* Celtic metal

Additional evidence is given by one inscription on a metal plaque from Steinsel-Rëlent in Luxembourg, in the territory of the Celtic Treveri.

In June 2012, two metal detectorists announced that they had uncovered what could be Europe's largest hoard of Iron Age Celtic coins, and which may be worth up to £ 10 M, after a search spanning 30 years.

The Gospels were illustrated in an insular style containing a fusion of Celtic, Germanic and Roman elements ; they were probably originally covered with a fine metal case made by a hermit called Billfrith.

* Pagan ( album ), the 6th album by Celtic metal band Cruachan

* Celtic Frost a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland

Influenced at a young age by heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden, Slayer, Death, Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost, King Diamond, Morbid Angel, and most importantly Judas Priest.

Early in the 1st century BCE, they adopted the Greek and Roman practice of issuing coinage, adapting the widely imitated gold staters of Philip II of Macedon, in the characteristic Celtic coin metal alloy called billion.

On their 2006 album The Morrigan's Call, the Irish Celtic metal band Cruachan featured a song " Ungoliant " as well as one named after Shelob.

Celtic metal is a subgenre of folk metal that developed in the 1990s in Ireland.

As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal music and Celtic music.

The origins of Celtic metal can be traced to the earliest known exponent of folk metal, the English band Skyclad.

With a specific focus on Celtic music and the use of Celtic mythology in their lyrics, Cruachan's style of folk metal is known today as Celtic metal.

" Since then a few other bands from Ireland have emerged to perform Celtic metal including Geasa and Mael Mórdha.

Since the turn of the millennium, the genre has expanded and many bands beyond the shores of Ireland can be found today performing Celtic metal.

Despite the Irish origins of the genre, Celtic metal is not known to be popular in Ireland.

Similar to its parent genre of folk metal, the music of Celtic metal is a diverse collection with bands pursuing different subgenres of heavy metal music.

A Celtic music band

The band were also strongly influenced by the music of the British, Celtic and American folk revivals.

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

The Pogues are a Celtic punk band from London, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan.

Barry Privett of the American Celtic rock band Carbon Leaf performs several songs using the tin whistle.

Among these early groups, the Irish band Cruachan and the German band Subway to Sally each spearheaded a different regional variation that over time became known as Celtic metal and medieval metal respectively.

A. A. Nemtheanga fronts the Irish Celtic black metal act Primordial ( band ) | Primordial.

With nine members in their lineup, including a violinist and flutist, the band has evolved over the years into a combination of power metal and Celtic flavored folk metal.

* French Celtic black metal band Aes Dana's 2001 full-length album is called La Chasse Sauvage (" The Wild Hunt "), and the first track carries the same name.

O ' Mahony, who was a Celtic scholar, named his organization after the Fianna, the legendary band of Irish warriors led by Fionn mac Cumhaill ..

The song has more recently been recorded by Irish-American Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys.

* Hicksville ( album ), by the band Celtic Cross

* Rua ( band ), a New Zealand Celtic fusion band

Iona is the name of a progressive Celtic rock band from the United Kingdom, which was formed in the late 1980s by lead vocalist Joanne Hogg and multi-instrumentalists David Fitzgerald and Dave Bainbridge.

By the time Iona released their first self-titled album in 1990, drummer Terl Bryant, bassist Nick Beggs ( formerly the bassist of Kajagoogoo ), Fiona Davidson on Celtic harp, Peter Whitfield on strings, Troy Donockley on Uillean pipes and percussionist Frank Van Essen had joined the band.

Máire Brennan, lead singer of Celtic / New Age band Clannad, was brought in to help Joanne with the Gaelic pronunciation, and she sang backup vocals.

Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys got its start in the city's Wollaston neighborhood in 1996.

In Celtic mythology there is a legend of a cave called " Cruachan ," also known as " Ireland's gate to Hell ," a legendary and ancient cave from which according to legend strange creatures would emerge in ancient times and be seen on the surface of the earth.

Cruachan combination of Celtic music and heavy metal is known today as Celtic metal.

Celtic music can be found among such Irish groups as Cruachan and Waylander as well as bands outside Ireland like Eluveitie ( although Switzerland can be considered a country with a Celtic history ), and Tuatha de Danann ( from Brazil, a country that has no cultural ties with the Celts whatsoever, despite the similarity of the country's name to an island in Irish myth ).

The tin whistle and flute can be found in such Celtic metal bands as Cruachan, Waylander and Eluveitie.

In the same decade, Ireland also contributed a subgenre of folk metal known as Celtic metal with exponents of the genre including Cruachan, Primordial, Geasa, and Waylander.

* The Middle Kingdom ( album ), a 2000 album by Celtic metal band Cruachan

Pagan is an album by Celtic metal band Cruachan released in 2004.

This directly inspired the Dublin based band Cruachan to use traditional Irish music in creating the Celtic metal subgenre.

This inspired the Dublin based band Cruachan to mix traditional Irish music with black metal and to create the sub-genre of Celtic metal.

Folk-Lore was released in 2002 by Celtic metal band Cruachan.

* Cruachan ( band ), an Irish Celtic metal band

Cruachan may be one of the most important and best preserved Celtic Royal Sites in Europe, and Tulsk is the setting for the interpretative centre which explores this complex and mysterious landscape.

Indeed, the area around Tulsk, within the complex of sites known as Cruachan / Rathcroghan, has long association with Hell, due to the Christian Monks fearful notations on a known entrance to the Celtic ' Otherworld ', through the Cave at Cruachan-Oweynagat (, the Cave of the Cats ).

The Middle Kingdom is an album released in 2000 by Celtic metal band Cruachan.