Elvenking - Reader Of The Runes - Luna (Album Review)

Here's the review of the album "Reader Of The Runes - Luna" by Elvenking.

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Band: Elvenking
Album: Reader Of The Runes - Luna
Years: 2025
Label: Reaper Entertainment
Genre: Folk/ Power Metal
Country of origin: Italy
Status: Active


Tracklist:

1. Season of the Owl
2. Luna
3. Gone Epoch
4. Stormcarrier
5. Starbath
6. On These Haunted Shores
7. The Ghosting
8. Throes of Atonement
9. The Weeping
10. Reader of the Runes - Book II


Elvenking discography:

2001 - Heathenreel
2004 - Wyrd
2006 - The Winter Wake
2007 - The Scythe
2008 - Two Tragedy Poets (...and a Caravan of Weird Figures)
2010 - Red Silent Tides
2012 - Era
2014 - The Pagan Manifesto
2017 - Secrets of the Magick Grimoire
2019 - Reader of the Runes: Divination
2023 - Reader of the Runes: Rapture
2025 - Reader of the Runes: Luna



Elvenking releases with this 3rd and final part of the “Reader Of The Runes” series started in 2019, an excellent folk metal album to close their trilogy.

Fans of FINNTROLL or other KORPIKLAANI will find their pleasure with similar vocal lines on heavy guitars.

The cover is superb and we find the martial sound and its orchestrations almost immediately from "Season Of The Owl", the first track, which mainly offers effective clean singing.

Folk Metal roots blend perfectly with the furious rhythms and joy of power metal.
The melodies are there, the orchestrations are perfectly placed in their place, as is the violin, which is also brought to the fore.

This album takes us on a journey, chorus after chorus, melody after melody, accompanied by heavy, groovy guitars.

Calm is felt on "The Weeping", a rather dark creation which takes on the role of a ballad, with intense moments.

The album will end with the eleven minutes of "Reader of the Runes - Book II", a sort of epic and majestic finale.

As a finale to the Reader Of Runes trilogy that has captivated fans for five years, Reader of Runes – Luna ends this trilogy with class.

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   • ELVENKING - Gone Epoch (Official Music Video)  

   • ELVENKING - Luna (Official Music Video)  

   • ELVENKING - The Ghosting (Official Lyric V...  

   • ELVENKING - Throes of Atonement (Official ...  

   • Season Of The Owl