Went to the first Korpiklaani song YouTube threw at me. Celtic as ****.
Then I Googled "folk metal" - every description I read used the word "Celtic". They might be from Finland but the folk music they are playing is Celtic in origin.
As am I.
They might be from Finland but the folk music they are playing is Celtic in origin.
It makes me feel like a complete douche every time I pull this argument but here goes anyway...it's not just my ears but my tertiary musicology education telling me this is music is based in Celtic folk music. Dunno why you guys are talking about geography. Sure, I can hear some of that Finnish hoompa (or whatever) shit in Trollfinn but it is still heavily Celtic in nature (and that hoompa(?) stuff is hardly folk music anyway).
It makes me feel like a complete douche every time I pull this argument but here goes anyway...it's not just my ears but my tertiary musicology education telling me this is music is based in Celtic folk music. Dunno why you guys are talking about geography. Sure, I can hear some of that Finnish hoompa (or whatever) shit in Trollfinn but it is still heavily Celtic in nature (and that hoompa(?) stuff is hardly folk music anyway).
It makes me feel like a complete douche every time I pull this argument but here goes anyway...it's not just my ears but my tertiary musicology education telling me this is music is based in Celtic folk music. Dunno why you guys are talking about geography. Sure, I can hear some of that Finnish hoompa (or whatever) shit in Trollfinn but it is still heavily Celtic in nature (and that hoompa(?) stuff is hardly folk music anyway).
Manticle, I must admit that my studies did not touch on Suomi folk in the slightest (but if you wanna know anything about Gamelan I'm your man) but I'm not sure there is anything in Finland's history that would explain such a strong Celtic influence. It should also be said that the course did not touch on folk-metal either but the small reading I've done in relation to this conversation suggests the genre is deeply rooted in Celtic folk - to the point of being almost ubiquitous.
Main question being - (curiosity only - I couldn't give a rat's arse about the cultural purity of either band) - how likely is it that history brought a little bit of finnish influence to celtic music rather than the other way round?
I'd like to hear an american old timey influenced folk metal band.
And a romainian one.
Chance the finns influenced Norway before they left home?
100:1
or 6:5?
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