Best Folk Metal Bands

Absolutely amazing! They have such huge variation in each of their songs, with melodic instrumentals and powerful vocals. Definitely one of my favourite bands of all time.

Best folk metal band ever...

Guardians of fate, warriors without war, heroes in dream, kings of Finland, and the best band ever - Odinest

They don't play Folk Metal. They play Pagan Metal. - UniqueUser

Folk music + heavy metal + dragon & valkyrie' vocal
What could have been better? M/

They're simply amazing! The songs are so beautiful, just listen to songs like "inis mona"!

Their composition is just way awesome and also the vocals!

Awesome and super use of folk instruments. Should be number 1

I wouldn't really call them Folk Metal, more on the lines of Avant-garde Power Metal, or Symphonic Power Metal; great band none-the-less and definitely worth checking out if you haven't already.

Symphonic folk metal. Everything they do is literally gold. Jari and his team makes wonderful music. Sons of winter and stars, fly into the sky, dark of the sun. Still waiting for the new album, though.

That's not folk metal but I love this band jari and kai are real geniuses

Wintersun is more Symphonic or Melodeath than Folk Metal, but does count. Debut album always had a viking vibe to it, and Time I has obvious folk influences, like the oriental Japanese themes in the intros and scattered throughout the main songs.

Not my favorite though in terms of Folk Metal, Ensiferum and Eluveitie beat it. Just thought I should explain WHY people call it Folk Metal. - Penguincamp

It's impossible of being on a bad mood when listening Korpiklaani.
Their songs are simply wonderful, seems that they were born with their instruments in the hand. They are just the best. I am a big folk metal fan, and they are my favourite.

Korpiklaani is the group that defined the term folk metal without them we will don't have folk metal

Not just the best folk metal band but also the best metal band ever.

Awesome band, all around... where does one even begin to describe perfection... every time I listen to their albums I wanna go get some mead and drink 'till I pass out. their Albums are a must have for any Folk Metal enthusiast. 10/10

I wish they would come to Georgia in The States. Every time I want to see them preform live, they are no where near me. I guess you could say it makes me shed a "Tyr".

My first folk metal band and until now one of the best for me

This Tyr it's my favorite folk metal band of all time I love everything

The person above who said viking ship... I LOVE YOU!
that is exactly what I feel too

How I got into Folk metal in the first place

This band have song that one of the best music ever created, and that is "MANA".

If it weren't for these guys, I wouldn't have discovered folk metal in the first place. - LostDream258

They don't play Folk Metal. They play Pagan Metal. - UniqueUser

It may not be the most technical of the bands out there, but it is certainly top-of-the-class folk metal! Catchy, folky melodies mixed with black metal and everything else possible.

They should be in the top 5 I think. they rock, I can make Party when they are playing, I almost lose my mind!

This is the best folk metal band

This was the first folk metal band I've listen to. Solsagaan, trollhammeren and hasbyxrd were my favorite tracks of them.

Turisas is just...amazing. The music itself varies like crazy & the stories are great! #1 Folk Metal band in my honest opinion.

Turisas number 1. Ensiferum is also really great, but Turisas wins! (but I'm not sure if Turisas is actually folk metal... )

Listen to the Battle Metal and Varangian Way albums and tell me Turisas is not number 1. The orchestration in songs like Rex Regi Rebellis, As Torhches Rise, To Holmgard and Beyond, and Miklagard Overture is just breathtaking, and Nygard's voice is surely one of the best in metal today

This band got me into folk metal. However I am not surprised that they are so far down on the list as they are highly underrated

I like them. They have sense of humor. Great Band.

They just sound better than the rest.

The Best!

I mean, I voted for Ensiferum so I guess I'm not one to talk, but despite being #11, IT FEELS SO LOW ON THE LIST. WHY?! - Penguincamp

People don't know what real folk is anymore these days

11? really?

Incredibly folky winter like atmospheric black metal! I love it

top five

Wow 😳
I can't understand another...
This band deserve to be one of the best bands in this genre 😐😐😐 please vote!

One of the first folk metal bands, and the founding fathers of Celtic Metal, a lot today's folk metal bands are goofy are more folk then metal but Cruachan takes there music (for the most part) and balances both genres perfectly. they may not be the most mainstream but they're still my favorite sense there one of the oldest and they fuse metal with the music I hold closest to my heart; Irish Celtic music.

Cruachan is awesome. They're Irish, and their style is called Celtic Metal - ryanrimmel

This band really moves me, with its deep love of the viking culture, told over the top of some truly masterful music

Gorgeous music. The clean vocals remind me of being a child in my fathers arms as he sings me to sleep. So comforting.