the group got unfairly boycotted by extremist environmentalists who attacked the lead singer for honouring his cultural heritage, exposing themselves as closed-minded radicals.
Is the frontman of Týr a whaler? They're faroese, this has to be about whaling right? regardless this review set off my 
@corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net I don't think prog/folk metal is your jam but you might be interested
It's a shame, the album's really good
I might have to make :hitler-metal-detector:, where the partical detector's got Varg's face in the background or something
the indigenous faroese are norse ("vikings"), so they're pretty much the same sort of people as in iceland, denmark, sweden, norway. they're under the danish yoke, but they have some autonomy IIRC.
i'm sure they have a whaling past, everyone who lives on the coast in that region does, but fuck that. it's long past time to stop. they're not some ultra-deprived genocided natives who have this one last thing to their name, they're just extremely rural white europeans.
Thank you for the info.