Fejd is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 Neofolk

Neofolk

Neofolk is a form of folk music-inspired experimental music that emerged from post-industrial music circles. Neofolk can either be solely acoustic folk music or a blend of acoustic folk instrumentation aided by varieties of accompanying sounds such as pianos, strings and elements of industrial...

 band that started in 2001. While generally considered to be part of the folk metal

Folk metal

Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music...

 scene, their music is significantly more folk-sounding (and less metal-sounding) than most other folk metal bands, making them somewhat difficult to classify.

History

Between 2002 and 2006 they released four EPs. In 2008 they were signed by Napalm Records

Napalm Records

Napalm Records is an Austrian independent record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock.Originally, Napalm Records focused mainly on black metal acts such as Abigor and Summoning and folk metal bands such as Falkenbach and Vintersorg....

, and they released their first full length album, Storm, in 2009. 2010 saw the release of their second album, Eifur.

Personnel

Patrik Rimmerfors - vocals, bouzouki

Bouzouki

The bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...

, säckpipa, jaw harp, hurdy-gurdy, cow antler, recorder

Recorder

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...

, willow-pipe

Niklas Rimmerfors - nyckelharpa

Nyckelharpa

A nyckelharpa , sometimes called a keyed fiddle, is a traditional Swedish musical instrument. It is a string instrument or chordophone. Its keys are attached to tangents which, when a key is depressed, serve as frets to change the pitch of the string.The nyckelharpa is similar in appearance to a...

, vocals

Lennart Specht - keyboards

Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

Thomas Antonsson - bass

Esko Salow - drums

Discography

I En Tid Som Var - Demo (2002)

Huldran - Demo (2004)

Eld - EP (2006)

Storm - Full-length (2009)

Eifur - Full-length (2010)