Finland’s approach to modern folk music is vastly different than the singer-songwriter-centric subgenre most Americans are familiar with. Over there, it’s not so much a harbinger of heartbreak or ...

Finnish band Steve’n’Seagulls have announced two Australian headline shows around their appearance at Bluesfest this Easter. The cult band – who play a mixture of bluegrass, folk, and metal – will ...

Though most would consider the musical genre "folk metal" to be a bit of an oxymoron, one local group of artists has made it their calling card. Five members strong and two years in the making, the ...

Oklahoma City’s underground and lauded sludge rock and metal quartet Chat Pile and Texan ambient and folk guitarist Hayden Pedigo could answer that question if it ever crossed your mind. Despite ...

Here’s a fun way to kick off your otherwise hum-drum Wednesday: there’s a new song and video from Indian folk metal outfit Bloodywood! The most prominent musical features of “Gaddaar” are nu-metal ...

HU band members Gala (left), Jaya (center) and Ono pose for a picture at their studio in Ulaanbaatar on Dec. 27, 2023. (Credit: Elise Ann Allen/Crux.) ULAANBAATAR – When Pope Francis visited Mongolia ...

Whatever style of acoustic guitar you most want to play, it’s worth dipping a toe into as many genres as you can. Most genres have a handful of defining signature sounds. By getting those signatures ...

Since 2018, one band has been pushing its musical abilities to the limit. The Ordinary Things are rooted in their folk sound, but also mix things up with metal and punk genres. The Ordinary Things ...

They’re two people with only four hands, but Rodrigo y Gabriela manage to sound like a band that’s half-a-dozen members strong. The rapid-fire acoustic guitar duo from Mexico blends melodious folk ...

Madrid-based Álvaro Brechner, “one of the leading South American screen talents to emerge in the last decade,” Variety wrote in a review of his Venice-selected “A Twelve-Year Night,” is attached to ...

On the surface, Bloodywood might sound like a gimmick — Indian folk metal sung at least partly in Hindi — but the proof is always in the pudding, and the pudding here is pretty fucking delicious.

It seems like metal is intermingling with more musical genres than ever these days. Decades removed from rap metal's peak, new metal combinations still appear, notably in the recent surge of trap ...