Folk Metal

[Slaughterhouserock]

I know I've brought up folk metal on occasion here, but I thought I'd throw out some examples for anyone interested. It's an interesting subgenre due to it's combination of metal and folk, but also because it can be from any subgenre of metal and folk music from any region. Most of it is either thrash or death metal as a base, but still, it's impossible to discount the whole subgenre due to the wide range it covers. Anyway, here's some stuff to check out if interested, in no particular order.


Finnish band, usually everyone's intro to folk metal since most of their shit is catchy.


Also Finnish, but very different style.


Russian with female vocals for people that care about that sort of thing.


Icelandic with a full orchestra.


Danish


German, also generally considered the first folk metal band. It started as a full folk band, then slowly added black metal influences into it.


Also German.


Same band, but with the original singer(no clean vocals, more black metal-ish)


Irish


Estonian


Swiss with male and female vocals. Personally can't stand the guy, but people like them.


Netherlands


From Argentina, but play Scottish/Irish folk. Weird one.


Same concept, with some of the same band members after they left Skiltron.


Italian


Faorese


Mongolian complete with throat singing.

[showa58taro]

My kind of music. I have a smattering of these to be fair but there’s room for more.