The reason for forming folk metal is simple, according to founding Korpiklaani vocalist and guitarist Jonne Järvelä. “There’s just a lot of fun in this sound of music,” he says. Fair enough.

From the Bring Me The Horizon and Architects approved Amira Elfeky to Nordic folk metal songstress Sylvaine, nu metalcore ...

Fans of BABYMETAL showed up hours before Summerfest opened to stake out the best seats for the headlining band.

(RNS) — An eight-man heavy metal band from Mongolia known as The Hu has done what few thought could happen in the 21 st century: Create a new genre of folk-metal music. Decked out in black war ...

For most music fans, the distance between heavy metal and folk is so vast you’d get a laugh – or possibly into a fight – for even suggesting a link. But not for Einar Selvik. The former ...

Irish folk quartet Lankum. From left to right: Ian Lynch, Radie Peat, Cormac Mac Diarmada and Daragh Lynch, at The Dome, London, November 2019.

And there is also death, doom, stoner, grind, sludge, metalcore, folk metal, black metal and more. Metal shows can be like attending a theater of absurdity, with music about war, disease, horror ...

Founded by drummer Txus di Fellatio (played by Lastra) in 1988, Mägo de Oz the band stands out for its fusion of heavy and power metal and Celtic folk, violinist Mohamed “Moha” (the musician ...

(RNS) — An eight-man heavy metal band from Mongolia known as The Hu has done what few thought could happen in the 21st century: Create a new genre of folk-metal music. Decked out in black war ...