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Also known as tavernwave

Bardcore or tavernwave is a musical microgenre that became popular in 2020, consisting of medieval-inspired remakes of popular songs.

Key facts

Music genre.name
Bardcore
Music genre.image
Bardcore Christmas Music - Copyright Free Music.opus
Music genre.caption
A collection of bardcore remixes of Christmas music
Music genre.etymology
Bard, hardcore music
Music genre.stylistic_origins
Medieval folk rock neo-medieval music pop EDM power metal
Music genre.cultural_origins
Late-2010s, Internet
Music genre.instruments
Audio editing software Lute Medieval instruments
Music genre.fusiongenres
Piratewave

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Bardcore or tavernwave is a musical microgenre that became popular in 2020, consisting of medieval-inspired remakes of popular songs.

== History == In December 2017, before the term bardcore was widely known, a medieval version of "Toxicity" by System of a Down was published on YouTube by Algal the Bard. By 2020, it had achieved a few million views.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bardcore” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.