Turisas! Fintroll! Eluveitie! Metsatoll! Korpiklaani! Skyforger! Arkona! Orphaned Land! Falconer! Lumsk! What's your fave band? Which Mathias superior, Mathias Lilmans or Mathias Nygard? Do you prefer your folk metal more metal or more folky? Which folk music tradition would you like to see represented in metal? Does it count as folk metal if it just has traditional themes, or should there be folk elements in the instrumentation too? Who's got the most majestic flowing locks in the scene (beards count!)?
ELUVEITIE -yells- sorry im just rly attache to that band. rly great. although i have a very soft spot for korpiklaani, who were the first folk metal band i listened to. does moonsorrow count? bc damn i love that band. especially their 1/2 hr long track Tulimyrsky.
I like Eluveitie a lot and need to listen to more of their stuff. I also like Cruachan and really need to find more Irish folk metal. Much more of it. SO MUCH MORE BECAUSE RELIGION.
I LOOOOOVE Korpiklaani, especially their more shamanism-themed stuff. Also really dug Jonne Jarvela's solo album, which was extra shamanism-y. Eluveitie is fun, but I have trouble taking them too seriously because they literally hired Richard Dawkins to provide spoken word vocals on their new album. And their whole "Romans suck" thing kinda makes me roll my eyes because like. Dude. That happened 2000 years ago. Sing about druid stuff instead, I liked that better.
I really fuckin' love Eluveitie, and I also like Suidakra (there's more Irish shit for you, @Aondeug ) and Tyr a whole lot. ....Also, most of Celtic mythology happened at least 2000 years or more ago, and Romans sucking is a very important part of that cultural history. :P like, you're welcome to not like it, but if you're saying it's not relevant to Celtic shit, it kinda is. Also also I am doing my dissertation on folk metal and mythology! Excitement! edit: do you have a source on that? I'd like to read about it, but I can't find anything on Google - he doesn't seem to have been a part of Origins, and I can't find anything about him being hired for Evocation II either
Oh my god, I'm an idiot; It was Nightwish who got Richard Dawkins, for Endless Forms Most Beautiful. So, Eluveitie is still kinda wanky (and i mean that in the most affectionate way possible) but not half as wanky as Nightwish.
That makes more sense! I was a bit confused - I couldn't really imagine getting Dawkins as a collaborator for extremely pagan music would work out well for any parties. :P (Unrelatedly, I love that I infected most of the people in this thread with the Eluveitie bug, and possibly with the folk metal bug overall. >_> spreading music to new people is one of my favourite things)
(lmao I'm embarrassed about that... I cannot believe I confused Eluveitie with Nightwish. I'm usually a lot more careful than that -_-) If I could infect people with a band I would highly recommend Orphaned Land. They're from Israel and they sing a lot about cultural understanding between the Abrahamic faiths. Middle Eastern sounds fit really well with their doomy feel. What other metal do you listen to?
MORE IRISH SHIT WHOOOOOOO. Also yay let's get on the fuck Rome train. It is almost as fun as the fuck England train. Blah blah the English are evil. *looks at lib with a grin* Really though these trains of fuck you are vital things. And I can say with pride "my people struck fear into the hearts of the Romans with the cúnna".
I fucking love metal. Especially Nightwish, but also other bands whose names I've forgotten because it's late. I'm taking every band mentioned here as a recommendation.
Aaaaaah <3 I was more into metal before but I love Fintroll. I should dig up the stuff my friend does she did some music video direction for some bands, though I think it was less folk metal and more death metal. She is the one who introduced me to Fintroll. No lie we ended up dancing/jumping around pretending we were dancing around a fire in a forest with that. I like Nightwish but it's sound is now tied in my head to a dude who was my friend before he turned insistent/creepy about being in love with me so now I can't listen to the entire poet and the pendulum album without wanting to stuff myself into a pillow and bite things in mortification.
yeeeeeee folk metal pagan metal viking metal GO! I super <3 Korpiklaani and Arkona and Finntroll and Turisas and Eluveitie and Suidakra, and also I haven't seen Tyr or XIV Dark Centuries or In Extremo listed yet but I super <3 them as well! Listening to Tyr and looking up stuff about them was how I finally stopped getting the Faroes and the Hebrides confused. Also way back in 2007 or so I got to see Finntroll live down in Detroit and got knocked flying out of the mosh pit during Trollhammaren and scooped back up by two people almost before I'd realised I'd landed A+++ would experience again.
@Raire I can get into some death metal! I like Amon Amarth and Dethklok, and Swedish melodeath types like November's Doom. I also like some power, doom, and black metal. @littlepinkbeast I dream of the day I'll get to experience a mosh pit for myself. I saw Evanescence live as a teenager and it was so great. Also yes, I do like some Tyr! Their Faroese language stuff is so cool. Same to Korpi when they sing in their native tongue.
@paintcat Might as well share her stuff then, she's gotten to do some really interesting work, even if I find a lot of the stuff she works on rather squicky. She directed a video for Lord Mantis, Statiqbloom, and for Theologian. Warning: the videos are very nsfw and lots of nudity, and I think one has like... um what is it called, insertion? Subdermal implants? And bondage that is often understood to be displaying a subservient/trapped dynamic. I can't watch most of the videos tbh. I stick to her photography. I am trying to find my old metal but all I can find is Dir En Grey. Most of it didn't survive a laptop move a few years back :/
I AM STUCK IN DISSERTATION HELL writing 8,000 words about folk metal... and then 3,000 more for another essay... and if I can make my ethno essay involve folk metal also you can bet I will (I made the previous one to be about Celtic rock so I can try) in conclusion: I have a lot of feels; a lot of these involve 'why the hell can I not find '''reliable''' translations of fucking Faroese and Finnish and so on' and also 'this music is so awesome' songs I am doing detailed analysis on probably and the one I'm listening to now just 'cause
The official title is something like 'examining the lyrical and musical representation of mythology in Celtic and Scandic folk metal', which in practice has turned out to be introducing people to the concept that metal exists and so does folk metal (I'm still salty about this; this is a music department and I shouldn't have to spend 800 words explaining what metal is), writing in general about Celtic/Scandic cultures, mythologies and the general practice of folk metal in those areas, and then looking more closely at four particular songs in order to analyse them in particular.
Seriously?? Even non-Music People at least get the basic idea of metal. I can explain it pretty well and I don't even sing on-key.
Discovering a new folk metal band and clicking on random tracks like "is this going to start with accordion or death growling? how about BOTH"
