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This is a list of Viking metal bands. Viking metal is a style of heavy metal music with origins in black metal and Nordic folk music, characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age. Viking metal is quite diverse as a musical style, to the point where some consider it more a cross-genre term ...
Bands that play Viking metal. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. G. German Viking metal musical groups (7 P) N.
Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age.Viking metal is quite diverse as a musical style, to the point where some consider it more a cross-genre term than a genre, but it is typically heard as black metal with influences from Nordic folk music.
Bathory and Enslaved are also known as Viking metal bands [10] [11] while Amorphis and Skyclad are also known as folk metal bands. [12] [13] Jarkko Aaltonen notes that Black Sabbath "was quite pagan" as well but of "the current metal scene", he credits Skyclad as starting "the mix of traditional folk-rock music with mythology-concentrated ...
[40] She further explains in "Scandinavian Metal Attack: The Power of Northern Europe in Extreme Metal" that . Though most Viking metal bands have a black metal background, Viking metal is defined by topics rather than music. That is why death metal bands like Amon Amarth and Unleashed are often included in the league of Viking metal bands.
This is a list of heavy metal artists from the formative years of the movement (formed between 1963 and 1981).For bands formed after 1981, please consult the lists for each heavy metal subgenre.
Bathory was a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Vällingby in March 1983. Named after Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory, they are considered pioneers of black metal (alongside Venom and Mercyful Fate) [2] [3] and Viking metal. The book Lords of Chaos described Bathory's first four albums [a] as "the blueprint for Scandinavian black metal ...
Viking metal bands from Norway. Pages in category "Norwegian viking metal musical groups" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.