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2. List of Viking metal bands - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Amon Amarth - Wikipedia

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   The band bases most of its song lyrics on Norse mythology, the Viking Age, and the pre-Christian world, which thematically comprise a heavy metal style known as Viking metal. Viking metal originally emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s as an ideological offshoot of black metal, made popular by such bands as Bathory and Enslaved. Amon ...

4. Viking (band) - Wikipedia

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   Viking is an American thrash metal band in Los Angeles, California, which had existed for four years, between 1986 and 1990. However, they reformed in 2011. However, they reformed in 2011. To date, Viking has released three studio albums, Do or Die (1988), Man of Straw (1989) and No Child Left Behind (2015).

5. Bathory (band) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Einherjer - Wikipedia

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   Einherjer is a Viking metal band from Haugesund, Norway, founded in 1993. [1] Some of the band's albums are heavily folk influenced, while others have a more traditional symphonic black metal sound. Their lyrics retell Norse legends, and each of their albums has its own theme.

7. Enslaved (band) - Wikipedia

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   Enslaved is a Norwegian extreme metal band formed by Ivar Bjørnson and Grutle Kjellson in Haugesund in 1991. They are currently based in Bergen. [1] The band's lineup has changed many times over the years, with Bjørnson and Kjellson being the sole constant members. [2]

8. Skálmöld - Wikipedia

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   Skálmöld (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈskaulmœlt]) is a Viking / folk metal band from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in August 2009. [1] The band's name is literally translated as Age of Swords and also means "lawlessness", referring to the Age of the Sturlungs of Icelandic history, when a civil war broke out between the country's family clans.

9. Ensiferum - Wikipedia

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   This was posted in a bulletin on their MySpace page and later confirmed on their website. The band used Emmi Silvennoinen of Exsecratus as a touring fill-in. Silvennoinen later became a permanent member of the band during the recording of the From Afar album. [4] [5] Ensiferum headlined the Paganfest tour in Europe and North America in 2008. [4]