E.Vil

Hi all I am new here, but I think I might just settle in this topic haha. Two of my favourite genres.

My favourites include:

Norther
Before the Dawn
Dispatched
Amon Amarth
Ensiferum
Wintersun (Seeing them this year )
Finntroll
Yggdrasil (New album Irbloss is awesome!)
Thyrfing
Mors Principium Est
Kalmah

And many more :p

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Unknown Soldier

Its basically an offshoot of black and folk metal and as the name suggests its focused on norse themes. Hammerheart by Bathory is the probably the first album that you should listen to give you an idea.

Hallvardr

wow theres alot of great viking metal bands amazed no one mentioned Heidevolk



check youtube for them , cant post links yet =/

hellbornt

Uburen's new album is awesome Viking black metal from Norway!

satansmusicbox.com/news/uburens-withered-roots-exclusive-full-album-stream-norwegian-viking-black-metal

mythsofmetal

Based on the OP's post it seems like they somehow think Viking Metal bands are just any Metal bands from Scandinavia. The thread title confused me because those two sub-genres (Melodeath, and Viking Metal) aren't very common together, and the only band listed by the OP which could almost kinda be considered such is Ensiferum who on their first album was more just Folk Metal and later went on to be Folk Metal with more Power Metal influence. But I guess they have hints of Black Metal influence, especially on their early demos, so I could see some of their stuff reasonably being considered Viking Metal by some.

I agree with an above stated comment, that of which states Viking Metal as an off-shoot of Folk and Black Metal. I personally categorize Viking Metal under the Pagan Metal umbrella alongside Anglo-Saxon Metal and all the other cultures' unique Folk influenced Black Metal.

Also, probably my favourite Viking Metal band would have to be Manegarm, though they've also done some stuff with much less Black Metal influence. For Melodic Death Metal some of my favourites include Wintersun, Kalmah, and Dissection's third album which broke away from their Melodic Black Metal roots, and got into Melodeath called "Reinkaos."

HellCell

Yup, one of my favorite genres. Melodic death metal bands I'm into are quite mainstream. Like Children of Bodom, Kalmah, Norther, Ensiferum, Arch Enemy, etc.

Not sure about viking metal though. If you mean something like Bathory, I don't care for it. (At least from the tracks I've heard)

HellCell

Wintersun.
First Album, blandish, with one or two good songs.
Time I on the otherhand is epic. That is Wintersuns true sound, took the 7 years though -_-