viking metal
viking metal is a genre. viking metal grew out of Black metal, melodic death metal, Scandinavian death metal, Swedish death metal and black doom. It sits close to black 'n' roll, post-black metal, depressive black metal, true black metal and atmospheric black metal, scenes that trade players, venues and ideas with it. Its influence carried into folk metal, pagan metal, Black metal and Death metal, which took the template somewhere else. The chart currently maps 41 connections around viking metal. Open any neighbouring band or genre to trace where viking metal came from and where it led.
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viking metal connections
viking metal grew out of Black metal, melodic death metal, Scandinavian death metal and Swedish death metal, shares an orbit with black 'n' roll, post-black metal, depressive black metal and true black metal, went on to shape folk metal, pagan metal, Black metal and Death metal. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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- black 'n' rollgenre
- post-black metalgenre
- depressive black metalgenre
- true black metalgenre
- atmospheric black metalgenre
- first wave black metalgenre
- dissonant black metalgenre
- Early Norwegian black metal scenegenre
- progressive black metalgenre
- Hellenic black metalgenre
- National Socialist black metalgenre
- war metalgenre
- pop black metalgenre
- melodic black metalgenre
- Norsecoregenre
- black ambientgenre
- ambient black metalgenre
- unblack metalgenre
- red and anarchist black metalgenre
- black noisegenre
- psychedelic black metalgenre
- symphonic black metalgenre
- troll metalgenre
- pagan black metalgenre
- blackened death metalgenre
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