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Old 12-04-2014, 12:09 PM   #51 (permalink)
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Heavy metal to me is NWBHM, the old school metal. It's a subgenre of the mother genre of Metal.
Just like Melodic death metal, folk metal, etc.
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Old 12-04-2014, 01:06 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Heavy metal to me is NWBHM, the old school metal. It's a subgenre of the mother genre of Metal.
Just like Melodic death metal, folk metal, etc.
I wouldn't describe the NWOBHM as a sub-genre, as it encompassed too many bands and two many diverse types of music within some of those bands. The ten years or so before the NWOBHM bands had displayed elements of what was metal, some more so than others, whereas in the NWOBHM everything came together and finally created a metal genre. It was after the fall of the NWOBHM around 1983 that all these metal sub-genres started to pop up and everything became more specialized.
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Old 12-04-2014, 04:07 PM   #53 (permalink)
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Intrigued. What are some good examples of folk metal?
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Old 12-04-2014, 04:54 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Intrigued. What are some good examples of folk metal?
This popped up on Youtube. WTH????? What makes this "folk"?

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No idea what that is, but folk metal can have native, folk instrumentation, but often it's the lyrics about a country's ancestors that make it folk.
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Old 12-05-2014, 08:59 AM   #56 (permalink)
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The term was coined in the late 40's by William S. Burroughs, who made reference to Uranium Willy, the 'Heavy Metal Kid' in Naked Lunch. According to the 'Louder than Hell', which I just happen to currently be reading, it was Judas Priest who really championed the name as an accurate way to describe the music and look they were going for. Most bands of the time thought it was a derogatory term and wanted nothing to do with it.

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Uranian Willie was first mentioned in The Soft Machine and then again in Nova Express, he doesn't appear in Naked Lunch.
Sorry, just a nitpicky Burroughs fan passing by.
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No idea what that is, but folk metal can have native, folk instrumentation, but often it's the lyrics about a country's ancestors that make it folk.
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.
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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.
I sympathize. I have no idea why anyone considers Ensiferum folk metal. But it is what it is.
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