Heavy metal branch
Viking metal
Heavy metal › Folk metal › Viking metal
- Emerged
- 1990
- Origin
- Scandinavia
- Subgenres
- None
Norse themes, male choirs and marching tempos. It sounds like a longship, not a tavern.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 8
Key acts
- Bathory
- Enslaved
- Amon Amarth
- Týr