hey guys! the last year living in DK and at the roskilde festival I've been discovering many cool bands.. do you know/like some of them?? I adore especially Gåte www.gaate.no neofolk/electro metal from norway..really amazing..especially if you are so lucky to hear them live... and also Gjallarhorn, Vättinä, Garmarna, Två fisk och en fläsk... all based on traditional scandinavian folk... with some baroque music as well... amazing!!! and I like also some metal from there... like Stratovarius, Nightwish and Sonata Arctica... and I love the danes Blue Foundation... trip-hop... much trance and spacey... but live are 10 times more than the album (which is still cool, though!!!) what do you think? do you have any suggestion for similar bands? :-D
Listen to Taake, Alliegance, Nokturnal Mortum, Abigor, and Niden Div. 187. The first 2 are from Norway I think.
i like burzum, darkthrone, gorgoroth, and whatnot..i dont know if their scandinavian or norweigan...their good either way
burzum should be from Bergen... therefore is norvegian... also Marielle is from Bergen... perhaps you do not know her... she is a little friend of mine... 15 years old and already recorded an album... www.marielle.no
I like Taake, Darkthrone and Abigor as well, if I should name all the bands in that genre from Scandinavia that I like I could go on forever. Bands like Otyg and Thyrfing are great as well. And isn't Falkenbach also from a scandinavian country? Great music. But nowdays I even more appreciate Gjallarhorn, Vättinä and Garmarna I also love Amorphis and the humppa metal of Finntroll, who are both from Finland. People who like scandinavian folk, definately should check out the album Storm - Nordavind, absolutely fantastic! I also have an album of Skäggmanslaget, from 1971 and an album of Filarfolket, great folk rock as well!
I didn't know anyone else liked Thyrfing of Falken Bach! Check out Rothmetal.com for tons of other bands like these guys. Its some radio station, but pretty good. -TEC
ohhh.... thx a lot dude!!!!! and so cool you know and like Garmarna as well!!! do you know where can I find their tour? on their homepage nothing is said... :-( it'd be amazing to listen them live!!! and I'll try to find the bands u suggested me!!!!
I'm listening now to Amorphis (Far from the sun) and Storm (NOrdavind)... but they are really far from what I was expecting... far from the neofolk of Gåte and Garmarna... but I still have to finish to listen the album... nordavind have some parts I really like... especially when the female voice Kari in singing... like in "lokk"... but Amorphis is a bit too much "power metal".... the folk part is inexistent... I'm trying to find something from Två fisk och en fläsk... but it seems impossible... :-(
Yeah, Amorphis has not really folk influences in their music. Storm - Nordavind is a very nice mixture of scandinavian folk and some atmospheric (may be even black) metal ingredients, but not (black) metal in any way. Very different from bands like Garmarna indeed. Don't know anything about Garmarnas tour info though.. Don't you love the vocals on Nagelsstev of Storm? Damn, I love it!
I have to say that the scandanavian countries ie. sweden,Norway,and of course Finland etc, are producing the best metal around, as they historically always have done. Nightwish,HIM,Lullacry,Stratovarious,Arch Enemy,Darkthrone etc etc are just some of the great bands to come from these countries and i love it!!! I mentioned Lullacry in that list, you may wanna check them out, theyre really good! peace and love xxxxxxxxx
Emma Härderlin, the amazing singer of Garmarna wrote me an email last week!!!! :-D she was interested to come to perform in italy at some festivals... I'll figure out which ones... and she told me about some tour dates... in denmark and sweden... and I see now there is the list on their website.. check http://www.garmarna.com :-D
off the top of my head some of my favourite Scandinavian bands/artists would be Holy River Family Band Octopus Syng On Trial Spacious Mind Word Of Life
