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| 23 Mar 2012 08:39 PM |
Maybe it's the fact I'm part Finn-Swede, but I find it kind of insulting that one of the more popular trends in metal right now is warping old Scandinavian culture and mythology into the sort of nerdy power fantasy imagery worthy of being airbrushed onto a van. If metal fans weren't so enchanted by the novelty of anything foreign they'd be able to see that Ensiferum are no better than your local 80s metal ripoff band with a lead singer that wears wolf shirts and sings about dragons.
There are some bands like Woods of Infinity that use a real folk element, and in an emotionally sincere way, not to prop up some romantic viking/heathen image. But besides them, there is nothing more plastic and inauthentic than the stuff being marketed as "folk metal". Even Enya and Kenny G don't quite stack up. |
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| 23 Mar 2012 08:41 PM |
yeah Ensiferum isn't too terribly good I mean I like the singer (His previous work with Norther is awesome) but Ensiferum? not too much
the only folk metal band I like is Falconer
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| 23 Mar 2012 08:44 PM |
| I've read the Kalevala and it has nothing to do with derivative candy keyboard metal and dragons. What an insult to Scandinavian culture. |
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| 18 Sep 2012 10:46 AM |
I guess so, but I have to admit that I love Amon Amarth. Which is Melodic Death Metal, but inspired on Germanic mythology. |
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| 18 Sep 2012 02:01 PM |
i like windir
also hi old abe
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| 18 Sep 2012 02:20 PM |
| Example is Life on the Highway - AC-DC |
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| 18 Sep 2012 02:51 PM |
>Example is Life on the Highway - AC-DC
um yeah sure
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| 18 Sep 2012 04:15 PM |
I never tried listening to it... is it like, good? xD
~You can't have it! Only adults can have such/young one, |
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| 18 Sep 2012 04:24 PM |
v=Y3iyGF_Czn4
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| 18 Sep 2012 04:25 PM |
wait this is better quality
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