This is a list of Viking metal bands.Viking metal is a style of heavy metal music with origins in black metal and Nordic folk music, characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age.Viking metal is quite diverse as a musical style, to the point where some consider it more a cross-genre term than genre, but it is typically …

Folk metal – odmiana muzyki metalowej wywodząca się zazwyczaj z black lub heavy metalu.Trudno jednak stwierdzić dokładną datę powstania tego nurtu muzycznego. Jako pierwszy zespół nawiązujący do folku uważa się powstały w 1983 roku zespół Bathory.Na płycie Blood Fire Death poza tradycyjnym black metalowym brzmieniami pojawiają się elementy folkowe.

Mexican handcrafts and folk art is a complex collection of items made with various materials and intended for utilitarian, decorative or other purposes. Some of the items produced by hand in this country include ceramics, wall hangings, vases, furniture, textiles and much more. In Mexico, both crafts created for utilitarian purposes and folk art are collectively known as “artesanía” as ...

Greek musical history. Greek musical history extends far back into ancient Greece, since music was a major part of ancient Greek theater.Later influences from the Roman Empire, Eastern Europe and the Byzantine Empire changed the form and style of Greek music. In the 19th century, opera composers, like Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795–1872), Spyridon Xyndas (1812–1896) and …

As Europe experienced a wave of roots revivals in the 1950s and 1960s, France found its regional culture reviving traditional music. Brittany, Limousin, Gascony, Corsica and Auvergne were among the regions that experienced a notable resurgence in the popularity of folk music. Traditional styles of music had survived most in remote areas, such as the island of Corsica …

Le folk metal est un genre musical fusionnel de heavy metal et de musique folklorique, ayant émergé en Europe au début des années 1990.Le genre conserve une forte base metal incluant une rythmique rapide et une guitare saturée, mais également des instruments traditionnels des cultures auxquelles il se réfère, tels la flûte et la cornemuse, entre autres.

A bandura (Ukrainian: банду́ра) is a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument.It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often referred to by the term kobza.Early instruments (c. 1700) had 5 to 12 strings and similar to the lute. In the 20th century, the number of strings increased initially to 31 strings (1926), then to 56 strings – 68 strings on ...

The new wave of British heavy metal (commonly abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that started in England in the mid-1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s.Journalist Geoff Barton coined the term in a May 1979 issue of the British music newspaper Sounds to describe the emergence of new heavy metal bands in the mid to …

Laudi Khela. Laudi Khela, also known as Gauda Nacha is a form of dance practiced in some coastal districts of Odisha, including Cuttack, Jajapur, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Bhadrak, Baleswar, Dhenkanal, and Angul. Traditionally, the performers are young boys of the 'Gauda' or 'Gopal' castes. This dance is performed during Dola Purnima ().The dance is dedicated to …

According to legends, the founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun who, at the request of the Yellow Emperor to create a system of music, made bamboo pipes tuned to the sounds of birds including the phoenix. A twelve-tone musical system was created based on the pitches of the bamboo pipes, the first of these pipes produced the "yellow bell" (黃鐘) pitch, and …

Se llama metal gótico (en inglés: Gothic Metal o Goth Metal) ... La música en este EP fue atmosférica con influencias del folk del Oriente Medio, a través del uso de músicos invitados en la flauta, violín, timbal, gonges y voces árabes. Con la fuerza de este EP, la banda se puso al frente en la escena del metal portugués y firmaron un ...

History Art music Origins. Little is known of the music of Brazil before the area's first encounter with Portuguese explorers on 22 April 1500. During the colonial period, documents detail the musical activities of the major Roman Catholic cathedrals and the parlors of the upper classes, but data about musical life outside these domains are sparse.

The Wicker Man is a 1973 British folk horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, and Christopher Lee.The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated Scottish island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl.

The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon.The band consists of Colin Meloy (lead vocals, guitar, principal songwriter), Chris Funk (guitar, multi-instrumentalist), Jenny Conlee (piano, keyboards, accordion), Nate Query (), and John Moen ().. Their debut EP, 5 Songs, was self-released in 2001.Their eighth and latest full-length album I'll Be Your Girl was …