For Ville Sorvali of Moonsorrow, the label "pagan metal" is preferred "because that describes the ideological points in the music, but doesn’t say anything about the music itself."
Ville Sorvali fra Moonsorrow foretrækker betegnelsen "pagan metal" ("hedensk metal") "fordi den beskriver de ideologiske pointer i musikken, men siger ikke noget om selve musikken."