Your Favorite Viking/Folk Metal Band

[Pitiless Wanderer]

yea, thanks for recommending them to me a while back. they're an unbelievable band.

 

[Einherjar86]

No problem, always happy to hear people dig Fjoergyn.

 

[burzumkilledmayhem]

wolfchant, so far

 

[Eligos]

Have you heard Riger? You'd dig.

 

[burzumkilledmayhem]

me? and no i havent thanks

 

[_-WildChild-_]

Ensiferum and Turisas

 

[Hypnos]

 

[Mentok]

Early Ensiferum
Turisas
Haggard
Suidakra
most of all though would be TYR

 

[Hypnos]

the german Crom is a fine Bathory-worship

http://www.myspace.com/cromsrevenge

 

[Einherjar86]

I really dig Crom, but why the hell does he have "Black metal" written under his genre designation on myspace? He's not black metal at all, and he isn't even viking metal really. He plays power metal more than anything.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I know slam bands that put stuff like "disco - experimental - shoegaze" and stupid shit like that. It's not serious.

 

[Einherjar86]

He doesn't seem like the kind of artist who would joke though... unless it's an inside joke or something. I guess it could be that.

 

[Eligos]

Or maybe he actually thinks it's black metal. Like how some deathcore bands seriously believe that they play death metal.

 

[Nachthexen]

Some of my favorites:

Moonsorrow
Equilibrium
Primordial
Heidevolk
Suidakra
Ensiferum
Turisas
Falkenbach
Agalloch
Eluveitie
Orphaned Land

Great list.

 

[Draehl]

Falkenbach, though to be fair I'm no folk aficionado.

 

[JontRevolting]

Skyclad

 

[Hypnos]

^win

 

[Einherjar86]

For those who care, the new Amorphis album is great.

 

[SlayingSarah]

Turisas and Tyr. I've got to hear Tyr's latest album...

Can anyone here please tell me wtf 'pirate metal' is? I had never heard the term until yesterday.

 

[FenrirNL]

Tyr
Heidevolk
Glittertind
Turisas
Equilibrium
Heathen Foray
Menhir
Arkona
Crimfall