Medieval Metal is a music genre that typically includes lyrics and sometimes music about and from Medieval times. The most well known is Satyricon's "Dark Medieval Times". This offshoot of the black metal genre includes numerous references to castles, knights and bloody battlefields. Lyrics are the written words in a song. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... // Statistics Genre: Black metal Country: Norway Status: Active Time: 1990- Biography Cover of Dark Medieval Times Satyricon is a Norwegian Black Metal band known mostly for their first album, Dark Medieval Times, which the band credit with starting a Black metal sub-genre of Medieval Metal. ... Black metal is a musical genre related to styles of heavy metal such as death metal. ... The Alcázar of Segovia, Spain A castle (from the Latin castellum, diminutive of castra, a military camp, in turn the plural of castrum or watchpost), is a fort, a camp and the logical development of a fortified enclosure. ... A silver statue of an armoured knight, created as a trophy in 1850 For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ...

A German band, In Extremo, blends bagpipes, harps, sitars, and other medieval instruments with electric guitars to make their own style of "Medieval metal." In music, a band is a group of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of a musical arrangement. ... In Extremo (Latin:in the end or in the extreme) is a German folk metal band. ... A bagpipe performer in Amsterdam. ... The harp is a chordophone whose strings are positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. ... Premla Shahane playing a sitar, 1927 A sitar The sitar is a Hindustani classical music instrument. ... A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... An electric guitar is a type of guitar with a solid or semi-solid body that utilizes electromagnetic pickups to convert the vibration of the steel-cored strings into electrical current. ...

Another German band, Tanzwut, blends electronics with medieval instruments to make "electronic medieval metal." Similar to this band, is the band Qntal, but they do not use guitars, just electronics. Tanzwut is a German folk/industrial metal band. ... Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ...