French black metal has always been full of conceptual weirdness that pushes at the genre’s narrow boundaries. The experimental tendencies of Deathspell…
Alcest – Les Voyages de l’Âme (2012)
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (1969)
Led Zeppelin had a fully formed, distinctive sound from the outset, as their eponymous debut illustrates. Taking the heavy, distorted…
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II (1969)
Recorded quickly during Led Zeppelin’s first American tours, Led Zeppelin II provided the blueprint for all the heavy metal bands…
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III (1970)
On their first two albums, Led Zeppelin unleashed a relentless barrage of heavy blues and rockabilly riffs, but…
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
Encompassing heavy metal, folk, pure rock & roll, and blues, Led Zeppelin’s untitled fourth album is a monolithic…
Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy (1973)
Houses of the Holy follows the same basic pattern as Led Zeppelin IV, but the approach is looser and more relaxed…
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti (1975)
Led Zeppelin returned from a nearly two-year hiatus in 1975 with Physical Graffiti, a sprawling, ambitious double…
Led Zeppelin – Presence (1976)
Presence scales back the size of Physical Graffiti to a single album, but it retains the grandiose scope of that double…
Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same (1976)
Commonly dismissed as a disappointment upon its initial release, the soundtrack to Led Zeppelin’s concert movie The Song Remains…
Led Zeppelin – In Through the Out Door (1979)
Somewhere between Presence and In Through the Out Door, disco, punk, and new wave had overtaken rock & roll, and Led Zeppelin…
Led Zeppelin – Coda (1982)
Coda is the ninth and final studio album[4] by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in 1982. This collection of outtakes from…
Falkenbach – Tiurida (2011)
German multi-instrumentalist Markus Tümmers makes lightly blackened folk-metal under the name Falkenbach; on some of his early records, it was a one-man…
Skyforger – Kurbads (2010)
Some of the most interesting musical hybrids have come about when unlikely forms of music were successfully combined. A perfect example is folk-metal; who…
Mark Knopfler – Kill to Get Crimson (2007)
Given that Kill to Get Crimson follows Mark Knopfler’s yearlong collaboration with Emmylou Harris — inaugurated by the album All the Roadrunning and followed by a tour…
Mark Knopfler – Shangri-La (2004)
Shangri-La, Mark Knopfler’s fourth solo release and his first since breaking his collarbone, shoulder, and seven ribs in a motorcycle crash in March 2003, finds…
Mark Knopfler – Sailing to Philadelphia (2000)
Mark Knopfler’s second solo album might as well be called Dire Straits’ eighth studio album, though Knopfler abandoned the group name back in 1996, dispensing…
Robert Plant – Band of Joy (2010)
Band of Joy was the name of Robert Plant’s Black Country psychedelic folk group of the late ‘60s and his revival of its name and spirit in 2010 is of no small significance…
Alcest – Écailles de Lune (2010)
If any proof were needed that anticipation was at a fever pitch for Alcest’s second full-length album, it could be found in the fact that a clever leak of Écailles de Lune…
Eluveitie – Everything Remains (As It Never Was) (2010)
Everything Remains (As It Never Was) is the fourth full-length album by, the Swiss folk metal band, Eluveitie. Produced by Colin Richardson, it was released…
Heidevolk – Uit Oude Grond (2010)
Building its legacy since 2002, Heidevolk from the Dutch province so Gelderland forges its very own brand of Pagan Folk Metal. Characterized by dual clean male vocal…
Korpiklaani – Ukon Wacka (2011)
Ukon Wacka is the seventh album by the Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani, released on February 4, 2011 through Nuclear Blast…