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Manic Maniac
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 9:33 pm 
 

I have been interested in linguistics for the longest time, & now I want to find Metal bands that sing in less known languages or languages that aren't commonly spoken. I've only found a few Basque bands up to this point. Are there any that sing in Korean, Aramaic, Esperanto, Creoles, Tibetan, Panjabi, Klingon, Balinese, Talossan, Cherokee, Sumerian, Cree, Komi, Yiddish, Romani, or even a reconstructed proto language?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 9:45 pm 
 

Behemoth's Slaves Shall Serve uses Sumerian in the opening lyrics.

Khrevsu tvahyu gradu tore!
Khrevsu kvatro midvhu piedhvro!
Khrevsu Kristo midhvu vhradro!
Medvro vhtrienn utrah vreghgrho!

(Slaves shall serve as the crowns are falling
As the apocalypse is nearing
Slaves shall serve as the inferior
Life force and as undead rivals)

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:52 pm 
 

I believe Barbaros from Algeria sing in Berber. Decent black metal.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Barbaros/14079
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 12:01 am 
 

@Metantoine Message me about it. I'm always looking for improvement.
@EveryoneElse I was hoping for something that wasn't shouted or growled. I guess that's my fault for not being specific enough. I wanna be able to hear the lyrics without having to resort to reading it. But I will check out the artist & song listed above sometime.
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Aarni use a shitload of languages on their two full-lengths.
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Njiqahdda uses a made up language IIRC.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 5:38 am 
 

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perhaps two (one linguistic, one technological)

Manic Maniac wrote:
I have been interested in linguistics for the longest time, & now I want to find Metal bands that sing in less known languages or languages that aren't commonly spoken. I've only found a few Basque bands up to this point. Are there any that sing in Korean, Aramaic, Esperanto, Creoles, Tibetan, Panjabi, Klingon, Balinese, Talossan, Cherokee, Sumerian, Cree, Komi, Yiddish, Romani, or even a reconstructed proto language?


Tenochtitlan - not entirely sure, not intelligible to Spanish speakers, something South American, though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBBa7qeQgXY

Dibbukim - Yiddish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2WPyURtWXw

Sad Legend - Korean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vok-kBPmFe8
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 5:56 am 
 

Al-Namrood sing in arabic and they're good.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:17 am 
 

Arckanum has lyrics in Old Swedish and Old Icelandic; sort of reconstructed proto languages.

I think Romanian bands like Negură Bunget and Dordeduh are also worth noting.


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:22 am 
 

@vengefulgoat Arabic isn't exactly atypical.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:30 am 
 

Manic Maniac wrote:
@vengefulgoat Arabic isn't exactly atypical.


neither is Korean?
::Shrug::, in the context of metal, I'd expect more Korean bands than Arabic bands.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:33 am 
 

RozenSchwarz wrote:
Arckanum has lyrics in Old Swedish and Old Icelandic; sort of reconstructed proto languages.


apparently (according to youtube commenters) the last Falkenbach single was in an obscure dialect of Icelandic, it looks very German, not very Icelandic, but is apparently a Dutch/German dialect of Icelandic. (the band, of course, is from Iceland).

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I think Romanian bands like Negură Bunget and Dordeduh are also worth noting.


what about Korpiklaani using obscure antiquated Finnish that only a native could really translate into a coherent English sentence? I think Metsatoll do the same in their dialect of Estonian.
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Manic Maniac
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:11 am 
 

@Erotetic I suppose it isn't, but havn't listened to any Korean bands & have heard a lot of arabic speaking ones, so I assumed korean Metal was less popular.
Also, I wouldn't list Romanian & Finnish as atypical. Who hasn't heard of Negura Bunget & Korpiklaani?
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 6:45 pm 
 

Barok' sing in Esperanto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPerYKYfp5M
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/barok-lyrics.html

I wouldn't consider Old Norse or Old High German that atypical, but for the record:
Wardruna (ambient but in the Archives) have a couple of songs in Old Norse, the rest is Norwegian.
Burzum also has taken some parts of the Edda as lyrics (e.g. "Heiðr"); I guess some other bands have done so, too.
Saltatio Mortis, Menhir and especially In Extremo have used a couple of Old High German poems as lyrics ("Merseburger Zaubersprüche 1 & 2", "Hildebrandslied",...).
In Extremo also have at least one Occitan song.
Wintarnaht sing in Old High German on their latest release, and the lyrics even seem to be written by themselves.

Some parts of the song "Maha Kali" by Dissection is Sanskrit, in other songs of their last album they also have some Hebrew words (and Latin, but that's nothing rare).
It wouldn't surprise me if the lyrics of the upcoming "मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान" by Cult of Fire are Sanskrit, too.

Chthonic sing in Taiwanese (but also have English versions of their songs).

Eastfrisian Terror sing in Frisian dialect (at least maybe, it's growled and no lyrics are online, could as well be English).

If that's considered that atypical: Bucovina sing in Romanian.

I also remember having seen a band's website which was mostly written in Old English. Don't remember the name, though.

So much from what I know myself.
But this list should be quite interesting, too: http://rateyourmusic.com/list/sHarris16 ... tal_bands/

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:04 pm 
 

UK's Brondniht used lyrics taken from an old Anglo-Saxon text. They only released a 2 track demo/EP unfortunately, but it's a great little slice of obscure black/doom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE2-DzIKKOk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-HtiDsquuk
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French stoner/doom band Stangala's lyrics are in Breton.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Stangala/124961

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72 Hrs play pretty decent melodic thrash metal with Nepali lyrics.

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I'm from the Basque Country so I know some bands with basque lyrics. You've said that you know some basque bands, so you'll probably know some of them.

We've got a lot of punk and rock bands here,but unfortunately only a few metal bands, this are the only ones I can remind in this moment:

Anestesia:http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Anestesia/41910
They make Thrash/Death Metal with some Hardcore Punk influence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7O3HRF0_oU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoLA-hOtSD0

Su Ta Gar:http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Su_Ta_Gar/4475
They Started making Heavy/Speed Metal with high pitched melodic vocals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7VezIobXBU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mer1GQaZiIs
And then the voice of the singer turned mora harsh and the changed to a rather Thrash style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4wMQdIZMzk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-UUnSLPkiI
You MUST hear their debut album "Jaiotze Basatia",is great.

Latzen:http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Latzen/1358
They make Thrash Metal in a rather melodic way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhcHSzEiQSM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDoicpzmw2o

Asgarth:http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Asgarth/35595
They make Power Metal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHEGXkHA_K8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Y2RU8bKwI

Zuldar:http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Zuldar/52374
With a Thrash/Melodeath style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C96lJtaFIno

I don't know is this is what you're looking for,but theese days I'm listening to some japanese power and melodic heavy metal bands (with japanese lyrics),so I can recommend you some of them:
Aldious
Concerto Moon
Dragon Guardian
Galneryus
Area51
Cyntia
Alhambra
Light Bringer
Anthem
Lightning

And you can also listen theese thrash metal bands:
Outrage
Jurassic Jade

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:46 am 
 

All five bands of those Basque bands you mentioned here I was already aware of. Half of those J-Power Metal bands I was already knowledgeful of, too. Those two J-Thrash, however, are very interesting.
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Corr Mhóna: Doom metal sung in Irish
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Corr-Mhóna/213519911174?id=213519911174&sk=app_2405167945

Uaigneas: Also sung in Irish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niUXqnDInx8

Y Diawled: A Welsh NWOBHM band that a friend of mine introduced me to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl_NIrLyMMI

Troja: Albanian
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Cryptic Age does some of their lyrics in Manx Gaelic.

Rudra's lyrics are mostly in Sanskrit and based on classic Hindu literature.

Numen does Basque black metal.

Verjnuarmu uses the Savonian dialect of Finnish.

Shaman (which evolved into Korpiklaani) did progressive Sami (formerly known as Lappish) folk metal.

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Most of the lyrics of Windir are written in the Sognamål dialect of Norwegian.

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Lunar Aurora sing in (Upper) Bavarian on their last album "Hoagascht." On a related note, Wurzlzwerg mostly use a roughly similar dialect from Upper Austria on their so far only EP. Sardonyx from Vienna use yet another form of Austro-Bavarian, namely Viennese. Too bad the music itself is mediocre death metal at best.

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Tenochtitlan - not entirely sure, not intelligible to Spanish speakers, something South American, though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBBa7qeQgXY

Telling from the song title, it's probably Quechua, a native South American language.
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I thought Tenochtitlan was a ruin in Mexico.
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About Tenochtitlan, there is some Quechua or Aymara (one of those descendants of Inca) and some Nahuatl (Mayan).

I will add Arctic Spirits, singing Greenlandic and a very good fun old fashioned hard rock/heavy metal band. If you're willing to poke outside of metal, for some classical/neofolk (the band call themselves "chamber folk"), I like Romowe Rikoito. They sing a couple songs in the extinct Baltic Prussian language. Not metal at all, but that type of dark folk is often talked about as non-metal fir metalheads.

You did ask for no growling OP... hmmm some of the Gaulish songs by Eluveitie are sung clearly by o e or both of the women, especially on "Evocation".
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Sorry to undig this thread, I just feel like I have something to add.

    Cunfin sings black metal in some Romansh dialect. I think it's Puter, but I'm not sure
    Morto Kacho goes hardcore in Papiamentu, which is a Creole
    Corubo sings folk/black in indigenous languages such as Korubo, Kayagang and Old Tupi, besides Portuguese and English
    Pichismo sings crust in many constructed languages, such as Esperanto and Volapük
    Hurd are a pretty normal metal band, but they sing in Mongolian, which sounds like a language made for music
    Gevolt is an Israeli industrial metal band singing in Yiddish, pretty plain though
    Kawir, a black metal band from Greece, has many songs in Ancient forms of Greek

I had added some five other bands, but then I realised many had already been posted...

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Gonin-Ish sing in ancient Japanese. I believe Onmyo-Za has songs in ancient Japanese as well (I couldn't tell you which ones, however).

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Sorry to hijack the thread for a bit, but is there any band that sings in Swiss German, as in the native Swiss dialect?

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I believe Excelsis has some songs in Swiss German.

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apparently Swiss band Eluveitie use Gaulish. you'd think surely there'd be a Swiss German song in there somewhere, given that they're based right in the center of the German part of Switzerland.
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Unhappily, all Swiss German Eluveitie uses is some backstage talk in the beginning of the promo video for "Quoth The Raven". But, well, what we call "Swiss German" is just Alemannic as spoken in Switzerland, maybe there's some Austrian or German band singing in their own variety of Alemannic.

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Rasc wrote:
Unhappily, all Swiss German Eluveitie uses is some backstage talk in the beginning of the promo video for "Quoth The Raven". But, well, what we call "Swiss German" is just Alemannic as spoken in Switzerland, maybe there's some Austrian or German band singing in their own variety of Alemannic.

I'm specifically looking for songs in the Swiss Alemannic dialect. I know only one rap(lol) song in this language. The 'highest' the german, the better

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Rasc wrote:
Unhappily, all Swiss German Eluveitie uses is some backstage talk in the beginning of the promo video for "Quoth The Raven". But, well, what we call "Swiss German" is just Alemannic as spoken in Switzerland, maybe there's some Austrian or German band singing in their own variety of Alemannic.

In Austria, Alemannic dialects are only spoken in Vorarlberg (and some parts of Tyrol) and I know of no metal bands from there using it (feel free to prove me wrong, though, would be interesting). Around here it's a rarity for any metal band to sing in German, let alone their native dialect.
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Erotetic wrote:
apparently Swiss band Eluveitie use Gaulish. you'd think surely there'd be a Swiss German song in there somewhere, given that they're based right in the center of the German part of Switzerland.


This. Seek out the "Evocation 1" album...
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Well, I found a German nu metal band singing in the Alemannic dialect Schwäbisch, but I really looked into it today and didn't find much of bands singing in German dialects. What surprised me the most was the fact I found absolutely no band singing in Platt... Well, a friend of mine from the German colony in Brazil did have a band singing in Riograndenser Hunsrückisch, but they released nothing, so I'm still curious.

By the way, check out this awesome Italian folk/black metal band, Lou Quinse. Metal Archives says it's Franco-Provençal (or Arpitan), but I have a friend who was born in Arpitania and has done some intensive studies on dialectology who's pretty sure it's Occitan, specifically the Vivaro-Alpine dialect.

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Reposting because I just found a handful of bands singing in the Sicilian language out of the blue.

Check out: Addraunara, Inchiuvatu, La Caruta di li Dei, Lamentu, Astimi, Agghiastru, Maleficu Santificatu and Ultima Missa. Pretty awesome.

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Is anyone aware of other bands than Wulkanaz and Nawaharjan that use reconstructed proto languages such as Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European?

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Saxnot wrote:
Is anyone aware of other bands than Wulkanaz and Nawaharjan that use reconstructed proto languages such as Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European?

I know it's not much (and not even metal), but the folk band Heilung has a couple of songs in Proto-Germanic, although the majority are in Old Norse. Though not proto-languages, they make use of Old English and Old High German as well.

EDIT: Related to the topic of the thread, the brazilian folk metal band Arandu Arakuaa sings in the Tupi language.

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Also related to the topic, Flink is a Czech band that sang in Romani.
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