Originally Posted by Carpe Mortem

I gotta disagree there, it is the instrumental stylings that makes something folk rather than lyrical content. Folk is the juxtaposition of 'native' instruments with traditional metal ones, otherwise a whole lot of metal would be considered folk.

Although... I'm often torn on if following folk parameters and time signatures, etc, necessarily makes something folk. Not like there's much of a definitive style in that regard but I do wonder. Same thoughts regarding any other non-metal way of playing metal.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.