#folk/power metal

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Tracklist:

Of Iron and Gold • Wintersaga • Drunken Dwarves • Diggy Diggy Hole • Mine Mine Mine! • The Art of War • There and Back Again • The King Under the Mountain • We Were Warriors

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[liannaedgelord]

Metal Genres If They Were People

Power Metal: Goes to a lot of ren faires, sews her own garb and probably makes foam larp weapons. Has strong opinions about fantasy novels you’ve never heard of and her rants are often more fun than the books themselves. She scoffs when you say something is silly as if that’s bad. Maybe the most well-adjusted person you know.

Doom Metal: Always high. Never sleeps. The lowest key person ever until suddenly she’s crying on your couch, then it’s like nothing happened. She tells strangers her traumas with a smile. Her eyeliner is a mess but it looks great anyway. Surprisingly fun at parties, but god, you worry about her.

Folk Metal: Hates people, loves fishing. The kind of reconstructionist pagan who gets mad if you call her a neopagan. So many friends ask her to fix their cars that she started charging. Drinks too much, mostly stuff she brewed. Genuinely kindhearted, but has problematic politics.

Death Metal: Tomboy type but has a few pretty goth dresses for special occasions. Self aware enough to know she makes bad decisions, not self aware enough to stop. Mean in a way that makes you laugh. Playfully punches you in the arm a bit too hard. She's always asking if you want to see something gross and, because it's her, you do.

Thrash Metal: At a lot of protests but you can't tell what she believes exactly. Listens to metal but only sees local hardcore acts live. Barely owns clothes that aren’t denim or flannel. Quit drinking years ago, lost most of her friends over it. Collects model tanks and is only a little weird about it. You don’t know if she has a job and you will never ask.

Black Metal: Recovering edgelord. Wears winter clothes in all weather. Goes to parties she hates because she can’t be alone. Has a lot of neopagan and anprim books she's never read. Wants you to think she's some tortured artist, but since she got medicated she just writes nice poems about how much she loves trees.

Nu-Metal: Grew up in the midwest. Exclusively uses slang that was popular before she was born. Has a new snapback every day, but always the same ratty hoodie. Covered in shitty tattoos she got for free from friends. She's a real homie, but you wish she'd stop dragging you into dumb shit. She does it all for the nookie.

[thecreativemillennial]

[astralbondpro]

Turisas // Stand Up and Fight

[emotionally-charged-arson]

Someone take procreate away from me

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Pictured: Captain Morgan's Revenge, released in 2008

[metalcultbrigade]

Alestorm - Curse Of The Crystal Coconut 29/05/2020

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Tracklist:

Shudder Before The Beautiful • Weak Fantasy • Élan • Yours Is An Empty Hope • Our Decades In The Sun • My Walden • Endless Forms Most Beautiful • Edema Ruh • Alpenglow • The Eyes Of Sharbat Gula • The Greatest Show On Earth (i. Four Point Six, ii. Life, iii. The Toolmaker, iv. The Understanding, v. Sear-Worn Driftwood)

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Submitter's note included under the break due to length.

This album is the first album made with their current and third singer and first without their previous drummer who had to retire due to severe insomnia and is themed around science and reason to constrast the previous album about fantasy. The latter part of the album quotes passages from Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins. One of their live shows even had Richard Dawkins as a guest and he read live for their insane 21 minute track 'The Greatest Show On Earth' which is a song about evolutionary history. The album is intended by the songwriter Toumas Holopainen to be listened to beginning to end like a movie. The band camped out in an isolated cabin to write this album. They also got a crab "Tanidromites nightwishorum" AND a prehistoric rockshelter (Alpenglow Rockshelter) named after them/their songs for this album.

The band: Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band that started in 1996 that has had three different lead singers over its run, with the first (Tarja Turunen) parting ways with the band in a very public and emotionally fraught friend breakup in 2005 that to this day causes divisive fights in the fanbase about the decision between the really old fans and the newer ones. Their current lead singer and the one for this album is Floor Jensen, a classically trained dutch singer who joined in 2015 and has incredible range. They are one of the most successful Finnish bands. Their songs contain repeating themes of wonder at the natural world and wanting to return to innocence/childhood, but may broach a variety of topics.

Songs not on this album you might know them from: End of All Hope - Song used a lot in amvs on youtube. Wish I Had An Angel - biggest US hit single Amaranth - got very popular in Europe as a single Ghost Love Score - The live version with Floor instead of the album version with Anette (the second singer) is fairly popular on youtube. This is a song that most fans start with as its a good introduction to Nightwish's current style without being too isoteric. Interesting song notes: In 'Yours Is an Empty Hope' that is indeed Floor doing the super low death growls. Marco is the one singing clean. Yes really. Alpenglow is considered the "ultimate Nightwish song" by Holopainen.

The Greatest Show on Earth is the longest song this band has recorded to date, includes quotes by Dawkins and Darwin, and includes homages to music history with excerpts from Dies Irae, Minuet in G major, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Bach and Enter Sandman by Metallica. Holopainen considers this song their most ambitious song to date he says the song "is probably the culmination of everything that we've done together". Personal notes: AAAAUUHGHGHG This band makes me insane. They make a song an atmospheric experience. Most bands are not great live- they are better live. Somehow. They have incredible stage presence. This album is my favorite Nightwish album and probably my favorite album of all time.

[willknightauthor]

POLYNESIAN METAL

Found another Polynesian metal band. Holy fucking shit 💀

There's something about it. It's like Mongolian metal: a cultural combination that makes perfect sense in retrospect.

[toxicmetalzine]

Forsaken Rite

Streaming Now! Canadian Folk Metal FORSAKEN RITE Prepare For Battle With Highly Anticipated EP “The Forgotten West” Stream the EP here: https://toxicmetalzine.com/post/nefarious

[truly-jcjenson]

Now I just need to figure out which metal subgenre to blast at the wedding thing.