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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 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 ...
Musically, Vintersorg has covered a wide number of heavy metal genres; while the band is mostly rooted in extreme metal styles, particularly black metal and Viking/folk metal, it has also expanded into progressive metal and avant-garde metal. Lyrically, the band deals with topics on fantasy, mythology, nature, the cosmos, and metaphysics.
Having started as a pure black metal band, Black Messiah's sound evolved to Viking metal with the release of their Oath of a Warrior album. They have released seven full-length albums. They have released seven full-length albums.
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 .
King of Asgard is a Swedish Viking metal band from Östergötland, formed in 2008. [1] The band has released one demo and four full-length albums, most recently svartrviðr in 2021, and is currently signed to Trollmusic.