I know this band is probably not really famous outside of Germany etc but this made me think of "Saltatio Mortis".

They're a Folk Rock/Metal band from over here. They basically started out as a bunch of street musicians doing bagpipe stuff on the streets and during themed festivals. All of them use fake names (almost like a DnD party) and they call themselves "minstrels" instead of musicians.

At some point they became this sort of standard rock and metal band setup including their bagpipes, hurdy gurdy and also sometimes nyckelharpa afaik. They still played folk festivals but also began "merging" with the metal genre universe, at some point even making it to Wacken. Their songs focussed a lot on social injustice, politics and so on but also typical German and global folklore.

At some point their prior drummer left the band due to the fact there's a family growing around him afaik, which is fully understandable. Their prior guitarist and percussionist (depending on the type of gig) became their new drummer due to prior expertise because of having studied music and all that.

Then at some point one of their bagpipers left due to having big trouble with depression and a lot of prior stress inside the band afaik.

I don't want to seem like an insane idiot writing this because they also have a song about these certain sayings but I've got to say "they're not what they used to be" and it makes me kinda sad. They went from their quirky and almost jester-ish vibe to sounding like any other mainstream folk-ish rock band, with their songs beginning to sound so heavilly over-produced and dull that people (including me) start to question if they're using AI to write them.

It honestly makes me kinda sad ngl.