Genre: Pagan Folk Metal
Simargl is a Russian band and you can hear this at once. Their music is typical Slavic Pagan Folk-metal.
In the first track they come out into the light of the sun. And the Slavic folk is immediately all over the place, with it’s typical tunes and flutes. Where we often see male and female vocals in Russian bands, Simargl does this different, they have only male vocals, but they are a kind of crossover between metal and folk, and this is nice for a change.
And the flutes, which are done by the keys, are present in the second track as well, they give it a very folk touch. It’s sometimes obvious they’re done by the keys and that’s a bit of a shame of course, but in other parts they sound very nice.
The full sound of two guitars, like we see a lot, is giving Simargl’s music a good solid basis, together with the drums and the nice bass. The folk-parts are from the keys and the vocals. The compositions are nice, too. There are no bad tracks at this album.
And the fifth track Шелест дерев is really beautiful with nice unexpected changes. And the same goes for the six track Печаль Светогора, but it’s in songs like this one, it’s too bad the ‘folk-instruments’ are done by keys, I prefer the ‘real-thing’.
The ancient gods form a large part of their lyrical themes.
When when you think it’s a pity a band like Beer Bear seized to exist, Simargl has Коляда for you. And you’ll think for one song you’re listening to the old Beer Bear. The album ends with the beautiful Ой, да боги…, what do you want more.. Or should I say, what do you want? More! Very nice album by Simargl, I enjoyed it very much. The compositions are nice, typical Slavic folk-metal. The style of the vocal is very nice. Male vocals with a folk-touch sometimes, besides the clean vocals. (folk-metal.nl)
