ZYWIOLAK for Folk-Metal?

thanks to whoever cleaned my additions mess hahah.

Zywiolak added.. and Tuz... feel free to edit as you see fit.

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/zywiolak.aspx

It is probably due to the special characters in the band name. I'm sure graphix / m@x will fix it.

going once.. going twice

if no objections.. going to add ...

And remember that here - unlike on PA - we can delete an entry very easily. This band have only released an album so far. If their next is even less metal than this one, then we can think about removing them from the DB. However, if even the ultra-purist Encyclopedia Metallum has them, I don't believe adding them is going to do us any harm.

In all seriousness....I've always been an open-tenter.  Always thought the site was for the users, not the collabs, and if people think it is metal. I always thought it was our job to maintain a database, not be judge, jury, and executioner of popular tastes and standards. Granted metal is not as.. open-ended as prog is, but still. We saw early on with this site, there is still not iron-clad notion of what is metal and what is not.  I didn't agree with some additions, but you know what... who cares!  Others thought they were so what is the harm in adding them.

Anyhow... I'm going to add them unless someone strongly disagrees.  With such a interesting mixture of metal and folk inherent in folk-metal.. there will obviously be various degress of 'metal' in it.  This one might be on the lower scale of it, but that shouldn't preclude it from being listed on a site devoted to cataloging it.  I'll wait a week and see if any of the collabs here have a real problem with it. If any do.. we'll talk it out and come to good solution.


Edited by micky - 18 Jul 2010 at 10:58am

Okay... I'm more conservative, I guess, since metal for me needs guitars, bass and drums to be metal :-)

And I thought I was the most liberal person om MMA ;-)

They actually remind me a little bit of a German medieval folk band called Tabula Rasa (but I think maybe they use similar percussion techniques (which in turn, first time I heard Tabula Rasa, remind me of rock music)).

As I said, no protests from me if they're added 

I liked them too (well the tracks on MySpace), a lot, but it is not metal to my ears. I wouldn't protest if someone decided to include them though.

Edited by Time Signature - 17 Jul 2010 at 1:57pm

Since we happen to share the same living quarters , I listened to the album too. Excellent stuff, with the more folk-based parts reminding me of folk music from some areas of Italy. However, I didn't really detect a lot of metal in their compositions, except for one track that was patently riff-based. On the other hand, unlike other metal subgenres, folk-metal does not seem to be as cut-and-dried, and I believe we could do worse than let these guys in. Very interesting music indeed, and an incentive to explore the subgenre further.