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CHVE is the solo project of Colin H. Van Eeckhout, vocalist of Belgian post-metal collective Amenra, launched around 2015 as an experimental outlet rooted in drone, folk, and minimalism rather than metal. Van Eeckhout built the project around the hurdy-gurdy, various percussion, and vocal layering, creating music that carries the emotional weight of Amenra without its extreme metal framework. He signed with Relapse Records in 2024, releasing Kalvarie to critical attention within the experimental heavy music community.
Delenda Arcana was a pagan/folk black metal band from Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, active from 2008 until splitting up. Drawing on themes of paganism, mythology, war, and ancient legends, the band blended atmospheric black metal with folk elements, releasing the album "Last Breath of a Dying Enemy" in 2008.
Dorthia Cottrell is a Richmond, Virginia singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of doom metal band Windhand. Her solo work, begun with a self-titled debut in 2015 on Forcefield Records, channels Appalachian folk, gothic atmosphere, and sparse acoustic arrangements. Her second solo album Death Folk Country (2023) on Relapse Records was shortlisted for the Newlin Music Prize and further established her as a distinctive voice at the intersection of folk and extreme metal.
Dwimor is a folk/black metal project from Lima, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, built around sole member Alejandro Nahuel Sabransky (also known as Nawel), who is also the driving force behind the Argentine extreme metal band 1917. The project released two albums in 2017: "When Winter Cries...", a 13-track record of pagan black metal, and "Tales from Nowhere", issued independently in June 2017 and later made available on CD. In 2022 Sabransky announced work on a third Dwimor album and released the advance track "In Serpent-Tongues" on YouTube.
Eivør Pálsdóttir, known mononymously as Eivør, is a Faroese singer-songwriter born in 1983 in Syðrugøta, Faroe Islands. She released her debut album at age 16 and has since built a career across folk, jazz, rock, pop, and electronica, singing in six languages and drawing from Faroese, Nordic, Icelandic, and Sámi musical traditions. She won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2021 and contributed to the soundtrack for the television series The Last Kingdom, cementing her status as one of the most internationally recognized artists from the Faroe Islands.
Godslayer is a folk and Viking metal band from Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil, formed in 2014 and focused on themes of Nordic mythology and Viking history. The band incorporates folk instrumentation alongside heavy guitar work, and released the album "Old Gods" as well as the single "Fenrisulfr" in 2018.
Kontrust is an Upper Austrian crossover band formed in 2001, known for fusing nu metal, electronic production, and folk elements — often performed in lederhosen as a deliberate, self-aware nod to traditional Austrian culture. Their early material leaned on dance-metal hybrids, while albums like Second Hand Wonderland (2012) and Explositive (2014, Napalm Records) refined their kinetic live show approach into polished studio recordings. Their 2023 comeback album Madworld debuted at number four on the Austrian album charts.
Me and That Man is a dark folk and country-blues project founded in 2013 by Polish black metal musician Adam 'Nergal' Darski, the frontman of Behemoth, in collaboration with guitarist John Porter. The project debuted with Songs of Love and Death in 2017 and continued with New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. 1 (2020) and Vol. 2 (2021), drawing stylistic inspiration from Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Nick Cave. The project represents a stark artistic departure from Nergal's black and death metal origins, channeling a melancholic Americana aesthetic through a distinctly European sensibility.
Sowulo is a Dutch neo-folk and dark folk project founded in 2010 by multi-instrumentalist and composer Faber Horbach, who performs and records the project entirely on his own. Drawing on Germanic and Norse pagan traditions, Horbach uses historical instruments — including Irish bouzouki, hammered dulcimer, and nyckelharpa — alongside Anglo-Saxon lyrics to construct immersive ritual soundscapes. The project's discography includes Alvenrad (2013), Sol (2016), Mann (2019), Wurdiz (2022), and Niht (2025), all released through Season of Mist. Sowulo occupies a serious and scholarly corner of the pagan folk spectrum, distinct from the more theatrical approaches common to the genre.
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