Waldkrach (German for “Forest Crash” or “Forest Commotion”) is my second and current folk metal music project. It was established in haste in September 2023, when I was about to release a professionally-produced EP of folk metal music,. This would turn out to the Waldkrach EP, released on September 12, 2023.

Beginnings

I had released two albums with my folk metal project, Linnalapsi (2010’s Laulu linnalapsien and 2012’s Menneisyyden Laulut). I intended to continue a quick and steady pace with Linnalapsi releases, but the compositions got more complex, and this time around, everything would be professionally produced. By the time the songs were done, a lot of time had passed, and, in a conversation with bestie and frequent collaborator Ralph Blanchard, we realized that the new crop of songs had very little similarity to the older Linnalapsi songs. It was decided that I should release the new songs under a new name. Since I had one day to deliver all band information to the mixer for the metadata, I tried many combinations of German words, and decided on Waldkrach, the first syllable meaning forest, and the second meaning “noise,” “rumpus”, “crash”, and so on.

Furture

Waldkrach

External Links:

Waldkrach at Bandcamp
Waldkrach at

A full album of Waldkrach songs is now in the works, with an unknown future release date.