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Most likely i guess, i just saw in some Russian websites that some Slav Black metal bands see Viking metal musicians as Nazis because of the old Nordic Race concept, sigh, i just hate when politics invade the music subculture.

At the forefront of this movement stood the Swedish band Bathory.

According to Mulvany, Viking metal draws heavily on and media images of and Vikings, an influence evident in two basic forms of the genre.

Choosing to go against the grain within the extreme metal scene at the time, Unleashed focused many of its songs about early, pre-Christian Norse history and the Vikings.

I'm not hugely familiar with Einherjer so I don't remember how much folk influence there is.

Their debut album "Dark Medieval Times" combined the darkness of black metal with the light of folk metal.

Religion and Popular Music in Europe: New Expressions of Sacred and Secular Identity.

They have done covers of metal songs as well as Icelandic and Faroese folk songs.

I thought Folk music was supposed to ressurect traditions, not traditional politics, diplomacy, and hatred.

The roots of Viking metal are generally found in Scandinavian metal, particularly the death and black metal scenes of the late 1980s.

Due to the nature of the instruments, the music isn't metal-sounding.