There is clearly a fairly cohesive folk metal scene on the continent. It is all very electric usually with double kick drum. It sounds like "metal" not like "rock". but I have two buts about it.

First, very little of it seems to take folk songs or nearly-folk songs and metal them. It all seems to try to extract the use of some instruments or the way of playing them or the nature of melody lines or the ways of singing harmony that has or have been associated with folk music, and adding those to metal.

Second, most of it is sung in German or a Norse language (OK some Spanish). Not useful to me!


The closest I have got to what I am looking for is BlueHorses - and right now they are resting and their figurehead Lizzie Prendergast is listed as freelance on MySpace (and doing some very acoustic stuff with Eden Hill). There is some Celtic metal around too, but I don't do "Euro-celtique"