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unusual facts about folk metal



A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol

A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol is the second album by British folk metal group Skyclad, released in 1992.

Brakebein

Brakebein, is the second full-length album by Norwegian folk metal band, Trollfest.

ForeBears

The end consists of 10 minutes of footage of a cave while Varg recites an excerpt of the Poetic Edda set to a folk metal-style backing.

Heavy metal fashion

Folk metal, viking metal, black metal and power metal fans often grow long thick hair and beards reminiscent of a stereotypical Viking, Saxon and Celt, and wear Thor's Hammer pendants and other pagan symbols.

Jesús de Chamberí

Jesús de Chamberí is the second album by Spanish folk metal band Mägo de Oz, which was released in 1996.

Willkommen Folk Tell Drekka Fest

Wilkommen Folk Tell Drekka Fest, is the first full-length album by Norwegian folk metal band, Trollfest.


see also

390 b.c. - The Glorious Dawn

390 b.c. - The Glorious Dawn is the first demo album by the Italian heavy/folk metal band Furor Gallico.

Accordion

Notably, the Finnish symphonic folk-metal band Turisas has always had a full-time accordionist, employing classical and polka-style sensibilities alongside a violinist.

Battleheart

Alestorm, a Scottish folk metal band that originally called itself Battleheart.

Gaia II

Gaia II: La Voz Dormida a 2005 album by Spanish folk metal group Mägo de Oz'

Maledictus Eris

Maledictus Eris is the third album from the Danish folk metal band Svartsot.

Manala

Manala, eighth full-length album by Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani, released in 2012

Moonsorrow

In April 2008, Moonsorrow and other performers on the folk metal festival Paganfest were accused of being Nazis, racists, and fascists from the German organizations Antifa and BIFF (Berliner Institut für Faschismusforschung).

Teemu Raimoranta

He was the founding guitarist of Finnish folk metal band Finntroll along with vocalist Jan "Katla" Jämsen.

Troll Bends Fir

In 2009 TBF released "1516/Order of the Holy Hop"LP (mastered at Finnvox Studios) that showed their tendency to switch from folk rock to folk metal.