Music: Spiritual Effects of Rock/Metal Music

[Monica]

Interesting, these bands are very different from my own tastes in metal. As far as "folk"ish metal I personally like Slough Feg and Mael Mordha, and The Hammers of Misfortune's albums before their latest one. I did like Moonsorrow at one point, and Amon Amarth, but I don't have much of a nordic attraction.

I'm not familiar with the first 2 your mentioned. I've seen Amon Amarth live, and they were too, um, driving for me. I like intense, heavy music when it has lush, melodic overtones, but I don't much care for it otherwise. My son is a huge Amon Amarth fan and just saw them live again recently, for the 2nd time. (I declined this time.)

I list some of the bands I like in my profile.