{{short description|Subgenre of rock music}} {{Infobox music genre | name = Viking rock | other_names = Vikingarock | stylistic_origins = *Nordic folk music *rockabilly *Oi! *street punk *melodic hardcore *hard rock *progressive rock | cultural_origins = Sweden | instruments = | derivatives = | subgenrelist = | subgenres = | fusiongenres = | regional_scenes = | local_scenes = | other_topics = Viking metal, Viking revival, white supremacy }}
'''Viking rock''' ({{lang|sv|Vikingarock}}) is a rock music genre that takes much of its themes from 19th-century Viking romanticism,<ref name=granslandet>{{Cite web |url=http://www.levandehistoria.se/node/2433 |title=Musik i gränslandet|publisher=Expo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824025223/http://www.levandehistoria.se/node/2433|archive-date=August 24, 2010}}</ref> mixing it with elements of rockabilly, Oi! or street punk, and folk music.<ref name=granslandet/> Frequent themes occurring in Viking rock include vikings and Norse mythology, as well as Sweden's King Karl XII and the Caroleans.
Viking rock is often linked to white supremacy.<ref name=vittoljud>{{Cite web |url=http://vittoljud.levandehistoria.se/art_vitmakt/28_vitmakt_1.html |title=Vitt oljud: Vikingarock |access-date=2008-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081027012627/http://vittoljud.levandehistoria.se/art_vitmakt/28_vitmakt_1.html |archive-date=2008-10-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Many make no distinction between Viking rock and white power music,<ref name=vittoljud/><ref name=brå>{{cite web |title=Ökad utgivning av Vit maktmusik under 1990-talet |url=http://www.bra.se/extra/news/?module_instance=3&id=138 |publisher=BRÅ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615032927/http://www.bra.se/extra/news/?module_instance=3&id=138 |archivedate=June 15, 2009}}</ref> and there is debate whether Viking rock is essentially racist.<ref name=granslandet/><ref>Teitelbaum, Benjamin (2013). “Come Hear Our Merry Song:” Shifts in the Sound of Contemporary Swedish Radical Nationalism. Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University.</ref> Some viking rock bands, however, disapprove of racism such as the Swedish band Hel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/mondo-avbokar-vikingarock-efter-protester/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316140553/http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/mondo-avbokar-vikingarock-efter-protester/|archive-date=2016-03-16|title=Mondo avbokar vikingarock efter protester|url-status=live|date=16 May 2003}}</ref>
Kuggnäsfestivalen is a music festival that caters to viking rock.<ref name=granslandet/>
==List of notable Viking rock bands== *Glittertind *Hel<ref>{{cite news |title=Mondo avbokar vikingarock efter protester |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/mondo-avbokar-vikingarock-efter-protester/ |work=Dagens Nyheter |date=2003-05-16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316140553/http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/mondo-avbokar-vikingarock-efter-protester/ |archive-date=March 16, 2016}}</ref> *Ultima Thule<ref name=granslandet/><ref name="dn-konflikthelg">{{cite news |title=Nyköpingspolisen beredda på konflikthelg|url=https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/nykopingspolisen-beredda-pa-konflikthelg/ |work=Dagens Nyheter |date=2003-08-06 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123013825/http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/nykopingspolisen-beredda-pa-konflikthelg/ |archive-date=January 23, 2016}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.vikingarock.se Vikingarock.se] - Sweden's largest homepage about Viking rock
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