Viking metal playlist/
Style of heavy metal music characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age.
Viking metal is quite diverse as a musical style, to the point where some consider it more a cross-genre term than a genre, but it is typically seen as black metal with influences from Nordic folk music.
Common traits include a slow-paced and heavy riffing style, anthemic choruses, use of both sung and harsh vocals, a reliance on folk instrumentation, and often the use of keyboards for atmospheric effect.
The term “Viking metal” has sometimes been used as a nickname for the 1990s Norwegian black metal scene, which was “noisy, chaotic, and often augmented by sorrowful keyboard melodies”.
It has also been variously described as a subgenre of black metal, albeit one that abandoned black metal’s Satanic imagery, “slow black metal” with influences from Nordic folk music, straddling black metal and folk metal almost equally, or running the gamut from “folk to black to death metal”.1“Viking Metal”. En.Wikipedia.Org, 2018, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_metal. Accessed 20 Sept 2018.
Below the list of bands, you can see the Viking metal playlist.
List of notable Viking metal bands:
A
Amon Amarth
melodic death metal
Ásmegin
black metal, folk metal, Viking metal
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B
Bathory
black metal, thrash metal, Viking metal
Black Messiah
Viking metal, symphonic black metal
Borknagar
progressive metal, black metal, folk metal, Viking metal
Burzum
black metal, dark ambient, neo-Medieval music
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D
Darkwoods My Betrothed
black metal, symphonic black metal, Viking metal
Drottnar
black metal, death-doom, Viking metal
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E
Einherjer
Viking metal, symphonic metal
Elexorien
power metal, Viking Metal
Eluveitie
folk metal, melodic death metal, Celtic metal
Emperor
black metal, symphonic black metal
Ensiferum
folk metal, melodic death metal, Viking metal
Enslaved
progressive metal, black metal, Viking metal
Equilibrium
folk metal, symphonic black metal
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F
Falkenbach
Viking metal, pagan metal, black metal
Finntroll
folk metal, black metal
Folkearth
folk metal, Viking metal, black metal
Folkodia
folk metal, Viking metal, symphonic black metal
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H
Heidevolk
folk metal, Viking metal, heavy metal
Hel
Viking rock
Helheim
black metal, Viking metal
K
Kampfar
black metal, Viking metal
King of Asgard
melodic death metal, Viking metal
Korpiklaani
folk metal
L
Leaves’ Eyes
symphonic metal, gothic metal, folk metal, Viking metal
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M
Månegarm
Viking metal, folk metal, black metal
Mithotyn
Viking metal, black metal, folk metal
Myrkgrav
folk metal, Viking metal, black metal
Moonsorrow
folk metal, pagan metal, black metal, progressive metal
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O
Obscurity
melodic death metal, black metal, Viking metal, melodic black-death
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S
Skálmöld
Viking metal, folk metal
Slechtvalk
unblack metal, extreme metal, Viking metal
Storm
folk metal, Viking metal
T
Thyrfing
Viking metal
Trollech
black metal, pagan metal
Turisas
folk metal, power metal, symphonic metal, Viking metal
Týr
Viking metal, folk metal, progressive metal
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V
Vintersorg
black metal, folk metal, progressive metal
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W
Windir
melodic black metal, Viking metal, folk metal, atmospheric black metal
Wintersun
progressive metal, melodic death metal, Viking metal
Wolfchant
Viking metal, black metal, folk Metal
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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.