i was expecting your post ...
Go to your local bar and hang out with the Mortician NYDM people ... it just makes me laugh when I hear the "we are americans and wanna form a viking/bm band".
At least, you could come up with a fantasy theme band but don't portray yourself as we are viking and in 2 weeks you can check our myspace site signed by all my viking buddies from highschool.
Before, everybody was in the gore, we are the next cannibal corpse, then came the we are the next most evil anti christian band and now being viking is the next big thing in metal.
The day an american band really embraces the american culture and comes up with a western-cowboy blackmetal band or a i bomb your country black metal band or fastfood blackmetal led by obese teenagers then I will be happy.