In early 2008, around the time of the original Paganfest USA tour, Pagan and Folk metal were all the rage. Bands from all over Europe were suddenly gaining attention in America with their blend of ...

Pagan metal is pretty much an official metal subgenre nowadays, but Swiss metal band Eluveitie, who meld Celtic folk with their death metal stylings, prefer the term 'folk metal' over 'pagan metal,' ...

Metal has long fetishized pagan priests and their witchy rituals, and Green Druid’s recently reissued album Ashen Blood is no exception. For readers who haven’t warmed to the pagan iconography of so ...

A "documentary" isn't precisely what you get in this lo-fi look at the pagan metal scene. The whole shebang begins not with a menu but with an extended promo for another Bill-Zebub feature ― an ...

Pagan metal continues to rise in popularity, so what better to ask famed Finnish folk metallers Korpiklaani about than what the key ingredients of good folk metal are? "Actually, I don't know I'm the ...

The roots of pagan metal are as murky and mystical as some of its songs. “It’s a cultural music,’’ says Scott Lee, who books and promotes metal bands for MassConcerts. “It’s not like other sub-genres ...

I’m on something of a modern power metal kick lately. Those sucky new Raintime songs really got me fired up and looking for something good, and thankfully the power metal faithful amongst the masses ...

German Pagan metal band, VARG, brings us something completely new to the band with "Fara Til Ránar", the third single from their upcoming full-length, Zeichen, to be released on September 18 via ...

Sumer is icumen in, as they say in The Wicker Man, and the warm winds of May carry birds of prey. A couple weeks ago, I saw two peregrine falcons fighting over downtown Ann Arbor, flapping hard to ...

PaganFolk Metal has been growing in popularity and has overthrown Black Metal in Europe These bands have tested the American shores and have played soldout shows The time has come to explore this ...