Neofolk Thread

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Only Current 93 album I've heard, but it's pretty fuckin great, it even has a few tracks with Nick Cave.
Do you like Death In June?
Nada! and What Ends When The Symbols Shatter? are stellar.

all pigs must die

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Nothing tops Boyd talking/singing over Douglas' guitar for me.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4z50p2v5Of0
>not from pic related but still

>>61766402
alarm agents is my fave album by death in june i think

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this genre gets really old really quickly for me. Di6 and Current 93 are some of my favorite artists of all time, though. I've been listening to this a good bit lately.

>>61766586
Same here. Snow Bunker Tapes is a close second though.

do yourself a favour and check out Death in Rome, their a pretty underground neofolk band that does covers of pop songs. Their discog is pretty small up till now but they have some real gems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r94JwP4QaFk&index=2&list=PLa4vL9FuCJQyN8upXKHhm_jLbPTy9wtAX

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Does /mu/ like Von Thronstahl?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkDNC_ca1CA

>>61765862
People say neofolk is for neonazis but this is literally White Guilt: The Album

>>61766363
This ain't August '69

I'll never get if DI6 is actually Nazi or it's just the imagery. I know Douglas Pearce is homosexual and performed with Jews and in Israel once, but some of his lyrics just make me think if it's all real or just a part of a leftist ruse.

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I'm listening to this at the moment. It is very cozy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZjvnSMz-24

Huh, that's a coincidence, because I just started trying to explore neofolk today. I'm currently listening to In Gowan Ring - The Serpent and the Dove, anyone here listened to that? It's quite peaceful, especially considering that I was listening to Black Metal before it. Recommend me albums, I'm open to all suggestions.

>>61768173

I unironically enjoy Martial Industrial and NSBM even though I'm a classical liberal.

>>61772010
http://blackivorytower.com/2015/02/14/sons-of-aeeth-the-music-of-rome/

They review BM/Folk/Neofolk, so check it out.

>>61772010
Well all of the classics, DI6, Current 93 on the martial/industrial side. but on the more folky side you have Empyrium and Ulver's second albums. Nest's Woodsmoke, Tenhi discogarphy is awesome too.

>>61772151
>>61772195

Thank you guys! If anyone else has more, let me know.

>>61768285
>People say neofolk is for neonazis
What? Who?

>>61766205

I'm listening to the whole trilogy, apparently this is the second album in it. One song in, I'm loving this. Thank you.

Racism the genre. Fuck off back to /pol/

>>61768173
I can't actually understand the lyrics but this sounds good, is it white power stuff?

Also, I like this is my genre's top, anything similar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ2SvK6pwqQ

>>61772238
Check out Masse Mensch Material and Flowers from Exile by Rome

>>61773490

Will do, thank you.

>>61770390
well plenty of bands deal with horror imagery and themes such as holocaust, torture, all bleak things about human nature. so i guess i dont really see why death in june would be different. the ruse element is that they dont explain why they do what they do. it would water down the effect i guess. but at the same time i do get why people are annoyed especially if they think nazi stuff glorifies them. maybe it does to some extent. anyway i cant resist the appeal of the music of death in june and im not a nazi

>>61766205

Aw man, I'm listening to this right now, and it references a confederate soldier, with everyone saying neofolk attracts racists, I really hope this isn't some nazi shit, because I'm really loving this album, not that I won't listen to it if it is, but it'd be nice if the artists weren't brainless racists, can anyone confirm?

>>61773665

if you listen to neofolk and expect non racist bands you're going to have a bad time

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>>61773410
I don't think it has anything to with white power, but Josef Maria Klumb, the person behind most of Von Thronstahl's music, does seem to be in favor of authoritarianism. As with many neofolk or martial industrial artists it isn't always clear what of it is just imagery and what is genuine. Their website does contain quite a lot of writings on politics, though.

Also, this album is really good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4BI_vulfPQ

>>61773748

I'm just getting into it... awww shit.

>>61773814

I'm not saying Current 93 is racist. Just that there are some racist bands but they do make good music imo.

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>>61773748
They tend to like right-wing politics, but that reall doesn't mean they are racists.

>>61773851

The Frolic had a verse or two about torching "red and black ants". Again, I'm not gonna let the band's ideology stop me from enjoying their stuff, just as I can enjoy bands with Christian/Satanic themes. It's just good to know what the band is all about.

u know those people who collect nazi items and war memorabilia and know all about war history? thats neofolk. except for current 93 which is neofolk with some new age stuff

There's some interesting alegedly ''right-wing'' ambient/neofolk from my hometown Madrid, people here might like it :)

This is a nice cover of the Spanish Blue Division:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giCvpDS3dXI

>>61773978
*Spanish Blue Division hymn

LMFAO none of those bands are in anyway racist.

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I'll throw in a rec for The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud. They're not really neofolk but they were distributed by World Serpent and grouped in with those bands in the 90's. Basically medieval/martial-industrial shit with intense female vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjlpLjJYA3I

I guess as a disclaimer, this is one of the few acts I can think of where a member was very vocal about her right-wing views.

>>61773978
This is nice. It sounds like they covered Katyusha, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIY36UbDbQQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHw8yHBCAvM

>>61774276
it was intentional, actually, they intended to mock the russians in his hmyn

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Some of my favourites Neofolk bands are:
:Of the wand & the moon:
Daemonia Nymphe
The Moon and the Nightspirit
Ordo Funebris

Listening to Ockerwasser by Sonne Hagal. So peaceful and relaxing yet very haunting and beautiful. I'm very much into it.

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Favorite songs on this album?
>1 A Year of Silence
>2 Apres l'ombre
>3 Dem Wind Geboren
>4 Summer Storm
>5 Viima

Does anyone know anything like hexvessel where its a blend of psych rock and neofolk?

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>>61773345
Just don't reply friends

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>>61773665
Oh my god nobody cares about your whiny bullshit.
What's wrong with referencing a confederate soldier anyway?

>>61776405

It all depends on what the context is. Doesn't it make sense that I would want to know what I am listening to?

>>61776513
What song is it?

>>61776809

Current 93 - Calling For Vanished Faces II

>>61776861
Edward Alexander sounds like a pretty cool guy anon.
I think you should educate yourself on history.

>>61768285
How is it white guilt at all? If anything, it's mourning the loss of Rhodesia and its potential.

>>61778065
O read it more as a essay against colonialism. The only mourning for the lost potential of of Rhodesia came from the fictionalized voice of the British colonialists

>>61779202
>O
*I

>>61779202
Being against colonialism doesn't imply white guilt

This is definitely my favorite song from Rome
That distant yelling and then the chorus... so great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlwoDBccdY8

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>tfw I want to make neofolk but I'm a filthy American

>>61779927
Thats what I was saying. To me Rome seems to be coming from an anti nationilist perspective more than anything

>>61780135
Well, they are strictly antifascist

>>61780189
Is there anything more than one guy in Rome? Outside of the live show that is

>>61780031
Make some creepy roots music + neofolk combo

>>61773978
Thanks for sharing, almost forgot about them. Great Song.

>>61765862
I really did not care for ROME.
Is Momus neofolk?

>>61773814
Current 93 actually comes off as fairly liberal these days, and while the group has certainly dabbled in its fair share of problematic imagery/sketchy collaborators, it's never really come off as espousing racist ideas to me. The liner notes for Thunder Perfect Mind also dedicate the song "Hitler as Kalki" (which deals with the idea of Hitler as an incarnation of a Hindu god bringing the apocalypse) "To my (David Tibet's) father, who fought Hitler."

I personally avoid Death in June because they go a bit further towards tacky-at-best Nazi fetishism, and a good number of bands in the genre are out and out fascists. There are plenty of non-horrifying groups too, though; I've not heard anything bad about Rome except from the extreme fringe of frothing anti-neo-folkers.

One of the things that really complicates trying to avoid fascist bands is that a lot of the information on the scene funnels back to one guy who is an ex-fascist himself, who wrote an intro to a Sol Invictus related book and now is hellbent on revealing "the truth" about basically every band in the genre. It really smacks of some strange old grudge, since it's a guy who was way into fascism going after other folks who were perhaps into fascism but now say they're appalled by it and calling them liars.

In general, I look into each band more closely than I might for other genres, and I avoid anyone overtly fascist and anyone who's way into Nazi fetishism and isn't overtly anti-fascist. If the bands say they're against fascism, though, and there's not some solid evidence condemning them (and the ridiculous worked-with-someone-who-worked-with-someone thing doesn't count, or else we have to boycott Nick Cave, Bonnie Prince Billy, and Antony and the Johnsons as fascists), I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt.

>>61781709
None of the Momus stuff I've heard is much like neo-folk. He's maybe closer to filk if he lands anywhere on the folk axis. Neo-folk tends to present itself with a much straighter face, though it certainly doesn't always take itself particularly seriously.

>all the fucking cucks in this thread

jeez they weren't joking about tumblr refugees shitting up the board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVQIos2Q244
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2EdmKNLhJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWK4bW9XB1w

>>61780031
>the original american neo-folk banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgg0S5scDcs

there's plenty of decent american neofolk f a m

Is there actually anything wrong with being a fascist?

can anyone rec me some good post-punky neofolk

>>61781972
aside from being socially ostracised

>>61781813
Why do you care so much about a bands politics

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>>61781813
Oh my god wow I care so fucking much about your stupid blogpost explaining why you care so much about image and how you discern between what neofolk bands you like.
Seriously the fucking highlight of my day reading this post.

>>61782168
I buy everything I listen to and don't feel comfortable financially supporting fascists.

>>61775662
>not Dagen og natta
what the fuck mate?

>>61783553
pretty cuck tbhfam

>>61783553
just pirate it if theyre fascists this seems pretty simple

i don't know anything about this genre but it seems interesting

Can I get an album or two to start with? Something representative of the genre and accessible (relative to the rest of the genre, that is).

>>61783714
death in june-nada!
current 93- thunder perfect mind

>>61783728
ty

Do Current 93 have much instrumental work? I've never been able to get past the quite frankly terrible vocal work but the music itself is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHfCbwWUjgA

>>61782067

Early Death in June and Cult of Youth.

>>61766205
earth covers earth is the goat neo-folk album

>>61783785
>terrible vocal work

when will this meme end

>>61785141
I've never seen anybody else mention it. But the vocal work being terrible is pretty much beyond debate.

>>61786262
Bad and good are subjective, Tibet's vocals secede in making a unique and arresting atmosphere regardless of what you think of them.

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Is there something like Metal Archives for neofolk and martial industrial?

>>61786262
i dont like his vocals either

>>61785141
When he learns how to sing

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>>61787348
Stormfront.org

>>61787299
>Bad and good are subjective
Stop using that fucking word to defend shit things. Tibet has a 2-octave range.

>>61787571
>2-octave
That's being generous

>>61787513
dumb frogsponge poster

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>Douglas P.

>>61787571
i totally agree that he is technically unskilled. That doesn't mean that his voice isn't used to make music people think is good.

>>61787348
Not really but hethan harvest is a pretty good zine to check out

>>61783553
What a fucking faggot. It's not as though they're ideology is going to sprout wings and take off any time soon in the West. Simmer down and just listen to the music you enjoy. Jesus.

>>61781896
Interesting. Thanks for responding btw in a non-memey way. Im very interesting in neofolk.

>>61788978
I wouldn't count on that anon, remember what happened in Cologne on new years? I have a feeling that's not going away until something ends it.

>>61787348
discogs
heathen harvest
nonpop
brainwashed.com
best thing to do is to check the usual labels for new stuff
some metal/goth sites also feature neofolk reviews
>>61780031
but there just poke around abit
bloodaxis
changes
>>61783553
so do you ask every artist that you like of their political views?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeEcS2Q2Ofw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NokudTXYAGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC4wy9pLW0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmdVrKH10rs

>>61788994
Im very interesting in neofolk

>>61789294
thx m8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=beP82Vd9N_I

>>61766402
instantly reminded of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJrNvYTgJw0