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i have never heard of this and now i am all excited on the inside.
TrueNeutral:
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Second, Finntroll, which is really fun. (TROLLHAMMAREN.)
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*jumps up and down throwing up the horns* \m/ yes!!! Finntroll is awesome, there's a quick reference to them in the adult swim show metalpocolypse's first episode.
I still have yet to meet someone else in my town who listens to them.
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I've actually managed to get quite a few people into Finntroll. Several of my friends, as well as some dude from Singapore who actually doesn't even like metal but just thought Finntroll was really catchy.
Scytale:
Has anyone else noticed the trend amongst 'viking' bands, that they tend to introduce more progish elements with every release and lately it seems electronics are the thing as well. Look at a few of my favorite bands Windir, Vintersorg and Enslaved. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love albums like "Below the Lights", "Isa" and "Visions from the Spiral Generator" but the progression is amazing.
If you're looking for really good folky viking stuff I reccomend trying to track down the Storm album "Nordavind". It's a project between Fenriz, Satyr and Kari Ruselatten. Some of the best black metalish folk I've heard.
It's pretty much a peice of kvlt wankery but some of the stuff Fenriz released as Isengard is really realy good as well.
Trollstormur:
--- Quote from: Borondir on 01 Oct 2006, 21:54 ---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.
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the term 'epic metal' usually helps me describe viking metal. epic folk black metal, blackened epic thrash, symphonic black thrash with death influences. it's impossible to effectively describe a lot of bands using just 1 genre.
screwjack:
I like In Extremo, they do a lot of folk songs. I read about them that people say they are not the best folk metal band but they were one of the first.
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