Norwegian styles of music

subgenre of heavy metal music

music genre that blends heavy metal with classical music

subgenre of heavy metal

subgenre of metal music

thumb|Aarne G. from Utsjoki performs a yoik (1984).

subgenre of black metal

genre of heavy metal music that is stylistically close to the sound of black metal, but whose artists are either directly against the Satanism prevalent in black metal, or promote Christianity in their lyrics and imagery

thumb|Example of kulning

Vispop is a music genre which originated from and became popular in the Scandinavian countries in the mid-1960s. The term is derived from the word visa which denotes traditional and popular folk song of Sweden. In Norway the term applied to this type of accompanied singing is visesang. During the 1970s this was among the most popular genres of music in Scandinavia.