zombienormal: Illustration from Alfred Tennyson’s The Princess by Howard Chandler Christy, 1911. Via.
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necroluste: Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.
derwiduhudar: Norwegian Bunader
alternativeart: Larry Elmorelarryelmore.com
Wealthy Varangian Viking (Tony Arndt). Decorative feather stitch on cloak, rings and bracelets are replicas of Scandinavian and Baltic finds, the Thor’s Hammer is a Gotland replica, drinking horn Sutton Hoo replica, and his is shirt diamond twill wool with tablet woven silk trim. source :  Kira Hagen 2013.
nataliakoptseva: 1325-1329  Pietro Lorenzetti  Crucifixion détail  fresque
glitchinthematrixx: ceorfaex: kaosritual: wholelottalemon: folkmetalconfessions: 109 I would say that folk metal is the new black metal. It remains True, where black metal has gone commercial. Go fuck yourself :D Can’t tell if this is a troll or stupidity? Almost EVERY music genre has given in to commercialism, including your shitty folk metal bands, I.E korpiklaani, ENSIFERUM, Equilibrium, Dornenreich, etc. If you really think your genre of music is ‘underground’ you should probably get a brain scan because you might be suffering from a severe case of dumb fuckery. Fucking ridiculous. Folk metal became commercial not long after symphonic black metal did, it was “the next big thing.” The difference being that good underground black metal still exists while folk metal has, as a genre, descended into commercialized generic mediocrity. Folk metal is Europe’s metalcore. And yeeeeaaah, who give a fuck if it is commercial or whatever. You like or you don’t. Period. What fucking ever. Folk metal is not very popular in my neck of the woods. No one knows who the fuck i’m talking about and it’s too bad.  Every band, no matter the genre, has to “commercialize” itself to a certain extent. How else will the band get new fans, and make money to support the band to travel around the world and perform shows? I don’t even think those folk metal bands listed have commercialized themselves to the point where their music is “the metalcore of Europe”. I don’t really listen to Korpiklaani or  Equilibrium but they aren’t comparable to “metalcore”. As what glitchinthematrixx said, folk metal and black metal are still pretty much unknown to the general public anyway. No matter how ~commercialized~ they’ll get it’s only within the metal genre. I bet if you were to take a survey of like 500 people out in the street maybe only like  10 people would know what the fuck folk or black metal is. Seriously. Stop bitching. And this confession is fucking retarded.
anachronisticfairytales: Ayami Kojima
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