Rock branch
Celtic rock
Rock › Folk rock › Celtic rock
- Emerged
- 1970
- Origin
- Ireland / Scotland
- Subgenres
- None
Traditional Irish and Scottish tunes set on drums and electric guitar. The direct ancestor of folk metal.
- Heaviness
- 3
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 9
Key acts
- Horslips
- Thin Lizzy
- The Pogues