Frownland

Let's delete our posts before he finds out so Mastodon can win.

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Exo

You first.

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Chula Vista

Whoops. Mastadon.

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The Batlord

Holy ****, I just realized that I left Bathory's Nordland I off the folk metal battle. Some album is going to get bumped when I've gone through them all. Probably Skyclad, but it's been a while since I listened to that album.

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The Batlord

I do believe this is the final list for folk metal. Skyclad and Ensiferum have been replaced by Bathory and Orphaned Land.

Folk Metal

1. Agalloch - The Mantle
2. Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
3. Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
4. Turisas - The Varangian Way
5. Falkenbach - Ok nefna tysvar ty
6. Bathory - Nordland I
7. Negura Bunget - Om
8. Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells
9. Nokturnal Mortum - Голос сталі (Voice of Steel)
10. Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven

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Trollheart

Orphaned Land? Are they not more progressive metal? Love them, but folk metal??

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The Batlord

Yeah, they're definitely folk metal. Plenty of these folk metal bands have progressive elements, which shouldn't be surprising considering how it would help a band to incorporate folk elements into a genre of music which might otherwise be at odds with it. And pretty much all their albums are on RYM's folk metal chart, so I'm gonna go with **** you.

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Trollheart

From the horse's mouth:

Something beyond melodic death metal, black metal and folk metal

Orphaned Land Official Website | www.orphaned-land.com

But yeah, they do incorporate elements of folk metal. I would always see them more as a prog metal band though. Interestingly, they actually describe themselves as "Oriental Metal". Stick that in your bong and meditate upon it!

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The Batlord

A.) A band's description of their sound is always dubious, as they like to think of themselves as "beyond" pigeonholing genres much of the time. And they still mentioned folk metal, so suck that.

B.) Prog metal or folk metal, they're still folk metal.

C.) Oriental metal sounds like a variety of folk metal to me.

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Chula Vista

I always considered them more Cajun Metal than anything else.

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