An ambitious project: Folk/Pagan Metal musicians from different European countries (Sweden, Greece, England, Lithuania, Switzerland, Austria) record an album together. A Nordic Poem is already 2 years old. It is obvious that Magnus Wohlfart from Sweden and Marios Koutsoukos from Greece had the idea to do this as all songs and lyrics were written by them. It starts rather powerful with Fenriz Unbound, sounding Anglo-saxon as well as Scandinavian and showing raw screams but also clean vocals - a combination a like very much about that kind of metal. Horned Trolls And Mystical Folk is of the same type, but after that song, the music gets more relaxed and majestic and there’s not much more left for those who like it fast and raw. A good example is Ryming With Thunder, featuring Forefather members Wulfstan and Athelsan and unmistakably sounding like their main band. This song, like some of the others, has a mighty atmosphere on the one hand, but on the other hand got too little pressure. Talking about that, the sound of the whole record could have taken much more pepper! The vocals are a little out of tune in some places, but that’s exactly in the tradition of Pagan Metal Forefathers Bathory, isn’t it? All in all, it’s too many choruses and too little fury and heaviness for me, despite parts of the album are definitely well done. Maybe I should mention Gryningssång, a pure folk song in Swedish language (all others are in English) and really recommendable. But still, after several times hearing the whole album, I’ m not sure if I’m satisfied or not.