It is the final hour of spook season, and in the midst of most people's plans to go to costume parties, haunted attractions, or go trick-or-treating, the sacred origins of the holiday are all but ...

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To a civilian bystander there could hardly be two white pop genres less simpatico than metal and folk. On the one hand you’ve got corpse-painted quasi-fascist Vikings grunting about blood and Satan; ...

An image of what could be Stonehenge appears inside the back cover of the booklet coming with Sumer Is Icumen In – The Pagan Sound Of British & Irish Folk 1966–1975. Inside its front cover, a similar ...

Jameson Foster is an ethnomusicology PhD student at CU Boulder exploring the ways in which music is used to construct identity in and of the Nordic countries, including traditional music styles, heavy ...

Six years after their brilliant reunion album, Anastasis, Dead Can Dance return with their headiest work to date: a two-act, LP-length meditation on the Greek god of pleasure. This record skews more ...