User:Bardin

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Me Bardin. Bard In Me.

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2 Folk metal
3 When good sources go bad
4 Barnstars
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My contributions to wikipedia have largely been in the realm of heavy metal music. This is not my only interest in life, of course. I might get around to improving other non-metal related articles in the future.

This is a list of articles that I've made substantial contributions to by removing all original research and only including information that can be verified by references and citations.

Major revisions:

Folk metal before and after
Gothic metal before and after
List of folk metal bands before and after
List of gothic metal bands before and after

Others:

Celtic metal before and after
Oriental metal before and after
List of Viking metal bands before and after
Mittelalter rock before and after
Avant-garde metal before and after

This is a list of articles that I intend to work on in the future if or when I have the time to do so. They are presented in no particular order.

My sandbox. Don't mess with it.

[edit] Folk metal

There are so-called folk metal bands that pay mere lip service to folk music and then there are folk metal bands that really epitomise what the genre is all about. Real folk music with metal. Here are some recommendations:

Korpiklaani - They have become one of the more well known bands in the genre with their catchy, accessible approach but do not let that fool you. Behind all the fun and festive atmosphere is some serious folk music going on. Unlike most other bands in the genre, Korpiklaani actually began with just folk music before adding metal. So yeah, they know what they are doing. No amateurs here.
Lumsk - A huge contrast to Korpiklaani. Fun and festive, this is not. Slow, sombre and melancholic music here but it's not doom metal or gothic metal. It's just slow, sombre and melancholic folk music with metal.
Dalriada - Little known outside their native country of Hungary where they have surprisingly done well in the charts. Perhaps because they too lean heavily on the folk side of things.
Orphaned Land - Not so much their first two albums where they showed promise but didn't really deliver. Their third album Mabool took many years to complete though and it's no wonder. Essential for any folk metal collection.
Melechesh - If you can stomach their extreme black metal approach, you will discover a world of exotic middle eastern rhythms underneath.
Troll Gnet El - Like Korpiklaani, this band also started as more folk than metal.

These bands might not be notable per wikipedia's standards but do not let that stop you from looking for their music.

Guahaihoque - In an online interview, Ciaran O'Hagan of Waylander laments the fact that some bands in the genre are known to perform folk music "from other lands." I am inclined to agree with this sentiment. After all, why are bands like Tuatha de Danann from Brazil and Mägo de Oz from Spain playing Celtic and Irish folk music when they come from countries with a long and rich tradition of folk music? In the same interview, O'Hagan states that he would "really like to hear a Peruvian folk-metal band, using pan-pipes and sharing the ancient Incan knowledge with us." Well, Guahaihoque is not from Peru but they are close enough. You won't hear any Irish tin-whistle from this Colombian band. They use the pan-pipes. Not much of a presence on in the internet, sadly but unsurprising given where they come from.
User Ne - Folk metal from Spain. With flamenco! 'Nuff said.
Fejd - This Swedish group only has two demos and one EP out but get them if you can. There are several other folk metal bands from Sweden but they generally fall under those that merely play lip service to the genre with folk-like tunes from keyboards. Fejd in contrast places a strong emphasis on the folk music with an array of exotic instruments.

[edit] When good sources go bad

Even reliable sources are capable of making substantive and factual errors.

This is merely for the sake of curiosity. Bear in mind that these sites are huge so the mistakes listed here are mere drops in an ocean.

Allmusic.com

In a review of My Dying Bride's debut album As the Flower Withers, Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes the band as fusing heavy metal with goth rock "like Tool and Type O Negative before them." Only problem is Tool's debut album was released one year after this My Dying Bride album. To make matters worse, there is absolutely nothing in Allmusic's own profile on Tool that indicates anything remotely gothic about them. I suspect that the reviewer actually meant to write Paradise Lost instead of Tool.
The Great Silver Eye is a compilation album from Moonspell. Unfortunately, it would appear that nobody had informed Stewart Mason of this when he wrote his review of the album. Rather embarassingly, he writes that "there are no change-ups on The Great Silver Eye, no intimation of a new artistic direction, and for fans, none is needed." Are you expecting some big change in direction then when a band releases a compilation of songs from their previous albums? The atrocity does not ends there. Mason offers this description of the music: "doomy goth metal with stentorian vocals that owe much to Bauhaus' Peter Murphy, symphonic keyboards in the Nightwish tradition, etc." Alas, the symphonic keyboards in the Nightwish tradition could only have begun when Nightwish released their debut album in 1997, by which time Moonspell had already two full lengths and three EPs. Unsurprisingly, this compilation album does include songs that was originally released before 1997.

Rockdetector.com

In the entry for the band Tiamat, we are told that "vocalist Johan Edlund also pursued his gruesome side project General Surgery." When asked about this in an interview at Tartarean Desire, Johan Edlund states that he has never heard of this General Surgery. It does not take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out what went wrong. Visiting the entry for General Surgery at Rockdetector indicates that the group includes a guitarist by the name of Johan Wallin. It would appear that someone at the site felt that Edlund was synonymous with Wallin. Go figure.
Not the worst possible mistake ever but Skyclad was not formed in 1991 Rockdetector suggests but rather 1990 as indicated elsewhere such as here and here.

[edit] Barnstars

Yippee!

		The Barnstar of High Culture
		For your continued work on a wide variety of music articles, both genres and bands. Keep up the good work! Blizzard Beast ^$ODIN$ 23:40, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For the mind-boggling amount of information and sources you seem to be able to come up with and make into a formidable article as you have done on folk metal, gothic metal, etc. Blizzard Beast ^$ODIN$ 23:40, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

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