Týr - holy shit these guys are tight.

[DE]

only satanic music can be black metal so i don't see why we're beating around the bush

 

[Mort Divine]

only satanic music can be black metal so i don't see why we're beating around the bush

...

Dumbass.

 

[Erik]

...

Dumbass.

reminder: you're 15

 

[Mort Divine]

reminder: you're 15

Mental age good sir.

 

[Erik]

Mental age good sir.

reminder: you're 12

 

[skeptik]

So you consider Viking Metal a genre?

 

[Mort Divine]

Erik, please fuck off.

I do indeed consider it a genre.

 

[Susperia]

I'm siding with Ex-cally-boo.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

it is a genre.

 

[The_Isle]

however I think it's abit unfair to categorise all epic sounding metal bands of this type as viking, because vikings just describe a particular group of people. What about those "viking" bands that sing about celts?

 

[Impudent]

Maybe it would be better named "heathen metal".

 

[byrne]

Ásmegin
Turisas
Equilibrium

All good folk-y/epic bands.

Fuck the "viking metal" tag.

^

not a genre. "viking metal" means fuck all. if someone can actually explain how a band meets the "viking metal" genre definition, then i might actually take it into consideration. however, there doesn't appear to be any consistent use of the label, other than through lyrics (and even that is used loosley).

 

[Susperia]

Maybe it would be better named "heathen metal".

Probably... but since when does a genres name have to accuratly pinpoint what every band of that genre sings/writes about? It will never happen...

 

[skeptik]

Since when was a new genre necessary when there's already a proper term for it?

 

[Mort Divine]

It works alot better than saying Epic Folk/Black.

 

[skeptik]

You mean descriptively?

 

[Mort Divine]

Well in terms of how they sound yes.

 

[skeptik]

Viking describes how they sound more than Folk/Black?

 

[Mort Divine]

As I said before, compare Wyrd and Moonsorrow. Both have elements of Folk and Black, but Moonsorrow as sure as hell "more" than just Folk/Black. They have that extra "epic" feel to their music, which constitutes the "Viking" tag.

Sure it sounds stupid, sure it probably is stupid, but I've grown used to using it as it is simpler in my mind.

 

[skeptik]

You're just...wrong. But whatever.