ‘Lady Isobel’, another track from the upcoming album ‘HEX’, set for release in September via Pagan Folk Records!

Sowulo revealed ‘Āsteorfan’, a composition grounded in ancient instrumentation and ritualistic textures and a first single from the upcoming album ‘NIHT’, set for release at the end of August with Season of Mist!

German pagan folk collective Faun announced their new album ‘HEX’, set for release in September and shared the new single and music video ‘Lament’!

Busy times ahead for the shamanic techno vikings of Eihwar with newly announced shows in support of The Hu’s shows in Germany and France starting next week, and stops at many European festivals this summer like Tuska, Castlefest, Wacken and Midgardsblot among many others! Don’t miss out on this!

By Norse Music is glad to announce the re-signing of Kalandra, keeping them in the family and collaborating on their upcoming new album!

Afargang shared the new song ‘Kom Ned’, a track from the upcoming album ‘Andvake’, set for release with By Norse Music in a couple of weeks!

The etherial trio Auri returns with their long-awaited third studio album ‘III – Candles & Beginnings’, out in August with Nuclear Blast, shared a first captivating single with ‘Shieldmaiden’ and announced a first ever tour you won’t want to miss!

Lists

2017 was again a massive year for music of all makes, I’ve done my best to narrow it down to the 10 releases that suck with me the most the past year…

After endless debating the list is done with one clear winner!

Photo Reports

Black and white photo of the band Seed performing. From left to right: a man playing Davul drum, a man playing whistles, a man playing guitar and a woman playing bouzouki

Upstart pagan folk organisers Idavoll hosted a second edition of their “Hobgoblin’s Hollow” event, filled with board games & pagan folk, this time provided by Seed & Eleni Neldë!


Our site is dedicated to everything rock and metal with a few sidesteps in music that appeals to the same music fans like synthwave, neo (pagan) folk, industrial,… But some of us do have a taste for music and art that goes beyond these limitations. Enter “GRIMM goes rogue”: where you’ll get a metalhead, punker, rocker,… who ventures into realms beyond their usual habitat with an open mind and give their honest opinion, views and experiences.

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."

Frank Zappa



Johanna Iivanainen’s & Johanna Kurkela’s Altamullan Road is certainly worth checking out. Fullsteam Agency gave us the opportunity to see their show at Tampere’s Pakkahuone on Valentine’s Day and if you have a chance to experience their blend of cinematic, folk, and pop music yourself I highly recommend doing so.

Photo of 3 muscicians performing against a black background with blue light on them. Smoke is coming in from the lower right to the middle of the image.

Erlendis make their debut in France with the help from one-man project Biocentrik to play a night of pagan folk at La Brat Cave in Lille, France what became a magical night.

Last summer, before everyone was at Alcatraz, one of Belgium’s best metal and rock festivals, we hosted a “Medieval Metal Night” at our venue Asgaard with the Belgian pride of folk and local heroes Prima Nocta and special guests Trobar de Morte!

Hexvessel turned, with the support of Unfyros, Kuudes Linja in Helsinki into a magically doomy place filled with smoke, and darkness.

Two men, Cam Cole and Van Tastik, and a night of rock n roll and blues that filled the soul of everyone present at the Backstage venue in Munich.

Leprous always stand for an exceptional live show and musical experience. Add to that Monuments and Kalandra, and we were in for a fantastic night at Helsinki’s Vanha Ylioppilastalo!

The German pagan folk collective Faun finally made it to Finland and turned Tavastia into a magical place to be, with the support of Emian.

Interviews

We had an interesting talk with Ensiferum’s Petri Lindroos about touring, performing… and the upcoming new album ‘Two Paths’!

Orphaned Land vertelt ons over hun boodschap van vrede, hun project met Amaseffer en hun plannen voor 2017.

Touring, making music and friends…