Viking Metal

History

As part of the pioneering work of these bands in the subsequent period other groups or albums that the style of Viking Metal considered themselves, such as Windir from Norway, Mithotyn and Thyrfing from Sweden or Falkenbach from Germany emerged.

Style

Vocals and instrumentation

The band line-up is often typical for the genre, that is with two guitars, bass and drums, often supported by a synthesizer. The guitars are not clearly divided into lead and rhythm guitars. They take turns often result from or simultaneously complex melodies. These are often dominant and harmonious, and therefore most accessible than in Black or Death Metal. The synthesizer is used not only to background accompaniment, but often also to the active melody and thus is an equal with the guitar instrument. Often found in the compositions and folk instruments such as foot drums, fiddles and accordions.

Texts

  • Einherjer - The Conqueror from the album Dragons of the North ( battles and war )
  • Falkenbach - Heathenpride from the album ... En Their medh riki fara ... ( fight against Christians )
  • Enslaved - Fenris from the album Frost ( Norse mythology )

The language of the texts is, in addition to English, often the local language of the respective band. So sing for example Enslaved Besides English and Norwegian, Swedish Thyrfing, Falkenbach Icelandic and German Thrudvangar. The band Týr often sings her lyrics Faroese and interpreted classic Nordic seals in their original language.

Optical occurrence

Criticism

Similar to the Pagan Metal and the Viking rock are often now generally mediated by bands of the genre than come Viewed values ​​such as honor, masculinity and militarism, sometimes associated with unhistorical assertions and an exaggerated " ancestor worship ." Thus, the scene of the critical viewing faces exposed by outsiders. Because they often move the hearers of the Viking Metal in Black and Pagan Metal scenes, especially Viking and Pagan Metal are combined by most critics in their observations.

Some well-known Viking metal bands

  • Bathory
  • Einherjer
  • Ensiferum
  • Enslaved
  • Falkenbach
  • Månegarm
  • Mithotyn
  • Nomans country
  • Runic
  • Skálmöld
  • Sólstafir
  • Thrudvangar
  • Thyrfing
  • Turisas
  • Týr
  • Varg
  • Windir

Swell

  • Style Metal
  • Neo-paganism
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