pagan metal

Primordial is an Irish band founded in the late 1980's. They play a unique style of heavy metal, which can best be described as a blend of black and folk metal with strong influences from their Irish roots. Their music and lyrics deal with cultural heritage, struggle, melancholy and anger. Primordial started out as a black metal band with some folk influences with their 1993 demo Dark Romanticism and 1995 debut album Imrama.

Guthrum is the solo project of Mark Wood (ex Ravenage / current Winterfylleth) They released the first recordings under the name of 'The First Ode to Many...' in mid 2009 and received a high level of feedback thus attaining solid ground to build on for future releases. The next release will be out during the second half of 2010. Current members are:
Mark Wood, Phil Wilkinson, Richard Hurst and Jonny Hirons. Previous members:
Elliot Vernon (Ravenage and Windrider)

In Extremo is one of the most famous folk metal bands, originating from Berlin, Germany in 1995. The band's musical style combines heavy metal with medieval traditional songs, blending the sound of the standard metal instruments with traditional instruments such as the bagpipes, harp, hurdy-gurdy and shawm. Versions of well-known traditional/medieval ballads make up the main part of their repertoire, though over the years the band has also begun to write some original material using the German language.

Read more about In Extremo on Last.fm.

3 bands exist under this name (check also Stone): 1. Serbian Black Metal band
2. American Experimental/Avantgarde band
3. Hungarian Progressive Metal band 1. The dark monumental cult of The Stone was born in 1996. At first the darkness was spreading under the different band name, known as STONE TO FLESH. February '97, first demo called "Serbian Woods" was recorded followed by first live appearances.