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Viking/Folk Metal
KharBevNor:
I've seen them live. So good.
BeoPuppy:
Lucky, lucky, lucky BASTARD.
Thank you.
I only managed to see Skyclad. About a week before Martin Walkyier left the band.
Patatat:
Black Metal is greatness, but when they throw Vikings into the mix it becomes epic pretty much.
Borondir:
I don't think Viking metal is a very useful genre name. You can categorize a group of bands as
Viking by their subject matter, but they will be all over the place musically.
Enslaved is proggish post-black metal at this point, Amon Armath is straight up melodeath,
but Tyr is some sort of doomy prog.
Korpiklaani, Finntroll, etc., are Finnish, and don't sing about Vikings, but rather, as Khar pointed out, about trolls.
I would call them all folk metal, which of course is also a loaded term, since Finntroll plays black metal and Korpiklaani
plays thrash.
In summary, Viking metal usually complicates rather than simplifies genre discussions.
BeoPuppy:
And if you call something Troll Metal, all of a sudden you're giving off completely the wrong impression.
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