Manegarm are a band from Sweden that has been featured before in this zine and plays a viking form of black metal and this is a review of their 2019 album "Fornaldarsagor" which will be released on April 26th by Napalm Records. Fornaldarsagor turns out to be the most multi-faceted and uncompromising piece of concept art the Swedes forged so far and will feed the flames of heathen fires for a long, long time… NAPALM RECORDS. Warm violin interludes infuse most songs, lend an epic character to frost-clad metal tunes and fuel the listener`s imagination. Furious opening track ‘Sveablotet‘ marks a breathless start and lets majestic black metal flow into anthemic choirs and melodies, whereas ‘Ett sista farväl‘ weds melancholic folk spirit with fragile female vocals. ![]() Eight new tracks breathe new life into sagas and tales from a pre-christianized, pagan era that made Scandinavia into what it is today – and those sagas have now been wrapped in exciting viking metal. ![]() On Fornaldarsagor, Månegarm invite us to a journey through long-lost ancient times. He may or may not be identical to other mythological wolves such as Garmr, Fenrisulfr, Sköll and Hati. Mánagarmr is a giant wolf who, at the onset of Ragnarök, will devour the moon (Máni in Old Icelandic).
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