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Try the Dutch band Omnia, not necessarily prog but a good example of Pagan folk.  Their best albums are "Pagan Folk" and "Alive"
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Miranda Sex Garden, their last album "Carnival of Souls" recording started in the Norwich graveyard on Friday 13 of August 1999 and all their imagery is absolutely pagan.



This Pagan perspective started with their third album "Fairytales about Slavery"

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Points: 4659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2011 at 10:41

Check out the German band Faun:


and maybe some of Dead Can Dance:


or Darkestrah from Kyrgyzstan:


I believe Sol Invictus are also considered pagan folk.  We checked them out for Prog Folk but declined to add them.
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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2011 at 09:17
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

First band that springs to mind when anyone mentions Pagan Folk/Rock would be Inkubus Sukkubus:

 
This is GOTHIC rock, with pagan themes but not pagan folk per se.
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Hagalaz' Runedance is the best pagan folk band I have ever heard. It features Andrea Haugen (aka Nebelhexe), who is ex-wife of Thomas Haugen (aka Samoth), bassist for Emperor.
 
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First band that springs to mind when anyone mentions Pagan Folk/Rock would be Inkubus Sukkubus:

(amusingly the youtube pop-up advert that popped up when I played this video was "Fly Virgin to Orlando" LOL)
 
From the Prog Archives, a not dissimilar band is The Bluehorses, though obviously more proggy than the Inkies:
 


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The Wicker Man is an excellent cult movie with some tremendous music and about 5 years back it came back to attention by many... and a really awful remake was made from this movie.
 
But it's quite difficult to find music approaching, except in terms of paganism texts Comus and Jan Dukes De Grey, but musically I wouldn't compared them.
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Points: 17532 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2011 at 15:10
Originally posted by clarkpegasus4001 clarkpegasus4001 wrote:

Folk/Prog = Jethro Tull?
Tony C.
 
Add "pagan" to that mix and Songs From The Wood emerges at the top. My fave Tull album, too.
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Originally posted by TODDLER TODDLER wrote:

It's difficult for me to pin point this style. The only example I can give personally would be various tracks from traditional Irish Folk recordings. The ones in particular that touch upon the subject of elves, witchcraft, and folklore in Europe. Steeleye Span and even Pentangle had a few tracks that somehow relate. I own maybe 9 cd's by Ron Geesin who hails from Scotland and his instrumental tracks are reminiscent of the progressions in the Wicker man pieces you have posted.


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Points: 3126 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2011 at 11:02
It's difficult for me to pin point this style. The only example I can give personally would be various tracks from traditional Irish Folk recordings. The ones in particular that touch upon the subject of elves, witchcraft, and folklore in Europe. Steeleye Span and even Pentangle had a few tracks that somehow relate. I own maybe 9 cd's by Ron Geesin who hails from Scotland and his instrumental tracks are reminiscent of the progressions in the Wicker man pieces you have posted.
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Folk/Prog = Jethro Tull?
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I was just listening to Paul Giovanni's wonderful soundtrack to The Wicker Man(1973) performed by folk band Magnet, the songs are very dark but rather funny too, I like the edginess of the lyrics and was wondering if there are any Folk/Prog bands that play these kind of songs or have that Pagan sound? The nearest bands musically I'm aware of would be Renaissance, All About Eve, Wishing Tree, but even then not really?  Also does anyone think the soundtrack is Prog related as its kind of a "Concept" in itself?









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