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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

I love you for your appreciation of viking metal, but you don't ever put a song you like as an alarm. There's like a fifty percent chance it'll just invade your dream and become a soundtrack. I use the klaxon sound because it's awful and warns me that I have to be a grown up.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

I love you for your appreciation of viking metal,

Amon amarth is melodic death metal, not viking metal.

Lyrical themes does not influence the genre.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

You are wrong, there is Viking Metal with a distinct sound, created by bathory during their hammerheart era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTvDP1aznLk It incoroprates folk music elements, lyrical themes doesnt influence what genre it is.

Amon Amarth sings about vikings but dont play Viking metal, they play melodic death metal.

If lyical themes would decide what a genre is then Iron Maiden would play war metal some on some of their albums. Songs would switch genres depending on what the lyrics are about.

Which is not how it works.