Welcome, wanderer, to the fractious folk metal tournaments!
What do we do here?
We run bracket style single-elimination tournaments to find the best song (or tumblr's favourite) by various Folk Metal artists.
Being heavily inspired by Symphonic/Power Metal Bracket's blog, plan is roughly to go to 32 artists then pitting each winning song against eachother.
Ongoing Things:
Folk Metal Folk Bracket
Artist List (First to most recent):
The HU // Spotify Playlist // Winning Song: Yuve Yuve Yu
Turisas // Spotify Playlist // Winning Song: The March of the Varangian Guard
Elvenking // Spotify Playlist // Winning Song: Pagan Revolution
Eluveitie // Spotify Playlist // Winning Song: The Call Of The Mountains
Wind Rose // Spotify Playlist // Winning Song: Diggy Diggy Hole
Saltatio Mortis // Spotify Playlist // Winning Song: Finsterwacht
Korpiklaani // Spotify Playlist // Winning Song: Ievan Polkka
Bonus Bracket: Folk Metal Folk Bracket // Prelims Ongoing
Tags:
#poll - for tournament polls
#submissions - for posts where you can submit artists/ songs to whatever is upcoming
#re-reblog - for reblogs of my own posts; typically when a poll is closing
#ARTISTNAME bracket - for all the posts related to said bracket. each linked on the above artist list.
#poll for fun - non-tournament polls
#ask - answered asks
#notes from the folk - for when i reblog people's comments on a post. Can be propaganda, tips, ect.
#stats - self explanatory, currently mostly coming up upon people requesting them :D
#anything else - for anything else
#fun facts - fun facts from any source (submission forms; asks; reblogs of my posts; ect)
#hon. mentions - Most artist submissions, I make a post talking about some some of the artists that were submitted but didn't win (typicaly artists I didn't know before I found them here, and that I would reccomend) - as well as an additional artist that I like but didn't see at all.
#other tournaments - For other tournament stuff, typically from Symphonic/Power Metal Bracket.
Sister blog (not mine): @symphonic-power-metal-bracket
Please note that when an artist is selected for a bracket in their blog, it will be banned from the next 5 brackets here. This is due to the large number of overlapping artists.
Additionally, when looking at song submissions, in a tie between song versions (alternate vs original), the original is favoured. (By original, I typically default to the album release of the song, if possible.)
Final note is that the blog banner is the album (or if possible, single) cover art from the most recent song to win a bracket.














