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Viking rock (also known as Vikingarock in Swedish) is a rock music genre that takes much of its themes from 19th-century Viking romanticism, [1] mixing it with elements of rockabilly, Oi! or street punk, and folk music. [1] Frequent themes occurring in Viking rock include vikings and Norse mythology, as well as Sweden's King Karl XII and the ...
- Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song
- Peter Hammill – Viking
- Iron Maiden – Invaders
- Heavy Load – Singing Swords
- Tnt– Seven Seas
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force – I Am A Viking
- Black Sabbath – Valhalla
- Enslaved – 793
- Amon Amarth – The Dragons’ Flight Across The Waves
- Sabaton – Swedish Pagans
With Jimmy Page’s urgent choppy riff and Robert Plant’s chest-beating bravado, Led Zeppelin’s provocatively-titled rampage set the template for future Viking metal, these glorious lyrics tapping into an ancient spirit of roving conquest with clear parallels to the decadent devastation of Zeppelin on tour. Cover versions by Dark Angel, The Sword, In...
The first solo album by Van Der Graaf Generator’s founding frontman and all-round prog mastermind was an expansive affair. This moody conjuration of authentic Viking names (“Aud the Deep-Minded, Snorri Thorbrandsson, Thorstein The Black”) and sensations (“Helmets and sheepskins salt-damp in the sea-mist”) begins like a Bathory intro, with crashing ...
An inauspicious kids’ TV theme tune of a song to open Iron Maiden’s defining statement, Invadersgave Bruce a convoluted tongue-twister to kick off his first Maiden album: “Longboats have been sighted and the evidence of war has begun.” However it’s a poetical improvement on the first line of Maiden’s earlier demo track on the same theme, Invasion: ...
Debuting in 1978, Stockholm’s nattiest barbarians Heavy Load were the world’s first devotedly Viking metal band, with dead-giveaway song titles like Heathens From The North and Son Of The Northern Light and endearingly amateurish sleeve art depicting fur-clad Nordic beefcakes brandishing swords in a fjord. Singing Swords is the Trooper-esque song o...
An unfairly forgotten nugget of ‘80s melodic rock with diamond-hard guitars and a poodle-soft chorus, with a video that introduced longboats to MTV (along with TNT’s 1984-to-a-tee hair and wardrobe). Lyrically the Norwegian band proudly place themselves in the Viking tradition, declaring: “The longboat force is back again to take on all the world.”...
This weighty slice of ornate Gothic doom is far more elegant and sublime than its comically overstated title – and this Swedish shred virtuoso’s reputation for cheese – would seem to suggest. His music was faintly risible at times, but this prime ‘80s metal cut retains its power and dignity, even with lyrics like “You are a loser and it’s such a sh...
It took Tony Iommi 20 years to lend his hulking dark riff-tones to a Viking theme, but it was worth the wait. 1990’s Tyris an underrated classic of Sabbath’s middle period, unleashing a heavier, more epic sound after the borderline AOR of the late ‘80s. Drenched in atmospheres of Norse mythology, Tyr was a cornerstone in the development of Viking m...
These Norwegian black metallers were always proudly steeped in Norse myth, but on their masterly third album they embraced the Viking aesthetic with gleeful rigour, from the fancy-dress photo shoot to the drums that sound like woodblocks. This magisterial 16-minute opener commemorates the year that a marauding mob of hairy hooligans arrived in Nort...
Metal’s most Viking-obsessed band have a catalogue bulging with killer songs on this theme, but there’s something audaciously sensitive about these early lyrics. Bands often sing of the fearless Norseman off on a raid, they seldom mention his heartbreak at leaving his family behind: “He returns to his bed kissing his sleeping wife goodbye, And as h...
With one of the catchiest rallying chants in recent heavy metal history, Sabaton’s inevitable take on the military tactics of their own Viking history - written for the live environment – carries a special emotive surge. Although avowedly neutral politically, the Swedish War Machine allow themselves a measure of pride in their marauding heathen anc...
Jul 9, 2021 · These are the 10 greatest Viking metal albums known to man and valkyrie. Amon Amarth: the kings of Ragnarok’n’roll(Image credit: Press) Heavy metal has long drawn parallels between the rampaging Norse conquerors of the Middle Ages and life as a touring band. Since Led Zeppelin ’s Immigrant Song in 1970, Vikings have held special ...
2,426 listeners. There are atleast two artists with this name. 1) Heidrun is a Swedish viking rock band from Värmland. 2) Black Metal band from Belgium.
