Your way in
Folk metal 1993
Traditional instruments and folk melodies built into metal. Every region has written its own version.
- Heaviness
- 6
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 9
- Where from
- UK / Finland
- Tempo
- 120-180 bpm
- Song length
- 4-7 min
- Written about
- Folklore and myth, Nature and the seasons, Drinking, extensively, Pre-Christian religion
- Vocals
- Sung and screamed
Why this one
| You said | Folk metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | mixed | 100% | ×3 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1993 | 84% | ×1 |
| Somewhere else entirely What should the words be about? | Folklore and myth, Nature and the seasons, Drinking, extensively, Pre-Christian religion | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 97% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, era 1, about 1 out of 5. Folk metal leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1The one to put on first
Finntroll, Nattfödd 2004
Finntroll - Nattfödd. Black metal at Finnish polka tempo, and it works.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5One step further in
Alestorm, Captain Morgan's Revenge 2008
Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge. Exactly what the title promises.
The first is Folk metal's own entry point. After it come Folk metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Post-metal / atmospheric sludge 94%
Sludge with post-rock logic: long songs, crescendos and instrumental passages. Neurosis invented the form.
4 steps from Folk metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Post-metal / atmospheric sludge -
Post-hardcore 80%
Hardcore that allows itself dynamics, empty space and irregular structures. Emo, screamo and mathcore all branch off from here.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Folk metal.
The way into Post-hardcore
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Both, trading off put 72 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 5.
- The seventies and eighties put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Kawaii metal, New nu metal, Progressive metalcore. Worth 1 of 5.
- Somewhere else entirely put 106 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 5.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.