History Main / NatureMetal

A lot of metal music features heavy nature-related, sometimes pagan, themes. Popular themes include about MotherNature, GaiasRevenge, {{Noble Wol|f}}ves, {{xenofiction}}, {{Nature Spirit}}s, and {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of nature. More often than not, though there are always exceptions, [[EarthSong these songs]] contain a GreenAesop. Many music videos are subsequently set either in forests or on mountain ranges.

When you think of Nature Music, you'd expect soft, mellow guitars, or woodwinds, or organic music, or with actual sounds in nature like forests, water, and birds, with tracks that last an hour long, right? Think again.

Compare HeavyMithril (which nature metal often overlaps with due to fantasy media featuring a lot of nature themes).

Compare to HeavyMithril (which nature metal often overlaps with due to fantasy media featuring a lot of nature themes).

!!Examples:

[[AC: Black Metal]]

[[AC: Death Metal]]

[[AC: Folk Metal]]

[[AC: Heavy Metal]]

[[AC: Power Metal]]

[[AC: Progressive Metal]]

[[AC: Symphonic Metal]]

[[AC: Thrash Metal]]

!!Fictional Examples:

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Lungs transform to take in water. Gills, and scales, we swim, and swim MORE.''

* The black metal/dark ambient band Lustre is primarily instrumental, but nature is a primary motif in their cover art and what few lyrics the band has.
* As the name might suggest, San Francisco-based avant-garde black metal band Botanist is thematically based on the worship of nature, and most specifically, plants.

* Brazilian band Tuatha De Danann combined Nature Metal with HeavyMithril in the song "Tingaralatinga Dum - The Dwarves' Rebellion," which is about a group of dwarves complaining about the destruction of their forest home, and humans ceasing to believe in dwarves and fairies.
* Nature is a primary motif of the American folk-metal band Appalachian Winter, who combines melodic black metal, symphonic flourishes, and Appalachian folk music to weave paeans to the Appalachian mountains and its inhabitants.

* Music/SonataArctica
** "In My Eyes You're a Giant" is about the relationship between a wolf and his owner, told from the perspective of the wolf.
** Several of their songs are told from the perspective of wolves, such as "It Won't Fade" and "The Cage".

* Swiss band Excelsis recorded "In the Highlands" for their debut album ''Anduin The River''. It's a song in praise of the beauty of the Scottish highlands in summer and autumn.

* Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}:
** ''Endless Forms Most Beautiful'' was inspired by the writings of UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin and UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins on evolution and natural science, and includes several songs extolling the beauty of nature and ultimately [[GreenAesop advising mankind to care for it]].
** Several songs on ''Human. :II: Nature'', including [[DistinctDoubleAlbum the entirety of disc 2]], but special mention goes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZBpu67tbS0 "Procession"]], which is written from the perspective of the animal kingdom talking to humanity. The video also lists off a number of endangered species during the bridge of the song.
* Music/{{Wintersun}}: This is the theme of the ConceptAlbum "The Four Seasons".
* Music/{{Epica}}'s song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aia2N1OYkuU "Deep Water Horizon"]] was inspired by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused when the oil rig ''Deepwater Horizon'' caught fire and sank. The song is also more broadly about climate change caused by the consumption of fossil fuels.

* In the same vein, Music/ExodusBand's "Chemi-Kill" is about pollution caused by greedy businessmen and politicians.

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Nature-related metal songs are most common in sub-genres such as GothicMetal, FolkMetal, SymphonicMetal, and PowerMetal.

* Music/{{Nightwish}}:

* Music/{{Ariya}} has a song which translates to "Behold!" about environmentalism and pollution.

-->Hey, this world's a dying planet\\

crushed under debris

-->We call out to the beasts of the sea to join us. This night is yours, because one day we will all be with you in the blackened deep. One day, we will all go into the water.\\

Lungs transform to take in water. Gills, and scales, we swim, and swim MORE.

->''"Birds and butterflies, rivers and mountains she creates''
->''But you'll never know the next move she'll make''
->''You can try, but it is useless to ask why''
->''Cannot control her''
->''She goes her own way"''

->Hey, this world's a dying planet
->nothing matters, nothing's won
->I have come to seek revenge
->for all that you have done
->Hate and fear, eternal sadness
->nothing matters, no one cares
->I am here to stop the madness
->free you from despair
->crushed under debris

-->We call out to the beasts of the sea to join us. This night is yours, because one day we will all be with you in the blackened deep. One day, we will all go into the water.
-->Go into the water. Live. There. Die. There. Live. There. Die. There.
-->We reject our earthly fires. Gone are days of land empires.
-->Lungs transform to take in water. Gills, and scales, we swim, and swim MORE.

A lot of metal music features heavy nature-related, sometimes pagan, themes. Popular themes include about MotherNature, GaiasRevenge, {{Noble Wol|f}}ves, {{xenofiction}}, {{Nature Spirit}}s, and {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of nature. More often than not, though there are always exceptions, these songs contain a GreenAesop. Many music videos are subsequently set either in forests or on mountain ranges.

A lot of metal music features heavy nature-related, sometimes pagan, themes. Popular themes include about MotherEarth, GaiasRevenge, {{Noble Wol|f}}ves, {{xenofiction}}, {{Nature Spirit}}s, and {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of nature. More often than not, though there are always exceptions, these songs contain a GreenAesop. Many music videos are subsequently set either in forests or on mountain ranges.

* Music/{{Epica}}'s song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aia2N1OYkuU "Deep Water Horizon"]] was inspired by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused when the oil rig ''Deepwater Horizon'' caught fire and sank.

* Music/{{Nightwish}}'s album ''Endless Forms Most Beautiful'' was inspired by the writings of UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin on evolution and natural science, and includes several songs extolling the beauty of nature and ultimately [[GreenAesop advising mankind to care for it]].

* Music/DefeatedSanity's ''The Sanguinary Impetus'' is a loose ConceptAlbum about the brutality of the natural world that mostly focuses on predators, though it also touches on gruesome defense mechanisms ([[BeeAfraid "Insecta Incendium"]]) and also has a bit of GaiasLament ([[BearsAreBadNews "Propelled into Sacrilege").

Go into the water. Live. There. Die. There. Live. There. Die. There.
We reject our earthly fires. Gone are days of land empires.
Lungs transform to take in water. Gills, and scales, we swim, and swim MORE.