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Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Folk and symphonic metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2015. They blend traditional folk instrumentation with symphonic orchestration and heavy metal energy.
Celtic black metal and folk metal band from Dublin, active since 2010. Celtachor draws deeply on Irish mythology and the Gaelic tradition, weaving folk instrumentation into fierce black metal.
Folk metal band from Ciudad Real, Spain, formed in 2022. They blend Celtiberian cultural heritage and folk elements with heavy metal energy from the Castilian plains.
Folk metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2016. They blend Celtic folk traditions with heavy metal from the Spanish capital.
Folk-thrash act from the Heerlen and Sittard area in Limburg, active since 2012. Chain of Dogs — named after a Malazan Book of the Fallen event — blends folk melodies with thrash metal aggression.
Folk and symphonic metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2017. They blend Greek folk traditions with symphonic metal grandeur.
Folk metal band from Kherson in southern Ukraine, active since 2002. Chur has spent over two decades weaving Ukrainian folk traditions into heavy metal from the Black Sea region.
Folk and heavy metal band from Valasske Mezirici in Moravian Wallachia, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. They blend traditional folk elements with heavy metal, drawing from the rich cultural heritage of their region.
Atmospheric black metal and folk metal band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2019. They blend cinematic atmospheres with folk instrumentation and raw black metal intensity.
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