Your Favorite Viking/Folk Metal Band

[Seditious]

Also I'm not sure where to classify bands such as these:
Forseti
Tenhi
Death In June

Neofolk

 

[Seditious]

Well what about Orphaned Land then? Are they a top priority to be checking out?

if you like Middle-Eastern influences and heavy/prog kinda metal.

If so, which album first?

All their albums sound the same, so you can check any of them out--if you like the style you'll figure out for yourself if one of them is better than the others.

 

[DeadWinterDay]

I wonder...are there are folk/post metal crossovers? It doesn't seem like they would necessarily mix all that well, but I like both genres well enough so it's a curiosity.

Neofolk

ah i meant i know theyre neofolk but some are a mixture of other things and they really dont belong up top. I could have put Ashtar down there too.

Also with that link I forgot Of the Wand & the Moon but I dont think ive heard ANYTHING else listed there, I'm suprised I don't atleast know Empyrium their stuff came out in the era of when I was looking for it

edit: Naervaer too. im a big fan of green carnation and in the woods how the fuck do i miss these things?

 

[Seditious]

ah i meant i know theyre neofolk but some are a mixture of other things

oh.
I'm not that familiar with Death In June, I just recall them being a bit eclectic.
Tenhi is a bit more mellow Rock-like than most Neofolk, but Forseti seem practically archetypal of the genre.
I've always been content to think of them all as just Neofolk, probably because I don't listen to much of it.

I dont think ive heard ANYTHING else listed there

Vali is worth checking out. and Halgadom (though some of their material is Pagan BM, but their page explains which are the neofolk albums/halfalbums).

p.s.
which Ancient were you referring to (the one from Norway or Sweden)?

 

[Goffdahl]

edit: Naervaer too. im a big fan of green carnation and in the woods how the fuck do i miss these things?

If this is the case, then you should definitely take a shot with Drawn. Both the full-length and the EP are excellent.

 

[Einherjar86]

New find. These guys are pretty heavy on the black metal:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHNUsNndNow&playnext=1&list=PL78791D88AD129BA5[/ame]

 

[Der Morgenstern]

You've been slumming it on Northern Warriors, I see.

 

[Einherjar86]

It's one of my resources.

EDIT: I didn't download it though. I just saw they uploaded it and checked it out on youtube, which has the entire album.

 

[Seditious]

New find. These guys are pretty heavy on the black metal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHNUsNndNow&playnext=1&list=PL78791D88AD129BA5

as far as Canada goes, I much prefer Nordheim.

 

[Einherjar86]

I always check out the new Canadian folk/black scene, but I've yet to find something that tops Black Lotus for me.

 

[Einherjar86]

I might be alone in this, but I find the new Wolfchant to be epic and fun.

 

[Wolves83]

Bathory of course lol

 

[chet]

Bathory of course lol

That and Crimfall.

I just listened Crimfall's new album from here and it sounds so immense. My ears are freezing

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

too much of the same imo.

 

[Wolves83]

too much of the same imo.

too much of the same, what is that supposed to mean?

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Crimfall are a guilty pleasure aka. turn off my last.fm toggler stuff.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

On the topic of the whole favourite Viking/Folk bands, etc.

Kroda
Nokturnal Mortum
Windir
Bathory
Enslaved
Ereb Altor

 

[Einherjar86]

Awesome list. I need to check out Kroda; I've heard good things.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Nokturnal Mortum is amazing.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

wtf, you havent checked out Kroda?
actually listening to them right now. heh. good stuff