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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 ...
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 ...
Týr (Faroese: [tʰʊɪːɹ]) is a Faroese folk metal band. They have been characterised as one of "the islands' two most successful metal bands". [1] Their subject matter revolves almost entirely around Viking lore, mythology, and history, [2] taking their name from Týr, the god of war in Norse religion.
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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.
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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.