Månegarm - Månegarm

Published November 23 2015

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Genre	Folk Metal	Erik Grawsiö	Vocals
Tracks	10	Markus Andé	Guitar
Running time	52 Min.	Jonas Almkvist	Guitar
Label	Napalm Records	Erik Grawsiö	Bass
Release	November 20, 2015	Jacob Hallegren	Drums
Country	Sweden	-	Keyboard
Producer	-
Similar artists	Vintersorg

Swedish outfit Månegarm basically plays some type of folk metal with evident elements of traditional stuff such as Viking and early medieval oriented lyrics, which mostly are performed in the band's native language, and also from adding instruments like violins, flutes and God knows what to it and finally by putting 4 songs to the album which, in lack of a better description, in way or another are ballad-ish and mainly acoustic.

The vocals in the heavier songs come out with pretty much a tone of voice that you would expect of a band of this genre, meaning kind of raw, cruel and wicked through the verses and clean in the choruses for the most part. In the lighter songs it's more or less clean and passionate through the entire songs and I believe that the band is truly able to validate the atmosphere of kind of being something that's sprung out of the Middle Ages by adding female vocals to a few of them, as I believe it puts on a different dimension to the whole album.

The music overall is rather easy to digest and specifically on the heavier side of the album they have a talent to engender a cheerful, mystic and distinctive mood and appearance in a grim and coarse environment. Månegarm has with their 8th album to date really created a great body of music that in my opinion is diverse without being too outspread. Just listen to it yourselves and enjoy its contents!

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	7	6	6	8

Summary
8 chalices of 10 - Tobbe