Medieval metal

Medieval metal
Medieval metal
Other names	Mittelalter-metal
Stylistic origins	Folk metal; medieval folk rock;
Cultural origins	Mid-1990s, Germany
Regional scenes
	Germany
Other topics
	Neo-Medieval music

Medieval metal is a subgenre of folk metal that blends heavy metal music with medieval folk music. Medieval metal is mostly restricted to Germany where it is known as Mittelalter-Metal or Mittelalter-Rock.^[1]^[2] The genre emerged from the middle of the 1990s with contributions from Subway to Sally, In Extremo and Schandmaul. The style is characterised by the prominent use of a wide variety of traditional folk and medieval instruments.

^ Duden: Das neue Wörterbuch der Szenesprachen [The new Dictionary of Scene Languages] (in German). Bibliographisches Institut AG. 2009. ISBN 978-3-411-71092-8.
^ "Mittelalter-Rock" (in German). rock-musiker.de.

[1] Duden: Das neue Wörterbuch der Szenesprachen [The new Dictionary of Scene Languages] (in German). Bibliographisches Institut AG. 2009. ISBN 978-3-411-71092-8.

[2] "Mittelalter-Rock" (in German). rock-musiker.de.

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