List of Danish metal bands
The list of Danish metal bands includes well-known Danish - including Faroese and Greenlandic - music groups from the metal genre . Hard rock bands are only included in the list if they also play metal.
Inclusion criteria for the list are:
- a separate Wikipedia article
- proven international presence
- the character of a supergroup of members of other metal bands
Meeting one of the criteria is sufficient.
The genre names in the list are abbreviated as follows: "AM" - Alternative Metal , "BD" - Black Doom , "BM" - Black Metal , "DD" - Death Doom , "DeM" - Death Metal , "Dj" - Djent , "DoM" - Doom Metal , "FM" - Folk Metal , "HM" - Heavy Metal , "GrM" - Groove Metal , "IM" - Industrial Metal , "MDM" - Melodic Death Metal , "NM" - Neoclassical Metal , “PoM” - Power Metal , “PrM” - Progressive Metal , “SpM” - Speed Metal , “TDM” - Technical Death Metal , “TM” - Thrash Metal , “VM” - Viking Metal . In the column “Dt. Name ”should be the German translation of the band's name and the language of the lyrics in the“ Language ”column.
| Surname | German Surname | founding | resolution | Genre (s) | language | origin | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artillery | Artillery (en.) | 1982, 1998 | 1991 | TM | en. | Høje-Taastrup Municipality | |
| Beyond Twilight | beyond the twilight (en.) | 1990 | PoM, PrM, SyM | en. | Horsens | Founded as Twilight | |
| Dominus | Lord (la.) | 1991 | 2001 | DeM, GrM | en. | Ringsted | In Volbeat and Illdisposed risen |
| Forever Still | forever motionless / still (en) | 2010 | AM, HM | en. | Copenhagen | ||
| Hamferð | Appearance of a missing or dead sailor in front of his loved ones (fä.) | 2008 | DD | fä. | Tórshavn | ||
| Hatesphere | Sphere of hate (en.) | 2000 | DeM, TM | en. | Aarhus | ||
| Heljareyga | Hell's Eye (fä.) | 2009 | FM, PrM | fä. | Faroe Islands | ||
| Illdisposed | ill-disposed (en.) | 1991 | DeM | en. | Aarhus | ||
| Iniquity | Sacrilege (en.) | 1989, 2013 | 2003, 2013 | TDM | en. | Copenhagen | |
| Invocator | Caller (en.) | 1986, 2000 | 1995 | DeM, TM | en. | Esbjerg | Founded as Black Creed |
| Iron Fire | Iron fire | 1997 | PoM, TM | en. | Copenhagen | ||
| Konkhra | ? | 1989 | DeM | en. | Køge | ||
| Manticora | Made-up word with reference to the manticore | 1996 | PoM, PrM | en. | Hvidovre commune | Founded as a mystery tribe | |
| Mercenary | mercenary | 1991 | MDM, PoM | en. | Denmark | ||
| Mercyful Fate | wrong spelling of “Merciful Fate”? | 1981 | HM | en. | Copenhagen | Forerunner of the BM | |
| Mnemic | Acronym for "Mainly Neurotic Energy Modifying Instant Creation" | 1998 | Dj, GrM, IM | en. | Denmark, France | ||
| Myrcur | Darkness (is.) | 2014 | BM, FM | dan. | Copenhagen | Amalie Bruuns project | |
| Nortt | north (dan.) | 1995 | BD, DBM | dan. | Denmark | A stranger's one-man project | |
| Panzerchrist | Panzerchrist | 1993 | DeM | en. | Aarhus | Blackened death metal band | |
| Pretty Maids | pretty maiden (en.) | 1981 | HM | en. | Horsens | ||
| Pyramaze | ? | 2001 | PoM, PrM, SpM | en. | Denmark, USA | ||
| Raunchy | horny / dirty (en.) | 1992 | TM | en. | Copenhagen | Neo-Thrash-Metal-Band, founded under a different name | |
| Royal Hunt | royal hunt (en.) | 1989 | IM, TM | NM, PoM, PrM | en. | Founded as an apart , meanwhile multinational | |
| Saturnus | Saturn (la.) | 2004 | DoM, hard rock | en. | Denmark | as aces Sino founded | |
| Sic | ? | 2002 | TM | en. | Tórshavn | ||
| Siissisoq | Rhinoceros (green.) | 1998 | Metal | green. | Greenland | ||
| Svartsot | black disease (Danish) | 2005 | FM, VM | dan. | Randers | Emerged from Skoll | |
| Týr | Tyr (fä.) | 1998 | PrM, VM | en. / fä (va) | Tórshavn | ||
| Volbeat | engl. Neologism from "volume" (volume) and "beat" (rhythm) | 2001 | HM | en. (95% <) | Copenhagen | For Dominus emerged | |
| Wuthering Heights | Storm height | 1989 | FM, PoM, PrM | en. | Copenhagen | Founded as Angelica |
Endnotes
- ^ Artillery , in: laut.de , accessed on April 11, 2020.
- ↑ Hamferð , in: laut.de , accessed on April 12, 2020.
- ↑ a b Invocator , in: laut.de , accessed on April 11, 2020
- ↑ Mnemic , in: laut.de , accessed on April 11, 2020.
- ↑ a b c Myrkur , in: laut.de , accessed on April 11, 2020.
- ↑ Svartsot , in: laut.de , accessed on April 11, 2020.
- ↑ Review of Kong Vinter on metal.de