Folk Metal Night: Isatha + Runika + Cronica

A december folk metal night at VooDoo Club with guests from Hungary and Jaworzno.

Formed in 2010, the Budapest band Isatha plays a heavy variety of folk metal with harsh vocals and hard-hitting riffs. Influenced by Germanic folk metal artists, they've released three studio albums so far, the latest of which is 2023's From Here to Beyond.

Runika is a Warsaw band with charismatic female vocals, playing folk-inspired melodies in a sturdy metal style. While playing they combine mysticism with the energy of the four elements, bringing listeners to the epic battles, great feasts, secrets enchanted in statues and unusual creatures in the scrounge.

The music of Jaworzno, Poland folk metal band Cronica is a kind of mix of different styles characterizing particular regions. Cronica is seven people bringing to the band their individual sense of folklore, which means that the music they create is not clichéd and often combines very diverse varieties of melodies originating from folk traditions. The band combines heavy guitar sounds with instruments reflecting the atmosphere of medieval ballads, sailing songs, novels, passes, legends and other folk songs. Their music does not only revolve around one genre, which is folk.