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Carinthia, AT · 2016–present · active
Folk metal project from Carinthia, Austria, Tagarot draws on the region's Celtic and pre-Roman heritage — the name references the ancient Taurisci tribe's territory Noreia. Their two releases, "Tales from Noreia" and "Veleda's Prophecy," weave melodic folk instrumentation with metal arrangements, and the project maintains its own website at talesfromnoreia.at.
Tampere, FI · 2008–present · active
Taiga is a black/folk metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2008. Named after the vast boreal forest, they blend folk elements with black metal's raw intensity.
Nantes, FR · 2016–present · active
Tan Noz from Nantes craft folk metal under a Breton name meaning 'fire night,' weaving the Celtic folk traditions of northwestern France into heavy metal since 2016. A decade of fire-night revelry from the Loire-Atlantique capital has produced compositions rich in Breton cultural identity.
Azzano Decimo, IT · 2014–present · active
Tana del Lupo is a folk/death metal band from Azzano Decimo in the Pordenone province, Italy, formed in 2014. Their name meaning 'Wolf's Den' in Italian, they blend folk traditions with death metal ferocity.
Gomel, BY · 2013–present · active
Atmospheric pagan black/folk metal project from Gomel, Belarus, formed in 2009 by D. Sytchev and A. Romanow, who handle vocals, programming, guitar, bass, and keyboards between them. Their sound evolved from early ambient and dungeon synth influences toward a fully realized atmospheric black metal style with pagan and nature-based themes, documented on their 2015 album Зов Древних (Call of the Ancients). The project is among the few Belarusian metal acts to meaningfully incorporate folk and pagan elements into an extreme metal context.
Jyväskylä, FI · 2018–present · active
Tarvas is a folk metal band from Jyväskylä, Finland, formed in 2018. They weave Finnish folk traditions into heavy metal from the lake district.
Vienna, AT · 2003–present · active
Vienna-based Taurisca is a female-fronted melodic death/folk metal project with strong pagan and medieval influences, drawing on the ancient Taurisci culture that once inhabited the eastern Alps. Their music blends Gothenburg-influenced melodic death guitar work with folk instrumentation and lyrical themes rooted in pre-Christian Central European mythology.
London, GB · 2024–present · active
Teeth of the Fae is a multi-faceted project from London, formed in 2024, spanning black metal, dungeon synth, neofolk, and ambient. Their eclectic approach bridges the aggression of black metal with the medieval mysticism of dungeon synth and the contemplative beauty of neofolk.
Clermont-Ferrand, FR · 2015–present · active
Telperion from Clermont-Ferrand blend heavy metal with folk elements under a name drawn from Tolkien's Silmarillion — the silver Tree of Valinor — since 2015. A decade of Middle-earth-inspired compositions from the Auvergne has produced music as luminous and ancient as their elvish namesake.

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