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

(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 ...

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.

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.

Sgah’gahsowáh, the artist behind the one-man band, combines the genre’s traditional heavy sounds with a focus on nature. His new album, “Blackbraid II,” is out Friday.

BABYMETAL consists of SU-METAL (Vocal, Dance), MOAMETAL (Scream, Dance) and MOMOMETAL (Scream, Dance). In April 2016, they ...

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 regalia out ...