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Post by endless on Feb 22, 2008 18:20:50 GMT -5
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Post by Torkin on Feb 22, 2008 18:45:42 GMT -5
Hell yah! Wintersun has some folk influences, also Leaves' eyes (more gothic though), also I have heard that No man's land is good folk metal, but havent checked them out yet. Also im not sure about Kalmah, they sound plain melodic death metal, but their lyrics have some folk myth influences (swamp metal whut?)
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Post by Stefvorcide on Feb 22, 2008 23:34:43 GMT -5
yaeh killer bands.
Tyr from the faroes island (icedland!) is cool also, its a lil progressive.
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Post by endless on Apr 2, 2008 15:25:04 GMT -5
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Post by Torkin on Apr 2, 2008 17:40:14 GMT -5
Hey man do you by any chance know any arabic / egyptian / chinese / indian / japanese / korean folk artists?
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Post by endless on Apr 3, 2008 14:41:56 GMT -5
Yoshida Brothers (rock with shamisen): www.youtube.com/watch?v=RERXiliJfdINot sure who they are, but the videos have been in my favorites forever: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rs7pfZuPswww.youtube.com/watch?v=09vfa4vuHFYI've been told the second videos shamisen player is Hiromitsu Agatsuma. Apparently he's big in the J-pop scene. Heavensdust(Hard rock/metal not much folk, but they use traditional instruments): www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4EHYhni9qEwww.youtube.com/watch?v=XjK64Bly0CE&NR=1Karl Sanders' (of Nile) side project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PUF2dRoApIwww.youtube.com/watch?v=5hj0e5cpUYsCoventide Myspace Black/folk metal from Singapore. Maha Kali by Dissection has cool Indian folk singing. My favorite part of the whole song. I've been trying to find out who Nyx 218(the singer) is, but no luck so far. Most pure folk is very local, without a lot of well known bands. Thats kinda how traditional folk music has always been though. The songs are famous, not the players. I haven't been able to find much stuff from outside of Europe. For totally traditional stuff, just find out the name of the music and instruments and search for that. (Pipa, Shamisen, Tabla, Taiko, Sitar, Tar, Darbuka, Koto, Shakuhachi, Shinobue, Sho, etc. are common instruments, for example.) As for folk/rock/metal hybrids, I haven't had much luck finding stuff that is actually a blend of folk music, rather than just using folk instruments for rock/metal. If you find anything cool, post it here dude, cause I'm still new to the non-European stuff.
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Post by Torkin on Apr 3, 2008 15:21:50 GMT -5
Damn thanks for the stuff! Mucho graciaz. I just recently heard some chinese traditional music in some geographic vid at school, and I really dig it! I dont really know many bands or artists, but I have been browsing around for info on instruments, and I found some REAL nice sample melodies from this product (I like dreaming in chinese and sarcophagus most) : www.soundsonline.com/product.php?productid=EW-163 Sanders side project sounds really promising, must check the CD out.
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Post by Torkin on Apr 6, 2008 17:23:21 GMT -5
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Post by pcsmall on Apr 6, 2008 22:14:22 GMT -5
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Post by thenotshredder on Apr 6, 2008 23:18:02 GMT -5
That is not metal at all. What the fuck?
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Post by pcsmall on Apr 7, 2008 0:05:52 GMT -5
dude, what are you talking about? folk music on traditional instruments (especially played at that caliber) is as metal as it can get (at least without double bass, ENGL amps, and Jackson guitars).
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Post by Torkin on Apr 7, 2008 6:59:19 GMT -5
Yeah the term metal is not always about 4 trollsized dudes with double kickers, growls and tons of distortion. Metal, apart from being a type of substance, is a synonym to DOS, and this video there is more DOS than I can think of.
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Post by pcsmall on Apr 7, 2008 11:13:32 GMT -5
Yeah the term metal is not always about 4 trollsized dudes with double kickers, growls and tons of distortion. Metal, apart from being a type of substance, is a synonym to DOS, and this video there is more DOS than I can think of. well maybe as much as this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QfjG9V4-zEbut yeah, anything that is badass is metal - be it guitars, guns and things blowing up, and, ov course, technically proficient musicians playing technical music, regardless of style or instrument used - this is why classical music is so metal. And folk music is therefore even MORE metal because in comparison to guitar, violin, or any other number of popular instruments to be played, upon which you can play folk music (which in itself it cult), playing said folk music on traditional folk instruments graduates you from cult to kvlt.
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Post by thenotshredder on Apr 7, 2008 14:41:39 GMT -5
Chinese folk music is as penta-wank as it gets, IMO. Not even a blue note. Gay.
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Post by endless on Apr 8, 2008 13:19:23 GMT -5
I wouldn't call it penta-wank. Pentatonic scales are common, but that's true of a lot of traditional folk. They aren't going mindlessly up and down the scale... they're creating melodies, and usually use the scale in a different way. Just because it's pentatonic, doesn't mean it's wanking.
Pentatonic is often used because it sounds good, with no major dissonances. Ancient flutes used this scale. Sure, guitarists have overused and wanked the crap out of it, but it's still a good scale. Folk is about tradition, so of course traditional scales will be used.
Actually, much of the Asian stuff is based off of pentatonic modes, rather than the base scale.
Example:
D-----------4-6- A------4-5------ E-4-5-----------
Other scales are abundant in some folk styles though:
Hungarian Minor scale: D----------------6-7-9-- A---------6-7-8--------- E--5-7-8----------------
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