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* GenreRoulette: Tengger Cavalry's discography is mostly heavy metal but includes a significant number of acoustic songs as well, and on live tours they sometimes opened with an acoustic set and then followed it with a metal set.
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In February 2018, the band announced they had broken up, only to re-form less than five months later. It was during this period of time that Nature G performed on the soundtrack for ''VideoGame/DoomEternal''. However, on 13 June 2019, it was announced that Nature G had been found dead in his home in New York at the age of 29, putting an abrupt end to the group's nine-year, eight-album run. The band's website has since gone offline; however, the former members maintain pages on Facebook and Bandcamp.
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In February 2018, the band announced they had broken up, only to re-form less than five months later. It was during this period of time that Nature G performed on the soundtrack for ''VideoGame/DoomEternal''. However, on 13 June 2019, it was announced that Nature G had been found dead in his home in New York at the age of 29, putting an abrupt end to the group's nine-year, eight-album run. The band's website has since gone offline; however, the former members maintain pages on Facebook and Bandcamp.
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* CoolMask: Nature G customarily performed live in a skull-like mask that entirely obscured his face.
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* CoolMask: Nature G customarily performed live in a skull-like mask that entirely obscured his face. This is a nod to the war masks sometimes worn by Mongol soldiers.
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[[caption-width-right:959:[-Back: Randy Tesser, Nature Ganganbaigal, Tamir Hargana\\
Front: Greg Baker, Patrick Reilly-]]]
[[https://www.facebook.com/tengger0cavalry/ Tengger Cavalry]] is a defunct Chinese-American "nomadic FolkMetal" band formerly based in New York City. The band started as the solo project of Nature Ganganbaigal ("Nature G" for short), an ethnic Mongol originally from Beijing, but expanded into a five-piece group beginning in 2015, performing their debut concert as a full group at Carnegie Hall.
Named for the [[Myth/AltaicMythology Turkic father-god Tengri]], the band mated traditional Mongolian folk instrumentation and throat-singing to galloping metal beats much in the vein of "The Trooper" by Music/IronMaiden, making them one of the pioneers of the "Mongolian metal" subgenre. Think of them as a MelodicDeathMetal version of Music/TheHU and you won't be far off--but note that they predated The HU by several years, and [[https://www.facebook.com/tengger0cavalry/posts/pfbid034wmYw7Mqx7RmaJ7KjKvxdefRpeXe2feSQvS6R1WnPfNCCYgYRi9hGZGPkG3wHRfgl apparently resent]] the newer Mongol rock band's higher profile.
In February 2018, the band announced they had broken up, only to re-form less than five months later. It was during this period of time that Nature G performed on the soundtrack for ''VideoGame/DoomEternal''. However, on 13 June 2019, it was announced that Nature G had been found dead in his home in New York at the age of 29, putting an abrupt end to the group's nine-year, eight-album run. The band's website has since gone offline; however, the former members maintain pages on Facebook and Bandcamp.
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[[folder:Lineup]]
'''Final:'''
* Nature G - rhythm guitar, throat singing, morin khuur; all instruments (2010–2019; died 2019)
* Patrick Reilly - lead guitar (2018–2019)
* Randy Tesser - drums (2018–2019)[15]
* Greg Baker - bass, double bass (2018–2019)
* Tamir Hargana - horsehead fiddle, Tuvan throat singing (2018-2019)
'''Former members:'''
* Yuri Liak - drums (2015)
* Alex Abayev - bass (2015–2018)
* Josh Schifris - drums (2016–2017)
* Zaki Ali - drums (2017–2018)
* Robert McLaughlin - igil, shanz, throat singing (2015)
* Borjigin Chineeleg - throat singing, topshur, jawharp (2017–2018)
* Uljmuren De - morin khuur (2016–2018)
* Phillip Newton - topshur, backing vocals (2017–2018)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Discography]]
* ''Blood Sacrifice Shaman'' (2010)
* ''Cavalry Folk'' (2011)
* ''Sunesu Cavalry'' (2012)
* ''Cavalry in Thousands'' (2016)
* ''Ancient Call'' (2016)
* ''Grassland Rock'' (acoustic remix, 2016)
* ''KAAN'' (EP, 2016)
* ''Mountain Side'' (EP, 2016)
* ''Soundtrack of the Cavalry'' (2016)
* ''Die on My Ride'' (2017)
* ''Cian Bi'' (2018)
* ''Northern Memory'' (2019)
[[/folder]]
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!! Tengger Cavalry's music provides examples of the following tropes:
* CoolMask: Nature G customarily performed live in a skull-like mask that entirely obscured his face.
* GenreMashup: They helped pioneer the "Mongolian metal" subgenre by using throat-singing in place of typical MelodicDeathMetal HarshVocals and adding traditional Mongolian folk instrumentation--particularly the morin khuur, a two-stringed cello-like instrument.
* NatureMetal: A lot of their songs but particularly "Hymn of the Earth" which describes the beauty of the Asian steppes in the summer.
--> ''Under the boundless welkin, green hills bathe in the sunlight\\
Breeze ripples. Cloud floats. Sheep jumps. Horse gallops\\
Every creature enjoys the wonder of life. Everywhere is the music of life\\
Warm sunlight pours down like summer rain, deeply sinking into soil\\
This is the hymn of the earth, the hymn of life''
* SopranoAndGravel: A lot of the songs mix in clean tenor vocals from Nature G in addition to throat-singing.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Throat-singing sounds a lot like a demonic choir, especially when the sound engineer adds reverb into the audio mix. Fittingly, Nature G performed on the soundtrack to ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' shortly before his death.
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[[caption-width-right:959:[-Back: Randy Tesser, Nature Ganganbaigal, Tamir Hargana\\
Front: Greg Baker, Patrick Reilly-]]]
[[https://www.facebook.com/tengger0cavalry/ Tengger Cavalry]] is a defunct Chinese-American "nomadic FolkMetal" band formerly based in New York City. The band started as the solo project of Nature Ganganbaigal ("Nature G" for short), an ethnic Mongol originally from Beijing, but expanded into a five-piece group beginning in 2015, performing their debut concert as a full group at Carnegie Hall.
Named for the [[Myth/AltaicMythology Turkic father-god Tengri]], the band mated traditional Mongolian folk instrumentation and throat-singing to galloping metal beats much in the vein of "The Trooper" by Music/IronMaiden, making them one of the pioneers of the "Mongolian metal" subgenre. Think of them as a MelodicDeathMetal version of Music/TheHU and you won't be far off--but note that they predated The HU by several years, and [[https://www.facebook.com/tengger0cavalry/posts/pfbid034wmYw7Mqx7RmaJ7KjKvxdefRpeXe2feSQvS6R1WnPfNCCYgYRi9hGZGPkG3wHRfgl apparently resent]] the newer Mongol rock band's higher profile.
In February 2018, the band announced they had broken up, only to re-form less than five months later. It was during this period of time that Nature G performed on the soundtrack for ''VideoGame/DoomEternal''. However, on 13 June 2019, it was announced that Nature G had been found dead in his home in New York at the age of 29, putting an abrupt end to the group's nine-year, eight-album run. The band's website has since gone offline; however, the former members maintain pages on Facebook and Bandcamp.
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[[folder:Lineup]]
'''Final:'''
* Nature G - rhythm guitar, throat singing, morin khuur; all instruments (2010–2019; died 2019)
* Patrick Reilly - lead guitar (2018–2019)
* Randy Tesser - drums (2018–2019)[15]
* Greg Baker - bass, double bass (2018–2019)
* Tamir Hargana - horsehead fiddle, Tuvan throat singing (2018-2019)
'''Former members:'''
* Yuri Liak - drums (2015)
* Alex Abayev - bass (2015–2018)
* Josh Schifris - drums (2016–2017)
* Zaki Ali - drums (2017–2018)
* Robert McLaughlin - igil, shanz, throat singing (2015)
* Borjigin Chineeleg - throat singing, topshur, jawharp (2017–2018)
* Uljmuren De - morin khuur (2016–2018)
* Phillip Newton - topshur, backing vocals (2017–2018)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Discography]]
* ''Blood Sacrifice Shaman'' (2010)
* ''Cavalry Folk'' (2011)
* ''Sunesu Cavalry'' (2012)
* ''Cavalry in Thousands'' (2016)
* ''Ancient Call'' (2016)
* ''Grassland Rock'' (acoustic remix, 2016)
* ''KAAN'' (EP, 2016)
* ''Mountain Side'' (EP, 2016)
* ''Soundtrack of the Cavalry'' (2016)
* ''Die on My Ride'' (2017)
* ''Cian Bi'' (2018)
* ''Northern Memory'' (2019)
[[/folder]]
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!! Tengger Cavalry's music provides examples of the following tropes:
* CoolMask: Nature G customarily performed live in a skull-like mask that entirely obscured his face.
* GenreMashup: They helped pioneer the "Mongolian metal" subgenre by using throat-singing in place of typical MelodicDeathMetal HarshVocals and adding traditional Mongolian folk instrumentation--particularly the morin khuur, a two-stringed cello-like instrument.
* NatureMetal: A lot of their songs but particularly "Hymn of the Earth" which describes the beauty of the Asian steppes in the summer.
--> ''Under the boundless welkin, green hills bathe in the sunlight\\
Breeze ripples. Cloud floats. Sheep jumps. Horse gallops\\
Every creature enjoys the wonder of life. Everywhere is the music of life\\
Warm sunlight pours down like summer rain, deeply sinking into soil\\
This is the hymn of the earth, the hymn of life''
* SopranoAndGravel: A lot of the songs mix in clean tenor vocals from Nature G in addition to throat-singing.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Throat-singing sounds a lot like a demonic choir, especially when the sound engineer adds reverb into the audio mix. Fittingly, Nature G performed on the soundtrack to ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' shortly before his death.
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