Medieval metal

[3] The group relies on period instruments that include the cister, hurdy-gurdy, biniou, buccina, davul, riq and cornetto curvo with the most prominent being the shawm and bagpipes.

Taking Skyclad as an influence,[8] Subway to Sally performs a blend of hard rock and heavy metal music "enriched with medieval melodies enmeshed in the songs via bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, lute, mandoline, shalm [sic], fiddle and flute" and combined with "romantic-symbolic German-speaking poetry" in their lyrics.

"[5] In the year 1994, a concert was organised in Berlin that featured a collaboration between a rock band known as Noah and members of the aforementioned medieval group Corvus Corax.

[11][12] They have since found chart success in Germany with their "medieval style stage garb and unashamed usage of such bizarre instruments as the Scottish bagpipes.

[14] Describing themselves as the "minstrels of today,"[5] the Bavarian outfit employs a musical arsenal that includes the bagpipes, hurdy gurdy, shawm, violin and mandolin.

[14][15] Other groups that also emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s included Letzte Instanz,[16] Morgenstern,[17] Saltatio Mortis and Schattentantz.

Like its parent genre, medieval rock features the same typical instruments found in heavy metal music: guitars, bass, drums and vocalist.

Woodwind instruments like the bagpipes, flutes and shawm can be found in the music of Corvus Corax, Tanzwut,[3] In Extremo,[13] Schandmaul,[15] Morgernstern,[17] Schattentantz[18] and Subway to Sally while string instruments like the violin, lute, hurdy-gurdy, cello, harp and mandolin are employed by Subway to Sally,[9] In Extremo,[13] Schandmaul,[15] Morgenstern,[17] and Schattentantz.