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Dalriada (band)
Dalriada is a folk metal band from Sopron, Hungary that was formed in 1998 as Echo of Dalriada, but shortened their name to Dalriada in late 2006. Their third studio album ''Kikelet'' and all subsequent albums were successful in the top ten of the official Mahasz music charts. Their '' Arany-album'' won the 2009 HangSúly Hungarian Metal Awards out of 70 contestants. In 2012, the band toured through Europe with Arkona and Darkest Era. Album titles The titles of their albums are supposed to be ancient Hungarian names of months (which are not used today). In fact they originate from the folk-history work "" by Hungarian writer Zoltán Paál and are not based on any scientific evidence. Specifically, "Fergeteg" is, according to Paál, the ancient name of January, "Jégbontó" is February, "Kikelet" is March, "Szelek" is April, "Ígéret" is May, "Napisten" is June, "Áldás" is July, "Új Kenyér" is August, "Őszelő" is September, "Magvető" is October, "Enyészet" is November, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnarök Festival
Ragnarök Festival is a pagan metal festival held annually in Germany since 2004 founded by Ivo Raab. It started out as a small, one-night festival with only regional bands in the town hall of Hollfeld. In 2005 it was decided to go for a festival featuring mostly Viking and pagan metal with the booking of bands like Månegarm, Menhir, Eisregen and Equilibrium. From 2006 on the festival took place in the significantly bigger town hall of Lichtenfels, Bavaria. History The Ragnarök Metal Festival was founded by Ivo Raab in 2004. The festival's first edition featured seven bands, mostly death metal, and about 120 visitors. It did not pay off, but Raab decided to give it another try and organized it again in 2005. That year the line-up was specialized on Viking and pagan metal, and better-known bands were signed. Especially the headliners Eisregen attracted a lot of people as their rare live gigs are usually censored unless played to an adult audience. On Ragnarök the visitors re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Metal Musical Groups
Folk or Folks may refer to: Sociology *Nation *People * Folklore ** Folk art ** Folk dance ** Folk hero ** Folk music *** Folk metal *** Folk punk *** Folk rock ** Folk religion * Folk taxonomy Arts, entertainment, and media * Folk Plus or Folk +, an Albanian folk music channel * Folks (band), a Japanese band * ''Folks!'', a 1992 American film People with the name * Bill Folk (born 1927), Canadian ice hockey player * Chad Folk (born 1972), Canadian football player * Elizabeth Folk (c. 16th century), British martyr; one of the Colchester Martyrs * Eugene R. Folk (1924–2003), American ophthalmologist * Joseph W. Folk (1869–1923), American lawyer, reformer, and politician * Kevin Folk (born 1980), Canadian curler * Nick Folk (born 1984), American football player * Rick Folk (born 1950), Canadian curler * Robert Folk (born 1949), American film composer Other uses * Folk classification, a type of classification in geology * Folks Nation, an alliance of American street gangs Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Áldás
''Áldás'' is the eighth studio album of the Hungarian folk metal band Dalriada. It was released in September 2015 on Hammer Music. ''Áldás'' peaked at number 2 in the Hungarian Albums Chart. Track listing * *Both "Dózsa rongyosa" and "Úri toborzó" tell about the rebellion led by György Dózsa and the end of Úri Toborzó refers to the Battle of Mohács The Battle of Mohács (; hu, mohácsi csata, tr, Mohaç Muharebesi or Mohaç Savaşı) was fought on 29 August 1526 near Mohács, Kingdom of Hungary, between the forces of the Kingdom of Hungary and its allies, led by Louis II, and thos .... Personnel ;Dalriada * Laura Binder – vocals * András Ficzek – vocals, guitars * Mátyás Németh-Szabó – guitar * István Molnár – bass * Gergely Szabó – keyboards, backing vocals * Ádám Csete – flutes, bagpipe * Tadeusz Rieckmann – drums, harsh vocals, backing vocals ;Additional and session musicians * Attila Fajkusz – violin, tambourine, backin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napisten Hava
''Napisten Hava'' is the seventh studio album of the Hungarian folk metal band Dalriada. A videoclip for "A Dudás" was released 17 September 2012. The album peaked at position 3 in the Top 40 albums chart of Hungary. Track listing * *Nándorfehérvár is the old Hungarian name of the capital city of Serbia, Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a .... Personnel ;Dalriada * Laura Binder – vocals * András Ficzek – vocals, guitars * Mátyás Németh-Szabó – guitar * István Molnár – bass * Barnabás Ungár – keyboards, backing vocals * Tadeusz Rieckmann – drums, harsh vocals, backing vocals ;Additional and session musicians * Attila Fajkusz – violin, tambourine, backing vocals * Ernő Szőke – doublebass * Gergely Szőke – viola, lute, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ígéret
Ígéret is the seventh studio album of the Hungarian folk metal band Dalriada. This is their first album that includes a song not only in Hungarian, since "Leszek A Hold" has Finnish verses, sung by Jonne Järvelä of Korpiklaani. The album title means "promise" in Hungarian. Style ''Ígéret'' combines metal elements like male and female growling with clean song and Hungarian folk, featuring a power metal ballad, "Mennyei Harang" as well as contrapuntal solos. Strong vocal melodies have been observed throughout the album. Apart from influences of power metal, the album shows hints of thrash metal. Reception The album received favourable reviews from various webzines. Onemetal.com and the Austrian ''Stormbringer'' webzine lauded the successful combination of metal and folk and the songwriting on ''Ígéret''. The latter remarked the diversity of the various tracks and singer Laura Binder's skill in clean vocals and growls. The German edition of ''Metal Hammer'' awarded five ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |