Mithotyn

In 1999 Mithotyn released their last album "Gathered Around the Oaken Table", an album filled with soothing and intriguing melodies, Black Metal ferocity, and your classic Metal heaviness. The vocal work consists most of the time of strained Black Metal rasps, dark growls, some clean chanting vocals. People who like Folk Metal, Viking Metal and Black Metal will enjoy Mithotyn's music. The Folk elements, the Viking lyrics and the musical influences from black metal are greatly mixed in this album. The album is very melodic and soothing but also heavy, catchy and aggressive, and intense at times. But the album is not as heavy as other Viking Meal bands, like Amon Amarth. Thanks to a great song variety makes this album to a long-lasting album, if you like it you will definitely want to listen it over and over again. If there are any Vikings left out there, then raise your horns and hail Mithotyn so they will always be remembered!

In the Sign of the Ravens is the debut studio album by the Swedish Viking/Black metal band Mithotyn, originally released in 1997. Championed as a cult-classic of the early Scandinavian pagan metal scene, it features harsh vocals, folk-influenced melodies, and Norse mythology themes. Remastered by Nightside Audio (God Macabre, Skymning) and with new fantastic artwork by Kris Verwimp with respect to the original.

Four years after forming in Sweden and releasing several demos, Mithotyn's patience and hard work paid off with the release of their first full length "In the Sign of the Ravens" in 1997. This almost unheard-of band wasted no time recording their next record the same year and the result is "King of the Distant Forest", containing 11 tracks. Released in 1998, the band has more fully matured and developed their own sound. This album could be labeled many genres. Viking Metal, Folk Metal, Black Metal, Pagan Metal, whatever you want to call it, doesn't matter. The riffs are highly catchy and have a heavy, fast, melodic and definite folk influence to them. The vocals are quite Black Metal-ish and could best be described as high-pitched shrieks and growls. There is even a hint of Power Metal influence in the songs.