In defense of the use of the label ‘Celtic’ to any music, we will all agree that we have no recording of music of the Celts per se. That style of music we now regard as ‘Celtic’ is the indigenous music of people with Celtic origins. I appreciate the argument of influence. Certainly many of these accomplished metal musicians have taken from what is deemed ‘Celtic’ and brought it into their genre. If their music is then called ‘Celtic’ metal, so be it; however, when we take the word ‘Celtic’ and apply it to constructs of our own time, whether it be literature, art, crafts, clothing, etc., there is often more fiction that fact in the appellation.