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Best folk metal artists of the 2010s

Streaming rewrote every incentive underneath a record: its length, its release date, whether it needed a single at all. Trap production became pop's default rhythm, and a lot of the decade's best artists arrived through a laptop rather than a label.

Everyone who released a folk metal album in the 2010s, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.

Moonsorrow№ 1Moonsorrow2 albums here4.0Weighted score4.0 avg · 12 ratings
  1. 2WintersunWintersun3 albums here4.04.0 avg · 11 ratings
  2. 3HeilungHeilung4 albums here4.04.0 avg · 3 ratings
  3. 4NekrogoblikonNekrogoblikon3 albums here3.93.9 avg · 4 ratings
  4. 5CruachanCruachan3 albums here3.93.8 avg · 7 ratings
  5. 6KorpiklaaniKorpiklaani5 albums here1 rating
  6. 7EnsiferumEnsiferum6 albums here1 rating
  7. 8FinntrollFinntroll3 albums here1 rating
  8. 9EluveitieEluveitie9 albums here
  9. 10In ExtremoIn Extremo6 albums here
  10. 11The HUThe HU1 album here
  11. 12EquilibriumEquilibrium4 albums here
  12. 13Ivar BjørnsonIvar Bjørnson1 album here
  13. 14Kivimetsän DruidiKivimetsän Druidi1 album here
  14. 15HelHel5 albums here
  15. 16Cnoc an TursaCnoc an Tursa2 albums here
  16. 17WarCryWarCry3 albums here

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