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	Folk metal - Nightwish.com Forum
		Hm, the band that comes closest to folk metal and that I listen to are probably Gåte, but even though they are currently listed among the folk metal bands on wikipedia, they aren´t metal, just folk rock (maybe parts of some of their songs border metal).
		Not sure if they should be defined as folk metal or viking metal but whatever they are, they're quite good.
		I prefer folk metal the most, so I like many bands, but these three are the most favorite ones (at least right now).
	www.nightwish.com /forum/index.php?act=findpost&pid=1402752 (1269 words)

	MySpace.com - Chain of Dogs - Heerlen, NL - Thrash / Folk / Metal - www.myspace.com/thrashfolk
		Folk, folk metal, folkpunk, fl, death & thrash metal, crust, horror punk & deathrock
		Chain of Dogs have a go at the underbelly of folk music to get to its guts, and serve them to you in a bloody mix with thrash metal and horror punk.
		Founded in 2005 they merge folk, thrash metal, fl metal and punk into brutal and fast folk metal; in your face lyrics about manslaughter, werewolves in the city and being proud of Limburg: her coal miner heritage, her towns, her hills, and her language.
	www.myspace.com /thrashfolk (478 words)

	Folk metal information - Search.com
		Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that incorporates elements of folk music.
		Folk metal bands often have no commercial success in the country of their origin, whilst at the same time being considered a huge band commercially in other countries.
		Folk Metal has also gained popularity in South East Asia and South Asia through the advent of a new sub-genre called Vedic metal which is based on Hinduism's holy scriptures and the Vedic philosophy.
	www.search.com /reference/Folk_metal (857 words)

	laut.de \| Folk Metal (Pop-Lexikon)
		Auf der musikalischen Genre-Landkarte ganz dicht neben Viking Metal befindet sich der Folk Metal.
		Klar ist, dass die Viking Metaller Bathory 1983 ihre Boote von einem schwedischen Hafen in Bewegung setzen und seither folkloristisch geprägten Metal auch in anderen Ländern an die Mannen und Weiber bringen.
		Wo auch immer der Ursprung sein mag, Folk Metal-Bands setzen ihre landestypische Geschichte in Szene, oft versehen mit alten, überlieferten Liedern, Gedichten und Sagen.
	www.laut.de /lautwerk/folk_metal/index.htm (322 words)

	The Metal Crypt - Descriptions of genres of metal
		Progressive Metal: Progressive Metal is properly a mix of the progressive art rock of the 70's such as Yes, Rush and King Crimson with the basic sound of melodic Traditional Metal to produce more musically challenging and intricate sounds.
		Gothic Metal, as it is meant today, is usually a mixing of Death Metal riffing with moody keyboards and female vocals, sometimes mixed with aggressive growling from a male vocalist, sometimes not.
		Folk Metal: Essentially, any band that uses folk music in their songwriting is a Folk Metal band, but there is a wide array of bands under this rubric, and this makes classification difficult.
	www.metalcrypt.com /genres.php (4476 words)

	Metal Coven - Metal Interviews - Waylander
		Primordial are Ireland’s biggest Metal band in terms of sales and international profile, yet they’d be lucky to sell much more than 500 copies of their albums in their own country or pull more than 300 punters to a gig.
		Skyclad were the original Folk Metal band I suppose and they certainly influenced both Waylander and Cruachan, but coming from Ireland I’m sure both Keith [Cruachan] and myself thought we had a divine right to play Folk Metal, especially as we’re both influenced by the Horslips as well.
		To me, the Folk Metal scene at the minute is the most interesting with such diversity in sound and approach that it is truly a breath of fresh air in a stale Metal scene.
	www.metalcoven.com /interview_waylander_britton.html (5156 words)

	Death Folk
		At the moment I call this style "death folk," a name I made up on the analogy of how "death metal" was formed from metal, and is similarly meant to connote a certain extremeness.
		FOLK and FOLK ROCK: "Folk" can mean to two types of music, on one hand traditional music in general, on the other a style of popular music (including folk rock) to emerge from American traditional music.
		I'm inspired by the general uniformity and congruence of metal music with band, album, and song names, logos, album art, and in general the image projected by bands, which all serve to support the ideas and mood of the music.
	www.geocities.com /rodionraskolnikov2000/deathfolk.html (2083 words)

	DigitalMetal.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The folk elements are littered randomly around the album as the material generally switches from Maiden-ish/thrash jaunts to badly implemented folk interludes to carry the concept of the album.
		Each of the folk metal clichés is rampantly enforced; battle scene sample from Braveheart (“Dissention Seeds”), acoustic, foresty ballads (“Morning Grief”, the atrocious “The Arrival”), ‘rousing’ war hymns (“The Silver Arm”, “Balor of the Evil Eye”), epic climax (“End Domain”) and the synth laden end note (“Homeland”).
		The folk elements are so forced and piecemeal that Airged L’amh may have been better served just to have been a straight up thrash/power metal act rather than attempt to force synths and various woodwinds into their standard power metal canter.
	www.digitalmetal.com /reviews.asp?cid=6175 (526 words)

	dweeb metal - Metal Genres by James Slone (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whereas prog metal simply attempts more difficult arrangements, the avant garde throws out the rule book altogether and approaches composition with a fresh, or inventive outlook- complexity isn't an issue, but wild creativity is. Avant garde metal tends to be theatrical and melodramatic, attempting an infusion of art music, impressionistic and disjointed arrangements, and metal.
		Most doom metal makes use of death and fl metal vocals, but clean male and female voices are often employed to enhance the sullen atmosphere and dark mood of the music.
		The forebearer of death and fl metal, thrash brought a higher level of intensity into metal, primarily by combining the intensity and tempos of early hardcore punk with the rigidity and dexterity of heavy metal.
	home.carolina.rr.com /dweeb/SloneDefinitions.html (1522 words)

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		Playing Celtic-style folk metal with a strong focus on Scottish history may seem like an odd choice for a band several thousand miles on the other side of the globe, but what really matters is the quality of the songs, and Skiltron sure as hell deliver.
		Of course the folk elements extend beyond the use of whistles and bagpipes as cosmetic appliances, with the uplifting melodies and jerky, danceable rhythms and rousing choruses one would expect from the genre all present and correct.
		The guitar has a lovely thick tone to it reminiscent of early German speed metal outfits, but also of the more recent movement of power metal bands that have gone back to having a little crunch in their riffs as answer to the expansive symphonic trend of the early 21st century.
	www.angelfire.com /music5/metalcdratings/pageSKILTRONCBREVIEW.html (551 words)

	Folksy Links - Folk Bands and Musicians On Line
		You will find the whole range of Lithuanian instrumental folk music in its repertoire: from old rituals, to authentic shepherds' instruments dating to the end of the 19th Century, to the international and classical instruments that became increasingly more common in the villages of Lithuania by the beginning if the 20th Century.
		Ugnele, children's folk song and dance ensemble, famous for its choreography and choir groups and for its small but interesting and original Lithuanian folk instrument orchestra.
		The main intention of the band is to bring a new life to vanishing ancient Lithuanian folk songs and to present them to listeners as interesting, modern and attractive.
	www.folksylinks.it /folksy_l.html (695 words)

	Enslaved - Viking Black Metal
		Neoclassical and Norwegian folk influences are integrated entirely in the vision of melody as nihilistic and immanent through dynamic structural principles in tonally congruent phrasing within arrangements that are less rock than epic open Eurometal jam sessions with the precise structure and intelligence of a majestically esoteric lyric poem.
		Previous creators of ambient folk metal masterpieces, Enslaved use the presentation dynamics of folk music to break fl metal into its simplest form of vector expression yet, a blasting counterpoint style based on melodic affinity to central lyric (as many folk songs do).
		Whether that is your taste in fl metal or not, "Frost" bears study as a musical document of a potent direction for future technical underground minimalism, especially in its expression of Viking traditionalism through melody adapted to the manic patternings of modern rhythm.
	www.anus.com /metal/enslaved.html (1499 words)

	www.PiercingMetal.com - Interviews
		How do you possibly explain a Metal band that has a larger than usual lineup to best deliver their brand of Folk-Metal because the use of the traditional instruments is so necessary.
		Folk Metal has been around for awhile, and can be heard in bands like Finntroll and Skyclad among a host of others.
		Most of the folk metal bands are basicall metal bands with some folk elements thrown in when Korpiklaani's roots are originally in folk music and the metal part has been added later.
	www.piercingmetal.com /interview_korpiklaani_071106.htm (2131 words)

	blind-guardian.com :: View topic - Folk Metal
		I agree with you except for Bal Sagoth isn't folk metal at all and Nokturnal Mortum are.
		While their first few albums were indeed synthy Black metal, their last two albums and EP are full-on folk metal with a ton of traditional folk instruments.
		Folk isn't just about music, it's also about the atmospheres, messages + feelings that are conveyed, so from one viewpoint, B-S could probably be labelled as Folk Metal.
	www.blind-guardian.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=1065928&highlight= (1938 words)

	Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives :: View topic - middle eastern folk metal
		Some of my fave metal bands make it like moonsorrow and such and i recently started listening to orphaned land which basically makes arabic or in theire case israeli folk metal.
		These albums are not actually folk metal but they have had a huge influence on the genre.
		I already know finnish folk metal and i love them.
	www.metal-archives.com /board/viewtopic.php?p=428538 (529 words)

	Interviews: Come Dance the Humppa With the Finnish Folk-Metal Sounds of Korpiklaani! - Sea of Tranquility - The Web ...
		Combining folk with metal is nothing new, as group's like Skyclad and recently Finntroll have brought lots of new sounds and styles to the metal genre, but none have quite the impact as Korpoklaani, who use violin, accordion, woodwinds, and traditional Finnish instruments alongside the normal guitars, bass, drums, and keyboards.
		Metal is quite popular in Finland and some of those bands have also been accepted by the wider audience and they have became sort of mainstream.
		Apart from the strong metal scene there is a large number of those smaller sub cultures with their own music.
	www.seaoftranquility.org /article.php?sid=632&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (1656 words)

	Korpiklaani interview @ Tartareandesire.com
		Korpiklaani is a different folk metal band from Suomi Finland, demonstrating a stronger traditional music influence than most of the bands of the genre in their style and more precisely in their last album called “Voice Of Wilderness” and released through Napalm Records.
		I think biggest differences to many of folk metal bands is that we use real original instruments in our folk lines.
		Most of the folk metal bands used synths and keyboards with their folk parts and lines.
	www.tartareandesire.com /interviews/korpiklaani.html (1384 words)

	Metal Rules!!: Interview with Elvenking - Folk Metal From Italy
		In this case it's folk elements mixed with power metal along with the varied vocals styles from clean to near fl metal.
		Our influences come from all the metal scene and obviously from a lot of folk music and dances from all over the world.
		When we had in mind the vocal line of the song we found out that it will fit perfectly with that words, that were originally written for a sung version of "To oak woods bestowed" never recorded.
	www.metal-rules.com /interviews/Elvenking.htm (3630 words)

	MetalBite - Heavy Metal Webzine - Tracks
		This is one of the only “folk metal” albums in years to use melody and medieval influence without completely forsaking any semblance of musicianship.
		It’s important to mention that straightaway, as a lot of “folk metal” is neither metal nor folk music.
		I try not to be too optimistic, but folk metal seems to have finally reached a turning point.
	www.metalbite.com /tracks.asp?album=3528 (573 words)

	Metal Objects at Artisans Folk art, antiques, and outsider art Gallery. CALL 256-634-4037.
		This is a folky sheet metal weathervane of a beaver.
		This is a very folky one-of-a-kind rooster weathervane made from galvanized sheet metal and mounted on part of a ventilator from a silo or barn.
		Being metal, there is some little rust, oxidation, and outside wear, but it is in generally very good condition.
	www.folkartisans.com /pages/metalist.html (2306 words)

	Robot Lounge - WTF is freak-folk?
		Folk, the word itself, means "people," which is why the whole genre of freak-folk is an oxymoron.
		Folk music isn't about individual personalities, it's about passing down melodies and stories from generation to generation.
		Authors are not relevant in folk, which is why the folk metal I love seems closer to what folk really is, since they take old melodies and lyrics that have been passed down for hundreds of years and incorporate them into the metal form.
	www.giantrobot.com /forums/showthread.php3?s=3390d10db1c0aaa7d88dc9f06c8da68c&threadid=36574 (802 words)

	BNR Metal Pages -- Elvenking (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Elvenking was formed in October 1997 by two friends (guitarists Aydan and Jarpen) with the goal of mixing traditional metal with folk melodies.
		Elvenking's folk influences are more prominent as well, with well-integrated flutes, violins, and acoustic guitars complementing mid-to-fast-paced guitar melodies.
		In general, Heathenreel is a lighter, more airy version of folk metal, catchy and well executed and a fine debut album from an up-and-coming band.
	www.bnrmetal.com /groups/elve.htm (121 words)

	Empyrium: Romantic Atmospheric Folk/Metal
		Germany’s Empyrium stimulate the Romanticist state of heavy metal in overflow, as second full-length disc, Songs Of Moors and Misty Fields, is an iridescent expression of passionate melancholy and reverence of nature’s splendor.
		Compositions are demanding of attention as is common to most doom metal, yet these songs evade unnecessary meanderings, sustaining flow of movement like eloquent, beautiful poetry, in which each passage builds towards a sweeping emotional revelation.
		Vocals are bleak screams of the fl metal fashion, clean and deep singing of the gothic rock tradition, and an effective spoken word thick with a vampiric tone of nocturnal sentiment.
	www.thebleakhorizon.com /Empyrium.htm (1448 words)

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