And now for your musical interlude...

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[archonix]

I've been listening to these guys for the last month. No idea how I found them.

[NaiadSagaIotaOar]

I was half-expecting something a lot more metally, once I saw the outfits, but I was not disappointed. Thanks for sharing, i’ll have to look these guys up sometime

[ToMahkAros]

I love these guys and gals, one of their other songs, Odin, is awesome!!!

[Rametep]

Interesting, maybe you would like Wardurna

[alkarian]

That have been in my youtube mix list for few months by now. Check Wardruna and Garmarna if you liked it

[Arcanix_Firemane]

Skald has a good vibe. sets a mood and keeps it coming. good stuff

[ssokolow]

5155540

Agreed. I've always loved these sorts of bands that get clustered under names like "neo-medieval", "celtic rock", "celtic metal", various phrases involving "folk", etc. (eg. Faun, the lighter stuff by Eluveitie, Omnia, Týr, some of Finntroll's stuff, etc.)

I was also reminded of another song named Rún (by Fuimadane) which sets a quite different vibe. (On the other end of the mood spectrum, that album also has þyrstr.)

[Wanderer D]

5155463 Yeah, I also discovered them like a month ago randomly and I really liked them.
5155468 Metal is good! Do you have any recs?
5155516 yes, I like Odin! I chose this song because I really like the tempo of it.
5155526 5155539 I will definitely check them out.
5155540 Agreed!
5155742 I have yet to find anything named after a Rune that is not somewhat epic in nature.

[Trihors]

Oh man, I've been on a wild run of pagan/viking style folk music for a year now, perfect music for autumn and winter. Started with Heilung then got into Danheim, Wardruna, Skáld, Rúnfell, Fuimadane, Rúnahild, Nytt Land, Osi And The Jupiter, Kaunan.... just a ton of all sorts of different artists.

Possibly one of my favorite things is the simplicity of it yet how much it can speak to me, for an example:

[NaiadSagaIotaOar]

5155931
A handful!

As far as metal goes, I'd say Epica's one of my favorite bands, though it's a not-so-metal song of theirs that's stuck out to me a lot (Also a bloody fantastic story based on the aforementioned song). They can be a little hit-or-miss for me, since they have this tendency to have, like, really beautiful angelic female vocals and also deep guttural growly bits in the same song, and I love the former while the latter never really works for me. But I'm rather fond of this one and this one. Nightwish is pretty good too, I've enjoyed quite a few of theirs.

For other individual songs, I really like Rainbow in the Dark and Unsucessfully Coping With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity.