Every album by Amon Amarth is about Vikings and/or Norse mythology.
These are the first couple that pop into my head:
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards (mid 70's heavy, organ-laiden Prog Rock)
Rick Wakeman - The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (mid 70's synthy synthy synthy Prog)
Villagers of Ioannina City - Age of Aquarius (Paganistic Greek Folk Prog)
Aphrodite's Child - 666 (the book of Revelation - Prog Style)
Rush's early albums were themed. The first was a plain rock album, but after that were theme based. Their fantasy themed albums were
2112 was more sci-fi, and then after that they were more mixed, with albums containing fantasy or sci-fi, or just political or contemporary topics. But there's a lot of material to listen through.
Aside from their historical or political stuff, none of the fantasy is tied to any particular folklore; it's just fantasy stories. You won't find, like, songs about Merlin, or Achilles, or whatever
I'd absolutely put Hemispheres in there too. The first track of Hemispheres is a direct sequel to the last track of Farewell to Kings. Also Xanadu from Hemispheres is very much a fantasy song.
Yeah. The CD only has 4 tracks, though ;-)
Clocking in at 37 minutes. Don’t judge prog by the number of tracks… pretty typical album runtime for anything released in the vinyl era.
Also, it’s fantastic.
I thought the smiley face was sufficient to express that I was joking.
Oops ;-)
S'allright. Use of old-time smilies of fading away, and with it, our recognition of them when they pop up.
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