The Faröer Islands is a small island chain above England, and so damn small you would not expect a band there. Well, there is actually one band that made themselves quite popular and that band is Tyr. Metalrage reviewed their previous recording “Eric The Red” and now it’s time for Tyr’s latest offering called “Ragnarok” This band is particullary interesting because they have songs in their native language, which sounds very original and fun. The musical description of this band is a heavy kind of folk metal, with some turns to viking metal. 

 

This album starts out with ‘The Beginning’ and it is instantly heard that they have changed their music style a little bit. The previous record was quite interesting with some stiff necked riffs, but this is rather slow and sleep inducing. I certainly can appreciate the slower riffs and drums, but the bad thing is that there aren’t any up tempo songs on the whole album. I really would have liked some more tracks like ‘The Ride To Hel’, because there is some decent music in that song. 

Well, I must confess that I started to appreciate this album a lot more when I listened to it a couple of times. I also liked the songs in the native language on their previous record, and luckily they recorded a couple of songs in that language on “Ragnarok” as well. These songs are called ‘Torsteins Kvædi’ and ‘Grímur Á Midalnesi’ and I personally like it a lot. There is some excellent guitarwork on this album that will certainly freak some guitar fans out.