There’s been a lot happening in the realm of dark, acoustic folk music lately: and following in the footsteps of the likes of King Dude or Me And That Man, we now have the Hungarian singer/songwriter Dávid Makó abandoning his metal roots (amusingly, he still refers to some of his gentle, strummed melodies as “riffs”) for this vastly intimate, deeply melancholic style of musical expression. Under the moniker of The Devil’s Trade, he has been producing minimalist compositions since 2018 and his latest record, The Call of The Iron Peak, cements his status among the aforementioned luminaries. Imagine, for a moment, the atmosphere of natural splendour crafted by the likes of Wardruna or Danheim, coupled with the hard-drinking bluegrass instrumentation of The Devil Makes Three, played back at ha...
