Folk Metal

Fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music. Emerged 1991. Wikipedia

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54 artists with 1.3M combined listeners. 69% of them sit in the Power Metal / Fantasy Metal / Symphonic Rock community on the map. It shares the most artists with Viking Metal.

Where Folk Metal sits on the map

• Power Metal / Fantasy Metal / Symphonic Rock · 37 artists (69%)
• Viking Folk / Rune Folk / Nordic Soundtrack · 4 artists (7%)
• Progressive Metal / Progressive Rock / Prog Metal · 2 artists (4%)
• Math Rock / Japanese Shoegaze / Japanese Math Rock · 2 artists (4%)
• Black Metal / Melodic Death Metal / Blackgaze · 2 artists (4%)
• Epicore / Fantasy / Orchestral Soundtrack · 2 artists (4%)

Strongest pairings in Folk Metal

Folk Metal artists who most often share real, user-made playlists.

1. Alestorm & Korpiklaani · 42 shared playlists
2. Eluveitie & Korpiklaani · 41 shared playlists
3. Alestorm & Eluveitie · 38 shared playlists
4. Alestorm & Turisas · 30 shared playlists
5. Ensiferum & Eluveitie · 29 shared playlists
6. Ensiferum & Korpiklaani · 28 shared playlists
7. Týr & Eluveitie · 24 shared playlists
8. Turisas & Ensiferum · 24 shared playlists
9. Týr & Ensiferum · 24 shared playlists
10. Turisas & Korpiklaani · 23 shared playlists

Related genres

Genres that share the most artists with Folk Metal, for their size.

• Viking Metal · 14 shared artistsBoth: Ensiferum, Turisas, Finntroll
• Pagan Black Metal · 5 shared artistsBoth: Heidevolk, Primordial, Finsterforst
• Celtic Metal · 5 shared artistsBoth: Arkona, Tengger Cavalry, Storm Seeker
• Symphonic Metal · 7 shared artistsBoth: Eluveitie, Leaves' Eyes, After Forever
• Symphonic Rock · 7 shared artistsBoth: Eluveitie, Haggard, Leaves' Eyes
• Spanish Folk Metal · 3 shared artistsBoth: Arkona, Týr, Cellar Darling
• Oriental Metal · 2 shared artistsBoth: Myrath, Orphaned Land
• Gothic Metal · 2 shared artistsBoth: Cellar Darling, Tarja

Artists

54 artists tagged Folk Metal, ranked by listeners.

1. Eluveitie202.9K listeners · Symphonic Rock
2. Alestorm151.6K listeners · Fantasy Metal
3. Korpiklaani128.4K listeners
4. Ensiferum113.1K listeners
5. The HU79.0K listeners · Modern Rock
6. Haggard67.4K listeners · Symphonic Rock
7. Turisas56.8K listeners
8. Finntroll56.3K listeners
9. Leaves' Eyes56.1K listeners · Symphonic Rock
10. After Forever50.1K listeners · Symphonic Metal
11. Arkona37.6K listeners · Celtic Metal
12. Myrath26.9K listeners · Progressive Metal
13. Týr26.3K listeners · Viking Metal
14. Sólstafir24.2K listeners · Melancholia
15. Orphaned Land23.4K listeners · Oriental Metal
16. Heidevolk22.5K listeners
17. ReVamp17.1K listeners · Symphonic Metal
18. Amberian Dawn15.0K listeners · Symphonic Rock
19. Primordial13.3K listeners
20. Månegarm13.0K listeners · Viking Metal
21. Falkenbach11.8K listeners · Viking Metal
22. We Are The Fallen11.2K listeners · Pop Punk
23. Alien Weaponry11.0K listeners
24. Skálmöld9.6K listeners · Viking Metal
25. Cellar Darling9.4K listeners · Gothic Metal
26. Dalriada6.6K listeners
27. Tengger Cavalry6.4K listeners · Viking Metal
28. Vintersorg6.4K listeners · Viking Metal
29. Svartsot5.6K listeners
30. Thy Catafalque5.4K listeners · Hungarian Pop
31. Finsterforst4.9K listeners · Pagan Black Metal
32. Drakum4.6K listeners
33. Whyzdom4.3K listeners · Symphonic Rock
34. Lyriel4.0K listeners · Symphonic Rock
35. Apocalypse Orchestra3.7K listeners
36. Storm Seeker3.6K listeners · Hurdy-Gurdy
37. Nine Treasures3.2K listeners
38. Rage Of Light3.0K listeners · German Metal
39. Fejd2.9K listeners
40. Havukruunu2.9K listeners · Finnish Metal
41. Mechina2.8K listeners · Industrial Rock
42. Metsatöll2.8K listeners
43. Ereb Altor2.5K listeners
44. Waylander2.5K listeners
45. Northland2.3K listeners · Black Metal
46. ALKONOST1.9K listeners · Fantasy Metal
47. Grimner1.6K listeners
48. Fferyllt1.4K listeners · Celtic Metal
49. E-An-Na1.3K listeners
50. King of Asgard1.2K listeners
51. Auli1.0K listeners · Belarusian Indie
52. Tarja1.0K listeners · Symphonic Metal
53. Jar1.0K listeners · Modern Indie Folk
54. Runika1.0K listeners