| Hmm..... European folk-metal springs to mind.....
Finntroll (most lyrics in Swedish) Jaktens Tid is probably their best record.
Korpiklaani (Most lyrics in Finnish or drunken English, q.v. 'Happy Little Boozer' and 'Beer Beer').
In Extremo - Cool stuff. Take one part Metallica, add bagpipes, Lambeg drums, citterns, and a yard sale's worth of medieval instruments....
Skyclad - (Folkemon is a good start) pretty much invented the genre. The lyrics include lots of puns and stuff, so the meanings might not be clear on first listen.
Subway to Sally (Gods only know what the name has to do with anything)
Bathory (the albums Blood Fire Death and Hammerheart)
Some of Julian Cope's post-Teardrop Explodes stuff is pretty good too, like Dark Orgasm and Citizen Cain'd, and the Brain Donor albums. He's a pretty good bass player, too, as well as a published expert on pre-Roman Britain.
Oh yeah, and who can forget Hellspawn Warhammers of the Nordic Wind.... pulverizing war-metal mixed with barbaric hate....
Perspectives are interesting, I always associated that Metallica song with H.P Lovecraft.... "the thing that should not be" was a euphemism for Cthulhu..... but songs mean different things to different people....
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