BL’s son speaking:

Working from the Eluveite foundation, I would recommend exploring some of the similar folk metal bands from Europe. Bathory specifically on the albums Nordland and Nordland II (Sweden), Ensiferum (Finland), Arkona (Russia), Manegarm (Sweden) and Heidevolk (Netherlands) are all solid bands that play in a style somewhat similar to Eluveitie. If these prove interesting, you could try some more adventurous folk metal bands. Tyr (Faroe Islands) and Vintersorg (Sweden) both play great folk metal with some strong progressive rock vibes. The Irish band Primordial are also very interesting, but not so accessible. Their Celtic folk metal is very harrowing, very Irish.

Some bands approach folk metal with more of a black metal, neofolk, post-rock or darkwave thought process, preferring to be less straight-forward energetic and more ambient, atmospheric and moody. Moonsorrow (Finland), Agalloch (USA), Negura Bunget (Romania) and Summoning (Austria) are examples of this approach, though they all do it in a distinct manner. Not light listening, I will warn you, but quite rewarding if you have the patience for it.

If you’re interested in seeing how folk metal goes outside of the European style, you could try Melechesh (Israel), Rudra (Singapore, I thiiiink), Chthonic (Taiwain) or Rotting Christ specifically on the album Theogonia (Greece). They incorporate middle-eastern, Hindu, Chinese and Greek folk music, respectively.

There are a lot more folk metal bands to find, but this should be enough for now. If you like, you could try the Finnish bands Finntroll and Korpiklaani, who are fun in moderation but a bit too sugary and fruity for my tastes.

Hope you enjoy.

fruity eh? Sounds spot on for a Gardening Forum… ;)

And welcome BL’s son :)

pain master said:

fruity eh? Sounds spot on for a Gardening Forum… ;)

And welcome BL’s son :)

Too late, he’s gone.

Thanks BL’s son! :)

I will pass that on to Mr Bon. I’m pretty sure I recognise a couple of those names but I’m not that familiar with his collection. I do know and enjoy Finntroll though :) Even the mention of Finntroll will get us swinging an arm back and forth in a half pirate, half folksy way. I have no idea why, come to think of it…

Mr Bon just came and sat next to me and said “Bubba Louie’s son is awesome” :)

He said a lot of those bands are in his collection already (so they obviously have similar taste!) but some he has never heard of and will definitely look into.

Thanks again :)

bon008 said:

Mr Bon just came and sat next to me and said “Bubba Louie’s son is awesome” :)

He said a lot of those bands are in his collection already (so they obviously have similar taste!) but some he has never heard of and will definitely look into.

Thanks again :)

He’s a walking talking encyclopaedia of Metal trivia.

bubba louie said:

He’s a walking talking encyclopaedia of Metal trivia.

It’s great that you see the up sides of it. Mr Bon’s mum doesn’t understand why he would listen to “that awful noise” at all :D She thinks it’s all for suicidal emo kids I think =/

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

He’s a walking talking encyclopaedia of Metal trivia.

It’s great that you see the up sides of it. Mr Bon’s mum doesn’t understand why he would listen to “that awful noise” at all :D She thinks it’s all for suicidal emo kids I think =/

I don’t like all of it. The “growling” doesn’t thrill me, especially when Eldest son’s practicing his own version.LOL

I’m slowly being educated.

Hehe. I’m not a fan of the growling either, but I’ve gotten a lot more used to it.

I like quite a few of them until they start growling…

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

He’s a walking talking encyclopaedia of Metal trivia.

It’s great that you see the up sides of it. Mr Bon’s mum doesn’t understand why he would listen to “that awful noise” at all :D She thinks it’s all for suicidal emo kids I think =/

We’re always telling both the boys that they don’t realise how well off they are. LOL

There really isn’t that big of a generation gap with us and there isn’t much they could do or say that would shock us too much. :)

bubba louie said:

I don’t like all of it. The “growling” doesn’t thrill me, especially when Eldest son’s practicing his own version.LOL

Ahhh Cookie Monster lyrics? Know it well….

bubba louie said:

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

He’s a walking talking encyclopaedia of Metal trivia.

It’s great that you see the up sides of it. Mr Bon’s mum doesn’t understand why he would listen to “that awful noise” at all :D She thinks it’s all for suicidal emo kids I think =/

We’re always telling both the boys that they don’t realise how well off they are. LOL

There really isn’t that big of a generation gap with us and there isn’t much they could do or say that would shock us too much. :)

I won’t say anything else about my mother in law.. this being the internet and all :D

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

bon008 said:

It’s great that you see the up sides of it. Mr Bon’s mum doesn’t understand why he would listen to “that awful noise” at all :D She thinks it’s all for suicidal emo kids I think =/

We’re always telling both the boys that they don’t realise how well off they are. LOL

There really isn’t that big of a generation gap with us and there isn’t much they could do or say that would shock us too much. :)

I won’t say anything else about my mother in law.. this being the internet and all :D

There was a HUGE generation gap between my mother and I, but most of our friends are very tolerant parents.

bubba louie said:

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

We’re always telling both the boys that they don’t realise how well off they are. LOL

There really isn’t that big of a generation gap with us and there isn’t much they could do or say that would shock us too much. :)

Comes of being a child of the hippy era. LOL
I won’t say anything else about my mother in law.. this being the internet and all :D

There was a HUGE generation gap between my mother and I, but most of our friends are very tolerant parents.

I stuffed up the posting sequence on that last one.

Comes of being a child of the hippy era. LOL

bubba louie said:

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

He’s a walking talking encyclopaedia of Metal trivia.

It’s great that you see the up sides of it. Mr Bon’s mum doesn’t understand why he would listen to “that awful noise” at all :D She thinks it’s all for suicidal emo kids I think =/

I don’t like all of it. The “growling” doesn’t thrill me, especially when Eldest son’s practicing his own version.LOL

I’m slowly being educated.

Like me and punk…in small doses it’s ok.