Only a short one this time (please, chums, no wailing or gnashing of teeth =), but I've been trying to get back into anime and thought I'd check out Log Horizon. It's pretty okay, but while I was doing so and looking up some ancillary stuff, I realised I was getting back into folk metal as well! As such, here are two bands I think you're gonna like.

First, Eldertale:-

"Exile", by Eldertale
(Land Of Old EP, 2014)

For a band to have so perfectly captured what folk metal should sound like, in my non-Slavonic and therefore probably invalid opinion, is one thing. For them to have done it on the back of of precisely three songs is quite another. Give them a try; their EP is free to listen to on their Bandcamp page, and it's worth seventeen minutes of anyone's time. =]

FangorN, however, have a much larger back catalogue. By which I mean they actually have one.

"Troll's Hole Inn" (probably), by FangorN
(Where The Tales Live On, 2012)

This is from a... well, I'm not sure what kind of album it is, because it's sung entirely in Russian by some happy drunken bear spirits who managed to get their hands on a recording booth and a couple of Motorhead albums. More pertinently, however, it sounds like everyone involved is having the time of their lives making this song, and that's why I think they're going to be popular here. Metal can be a lot of things; powerful, angry, portentous, doom-laden, able to give that feeling of slow creeping dread like no other musical form on Earth. But it can also be a ton of fun, and I think it should be.

Alltagevvernaaaaah!

"Trolls' Strong Beer" (in all likelihood), by FangorN
(Mysterious Land, 2010)

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

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