Waylander, like a lot of other bands on this list, make folk-y, Celtic black metal that bridges "Black Metal ist Krieg" grimness with the traditional bounce of Irish melodies. Speaking of woad ...

Digging a little deeper, though, Ireland certainly can hold its own with its selection of metal bands. In addition to the obvious Gaelic and Celtic influenced bands found in the country, most notably, ...

Celtic Frost were one of the most influential extreme metal bands of the 1980s, releasing classic albums Morbid Tales, To ...

Best known under the nom de plume Tom Warrior in the bands Hellhammer and Celtic Frost, Fischer's shadow looms large over the entirety of extreme metal especially, with so many subgenres indebted ...

Celtic music is going metal. The flutes, bagpipes and other woodwind instruments used for more than 500 years to play the folk music of Ireland and Scotland have historically been made ...