Havamal are a band from Sweden that has been featured before in this zine and plays a melodic mixture of black, folk, viking, death and power metal and this is a review of their 2025 album "Age Of the Gods" which will be released in November by Art Gates Records.
Tribal style drumming starts off the album along with some orchestration and epic sounding keyboards which also mixes in with the heavier sections of the songs at times. Vocals are mostly black metal screams mixed in with some death metal growls and the solos and leads are also done in a very melodic style.
When the music speeds up a decent amount of blast beats can also be heard while the songs also add in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. Melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing along with the album also adding in touches of folk metal at times mixed in with some power metal style melodies in the solos and leads, all of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them.
On this recording Havamal tales the melodic sides of black, death and viking metal and mixes it with folk and power metal to create a sound that is very epic and modern sounding. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Norse Mythology and Paganism themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Havamal and if you are a fan of black, viking, folk, melodic death and power metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "The Pagan Path" "The Shaman' and "Ashwalker". 8 out of 10.

Havamal is a blast. The mrlodic nature of the death metal genre is one of a kind in the scene. Allthough i have to admit that the band is doing very well live too. Hail Havamal!
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