Fav. viking metal bands?

[vladimir]

What are your favorite viking metal bands?
:) I like:

einherjer, manegarm, mitothyn, moonsorrow, thyrfing

and more that I will tell later.

[Guttorm]

To be honest, there are not any viking metal band that I don't like. But my favorites are: Enslaved, Bathory (the viking period), Einherjer, Thyrfing, Moonsorrow, and Mithotyn. The very favorites among them are Enslaved, Bathory and Thyrfing.

[Blackspirit]

We've been over this before, and again I am adding
Ensiferum to the list of viking metal bands that are great! :o)

[Guttorm]

Hmm, Ensiferum is quite good.

I forgot one band, Windir! Though, they aren't really viking metal...

[Thomas Väänänen]

Yihaaa... my first post over here at HMAS. Metal up your whateveryouprefer people!

I'll go for the whole nine yards and include anything "folk/pagan/viking/celtic": Primordial (the two latest albums just made them gods), Otyg, Vintersorg, Moonsorrow, Finntroll, Bathory (!), Ensiferum, Einherjer (did you hear the new song on their website? Not too impressive unfortunately), Enslaved, Falkenbach (resurrect now!), Borknagar, Allegiance, Mithotyn, Skyclad... sums it up :)

[opacity]

Originally posted by Thomas Väänänen
Yihaaa... my first post over here at HMAS. Metal up your whateveryouprefer people! we don't need to use politically correct terms so say it!! :devil:
A S S !!
:lol:

[Guttorm]

Var hälsad du storskald och bandmedlem av Thyrfing!

Allegiance and Skyclad is two other great bands!

[opacity]

and if you like skyclad, you like Tanqeray too ;)

[soulburner]

Bathory, Thyrfing, Vintersorg, Falkenbach, Finntroll, Mithotyn, Otyg...

[vladimir]

What the hell is Tanqeray?

yeah I am searching for Allegiance music material I heard it's great!

[Guttorm]

Tanqeray = Great folk-influenced metal with critisizing lyrics mixed with a sense of humour, wrote in a masterful way? If it is, then I check them out!

[opacity]

www.tanqeray.com lyrics not online, only in the booklet - sorry

reviews: click in the media section the reviews next to mp3s, you can then click to read them in english

[BlackBehemoth]

The only ones I actively listen to are Bathory, Einherjer, Finntroll and Thyrfing. I have a moonsorrow album coming to me from a mailorder site, but other than those I haven't heard a whole lot. I will be checking out the bands I have seen in the previous posts.

[~UlvedaL~]

Thyrfing
Moonsorrow
Finntroll
Windir
Amon Amarth
Falchenbach
Mithotyn
Futhark
Asatru

[vladimir]

Falkenbach it is Ulvendal ;)

Thanks opacity!

I also like numen, a pagan band from the basque side of Spain.
site:http://come.to/numen

[Xenomorph]

Bathory and Thyrfing.

[ThePKH]

I more or less like every viking metal band I've heard of this far... But my definite favourites are Moonsorrow, Thyrfing and Ensiferum.

[vladimir]

I'm waiting for 2003 a lot new albums come out then :)
Ensiferum
Finntroll
Manegarm
Moonsorrow

[Rabenreich]

At the moment i'd say Bathory,Thyrfing and Amon Amarth...but I like also Einherjer much...

[wild heathen]

moonsorrow
thyrfing
finntroll
helheim
asatru
einherjer
isengard
storm
otyg
falkinbach
forlorn
sommoning
unleashed
amon amarth

ect.....

[Escalation_666]

Borknagar, Thyrfing, Vintersorg

[Blodsörn]

thyrfing, windir, kampfar, enslaved

[Hjalmar793]

Hoi! Doin' my first posting here, I'm proud to announce that you forgot "Rivendell" ;) (listen.to/rivendell) .. Though it's not too much viking Metal, it has traits of Falkenbach...
Then my favourites (Who REALLY wanna know?? ;)
- Thyrfing (Kicks ass, especially the older albums)
- Falkenbach (Beside Thyrfing: Kicks ass, too...!Check: "When Gjallarhorn will sound")
- Einherjer
- Moonsorrow
- Ensiferum
- Mithotyn
- Manegarm
- HELHEIM (Yeah...)
Forgot anything? Hope not...

A Tankard of mead to all you heathen out there...
Hjalmar

Btw: @Thyrfing-Band-Members: WHEN DO YOU ARRIVE TO PLAY A NEW GIG IN (NORTHERN-) GERMANY??? I can't wait longer to see you guys live in action... Can't see you in the Netherlands 'cause I've got to work :(

[Guttorm]

Greetings Hjalmar, and welcome to this mighty forum!

I see ye have Helheim as one of your favorite viking bands. I find them good too, altough I haven't heard too much of them yet. You can recommend any albums or songs?

[Hjalmar793]

Thanks for your welcome! Nice to be here.... ;)
To get an impression of Helheim, I would recommend you their newer release (2000) called "Blod og ild", including a great Video of their song "Jernskogen".
Also nice to listen to is the album "Jormundgand", especially the song "Jormundgand"... Impressive, that a man can cry so loud, with so much anger and in such a high voice for such a long time... ;)
So long,
Hjalmar
PS: You can also download the (really fantastic!) video of Jernskogen on their official Website: www.helheim.com

[Guttorm]

Damn, that movie was great:rock:!!

Thanks a lot!

[Ymir]

Hjalmar@ well, you forgot vintersorg but anyway falkenbach rules, really great music. the album you mention is his best I think..

[Primator]

Originally posted by Hjalmar793
Btw: @Thyrfing-Band-Members: WHEN DO YOU ARRIVE TO PLAY A NEW GIG IN (NORTHERN-) GERMANY??? I can't wait longer to see you guys live in action... Can't see you in the Netherlands 'cause I've got to work :(

Well, it´s not impossible it might happen something this spring. We´ll just have to wait and see.

[Impératrice]

Negura Bunget

http://www.negurabunget.com/

[Brute]

Thyrfing and Ensiferum

[Hjalmar793]

Well then, I'm looking forward to spring..... :)

Good night, kinsmen...
Hjalmar

[Einar]

I prefer listenign to:
Thyrfing
Amon Amarth
Finntroll
Bathory

but also Adorned Brood, Vintersorg, Borknagar, Windir

hope I didn't forgot one

[dibbe]

Thyrfing
Finntroll
Manowar
...among others.

[Guttorm]

Anyone heard Asgaard?

[Blodsörn]

the band Allegiance is really good

[vladimir]

Originally posted by Guttorm
Anyone heard Asgaard?
I heard from a Asgard/Asgaard from Holland
WHo are they? Nice music?
More info? SITE!!?:eek:

[Guttorm]

I know nothing about them, except that their music is some folk/medieval kind of metal (lots of flutes) that is masterful! I try to find some more facts about them.

[vladimir]

okay say it when your finished searching ;)!!

[Adastra]

Well, my favorite bands are: Thyrfing, Windir, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Old Mans Child, the Kovenant, Pain, Hypocrisy, Falkenbach, Empyrium, Enslaved, Einherjer, Dornenreich, Agathodaimon, Borknagar, Excrementory Grindfuckers, Finntroll, Vilkates, Nocte Obducta, Thy Eastean Fiest, Suidakra, ...

There are 'a few' Viking Metal Bands between them *g*

[Ymir]

someone here who has newz about asmegin, read some stuff about the band and it was very interesting...some folk-metal project with borknagar members or something????

hmm, I guess it was on the borknagar forum..

[Ymir]

Line-up:
Tomas Torgersbråten - Basses, backing vocals
Marius Olaussen - Lead and rythm guitars, accordion
Tommy Brandt - Drums and percussion, backing vocals
Raymond Håkenrud - Lead and rythm guitars
Bjørn Olav Holter - Grim and soar throat



Guest musicians:
Lars A. Nedland (BORKNAGAR, SOLEFALD)- Clean vocals
Anja Hegge Thorsen - Norwegian zither, jew's harp
Oddrun Hegge - Additional Norwegian zither
Lars F. Frøislie - Pianos, Mellotrons and additional keys
Sareeta(RAM-ZET) - Fiddle, female chants and profound screams of terror
Anne Marie Hveding - Wood-nymph chants and female death vocals
Børge "Smuldra Glans" Finstad - Percussion on track 7( prodúserinn)
Gunhild Førland - Country flutes
Nikolai Brandt - Internal womb screams

[Ymir]

well, loos very interesting, does it???

[Blackspirit]

Originally posted by Ymir
someone here who has newz about asmegin, read some stuff about the band and it was very interesting...some folk-metal project with borknagar members or something????

hmm, I guess it was on the borknagar forum..

Hmmm... Well, apparently their new album is finished
and might be out in January/February.

Lars' vocals are supposed to be typpical Solefald'ish
according to Bjørn... Hmmmm.... Well, what do you
want to know? I'll ask Bjørn about it :o)

[Ymir]

blackspirit@ sounds like you know him???!?! well, don´t know, find enough at the borknagar forum ...hope I will get the album soon

what do you mean with solefsldish???

[Blackspirit]

Originally posted by Ymir
blackspirit@ sounds like you know him???!?! well, don´t know, find enough at the borknagar forum ...hope I will get the album soon

what do you mean with solefsldish???

Well, we've e-mailed alot... He's the vocalist in Illnath as well
(know them? Danish stuff...). Well.... he's at all the gigs I go
to as well, but we still haven't had the chance to have a chat yet :oP

What I mean with Solefaldish? Just a quote from Bjørn. That's
what he told me :o) Lars sings in Solefald right? Well, the vocals
are just like in Solefald I guess :o)

[vladimir]

hmm Windir is great too!! I now have 1184 (not on cd)
I have a friend who is going to Organise a windir tour maybe in the Netherlands!! Really cool!!

AND I SAY MAYBE!!

Asmegin I wanted to download some songs, but they only have bitrates shit on Mp3.com no MP3 :@.
Anyway the intro on the site is very beautifull.

But where the hell to get their cd's I don't know.

[Ymir]

blackspirit@ lllnath (you sure that's the word???!, strange name) I never heard about it, is it a kind of folk metal project too???

ah, Solefald is a band, hehe I never heard that stuff

damn, I think I have to check a lot of bands out, thnaks for the info btw..

[vladimir]

Solefald isn't that...

[Blackspirit]

Originally posted by Ymir
blackspirit@ lllnath (you sure that's the word???!, strange name) I never heard about it, is it a kind of folk metal project too???

ah, Solefald is a band, hehe I never heard that stuff

damn, I think I have to check a lot of bands out, thnaks for the info btw..

Illnath.... hmmmm.... definitely not folk metal >:oP hehe...
Let me see if they have anything online....

People compare them to Cradle of Filth, but don't let that
put you off. I quite like them, and they are good live :o)

Ey! They have two songs on mp3.com -->
http://www.mp3.com/illnath

@Vladimir: Solefald isn't what? >:o)

[Ymir]

@Blackspirit, thank you, I will check that band out, I´ll ask someone too download it for me, hmmm cradle isn´t my thing, the vocals bored me after 3 songs but the music is okay

I am curious to Solefald too... I think it is music with strange melody´s isn´t it??? If the songs sounds a bit like his work on the borknagar albums...

[Einar]

anyone knows Atanatos from Jena / Thuringia?

[Pagan]

FINNTROLL
thyrfing
mitothyn
moonsorrow
windir
Falkenbach
amon amarth

but i think FINNTROLL are the bast :)

[vladimir]

Originally posted by Einar
anyone knows Atanatos from Jena / Thuringia?
thuringa is named after a germanic tribe, but I don't know the band.
I do know MENHIRR!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[Einar]

yea I know, and Odroerir, says this something to xou?
Mehir is cool, very thuringian patriotic but good

Atanatos is a Pagan-Metal Band from the city of Jena in the county (hmm can I say it so??) of Thuringia here in Germany
I think really good these guys

[vladimir]

you think so?
I check it out some time...

Odroerir I also know, but not so very good.

HAIL!

[Ziu]

Einar, you know it, Thuringia is still the kingdom of the Hermundurii and their heirs ;)

Hehe, yes, if someone likes Menhir, he/she should most definately check out Odroerir, musically coming from the exact same source ;) Wasn't there also some other Saxon Pagan Metal band some years ago? Cryogenic? I can't remember that well... but they sounded alright :) And Tumulus? Dunno where they are from, tho...

And about other Thuringian bands - Mourning Ends is a nice listen, as well :) Especially their latest effort "Kriegerseele"

But I dunno why people only limit to Viking Metal, Celtic stuff can be just as nice - go ahead and try Waylander, I love both their efforts :) Or Suidakra, well, bet you already heard of them anyway....

Helheim is also rather unommon Viking stuff, at least it doesn't sound too much like 08/15 of some other bands ;) Only heard the "Blod og Ild" album tho... need to get the rest soon.

As for other Viking stuff from germany, if female vocals are liked, and "grim" vocs can be tolerated, and good music is needed - what about Adorned Brood?

Hmmm, there are a bunch more good bands...this post got boring enough already... *stop*

[Hjalmar793]

--> Also check: "Mourning Ends" and "Riger" : www.riger.org
Damned cool stuff...

The Gods with you..
Hjalmar

[Einar]

yeah Riger is cool, have to buy the newest Album

Adorned Brood are cool too
some grim vocals,some female, I like it

hmm ... I have to plunder the Metal Shop soon again :D

[vladimir]

haha
Ziu I like celtic stuff too!!
trie the weird lord slough feg!!
Maybe you like it!!
great music!! Resemblence to skyclad!!

[Devil Messiah]

Bathory, Mithotyn, Falkenbach (resurrect indeed!), Thyrfing, Amon Amarth, Finntroll, Einherjer, Adorned Brood...

*goes to download Helheim video*

[Ymir]

anyone know the band Grimm, they play Dutch folk metal (some of their lyrics are Dutch!!!) cool band, Vladimir@ you should know them...

[vladimir]

Off course I know them!!
They sing in German and Dutch.
I only have no songs of them!!

Do you know wapenspraak & drinkgelach?
Also a Belgian folk metal band..
I also have no songs of them.
I guess it's more a live band!!

I recently checked Vanaheim..
Sounds good, although I only have one song!


and off course nachtfalke!!
Like the good ol' enslaved.
And the covered man of iron from bathory!! \m/

[Blackspirit]

Bringing this thread back up again, just to let you all know that
there are samples from the new Ásmegin album on their website -->
http://www.asmegin.com/

Sounds damn good if you ask me!! :o)

Sometimes it gets a bit too messy, but this is FOLK damnit! :o)
Makes me jolly! hehe... Yessa! :o)

Go have a listen, I think it rules :o)

[Ymir]

blackspirit@ great, try to dwonload it..

vladimir@ haha, cool bandnames, do you have sites of the bands????btw check out fluisterwoud and heidenland, they play black metal not really good but very cool lyrics...

[vladimir]

There is no site of wapenspraak & drinkgelach it's a live band!!.

And I already know fluisterwoud and heidenland.
I sit on a forum, where also those bastards hang around:p.


Check out nachtfalke & vanaheim! \m/

[Ymir]

please give me some links????1

[vladimir]

www.google.com :p

[vladimir]

damn does anyone know if Falkenbach is ever going to release a new album.

Or can somebody from Germany go to the place where the guy from Falkenbach lives and ask it.
And otherwise sent me tapes:P

[Ymir]

vladimir@ you´re so lazy haha..hhmm me too

why a lot people thinks mr falkenbach is from iseland??

the last thing i heard from him is doing some grunt vocals by ad inferna... and he has a own record company I thought, calles Scaldic Art, but I can´t find that site anymore..

[Primator]

He used to live on Iceland for some years...that's probably why...

I heard about a new Falken-album like two years ago....but since then it's been silentio :(

[vladimir]

yeah that's the problem.
And I found the adress where he lives on the web.
In a interview.
And he also said that he was going to make a new album..
and he planned to go on with only tapes.
So that's why I asked tapes;)

[markgugs]

Originally posted by Guttorm
Hmm, Ensiferum is quite good.

I forgot one band, Windir! Though, they aren't really viking metal...

Ensiferum owns me. I can't call them favorite or 'top 5' band to me yet b/c they only have the one album, but damn I love that album.

And Windir is also excellent!

I would add Falkenbach, Einherjer, Moonsorrow, Enslaved, Bathory, Helheim, Goat of Mendes (pagan), Primordial (Celtic/black), come to think of it, I could just go on forever. I'm hard pressed to come up with a viking/viking-related band that I don't at least like.

[Den Hornkrönte]

I don't know many viking bands......though
besides the nazi bands

i like:
thyrfing
Amon Amarth
Úlfur (not totally viking though)
Magog
and some more...

[vladimir]

To kick this topic to aboveeeee!!

btw, I now also like asmegin, windir.

Surtur? (surturs lohte or something is also a band right?)
And I talk to the falkenbach guy again:) they are going to record the album soon.

[Guttorm]

Originally posted by Guttorm
To be honest, there are not any viking metal band that I don't like. But my favorites are: Enslaved, Bathory (the viking period), Einherjer, Thyrfing, Moonsorrow, and Mithotyn. The very favorites among them are Enslaved, Bathory and Thyrfing.

I need to update that list a bit, into:
Bathory, Thyrfing, Enslaved, Moonsorrow, Helheim, Månegarm and Windir.

[Grufull]

Thyrfing, Bathory, Ensiferum, Finntroll & Einherjer