Already playing host to Cellar Darling, Brujeria, Discharge, and more, Leicester, England’s Uprising festival has just announced the headliner for its 7th year. Melancholic Swedish metallers, Katatonia, will close out the May 25th event. Keep reading for tickets information and more about the lineup.
Metal and Folk go back decades. From the inception of the genre in the 1960s, folk literature and myths became a staple across a variety of Metal genres with their fantastical themes and imaginative escapism. However, the sonic and musical marriage of Folk and Metal is very different from those lyrical thematics both genres now share. Some amongst the Metal community would argue that the inclusion of ancient instruments such as panpipes, fiddles, and flutes makes the music sound corny and cliché and thus diminishes the aggressive nature of the metallic component of Folk Metal. Continue reading
