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Thread: Folk Metal
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2012-10-14, 02:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Folk Metal
So I was watching this video on Youtube where a musican demonstrates various different styles of metal music and 'folk metal' pops up at about 1 minute in: link.
Googling 'folk metal' gives me this page on Last.fm and I've been listening to a few - does anybody have any further suggestions on good 'folk metal' bands?
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2012-10-14, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Folk Metal
I don't know Folk Metal groups that sing in English; but I love Mägo de Oz (a Spaniard band), here is a link to one of my favourite songs from them "La Cruz de Santiago"
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2012-10-14, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Folk Metal
Heidevolk. Now and forever. Some of their best songs are Het Bier Zal Weer Vloeien, Wodan Heerst, Vulgaris Magistralis, Saksenland, and Nehalennia. Saskenland is probably my favorite of those.
I also feel that Lumsk deserves mention since I didn't see it on that list. Their Åsmund Frægdegjevar was a really good listen. I Lytinne Tvĺ being my favorite off that CD. Followed closely by Ormin lange.Last edited by Tebryn; 2012-10-14 at 02:45 PM.
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2012-10-14, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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While In Flames might not be playing folk metal, some of their earlier albums do have songs that remind of it. Check out Moonshield, Dialogue with the stars, and for some actual folk Pallar Anders Visa and (with some metal in it) Hårgalåten. Here's how Hårgalåten sounds sung more traditional folk style.
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2012-10-14, 02:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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And while it's not exactly Folk Metal, it is a cover. Van Canto's Bard's Tale is simply awesome.
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2012-10-14, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Folk Metal
Korpikliklanni I don't think I need say much more.
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2012-10-14, 03:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Folk Metal
Another one that popped into my head, not sure how much Folk Metal they are but Falconer is pretty epic. Clarion Call and Portals of Light both rater good songs
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2012-10-14, 03:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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TROLLHAMMAREEEEENNNNN!!!!Apostrophe's.
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2012-10-14, 03:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Folk Metal
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2012-10-14, 04:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Folk Metal
We actually have a Metal Thread for this, but
Eluveitie
Ensiferium
Turisas
Skyclad
Orphaned Land
Black Messiah
Wolfchant
Agalloch
Finntroll
In Extremo
Celtic Legacy
I would also go as far as saying Gallowbraid and Alcest
"Folk Metal" is more a fusion type of genre that you tend to find mixed in with other types of Metal.Last edited by Nameless; 2012-10-14 at 04:50 PM.
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2012-10-14, 05:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ivan Tzarevich is a Russian folk metal band. They had a bunch of their stuff free on their site, but their domain registration expired.
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2012-10-14, 09:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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The first real folk metal band was Skyclad. Give them a listen; they've got very good lyrical style.
Agalloch aren't folk metal perse, but they're folky. Also worth a listen.
Bathory is another excellent folk metal band, and very well respected.
Note that all of these examples are more on the metal side than the folk side.i am going to make it through this year
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2012-10-14, 09:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm eager to know what you think of all the bands listed here, even though there are quite a number of them, Brother Oni.
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2012-10-14, 10:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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As Nameless said, there is a general Metal thread in which to ask these questions, but while I'm here I'll mention some bands from the Middle Eastern side of Folk Metal.
Orphaned Land - This song is from what is generally regarded as their best album, though I'm personally more fond of the heavier, slightly less folky follow up.
Myrath - very Symphony X-esque Power/Prog on the metal side, with Folk influences from their native Tunisia mixed in.
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2012-10-15, 02:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hey, if you're gonna post anything from Mabool, It should obviously be this.
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2012-10-15, 04:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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All of that, yes.
Here's a few more (and I'm going to throw some Viking metal in, because it seems people can't tell the two apart):
Someone mentioned Bathory - who was actually the progenitor of Viking metal
Dalriada
Elvenking
Einherjer - pure Viking metal
Equilibrium
Falkenbach - Bathory-inspired Viking metal
Finsterforst
Folkearth - actually not a single band, but a collaboration between various folk metal bands throughout the world. Music quality is a bit hit-and-miss, but the albums feature a variety of styles. Some are pretty good.
Someone mentioned Lumsk as well
Moonsorrow
Svartsot
And then there's like Subway to Sally and Tanzwut and Umbra et Imago (I actually wanted to link a song called "Teutonen lied", but damned if I could find it. I may have hallucinated this) and stuff for "medieval metal", which is kinda-sorta-not really the same as folk metal.Awesome fremetar by wxdruid.
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2012-10-15, 04:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Feytalist beat me to recommending Folkearth, so I'll second it. They're partly folk metal, partly other. I like 'em, but they are hit n' miss. Wolfsong in Moonlight (Fenris Unbound) is absolutely NOT folk at all, but it's right up there as far as my favorites by them. Also, Rhyming with Thunder, but I imagine it's not for everyone.
Nordman is probably very folk metal. Swedish, I believe. I can't understand a single word he's saying, but he seems very passionate about it, whatever "it" is that he's singing about. Still really like it.
I can't provide links, because I can't get to youtube from here; it irritates me no end when someone offers up a link to it, and it could be interesting. I will cease to be irritated by it after November rolls around though.I used to live in a world of terrible beauty, and then the beauty left.
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2012-10-15, 06:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ooops, I didn't see the Metal thread. I'll request to get this thread merged.
I'm trying to work my way through the list, although if my wife rolls her eyes much more, she's going to end up resembling Cookie Monster in a washing machine.
My children are also complaining that I'm playing it too loud.
Medieval metal sounds interesting - a quick google search gives me Corvus Corax and I've realised I've watched one of their videos (Dulcemissa?) where they ride onto the stage on a chariot.
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2012-10-15, 06:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Corvus Corax is awesome. I debated mentioning them, because their music isn't really metal, but some of their side projects/related acts include the already mentioned In Extremo and Tanzwut.
But yeah, real medieval instruments, bird costumes, musicians leaping and cavorting on stage - just good old fashioned medieval type music.
Here's Bacchus and Skudrinka from their first - acoustic only - album.Awesome fremetar by wxdruid.
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2012-10-15, 02:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Faun! Pagan Folk Metal.
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2012-10-15, 02:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Folk Metal
The holy Trinity: Finntroll, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani.
I think they actually know each other quite well.
In Extremo is hugely popular with my friends, but I guess being German plays a significant part in it. Though I like them a lot more than Corvus Corax.Last edited by Yora; 2012-10-15 at 03:02 PM.
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2012-10-15, 03:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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This isn't the metal thread?
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This isn't the metal thread!
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2012-10-15, 07:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Folk Metal
I can mention Folkstone a folk metal band from Bergamo (North Italy), they heavily use the baghet, a traditional medieval bagpipe in the area of Brescia/Bergamo (and also a traditional definition of beer belly:D).
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2012-10-16, 01:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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The last one. Although here the second and the third parties you mentioned are probably in cahoots, as well as the second limiting the first one because they suck like that and hide behind "up to X Mbps throughput", and have said as much that they limit bandwidth to foreign sites when called and asked point blank. At least I'll be back in the States in time for Halloween and not dealing with these issues.
Be pretty happy to get a VPN when I get back, too. I dare not try it here, since the second "they" become aware of one that works, it gets canned, else you have the one and only one that proudly says, "State approved". Yeah, right, that's trustworthy.
But anyway, folk metal yay! I was very happy to discover this was a thing, if mostly outside the States. One of my long long ago classmates said she really like "pirate metal" which is apparently also a thing. Epica, specifically, though whether it's really pirate metal or not is left for more seasons music lovers than myself. Iseehear similiarites, though.I used to live in a world of terrible beauty, and then the beauty left.
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2012-10-16, 02:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's really not. The type of swinging work shanties that we think of as "pirate" or "nautical" music is present in a couple of folk bands - I'm thinking of Finntroll's more bouncy songs specifically - but there's not really anything like that in Epica's music.
If we're talking pirate metal, here's Alestorm (and I can't believe no-one in this thread, myself included, thought to mention them). There's a few other similar bands, but this here's probably the best.Awesome fremetar by wxdruid.
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2012-10-16, 10:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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While Arkona is Pagan Metal, they have some serious Folk influence in their music.
Also, this thread doesn't have enough Folk Black Metal. Some Adorned Brood will help fix that.Last edited by JabberwockySupafly; 2012-10-16 at 10:14 PM.
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Holy Blood
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Awesome fremetar by wxdruid.
From the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. I do not need to be comfortable, and I will not take refuge. I demand to *know*.
So I guess I have an internets? | And a trophy. | And a music cookie (whatever that is).