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28 Mar 09 - 06:09 PM (#2599481) Subject: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: oldhippie Hellsongs are a 3-piece Scandinavian band who play traditional heavy metal songs in the style of early 70's folk music. Their versions of these songs are not parodies of the originals, nor are they note-for-note replications; the band instead finds totally new ways of arranging and presenting the original material. Their transformation of Metallica's dirge-thrash number 'Blackened' into a sprightly, almost Joni Mitchell-esque singalong is bordering on genius, while their interpretation of Iron Maiden's chest-beating power anthem 'Run to The Hills' as a deeply introspective slice of acoustic melancholia is equally charming. Is this a new genre? Or have other artists pioneered this great idea? |
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28 Mar 09 - 06:26 PM (#2599488) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Phil Edwards I think Roddie Frame beat them to it by about 20 years. Aztec Camera's version of the Van Halen poodle-hair classic Jump is, well, even classicker - partly because it slows it right down (which is almost always interesting; cf Coil's terrifying version of Tainted Love), but mainly because it brings out the world-weary, cynical, almost despairing undertow of the lyrics. Wellllll... you might as well... jump... Sounds like fun. (I was hoping it'd be folk songs in the style of HM, but you can't have everything.) |
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28 Mar 09 - 08:53 PM (#2599547) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Richard Bridge Yes Pip, I too am seeking it the other way. |
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28 Mar 09 - 09:19 PM (#2599555) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Earplugs, please. |
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28 Mar 09 - 09:40 PM (#2599562) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Don Firth Runs screaming! Dives under bed!! Don Firth |
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29 Mar 09 - 05:19 AM (#2599657) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Alec Heavy Metal seems to have a different sub-genre for each day of the month. I have never been a huge fan of metal music but it does have its moments. There was a discernible Folk influence on the better parts of that particular genre from a very early point (Think "Battle of Evermore") but the term only seems to have been coined in the early 'Nineties & loosely come into fashion recently. Personally I think the term has more to do with marketing than any attempt to accurately describe the music. It does have it's moments (I quite like Skyclad's version of "Jig-a-Jig") but, far more frequently, Don Firth's reaction is wholly understandable. Judge for yourself |
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29 Mar 09 - 09:04 AM (#2599752) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: SteveMansfield A few years ago the audience-leaving-tent music at Towersey was a great CD of doo-wop versions of Anarchy In The UK and many other unlikely classics. I never did manage to track it down (or find a suitable moment to bug the various sound engineers to find out what it was) sadly ... Thanks for the Hellsongs tip - got bored with the formula after the first two songs, but enjoyed those two - particularly love the string quartet on Jump :) |
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29 Mar 09 - 12:35 PM (#2599859) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Alec sfmans, I'm strongly certain that the CD you heard at would have been Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias who certainly did a good Doo Wop version of Anarchy in the UK |
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29 Mar 09 - 02:03 PM (#2599920) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Neil D Korpiklaani |
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29 Mar 09 - 03:44 PM (#2599977) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Richard Bridge I quite like Arch-Enemy and some of their stuff would re-folk quite well, but it is not folk music that has been metallised. |
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29 Mar 09 - 03:45 PM (#2599978) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Rifleman (inactive) Boiled In Lead out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their 1989 album, From the Ladle to the Grave is amazing. Boiled in Lead not to everyone's taste, so you've warned! |
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29 Mar 09 - 05:55 PM (#2600051) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: GUEST,Shimrod Oh, for God's sake! |
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29 Mar 09 - 06:29 PM (#2600070) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: michaelr Hardly a new genre. Metallica, and before them Thin Lizzie, have recorded trad songs. |
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29 Mar 09 - 06:59 PM (#2600085) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: M.Ted There is Hayseed Dixie, for those who want heavy metal in anything from Bluegrass to country pop modes, and for those who like traditional tunes in the thrash/punk style, check Subway to Sally, particularly in there groundbreaking treatment of "Carrickfergus"-- |
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30 Mar 09 - 03:53 AM (#2600234) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: SteveMansfield Subway To Sally also make use of bagpipes, rauschpfeifes and shawms, all of which fit in suprisingly well with their sound. Probably one of the few occasions where the rauschpfeife needs amplifying ... I'm still all misty-eyed from the reminder of Boiled In Lead, what a brilliant band - when folk/rock in the UK pretty much meant Fairport Convention and their mumerous imitators, BiL were mixing in Scandinavian, Eastern European, and Indian influences with the power chords, a sort of heavier Minneapolis version of the 3 Mustaphas 3. Lovely stuff. |
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30 Mar 09 - 12:12 PM (#2600479) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Rifleman (inactive) "Oh, for God's sake!" I was awaiting a response from the traddie crowd, this must be it. What do you expect? The Peatbog Faeries, and the late Croft No. 5, I think, come into this category |
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30 Mar 09 - 12:50 PM (#2600512) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Phil Edwards I was awaiting a response from the traddie crowd, this must be it. Oi! The first response from the 'traddie crowd' was my comment, the second on the list. Sorry if it didn't confirm your preconceptions. |
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30 Mar 09 - 01:49 PM (#2600572) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker "Subway To Sally also make use of bagpipes, rauschpfeifes and shawms, all of which fit in suprisingly well with their sound." hmmmm.. actually.. i always imagined any mediaeval music played on bagpipes, rauschpfeifes, shawms and suchlike nasty loud agressive abrasive sounding instruments was the Heavy Metal music back in the Dark Ages long before elecric guitars and amps were invented.. |
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30 Mar 09 - 02:17 PM (#2600595) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: VirginiaTam I say. I say. I love the traditional song rendered traditionally. However, I think I could get into metal folk easily enough. Just don't poppify it. If Mariah Carey or Cold Play start rendering trad songs in their style, that is when I will get a ticket for another planet. |
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30 Mar 09 - 02:25 PM (#2600602) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: GUEST,Jane Bird (without the cookie) No one's mentioned Glorystrokes yet?! Sheffield heavy folk ceilidh. I've rather enjoying James Bell glamfolk versions of English traditional songs. He did a spot at Oxfolk last month - it was the first time I'd heard him and he's great fun! |
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30 Mar 09 - 03:44 PM (#2600679) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Hendo Can i suggest Leatherat & Something Nasty in the Woodshed. Haven't read the whole thread yet but Levellers must be in there. |
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31 Mar 09 - 04:32 AM (#2601054) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: SteveMansfield i always imagined any mediaeval music played on bagpipes, rauschpfeifes, shawms and suchlike nasty loud agressive abrasive sounding instruments was the Heavy Metal music back in the Dark Ages long before elecric guitars and amps were invented.. The idea that I'm regularly playing the 16th Century equivalent of heavy metal amuses me enormously, thank you for that. There's an email signature and/or a T-shirt in there somewhere :) |
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31 Mar 09 - 11:02 AM (#2601300) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: GUEST,Dazbo at Work And what about Hoven Droven - Heavy Metal as Polskas and such like :-) |
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31 Mar 09 - 11:40 AM (#2601338) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Jayto Here are a couple I like alot Flogging Molly Dropkick Murphey's The Legendary Shack Shakers |
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31 Mar 09 - 06:15 PM (#2601689) Subject: RE: 'Folk Metal' - A new genre? From: Stringsinger Musical sausage. Not too many ingredients in it are good for you. Soaked in alcohol too long. Pickled rock? I like the plain ol' tremoloed tenor banjo intro though. Just because it's new doesn't give it any weight as music. You can't understand the words too well because the singer shrieks 'em out. You can't tell what the songs are about if they are about anything at all. It's another "sham-wow". |