Scene and heard: Pagan metal

If you thought that what black metal really needed was more violins, flutes and Celtic bagpipes, then this is your luck dayAs a sub-genre blessed with more than its fair share of axe-wielding Vikings and Celtic warlords, pagan metal has been slow in sailing outside the pages of the specialist metal press and invading the music mainstream. Not, of course, that this is likely to have troubled its main protagonists. Black metal has long since been infiltrated by scene-jumping hipsters, and if the i...

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