Mithotyn – Gathered Around The Oaken Table (CD)

Mithotyn occupy a specific and significant corner of the late-1990s Swedish black/folk metal underground, blending melodic black metal aggression with Viking-age folk imagery before the subgenre calcified into cliché. This 1999 debut from the Linköping quartet arrived just as Scandinavian folk metal was finding its footing, and the band's subsequent disbanding makes the catalog feel all the more finite and worth preserving. For collectors who came to this music through Enslaved or early Månegarm, tracking down original pressings has never been easy.