Your Favorite Viking/Folk Metal Band

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i hate fiddles, flutes n shit in metal

 

[Einherjar86]

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Dude, you should check these guys out:

i hate fiddles, flutes n shit in metal

Thanks for adding so much to our discussion. You could have used the time you wasted posting that to actually say something valuable in another thread.

 

[Burning In Hell]

Agalloch
Bathory
Satyricon

 

[Cythraul]

Nice list. I've still yet to check out Skyforger, but I plan on doing so soon. Which album would you recommend?

Semigalls' Warchant which is their demo, and Kauja Pie Saules which is their debut album. Their later albums depart from the folk-tinged black metal style. Latvian Riflemen is not really a folk metal album, but rather more of a black metal/heavy metal hybrid. Swordsong is just a straight up folk album. Thunderforge is definitely folk metal, but it's more accessible than their earlier works (and therefore less interesting, as far as I'm concerned).

 

[Element_man]

Ensiferum
Windir
Elexorien
Temnozor
Nokturnal Mortum
Arkona
Borknagar
Obtest
Skyclad
Asmegin (new album coming, fuck yeeeea)
Eldgammel
Oakhelm
Dark Forest
Equilibrium
Orphaned Land
Primordial
Moonsorrow
Suidakra
Tyr
Waylander
Mistur

Can't think of any more but they are there

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I still dont own the new Menhir, where the fuck can I get it while not having to order from Europe?

 

[Ultimate_Symphony]

Temnozor'
Empyrium
Nokturnal Mortum
Einherjer
Helheim
Primordial
Windir
Manegarm
Negura Bunget
Aeternus (even though it is more black metal than folk)
Ulver (Bergtatt only)

 

[Hatebreeder]

I don't listen to many folk/viking bands, but I really enjoy Bathory, Vintersorg, Temnozor, Nokturnal Mortum, and Borknagar.

 

[Tennyson]

Dude, you should check these guys out:

ooo I like it, gonna check some more of their stuff out.

And for the record I just read through this entire thread and there needs to be more moonsorrow love!

 

[Allfader]

Kampfar
Vintersorg
Ulver (Bergtatt and Kveldsjanger)
Otyg
Borknagar
Falkenbach
Enslaved
Asmegin
Empyrium

From Chile:
Uaral
Forestfather (recording the debut)

 

[chuj666]

AMON AMARTH

 

[Allfader]

AMON AMARTH

I've noticed that a lot of people thinks that AA are really viking metal.

They are NOT viking/folk metal. They sound like melodic death metal, but their lyrics are norse myth.

 

[SoulIntent]

Turisas
Ensiferum
Eluveitie
Einherjer
Tyr
Profugus Mortis

 

[Belligerent]

Turisas
Ensiferum
Eluveitie
Einherjer
Tyr
Profugus Mortis

Good first post there, minus Tyr which are kind of a bore.

 

[Einherjar86]

Profugus Mortis

Interesting call. I wouldn't have called them folk or viking metal; still a great band though.

 

[chuj666]

I've noticed that a lot of people thinks that AA are really viking metal.

They are NOT viking/folk metal. They sound like melodic death metal, but their lyrics are norse myth.

your right but they are TRUE vikings

 

[Metaldud]

Amon Amarth
Turisas
Tyr
Korpiklaani
Finntroll
Ensiferum
Eluveite
XIV Dark Centuries
Arkona

 

[chuj666]

I've just discovered this band Kivimetsän Druidi it's symphonic folk metal kind of reminds me of Battlelore

 

[Einherjar86]

I've just discovered this band Kivimetsän Druidi it's symphonic folk metal kind of reminds me of Battlelore

I have their album. Not my favorite, but definitely a good band.

 

[IrishEnkeli]

Turisas
Ensiferum
Eluveitie
Einherjer
Korpiklaani
Finntroll
Arkona
Amon Amarth