About Sword Chant

I founded Sword Chant on november 10, 2007. It started with a forum and this blog is up since august 25, 2013.

This site deals with Folk Metal, Celtic Music, Traditional, Medieval & Pagan Folk/Rock.

Folk Metal is an eclectic music within metal (heavy, black, death, power...) and Folk Music (traditional folk, celtic, medieval...). Instruments used are the common guitar, bass, drums and synth some times, but also violin, hurdy gurdy, bagpipes, and other ancestral folk instruments.

Lyrics are mostly based on Celtic and Norse mythologies, paganism, nature, the past times and wars left behind but fantasy ones can also be found. You will find here official lyrics. Some are available with official translations and some others with unofficial translations - Them all shared with permission. Listeners can translate the permitted lyrics to their language, to be shared on this website then.

Official music videos, lives videos, full stream, reviews and interviews can be found on this website.

Sword Chant supports bands with respect to their rights, by sharing their news, their crowd funding projects, details on their new releases, upcoming shows, and lyrics. Sword Chant aims to support bands also with its part named Eld.

News available on this website are shared on Facebook. Sword Chant is also on Instagram since december 8th, 2022. From 2012 to october 2024, news were also shared on Twitter now called X. December 27th, 2022 was tested Facebook group for some times.

The Forged in Folk Forum for our community was launched for the 17 years anniversary of Sword Chant, on November 10, 2024, designed for listeners and artists, for the people with desire to meet and discuss each other, translate lyrics, promote Folk Metal and Folk music we love.

Be welcome !

FAQ :

WEBSITE

Is this website related with religion ?
No, this website is not related with religion but Music. Everybody is welcome here.

Politic and Sword Chant ?
Your political view doesn't matter but Sword Chant stands against hate in all its way.

"Eld", ...like that song ?

Unlike Sword Chant, Eld name is not related with a song.

HOW TO...

How to get bandpage on this site ?
You will find all informations to that link : sword-chant.blogspot.com/p/bands

How to share lyrics and translations ?

Bands can send an email with their lyrics, and translated lyrics for me to understand words for sharing
Write explicit email giving me permission to share here official lyrics, official/unofficial translations attached (no link!) together with permission for translation to other languages.

How can I know the ended support for band, on this site ?

Sword Chant doesn't support bands promoting hate in one way or another.

Changed style is one other hint, that you can see to Band pages.

How to report something ?

If you notice something wrong on this website or may hurts, you can email at anytime. I want you safe here.

SHARING

Why do you ban artwork or video ?

I may refuse to share artwork or video because I don't want to hurt the people through things available on this website and, everybody should feel concerned from a moment something is going to be publicly shared. Some symbols related with world war shouldn't feat. on artwork. Runes or Ogham shouldn't be a problem since they are Norse and Celtic writing, like shorthand is.

Why don't you share the video ?
I only share videos from official sources (band, label...) but offensive videos won't be available on this site.

THE AUTHOR

I am Krissy "Keltia" from France.

I play guitar, flutes, and various strings instruments for many years now.

I'm pleased to help the people my best and I hope Sword Chant will be helpful to you.