I swear to what ever deity you choose to (dis)believe in that the first track from Eifur has those pitchbent chipmunk vocals. I'm not kidding, near the end of Drangen Och Krakan you can hear them in the background and they're not exactly drowned out. Fejd's take on Folk Metal is mercifully away from the standard happy-clappy stuff that the genre's often associated with. Infact you'd be hard pressed to call it metal at all. It definitely feels like it belongs there, but they abstain from using guitars at almost every turn, resorting on a multitude of layered traditional instruments to create a rather interesting depth to the proceedings. The arrangements of the songs all have that familiar feel but are rendered in a new light. take, for example, Arv which opens like something from a Black Metal song, all tremolo picking but instead on an acoustic guitar before the rest comes in to compliment the feeling further. It's not an isolated incident, there are many "heavy" parts littered throughout the album, such as on the title track and its blastbeats. It's strange at first listen, but Fejd have managed to make it work, so kudos to them!

The music has a certain charm to it that makes you want to keep listening to the album. It clearly lend themselves to the storytelling nature of the lyrics, it's just a shame I don't speak Swedish to understand them... The performances on the album are very good, the vocals bring a feeling of sitting round a campfire in the middle of the woods somewhere and as mentioned about the folk instruments bring a different feel and depth to the songs. The only weakness I have is with the drums as they sound like samples and it dampens the overall effect of an otherwise natural sounding album. This'll not be for everybody, no doubt people will decry it's "metal" status but for its uniqueness it deserves to be praised. If you go into it without any of the standard Folk Metal preconceptions you'll enjoy it a lot more. And if you understand the language, perhaps even moreso.