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Pagan metal

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Pagan metal is a genre heavy metal music which fuses extreme metal with "the pre-Christian traditions of a specific culture or region" through thematic concept, rustic melodies, unusual instruments or archaic languages",Wiederhorn 2009, p. 62. [1]

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Alan Averill

Alan Averill (aka A.A. Nemtheanga) is an Irish musician most notable for his vocal duties for the folk/black metal band Primordial.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Amon Amarth

Amon Amarth is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Tumba, formed in 1992.

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Amorphis

Amorphis is a Finnish heavy metal band founded by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990.

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Arkona (band)

Arkona (Аркона) is a Russian folk metal band.

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Ásmegin

Ásmegin is a Norwegian folk/viking metal band formed in 1998.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bathory (band)

Bathory were an extreme metal band formed in Vällingby, Sweden, in 1983 named after Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory.

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Blabbermouth.net

Blabbermouth.net is a website dedicated to heavy metal and hard rock news, as well as album and music DVD reviews.

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Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.

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Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.

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Blood Fire Death

Blood Fire Death is the fourth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory.

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Celtic metal

Celtic metal is a subgenre of folk metal that developed in the 1990s in Ireland.

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Chrigel Glanzmann

Christian "Chrigel" Glanzmann (born January 1, 1975) is the male lead vocalist in the folk metal band Eluveitie.

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Dotdash

Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.

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Drudkh

Drudkh is a Ukrainian black metal band.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Eluveitie

Eluveitie is a Swiss folk metal band from Winterthur, Zurich, founded in 2002 by Chrigel Glanzmann.

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Ensiferum

Ensiferum (Latin ''ēnsiferum'', n adj., meaning "sword bearing") is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki.

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Enslaved (band)

Enslaved is a Norwegian extreme metal band formed by Ivar Bjørnson and Grutle Kjellson in Haugesund in June 1991.

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Extreme metal

Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s.

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Finntroll

Finntroll is a folk metal band from Helsinki, Finland.

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Finsterforst

Finsterforst is a German folk-metal band from Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, whose lyrical themes deal with nature, German myths, and fantasy worlds.

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Folk instrument

A folk instrument is a musical instrument that developed among common people and usually does not have a known inventor.

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Folk metal

Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Folk religion

In religious studies and folkloristics, folk religion, popular religion, or vernacular religion comprises various forms and expressions of religion that are distinct from the official doctrines and practices of organized religion.

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Forefather

Forefather is a pagan metal band from Surrey, England.

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Graveland

Graveland are a Polish pagan metal band which was formed in 1992 by Rob Darken (born Robert Fudali).

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Heidevolk

Heidevolk is a folk metal band from the Netherlands.

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Heri Joensen

Heri Joensen (born 21 February 1973) is a Faroese musician, notable for being the vocalist for the heavy metal band Týr.

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Hordak

Hordak is a fictional character in the Masters of the Universe franchise who opposes She-Ra and He-Man, as well as the franchise's main villain, Skeletor, to whom he was once mentor.

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Ian Christe

Ian Christe (born 1970 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland) is an author, disc jockey and the publisher of Bazillion Points Books.

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In the Woods...

In the Woods... is a Norwegian avant-garde metal band from Kristiansand, formed in 1992.

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Ithilien (band)

Ithilien is a Belgian folk metal band from Brussels using traditional folk instruments such as a hurdy gurdy, a bagpipe, a violin, a nyckelharpa, flutes and a bouzouki.

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Kampfar

Kampfar is a black metal band from Fredrikstad, Norway.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Korpiklaani

Korpiklaani (Finnish: The Backwoods Clan) is a folk metal band from Finland who were formerly known as Shaman.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Manowar

Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn, New York.

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Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer (sometimes known as MetalHammer) is a monthly heavy metal music magazine, published in the United Kingdom by Future Plc and in several other countries by different publishers.

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Modern Paganism

Modern Paganism, also known as Contemporary Paganism and Neopaganism, is a collective term for new religious movements influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe, North Africa and the Near East.

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Montreal Mirror

Montreal Mirror was a free English language alternative newsweekly based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada which was distributed every Thursday.

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Moonsorrow

Moonsorrow is a Finnish pagan metal band formed in Helsinki in 1995.

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Neo-völkisch movements

Neo-völkisch movements, as defined by the historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, cover a wide variety of mutually influencing groups of a radically ethnocentric character which have emerged, especially in the English-speaking world, since World War II.

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Norse mythology

Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period.

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Northern Europe

Northern Europe is the general term for the geographical region in Europe that is approximately north of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea.

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Obtest

Obtest is an extreme metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Pagan rock

Pagan rock is music created by (and in some cases for) adherents of one of the many Neopagan and occult traditions that emerged in the middle to late 20th century.

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Paganism

Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for populations of the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population or because they were not milites Christi (soldiers of Christ).

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Primordial (band)

Primordial is an extreme metal band from Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland.

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Revolver (magazine)

Revolver is a metal music and hard-rock magazine, publishing in North America.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Runes

Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter.

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Satanism

Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on Satan.

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Skyclad (band)

Skyclad are a British heavy metal band with heavy folk influences in their music.

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Skyforger

Skyforger is a heavy metal band from Latvia which was formed in 1995 out of the remains of doom metal band Grindmaster Dead.

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Sowilō

*Sowilō or *sæwelō is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic language name of the s-rune, meaning "sun".

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Suidakra

Suidakra (stylized "SuidAkrA") is a melodic death metal band from Germany.

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Týr (band)

Týr is a Faroese folk metal band.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Tiwaz (rune)

The t-rune is named after Týr, and was identified with this god.

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Turisas

Turisas is a Finnish metal band from Hämeenlinna.

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Tyr (album)

Tyr is the 15th studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in August 1990 by I.R.S. Records.

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Viking metal

Viking metal is a style of heavy metal music characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age.

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Wolfchant

Wolfchant is a band formed in St.

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Ymyrgar

Ymyrgar is a pagan folk Metal band from Tunisia, founded in 2012 as the first folk metal band in Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan_metal

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