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Offline 2112

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Viking/Folk Metal
« on: Sep 13, 2008, 08:26:16 PM »
With all the Scandinavians on this board I was wondering if there were any other fans of Viking or Folk metal, specifically bands such as Ensiferum, Tyr, Amon Amarth and Eluveitie.
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #1 on: Sep 13, 2008, 09:46:47 PM »
wintersun!
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #2 on: Sep 13, 2008, 09:58:13 PM »
Quote from: nocturnous on Sep 13, 2008, 09:46:47 PM
wintersun!

Wintersun is great, but I really wish that Jari would has stuck out with Ensiferum.
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #3 on: Sep 13, 2008, 10:27:54 PM »
Quote from: 2112 on Sep 13, 2008, 09:58:13 PM
Quote from: nocturnous on Sep 13, 2008, 09:46:47 PM
wintersun!

Wintersun is great, but I really wish that Jari would has stuck out with Ensiferum.

meh they did about as much as they could and I missed fintroll last month :(
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #4 on: Sep 14, 2008, 12:50:11 AM »
I have a very love/hate relationship with it.  The music is almost always awesome - but then the lyrics almost always being in a foreign language and a lot of it being a screamy/death metally vocal tone has always been a deal breaker for me :(
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #5 on: Sep 14, 2008, 12:39:36 PM »
Does Dethklok qualify?
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #6 on: Sep 15, 2008, 10:27:32 AM »
Korplikanni, Finntroll... good drinking music.

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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #7 on: Sep 16, 2008, 11:52:43 AM »
I was never into viking metal, but I had a period of black metal. Mayhem, Emperor, Dimmu Borgir and the likes.
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #8 on: Sep 23, 2008, 05:08:20 PM »
Not a fan of most viking metal (though I'm not that well-versed in the genre), however I do have some albums by Borknagar, Solefald and Enslaved.
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #9 on: Dec 06, 2010, 04:54:06 PM »
I really like Tyr, which was brought to my attention by a fellow DJ from Iceland. Epic stuff, very stirring =)
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #10 on: Dec 07, 2010, 08:18:21 AM »
I think it's safe to assume I'm the biggest fan of Pagan/Folk/Viking Metal on the forum -_-
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #11 on: Dec 07, 2010, 09:00:38 AM »
Quote from: LucretiaUK on Dec 06, 2010, 04:54:06 PM
I really like Tyr, which was brought to my attention by a fellow DJ from Iceland. Epic stuff, very stirring =)

check out Heljareyga's self-titled debut. Has Týr's vocalist/guitarist, so the music is pretty similar, but it's maybe a little more technical.
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #12 on: Dec 07, 2010, 09:03:27 AM »
Anybody know anything about Grand Magus?

They were a fairly entertaining band that I saw last weekend opening for Motorhead in Stuttgart.

They sang songs like "Hammer Of The North" and "Ravens Guide Our Way" but they were much more Blind Guardian / Iron Maiden style power metal rather than any Norwegian style stuff.

Fun, cotton candy, metal.
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #13 on: Dec 07, 2010, 09:12:44 AM »
Quote from: Black_Magic on Sep 14, 2008, 12:50:11 AM
I have a very love/hate relationship with it.  The music is almost always awesome - but then the lyrics almost always being in a foreign language and a lot of it being a screamy/death metally vocal tone has always been a deal breaker for me :(


plenty of it doesn't have harsh vocals / vokills / whatever you wanna call 'em, it's just a matter of what subgenre you're looking at.

sure, a lot of it isn't in English, but most lyrics are stupid, and English isn't that great of a language anyway, aesthetically speaking.

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pagan vocals: (much harder to make a short-list of these)
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Re: Viking/Folk Metal
« Reply #14 on: Dec 07, 2010, 09:16:13 AM »
Quote from: stonesean on Dec 07, 2010, 09:03:27 AM
Anybody know anything about Grand Magus?


had never heard of them
M-A lists them just as Heavy Metal
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=7162

do they have anything like Blind Guardian's "Bard's Song (In the Forest)"?
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