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Celtic metal is a subgenre of folk metal that developed in the 1990s in Ireland. The genre is a fusion of heavy metal and Celtic rock. The early pioneers of the genre were the Irish bands Cruachan, Primordial and Waylander. The genre has since expanded beyond Irish shores and is known to be performed today by bands from numerous other countries.
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- Altar Of Plagues. Avant-garde black metal fans were devastated when Altar Of Plagues called it quits in 2015. Their last record, 2013’s Teethed Glory And Injury was certainly a memorable way to bow out: an anguished, emotional and vastly experimental blend of black and post-metal.
- Malthusian. They may have AoP’s ex-drummer in their ranks, but musically Malthusian are a very different beast: expelling raw, twisted death metal with breakneck speed, repetitive riffs and some doomy black metal thrown into the melting pot.
- From The Bogs Of Aughiska. Hailing from the craggy coastline of County Clare, this two man-drone project are an ambient, creepy and crushing presence that capture the bleak and eerie side of the Irish landscape.
- ZOM. This Dublin collective have been something of a buzz band on the underground scene since their inception in 2011. A rumbling, primal mix of blackened death metal with lyrics about sorcery, perversion and the like, ZOM are a raucous, frenzied assault on the senses.
The earliest folk metal bands were Skyclad from England and Cruachan from Ireland. Skyclad's debut album The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth was released in 1991 and would be considered a thrash metal album with some folk influences, unlike Cruachan’s early work which embraced the folk element as a defining part of their sound.
A playlist of metal bands with Celtic folk influence. Traditional music native to Ireland, Scotland, Wales. There are also many bands from other countries with partial Celtic ancestry, such...
Cruachan (pronounced [ˈkɾˠuəxən̪ˠ]; named after the archaeological site of Rathcroghan, also known as Cruachan) are an Irish folk metal band from Dublin that have been active since the 1990s. They are recognised as one of the founders of folk metal, and have been acclaimed as having "gone the greatest lengths of anyone in their attempts ...
