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Posted by: Lian Gerbino Dec 18 2008, 02:25 PM

hi guys, as you know, I am working in this Viking-Folk Metal Concepts, so in this place you can add bands you like.
Bands I am including to create the whole concept are:
Finntroll, Ensiferum, Turisas, Amon Amarth, Falkenbach, Summoning, Heidevolk, Vintersorg.

also, feel free to ask whatever you need, or if you need some feedback.

see you around!

Posted by: Canis Dec 23 2008, 02:09 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzbX3EgGoXQ&fmt=18(watch both parts!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvU-iuN9OOQ&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2HkWh2u2Do&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBJTAyvjSJw&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iijKLHCQw5o&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bS7UnYZIeI&f&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCrY35z3uJE&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD0AJg-eKiM&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZbucSufNm4&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqm7Fs-O-aA&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncf2CKvoVg8&fmt=18

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Dec 23 2008, 07:02 PM

yeahhhhhh, that´s what I call a complete list I know the most of them so there is no problem for me!!!
thanks Canis!

Posted by: Canis Dec 25 2008, 01:27 AM

Glad to be of help
I really love Viking Metal, and I sit around waiting for your next lesson every day

Posted by: VinceG Dec 25 2008, 01:30 AM

You could also do Bathory- Blood, Fire, Death and Hammerheart era. That's the true originator of Viking Metal.

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Dec 25 2008, 09:49 AM

I know that! so I´ll do my best with the bands you add in man!!




yeah!!! completly Agree!!! thanks man!

Posted by: AlexLion Mar 10 2009, 03:37 PM

Awesome lessons Lian!! I absolutely love this kind of music!!
And some Slavonic groups i can add-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKjES1qnrGQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tWJ-hTjUEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvmHxfZbxWg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUDu2Shtp6U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQbXaJ4nogE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIc7NmmOJEg&feature=related
Those are very specific i must say

EDIT- oups, Equilibrium was already listed (it`s from Germany tho)

Posted by: Marek Rojewski Mar 10 2009, 03:49 PM

Don't think Slavic folk metal should be a part of "viking metal" series On the other side lyrics are what make the difference.. One band that wasn't mentioned and could also be of any use is Månegarm, although Bathory lesson would be cooler;)

Posted by: AlexLion Mar 10 2009, 03:52 PM

Yeah, there are pagan\folk but i would say it`s part of this genre too, just different, it can`t be viking metal, because there was no Vikings amongst Slavonic people

Posted by: Artemus Mar 10 2009, 04:24 PM

Not so much Folky but definately viking themed metal - Helheim (saw them last week as a matter of fact and they were awesome)
Also, totally agree with Bathory

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Mar 10 2009, 05:44 PM

cool, I´ll work on them thanks for request.

Posted by: Marek Rojewski Mar 10 2009, 08:40 PM

Actually there were, but this is not the place to write books about it

Here is a basic article with some mistakes in it, but well: http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Post/415852

Canute the Great had a polish mother, same as Olaf of Sweden.

Some other quotes from different sources:

"Olav Tryggvason's Saga says like that about Jomsvikings' campaign to Norway: "They had 20 ships from Skania [souther Sweden] and 40 ships from Vendland [Pomerania and Poland]. The king of Vendland was in this time Burisleif" (Boleslaw the Brave of Poland). Saga says Boleslaw was the father-in-law as well Sigvald, the jarl of Jomsvikings, as Sven Forkbeard - the king of Denmark and later conqueror of England - and the most famous of them, Olav Tryggvason, the king of Norway. According to Saga, Olav has spent 3 years in Poland (with his father-in-law, Boleslaw) and had there a lot of friends."


"That's how the Jomsvikings legend grew up.
Some of the Danish islands were attacked by Slavic pirates so often, that they have been depopulated at the end; later they have been settled again by Slavs from Pomerania. Danish invasions (with distinctly repressive character), like this from year 1043, shows that Vends (Slavs) were not easy neighbours for the Vikings; at the same time, when Scandinavian Vikings pillaged the West Europe, they own territory was pillaged by Vends.
In the book The Viking Art Of War (Chapter 'The Vikings and their neighbours), Paddy Griffith writes:
"To the south-east of Denmark lay the Wends (Vends) or the Slav tribes, who were in many ways just as effective raiders and traders as the Vikings themselves".
"The Slavs were always under threat of attack from the Vikings as well as the Franks."
"They also gave as good as they got , in military terms, sacking Hedeby in 1000 and harrying Denmark, Gotland , Oland and southern Sweden to such an extent that the Western Baltic was sometimes called Mare Rugianorum after the Slavic pirates of Rugen. The prevalence of treasure-hoarding in southern Sweden during the 1000s has led modern archeologists to believe that the threat was indeed a very serious one, and the Icelandic sagas themselves often seem to assume that "Vikings" in the purely piratical sense were almost as likely to be Wends (Vends) as Scandinavians."
According to our present knowlage, we can suppose that the team of pirates from Jomsborg was mixed, Slavic - Scandinavian, but after 1000 the Slavic element among the Jomsvikings was in majority."

There were even Slavic buildings discovered on Iceland, so we can assume that vikings were of different nationalities, not only Scandinavian.

Anyway sorry for interfering in the thread so much with an off topic, I am a IX-XI century history freak, forgive me

Posted by: AlexLion Mar 11 2009, 05:16 PM

Marek, thanks for that! That was really interesting, and i didn`t knew that! Some of slavic people was vikings ...
And entertaining article!
So.. There must be a slavic viking metal group then! but i didn`t know any..
p.s.- history is your hobby?

Posted by: Marek Rojewski Mar 11 2009, 05:20 PM

No problem bro:) Well I always loved history, although other interests left little time for it. Anyway lets not make such offtopic in Lian's thread;)

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Mar 11 2009, 09:18 PM

no prblem man... that was very very interesting!
I´m a huge fan of history too, I´m always reading about viking times, celtic times and others old cultures too.
your knowlegde is very welcome, thanks for sharing

Posted by: Marco Fattori Mar 29 2010, 01:50 PM

flogging molly

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Mar 29 2010, 08:05 PM

cool man, nice add!

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Oct 16 2010, 06:39 PM

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