Your way in
Celtic metal 1994
Irish melodies and traditional instruments over black or heavy metal.
- Heaviness
- 7
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 8
- Where from
- Ireland
- Tempo
- 120-170 bpm
- Song length
- 5-9 min
- Written about
- Irish myth and history, Colonialism and loss, Land, Paganism
- Vocals
- Sung and screamed
Why this one
| You said | Celtic metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | mixed | 100% | ×3 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| Somewhere else entirely What should the words be about? | Irish myth and history, Colonialism and loss, Land, Paganism | 100% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 8 out of 10 | 30% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 87% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, about 1, melody 1 out of 7. Celtic metal ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Finntroll, Nattfödd 2004
Finntroll - Nattfödd. Black metal at Finnish polka tempo, and it works.
- 2The one to put on first
Primordial, The Gathering Wilderness 2005
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness. No tin whistle, and the most Celtic of the lot.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Folk metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Celtic metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
-
Post-metal / atmospheric sludge 86%
Sludge with post-rock logic: long songs, crescendos and instrumental passages. Neurosis invented the form.
5 steps from Celtic metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Post-metal / atmospheric sludge -
Cyber metal 80%
Mechanised death metal with cold digital production, dual vocals and science-fiction themes.
4 steps from Celtic metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Cyber metal
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Both, trading off put 72 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 7.
- Somewhere else entirely put 106 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 7.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 of 7.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.