In early 2008, around the time of the original Paganfest USA tour, Pagan and Folk metal were all the rage. Bands from all over Europe were suddenly gaining attention in America with their blend of ...

Pagan metal is pretty much an official metal subgenre nowadays, but Swiss metal band Eluveitie, who meld Celtic folk with their death metal stylings, prefer the term 'folk metal' over 'pagan metal,' ...

Anyone who went to the U.S. incarnation of this year’s pagan/folk metal festival Paganfest will tell you that it was positively one of the best, most fun concerts of the year so far (see also: live ...

The fusing of heavy metal with traditional folk music, isn't necessarily a new thing, but there isn't anyone on the planet doing it better than Korpiklanni. The Finnish sextet's roots can be traced ...

Russian pagan folk-metal legends Arkona really didn’t need to hit the reset button and rerecord their 2004 debut, Vozrozhdenie (Napalm)—as their first throwdown of a chain-mail gauntlet, it still ...

To a civilian bystander there could hardly be two white pop genres less simpatico than metal and folk. On the one hand you’ve got corpse-painted quasi-fascist Vikings grunting about blood and Satan; ...