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Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterised by the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles (for example, Dutch Heidevolk, Danish Sylvatica and Spanish Stone of Erech).
The folk metal genre is a fusion of heavy metal music with folk music. This includes the widespread use of folk instruments [2] and to a lesser extent traditional singing styles. [3] The music of folk metal is characterised by its diversity with bands known to perform different styles of heavy metal music and folk music. [4]
The earliest example of folk metal was the English band Golgotha, whose 1984 EP Dangerous Games contained a mixture of new wave of British heavy metal and folk styles. The genre was not further developed, however, until the emergence of another English band, Skyclad. Their debut album The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth was released in 1990. It ...
Pagan metal is a genre of heavy metal music which fuses extreme metal with "the pre-Christian traditions of a specific culture or region" through thematic concept, rustic melodies, unusual instruments or archaic languages, [1] [2] usually referring to folk metal or black metal.
Eluveitie (/ ɛ l ˈ v eɪ t i / el-VAY-tee; German: [ɛlˈfaɪ̯tiː]) [1] is a Swiss folk metal band from Winterthur, Zürich, founded in 2002 by Chrigel Glanzmann. The project's first demo, Vên, was released in 2003. Vên was a studio project of Glanzmann's, but its success led to the recruitment of a full band.
This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, and others. While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in U.S. English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music.
Folk metal songs (7 C, 1 P) V. Viking metal (3 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Folk metal" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Folk metal musical groups by subgenre (4 C) Pages in category "Folk metal musical groups" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.