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Best folk metal artists of the 2000s

The industry lost control of distribution and the music got stranger for it. Blogs did the job radio used to do. The South took the charts outright, and Kanye West began a run of reinventions that outlasted the decade he started it in.

Everyone who released a folk metal album in the 2000s, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.

Moonsorrow№ 1Moonsorrow6 albums here4.0Weighted score4.0 avg · 12 ratings
  1. 2Orphaned Land3 albums here4.04.0 avg · 5 ratings
  2. 3NekrogoblikonNekrogoblikon1 album here3.93.9 avg · 4 ratings
  3. 4CruachanCruachan3 albums here3.83.8 avg · 7 ratings
  4. 5Turisas2 albums here3.73.5 avg · 4 ratings
  5. 6Thyrfing3 albums here3.73.3 avg · 3 ratings
  6. 7Vintersorg5 albums here3.73.6 avg · 9 ratings
  7. 8Primordial6 albums here2 ratings
  8. 9KAUAN3 albums here2 ratings
  9. 10KorpiklaaniKorpiklaani6 albums here1 rating
  10. 11EnsiferumEnsiferum4 albums here1 rating
  11. 12FinntrollFinntroll5 albums here1 rating
  12. 13EinherjerEinherjer1 album here1 rating
  13. 14TrollfesT4 albums here1 rating
  14. 15Týr4 albums here1 rating
  15. 16EluveitieEluveitie4 albums here
  16. 17In ExtremoIn Extremo12 albums here
  17. 18EquilibriumEquilibrium3 albums here
  18. 19Kivimetsän DruidiKivimetsän Druidi1 album here
  19. 20MithotynMithotyn2 albums here
  20. 21HelHel9 albums here
  21. 22SatarialSatarial4 albums here
  22. 23Sorg Uten TårerSorg Uten Tårer10 albums here
  23. 24Wuthering Heights4 albums here
  24. 25WarCryWarCry7 albums here

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