Style recipe for Suno v5

Neofolk

Neofolk from the 1990s: acoustic guitar, twelve string guitar, hurdy gurdy, theatrical and menacing in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

Neofolk came out of the British post-punk and industrial underground of the 1980s, when Death In June, Current 93 and Sol Invictus set acoustic instruments against the gloom of dark wave and dark ambient. Its forerunners were 1960s acts who had turned to old folk song, among them Leonard Cohen and Comus, plus Nico's later solo work. Atmosphere beats verse and chorus, vocals slide between singing and spoken word, and lyrics dig into paganism, nature, runes and European myth and history. The first name was apocalyptic folk, and it was never meant as a genre tag: David Tibet of Current 93 used it to say his band was made by apocalyptic people. Tibet calls himself a Christian, yet during a stretch of heavy amphetamine and LSD use in the 1980s he revered the children's character Noddy as a Gnostic deity. Swans took the sound into early 1990s albums such as Love of Life (1992), and by the late 1990s former black metal bands Empyrium and Haggard had followed. Borrowed fascist imagery has tied the scene to the far right, which fans contest. In Russia, Moscow's Neutral and Kaliningrad's Romowe Rikoito laid down the genre's canon in the mid-1990s.

The recipe

Neofolk, 1990s, theatrical, menacing, an…

38 tags, 665 characters, 70–110 BPM — that's the full anatomy of this recipe, born out of the 1990s.

Similar styles

• Apocalyptic Folk1990s · 60–90 BPM
• Nordic Neofolk2010s · 65–100 BPM
• Dark Folk2000s · 60–95 BPM
• Galician Folk1990s · 95–140 BPM
• Faroese Folk2000s · 70–115 BPM
• Polish Folk1990s · 100–150 BPM
• Ukrainian Folk1990s · 85–140 BPM
• Norwegian Folk1990s · 80–130 BPM