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The term medieval music encompasses European music written during the Middle Ages. This era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends in approximately the middle of the fifteenth century. Edit this Artist photo: Sonus

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Fire-sea wrote:
October 2009

Please, check Demo recordings by my ethereal/medieval project Firesea. I'm searching for musicians.

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sinisha wrote:
October 2009

IMHO, artist who perform original medieval pieces should be tagged as "medieval", and all the rest, who either make new versions of older songs and pieces or incorporate them into their own music, whatever genre it may be, should be tagged as "neo-medieval".

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falsewander wrote:
July 2009

"The term medieval music on last.fm is a synonym for “heavy metal”, “dark metal”, and related genres." Are you ******** kidding me?

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dragon-eater wrote:
July 2009

Corvus Corax IS medieval you ignorants.

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KheftiuAsarUnas wrote:
July 2009

Christ, where's the Medieval stuff in amongst all this shit?

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photon_man62 wrote:
July 2009

"The term medieval music on last.fm is a synonym for “heavy metal”, “dark metal”, and related genres. Everywhere else it encompasses European music written during the Middle Ages." LMAO

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TheRealEvilOne wrote:
July 2009

This wiki made me laugh. None of the bands I see here are heavy metal at all.

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Punk7680 wrote:
June 2009

Yeah, whats the point in over classifying music? Just enjoy it. If Blackmore's night is not really Medievil, no one is going to do die cause of it, are they?

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Trystane wrote:
June 2009

I mostly agree, and I love both medieval (early) and neomedieval music. But stop overreacting about tags, because this battle with windmills is useless. You cannot convince the people now, after years, to change their tags. Go to early music tag or smth. Many tags here are nonsense, including alternative and gothic.

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Luuttuaja wrote:
May 2009

Yeah, I think we all agree that Blackmore's Night, Tanzwut, Enya, Gentle Giant, Satyricon etc. are not medieval music. It's just that new age, darkwave, neofolk, black metal etc. music which refers to some romanticized "ancient times" in lyrics or song names, is massively more popular among last.fm users (mostly teenagers and young adults) than actual medieval era music. I'm pretty sure Blackmore's Night or Enya don't claim themselves to be medieval at all.

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ShikataLover wrote:
May 2009

Read the post I made here. Medieval is a generic term, most of the bands I see here are NOT true medieval music anyway. I see a lot of ambient/darkwave/rock or metal bands, and artists like Tanzwut or Letzte Instanz have nothing to do here, they only have a few songs slightly influenced by medieval music, so I don't understand the people who tag them as medieval. Neomedieval is something different, it could fit most of these artists, I guess. If you're bothered by the way the medieval tag is used, then try the tag early music for more accuracy.

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Gaithie wrote:
May 2009

[mode=simple_minded]medieval, neo-medieval, who cares :D As long as it sounds good \o/[/mode]

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misslynx wrote:
April 2009

I always tag modern artists doing mediaeval-influenced music as "neomediaeval" (though I recently found out I am apparently the ONLY person on Last.fm who uses the non-American spelling of that word, so I suppose I will have to change my tags). But it seems like very few other people do -- even with the US spelling, the "neomedieval" tag has only a tiny fraction of the uses that "medieval" has. Unfortunately, there's no quick and easy way to change that -- that's the problem with a user-driven system like this; the tags are assigned by users, not by Last.fm themselves, so there's really no top-down solution available.

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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
April 2009

i never use "medieval" because it doesn't mean anything and it's already misused for different styles of contemporary popular music. even early music of the middle ages spans a time frame of 1,000 years which is nearly the same when pigeonholing it together with renaissance and baroque music as "early" only. if people don't know much about music of the romanesque or gothic era, about byzantine plainchant, early polyphony, troubadours, trecento or ars subtilior, they won't distinguish. but that would make the difference. in fact, usage and spreads of words and meanings is a social phenomenon, we individuals use words we learned from society and give them our understanding. the understanding of "medieval" differs widely. and so is the understanding of music. all you can do is enjoy and be openminded.

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gaugusto87 wrote:
April 2009

omg! the diference pratically doesnt exist!

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GradualHate wrote:
February 2009

http://www.lastfm.es/music/Opus+Nigrum/Opus+Nigrum

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Luuttuaja wrote:
December 2008

...or "Mittelalter Rock". There are many of such bands like In Extremo in Germany.

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Lysander wrote:
December 2008

Listening to the 'early music' tag radio now, it's far more accurate for genuine medieval music. Stuff like In Extremo etc should be tagged NeoMedieval.

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fioredelmare wrote:
October 2008

The "early music" tag is, indeed, more accurate for real medieval music :) Or like the previous user suggested, why not create another tag to be more specific. However, I want to say there are a lot of very nice bands in the medieval tag radio. Even if their music is not "historic" or 100% "medieval" :)

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Luuttuaja wrote:
October 2008

Yes, but 'early music' also includes Renaissance and Baroque eras. Of course you can also use terms like 'music of the Middle Ages' etc.

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