Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

Band: Primordial
Album: To The Nameless Dead
Genre: Folk/Black Metal
Country of Origin: Ireland
Year: 2007

Track Listing:

1. Empire Falls
2. Gallows Hymn
3. As Rome Burns
4. Failures Burden
5. Heathen Tribes
6. The Rising Tide
7. Traitors Gate
8. No Nation On This Earth

Too tired to go into a lengthy description but this album is brilliant. One of the best this year.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VHWA2QV7


Edit: I had this album listed as an '08 album, when it's actually '07. Whoops. Regardless, amazing.

Darkestrah

Band: Darkestrah
Formed In: 1999
Genre: Black/Folk Metal
Country of Origin: Kyrgyzstan , Germany (Now)

Album: Sary Oy
Year: 2004

Track Listing:

1. Part I - Sary Oy
2. Part II - Jashil Oy
3. Part III - Kysil Oy

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YGF3UUJM

Album: Epos
Year: 2007

Track Listing:

1. Epos

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YIXW7I11


Darkestrah is one of the few bands lend by a female who does harsh vocals that:

1. Is not gimmicky.
2. Actually sounds good.

The first time I listened to Darkestrah I had no idea their vocalist was a girl; unlike most female harsh vocalists, who sound neutered (or should I say spayed?) or just awful, Kriegtalith's vocals are amazing and capture the feel of how Black Metal vocals often sound like. Getting away from the vocals and to the music, Darkestrah play very unique Black/Folk Metal. The Black/Folk fad has resulted in a lot of samey bands but Darkestrah put an interesting spin on it. Their riffs are atypical and they use interesting folk instruments, my favorite being the use of a jaw harp. All their songs are long and epic, Epos being a single 33 minutes long eponymous track, for example, and make for an engaging listen that doesn't get boring, even though most of the time there are no accompanying vocals. Essential stuff for lovers of Folk or Pagan Black Metal. Also, it should be known that the Anti in this band is indeed the German artist behind the Suicidal Depressive project Anti.

Nokturnal Mortum - Lunar Poetry

Band: Nokturnal Mortum
Album: Lunar Poetry
Genre: National Socialist Symphonic Black/Folk Metal
Country of Origin: Ukraine
Year: 1996

Track Listing:

1. Tears Of Paganism
2. Lunar Poetry
3. Perun's Celestial Silver
4. Carpathian Mysteries
5. ...And Winter Becomes
6. Ancient Nation
7. The Grief Of Oriana
8. Sorrows Of The Moon (Celtic Frost cover)
9. Autodafe / Barbarian Dreams
10. Return Of The Vampire Lord

NM's third and last demo. Absolutely stunning raw Black Metal with beautiful folky synths. Absolutely stupendous. Every Black Metal fan should give this demo a listen.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L9LKMQ00

Black Lotus - Light Subsides

Band: Black Lotus
Album: Light Subsides
Genre: Black/Folk Metal
Country of Origin: Canada
Year: 2006

Track Listing:

1. Helios Amaranthine
2. Signatura Rerum
3. Canis Lupus Luna - The Song of Boreas
4. Seal 46
5. Incandescence (instrumental)
6. Machinery Brings Mold
7. Cosmic Currents
8. Light Subsides
9. Told in Chivalry

Canadian Black/Folk Metal. I can't remember much about the band and can't be bothered to interrupt Lunar Aurora. Requested by a friend, regardless.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=890WYYUW

Temnozor - Folkstorm of the Azure Nights

Band: Temnozor
Album: Folkstorm of the Azure Nights
Genre: National Socialist Black/Folk Metal
Country of Origin: Russia
Year: 2005

Track Listing:

1. Folkstorm of the Azure Nights
2. Vranakrik
3. When the Lazure Skies Tear the Hearts Apart
4. Watch The Falcons Fly
5. As the Autumn Razor sing above my Veins
6. Arkona
7. Tell me, ye Scarlet Dewscented Sunrises

Temnozor are an NS Black/Folk Metal band that mix beautiful acoustic Folk guitar, atmospheric synths and flutes with Black Metal riffs, often tinged with Folk. The music runs the gammut from triumphant to dark to hateful. This album has some of the best clean vocals I've ever heaed in Metal, that are perfect next to the ferocious growls of the other vocalist. The song writing is brilliant and emotional and songs like "When the Lazure Skies Tear the Hearts Apart" and "As the Autumn Razor sing above my Veins" are masterpieces. If you can put the politics aside, it's most definately worth a listen.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G6N3ZXDB