MYNH: American hears Polynesian Metal for First Time! Shepherds Reign - Ala Mai (Awaken)! 

as a folk metal fan I LOVE this band! Honestly folk metal from anywhere in the world is a treasure trove

Coolest reaction!! It is in the Samoan language by the way 😍🇼🇸🤘🏽

2:20 Well ... if you want more folk metal from other places Here's my list of folk metal bands that spans all inhabited continents Diablo Huma- Equador Hiddenland- Equador Cemican- Mexico MiracleOfSound-Ireland (look up his songs Sirona, Grainn Mahoil and Tale of Cu Chullain) Alestorm- Scotland (it's pirate metal but some people count it?) Tyr- Faroe Islands Percival- Poland/ Pan slavic Arkona-Russia Drygva- Belarus Rune-Serbia Mägo de Oz-Spain Dirty Shirt- Romania Po' Metra Crijeva- Croatia (the band name means half a meter of guts .. .also they sing in my language/dialect [in the Balkans not even linguistics is sane XD] ) Manntra-Croatia Brkovi- Croatia (more of a punk band but look up their song "Ovce" a MAGICAL blend of rap,metal a, punk and folk influences) Metaklapa- Croatia (This one is weird ... they do covers of metal songs in traditional Dalmatian singing style .. for example they did Aces high) Dubioza Kolektiv- Bosnia & Hertzegovina (DO NOTE! This band is called a band with no genre for a reason! they varry from Regge R&B To Folk-Metal-Punk ... compare their "Space song" and "No escape from Balkans") Arka'n Asrafokor- TOGO (also worth of note is Skinflint from Botswana but they don't ussualy have much folk elements) Al-Namrood- Saudi Arabia (They played metal when it was punishable by death... IT DON'T GET MORE HARDCORE THAN THAT!) Hassak- Kazakhstan (it's an ethno band but listen to their song Amanat and tell me it don't belong on a metal concert) The Hu- Mongolia Uuhai- Mongolia Nine Treasures - China/Inner Mongolia DreamSpirit- China Wagakki band- Japan Nini music- Taiwan BLOODYWOOD- India Alien weaponry- New Zealand Shepherds Reign- New Zealand/Samoa

2:20 You seem like someone who'd be interested in Farya Faraji 's channel. He is a extremely talented and is trying to make historically inspired music historically and regionally accurate .... basically to take what hollywood made roman or middle eastern music to be and throw it in the trash www.youtube.com/@faryafaraji And this is his cover of a serbian folk song ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yelJRD3-fIU.html

Samoan language bro