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Rīga, Latvia (1995 – present)

Pagan/Folk Metal band from Rīga, Latvia. Formed in 1995 out of the remains of doom metal band Grindmaster Dead. They released their first demo ‘Semigalls’ Warchant’ in 1997, this one is released full length(three additional songs) in 2005. Most of their songs are about pagan gods, war and warfare, as well as traditional Latvian folk songs and their metal covers. Skyforger mostly plays folk/pagan metal, although their forth album Zobena Dziesma (Swordsong), released in 2003, was a pure folk album.

In between album recordings, Skyforger has been also busy on stage, playing as many concerts as they can. Behind the belt of band are already four European tours; many mini-tours and festival appearances and Skyforger is well known for their non-compromise live performances.

Currently Skyforger is forging songs for the next album and of course will not forget about live activities on foreign stages.

Skyforger was involved in a minor scandal with one of their former producers, who believed they were affiliated with Neo-nazism. The reason for this was the sunwheel, incorporated in Skyforger’s logo. Some websites have therefore listed Skyforger as a Neo-nazi band. The band denies any such claims and doesn’t display any Nazistic tendencies in their lyrics(actually the opposite), the scandal was a result of the producer’s poor knowledge of ancient Indo-European symbols. Many people doesn’t know it and therefore misinterpret sunwheel as swastika, although sunwheel is much older symbol, and nazis did peculate it as their own.

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folk metal, pagan metal, black metal, latvian, folk
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1	Oh Fog, Oh Dew	75
2	Migla, Migla, Rasa, Rasa	72
3	Zobena dziesma	60
4	In Darkness and Frost	58
5	The Shortest Night of the Year	54
6	Zviegtin' zviedza kara zirgi	53
7	Sen dzirdeju, nu ieraugu	52
8	Long Dance	49
9	Intro	48
9	Warlord of the Night Sky	48
9	Zirgi zviedza	48
12	Thunderforge	47
12	Pulkvedis Briedis	47
14	Parkiuns vede vedeklenu	46
14	Apkart kalnu gaju	46

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Jamesthelazy wrote:
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Pwnage

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last week

Skyforger reigns supreme! Great band all around.

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last week

Un bij labs...

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andriic wrote:
last week

redzējām :)

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w-l wrote:
last week

Ejam šodien skatīties!

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_colorblind_ wrote:
15 days ago

Latvian Riflemen - Latviešu Strēlnieki - labākais albums!

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Patriots_LV wrote:
16 days ago

SkyForger !!!

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Ancient_Moon wrote:
last month

I just LOVE THIS BAND! keep the Ancient fate braliukas!

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blafkees wrote:
last month

ХУИТА

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bartek_91 wrote:
September 2008

skyforger is so original!

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-Tim- wrote:
September 2008

ХУИТА

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beer_snob wrote:
September 2008

Fucking excellent. Everything these guys have recorded is essential.

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Fyrmyr wrote:
August 2008

I saw them at metalcamp, they were pretty awesome ^^

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bile_eucarist wrote:
August 2008

The wise wizard - warrior! We believe. Your light will never fade!!

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August 2008

Excuse me while I fingerbang a cat
nutslap wrote:
July 2008

excuse me while i bang madaraz's face

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dormice wrote:
July 2008

jajau viss last.fm ir tāds svaigs, pēdējais laiks visus tagus sakārtot uz latviskajiem beidzot.

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NuuBzz wrote:
July 2008

http://www.last.fm/group/Bring+back+the+old+Last.fm

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druidftw wrote:
July 2008

Well the point is i am afraid someone soon gonna say that even COB etc folk metal too . Etnic music and folk metal are different. Korpiklaani is one of my favo but imo they're not folk metal . Metsatöll from Estonia , Skyforger ( i have their all CD's even semigalls warchant t-shirt ) , Tyr etc. are folk metal. Style does not matter , can be like heavy-thrash ( tyr ) or can include black sounds like Skyforger .. this is called Folk Metal. Dont fall into classifications so much guys.. just enjoy

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dormice wrote:
July 2008

Blomē viņi nodeva vienkārši perfekti!

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