Editing Folk metal (section)

=== Development ===
From the middle of the 1990s, other bands gradually emerged to combine heavy metal with folk music. [[Storm (Norwegian band)|Storm]] was a short lived [[Norway|Norwegian]] supergroup with [[Fenriz]], [[Sigurd Wongraven|Satyr]] and [[Kari Rueslåtten]] from the black metal groups [[Darkthrone]], [[Satyricon (band)|Satyricon]] and the [[doom metal]] band [[The 3rd and the Mortal]] respectively.<ref>{{cite web |author=Sharpe-Young, Garry |title=Storm |publisher=[[MusicMight]] |url=http://www.musicmight.com/artist/norway/oslo/storm |access-date=2008-12-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416200527/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/norway/oslo/storm |archive-date=2009-04-16 }}</ref> Their only album ''[[Nordavind]]'' was released in 1995 with the use of keyboards to imitate the sound of folk instruments.<ref>{{cite web |author=Cuevas, Carlos Martin |title=''Nordavind'' Review |url=http://www.tartareandesire.com/reviews/Storm/Nordavind/3004/ |publisher=Tartareandesire.com |access-date=2008-03-14 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141208192143/http://www.tartareandesire.com/reviews/Storm/Nordavind/3004/ |archive-date=2014-12-08 }}</ref> The Germans [[Empyrium]] also relied on synthesizers and guitars to deliver their "dark folklore" black metal music with the release of their 1996 debut album ''[[A Wintersunset...]]''<ref>{{cite web |author=Sharpe-Young, Garry |title=Empyrium |publisher=[[MusicMight]] |url=http://www.musicmight.com/artist/germany/empyrium |access-date=2008-12-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910202611/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/germany/empyrium |archive-date=2012-09-10 }}</ref>

The year 1996 also saw the debut album of the "one-man black metal project of multi-instrumentalist Vratyas Vakyas" from Germany known as [[Falkenbach]].<ref name="AMG Falkenbach">{{cite web |author=Rivadavia, Eduardo |title=AMG Falkenbach |website=[[AllMusic]] |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p510356|pure_url=yes}} |access-date=2008-03-14}}</ref> Even though Falkenbach was formed as early as 1989, the band didn't get much attention until the debut, that includes epic music that is "rife with keyboards, Viking themes, and folk music tendencies," Falkenbach was effectively a merge of [[Viking metal]] with folk metal.<ref name="AMG Falkenbach"/> They were joined in the next two years by other bands combining the two genres including [[Windir]],<ref name=Windir>{{cite web |author=Rivadavia, Eduardo |title=AMG Windir |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p467381|pure_url=yes}} |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=2008-03-15}}</ref> [[Månegarm]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Dicks, Britton |title=''Vargaresa - The Beginning'' Review |publisher=Metalcoven.com |url=http://www.metalcoven.com/review_manegarm_varg.html |access-date=2008-03-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315060952/http://www.metalcoven.com/review_manegarm_varg.html |archive-date=2008-03-15 }}</ref> and [[Thyrfing]].<ref name=Vansin>{{cite web |author=Serba, John |title=''Vansinnesvisor'' Review |website=[[AllMusic]] |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r612747|pure_url=yes}} |access-date=2008-03-13}}</ref>

Predating most folk metal groups, the Spanish band [[Mägo de Oz]] was formed as far back as 1989 with a self-titled [[Mägo de Oz (album)|debut album]], released in 1994.<ref name="A Costa">{{cite web |author=Bowar, Chad |title=''A Costa Da Morte'' Review |publisher=[[About.com]] |url=http://heavymetal.about.com/od/cdreviews/fr/magodeozacosta.htm |access-date=2008-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609130810/http://heavymetal.about.com/od/cdreviews/fr/magodeozacosta.htm |archive-date=2008-06-09 }}</ref> With nine members in their lineup, including a violinist and flutist, the band has evolved over the years into a combination of [[power metal]] and Celtic flavored folk metal.<ref name="A Costa"/><ref name=Gaia>{{cite web |author=Dicks, Britton |title=''Gaia II - La Voz Dormida'' Review |url=http://www.metalcoven.com/review_magodeoz_gaiaii.html |publisher=Metalcoven.com |access-date=2008-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226064743/http://www.metalcoven.com/review_magodeoz_gaiaii.html |archive-date=2008-02-26 }}</ref> They have experienced strong chart success in their native Spain as well as in South America<ref name="Rock Mago">{{cite web |author=Sharpe-Young, Garry |title=Mägo de Oz |publisher=[[MusicMight]] |url=http://www.musicmight.com/artist/spain/madrid/mgo+de+oz |access-date=2008-12-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618143740/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/spain/madrid/mgo+de+oz |archive-date=2009-06-18 }}</ref> and Mexico.

[[Slough Feg]] from [[Pennsylvania]], United States also had an early formation dating back to 1990.<ref>{{cite web |author=Sharpe-Young, Garry |title=The Lord Weird Slough Feg |publisher=[[MusicMight]] |url=http://www.musicmight.com/artist/usa/san+francisco/the+lord+weird+slough+feg |access-date=2008-12-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525131053/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/usa/san+francisco/the+lord+weird+slough+feg |archive-date=2012-05-25 }}</ref> Their self-titled debut album was released in 1996 and the band has pursued a "unique style of combining traditional/power metal with folk metal."<ref>{{cite web |author=Bowar, Chad |title=''Hardworlder'' Review |url=http://heavymetal.about.com/od/cdreviews/fr/sloughfeghardwo.htm |publisher=[[About.com]] |access-date=2008-03-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209064216/http://heavymetal.about.com/od/cdreviews/fr/sloughfeghardwo.htm |archive-date=2007-12-09 }}</ref>

The [[Czech Republic|Czech]] band [[Silent Stream of Godless Elegy]] had formed in 1995 as a [[doom metal]] band "laced with Pagan imagery and adventurous enough to include violins and cellos alongside the expected modern day arsenal."<ref name="Rock Silent">{{cite web |author=Sharpe-Young, Garry |title=Silent Stream of Godless Elegy |publisher=[[MusicMight]] |url=http://www.musicmight.com/artist/czech+republic/hranice+na+morave/silent+stream+of+godless+elegy |access-date=2008-12-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729121837/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/czech+republic/hranice+na+morave/silent+stream+of+godless+elegy |archive-date=2012-07-29 }}</ref> With the release of their second album ''[[Behind the Shadows]]'' in 1998, the band began to use "folklore influences" in their music.<ref>{{cite web |author=Matthijssens, Vera |title=Interview with Silent Stream of Godless Elegy |publisher=Lordsofmetal.nl |url=http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/showinterview.php?id=586&lang=en |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913015609/http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/showinterview.php?id=586&lang=en |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-09-13 |access-date=2008-03-11 }}</ref>