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Turisas

Turisas is a Finnish folk metal band from Hämeenlinna. They were founded in 1997 by Mathias Nygård and Jussi Wickström and named after an ancient Finnish god of war. Turisas combine elements of folk metal and power metal, with perhaps some influences of symphonic metal as well. The album title Battle Metal has given rise to the term "battle metal" being used as a description of folk metal (as stated by Metal Hammer magazine) but it may not be a canonical metal subgenre.

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Ragnarok

There are many bands with the name of Ragnarok.:
1) A Black Metal band from Norway 1994: Ragnarok was formed by Jontho and Jerv after they left their previous band called Thoth. Thyme and Rym soon joined the band which gave the following lineup: Jontho – drums, Jerv - bass, Rym - guitar and Thyme - vocals.
At the end of the year Ragnarok recorded a demo called 'Pagan Land'.
The demo was recorded in a small studio called Haga Audio located in Sarpsborg. As the studio had no experience with black metal, the sound came out to be very bad and the response was not so good.

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Storm

There are numerous bands/groups by the name of Storm. Some examples include: - a female rapper, featured on 2Pac's "All Eyez On Me" and married to Mac;
- a Norwegian folk metal band;
- a German dance duo;
- an alias of U.S. techno artist Steve Stoll;
- Storm Large, a female rocker and stage performer in Portland Oregon;
- a Korean girl group also known as Storm (스톰);
- a Montenegrin all-girl pop group;

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SuidAkrA

SuidAkrA is a melodic death-metal band with folk influences from Germany. There is a very prominent Gothenburg metal sound to their music. Gloryfication / SuidAkrA 1994-1997 SuidAkrA's very beginnings lie back in the year of 1994 when vocalist / guitarist Arkadius Antonik and drummer Stefan Möller founded the band. In those years they called themselves ‘Gloryfication’. After two demos and the addition of Marcel Schoenen to the band, their name was subsequently changed.

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Solefald

Solefald is a metal band from Norway that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band's name is best explained in an interview from Century Media Records website. Lazare states "Solefald is an old norse word for sunset. We "stole" it from a painting by the Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen.

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Cnocantursa

Cnoc An Tursa (Hill of Sorrow) are a Scottish metal Band (previously known as Carpathian Breed) forged in 2006 in Falkirk, an ancient Borough whose Motto is: ‘Better Meddle wi the Deil than the Bairns O’ Falkirk’. Intense, symphonic ballads, with music heavily inspired by the early 90s’ 2nd wave of Black Metal which, combined with the tales of a much neglected art form, old Scottish poems, creates a totally unrivaled sound of heavy black metal rock, with ravenous, melodic undertones, and ancient, rhythmical lyrics.

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Sleepless

There has been more than one artist to use the name Sleepless. 1.Sleepless is a Dark Progressive Metal band from Israel, they released Winds Blow Higher in 2001 and now they are split-up. 2.Sleepless is from Tucson, Arizona, formed in 2009. 3.A hungarian deathcore band from Székesfehérvár. 4.Sleepless were originally known under the German name Die Schlaflosen. Formed in 1982 when guitarist Arch Stanton met up with Singers Cloudia Wintermute & Lucretia, and bassist Roland Hammerl. They immediatly found they had an amazing chemistry together and improvasation was the key to their sound.

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