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Every genre in the corpus, hanging off the two it all descends from. A bigger name carries more below it.

152 genres and subgenres, on 2 roots.

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Viking metal

Heavy metal › Folk metal › Viking metal

Emerged
1990
Origin
Scandinavia
Subgenres
None

Norse themes, male choirs and marching tempos. It sounds like a longship, not a tavern.

Heaviness
8
Speed
6
Melody
8

Key acts

  • Bathory
  • Enslaved
  • Amon Amarth
  • Týr
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