Reawakening Pride Once Lost / Waylander

Waylander are an Irish band blending Irish folk and blackened death/thrash metal. Being pretty competent at playing both styles separately, as they do on "Gaelic Dawn" and "Emain Macha", respectively, they also do a decent job of combining them -- see "Victory Feast". This is not to say the album is supremely original, although the use of a tin whistle is refreshingly untrendy, if not too far from a flute or similar instrument. It is not in th...

Reviewed by Paul Schwarz Read more on Chronicles Of Chaos