AKTARUM – Gang of Trolls CD
Self Released
Within the confines of extreme metal you’re going to find a few bands that push the envelope within their basic genre and become more of a parody then a serious musical act. When Belgium’s NERGEL split up, three ex-members continued their musical careers by creating AKTARUM and troll metal. Yeah there are bands within the pagan folk metal genre that do their far share of songs about trolls; FINTROLL and TROLLFEST are two such bands and I think KORPIKLAANI has a song or two about the little bastards. But those bands are somewhat more diverse as far as lyrical themes. Basically what ALESTORM is to pirates and piracy AKTARUM is to trolls. Has this band been signed to Paganfest Europe yet?
Musically these guys bring nothing new to the table at all. It’s fairly generic folk metal with black metal styled vocals and keyboards overwhelming everything even the guitars. Their song titles are somewhat funny; “Jurassik Troll”, “Rock n Troll”, “March of the Trolls”, “Black Troll”, and ten others although not all having the word troll in their title. Honestly I have no idea what a troll is. I’ve read Lord of the Rings but those were Orcs, right and no relation? Gang of Trolls isn’t a bad release if you like you folk metal humorous.
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