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MONMOUTH — Heavy metal band The Horde recently released their new album, "Thy Blackened Reign", on Aug. 23 from their new label, Stormspell Records.

Eluveitie: “Anybody up for a game of Settlers of Catan?” The greatest thing about heavy metal is that you can do anything with it. There are as many sub-genres as there are bands, and leading the current horde of folk-metal heathens is Switzerland’s Eluveitie (pronounced “el-VEY-tee”).

After dropping the name SCUM and emerging as AMON AMARTH in 1992, the Swedish horde from Stockholm have been on a steady climb in the metal world ever since. Being dubbed as Viking Metal for its fascination with Vikings and 13th Century pre-Christian Norse mythology, AMON AMARTH create original, aggressive-yet-melodic death metal like no other band. With its first full-length release, Once Sent From The Golden Hal l in 1998, AMON AMARTH ’s brand of metal set them apart from their S