Drinkandenjoy
Wolfcub
Never gonna give up this simple style, let's drink and enjoy!
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Post by Drinkandenjoy on Nov 26, 2008 20:25:29 GMT 2
homelands.org/worlds/shaman.htmlA very interesting story for those who like the mythology aspect involved in korpiklaani. Also, I'd strongly advise to all of you to buy the two albums 'Idja' and 'Shamániac' by Shaman, the band that gave birth to korpiklaani. It's wonderful music, it gives a great feeling, more spiritual.
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Post by rouva on Nov 29, 2008 4:40:35 GMT 2
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Post by Helran on Nov 29, 2008 17:01:11 GMT 2
I foud this usefull siteweb for all metalman that we are ! The Metal Travel Guide !This siteweb lists a lot of metal place aroud the world (by country or city) and information about metal festival.
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Post by Nordis on Nov 29, 2008 22:19:08 GMT 2
Nope. Only www.myspace.com/korpiklaaniofficial is. To the topic: Can anyone point me a single italian metal band that would actually draw influences from italian folk music and italian heritage? This kinda got my blood boiling: www.myspace.com/kalevalafolkmetal . Not to mention the dozens of other "Kalevala" named bands from around the world... I find it rather disrespectful against your own culture and heritage if you just go blindly chasing other ones as if they were somehow superior to your own. Why is finnish and scandinavian folk metal so widely known and respected in the scene and why Eluveitie stands out from all of those tens, if not hundreds of bands that play really similiar stuff? Could it be because they all have set their base to their own heritage, not to someone elses? Does anybody know any good finnish metal bands with italian folklore themes, or can you point me a norwegian band with some good brazilian melodies and stories? Ofcourse the origin of the band doesn't matter if they really know the subject they are dealing with and treat it with good taste and respect (take Nile and their egyptian themes for example), but 98% of those bands just tend to base their knowledge about the other cultures on Wikipedia and their own romanticed imaginations. Name the band by finnish national epic, make the music with celtic folk melodies, play it while having a glass of wine in Parma ond POOF: we have a totally flavourless grey mash with a little bit of everything once again. It's like taking all of the foods you personally like and mixing them together. Better add all of your favourite drinks to the same bowl as well.
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Post by HerraHirwi on Nov 29, 2008 23:38:14 GMT 2
The only true band that can call themselves as Kalevala, was Finnish progressive rock band Kalevala (1969-1978). The famous musicians Remu Aaltonen and Albert Järvinen played in Kalevala before they formed the most famous Finnish rock'n'roll band Hurriganes. What comes to your own ethnic origin and influences drawn from there to your own music, I find it the only way to make ethnic rock, ethnic metal or ethnic whatsoever music. Metsatöll's Lauri said to me very well that thing, when I interviewed Metsatöll for Finnish metal magazine Miasma last spring. He said that if the mythology and influences are drawn from your own culture or your own culture is the main thing in your ethnic music, it always works fine. There are nowadays too many Italian bands playing Celtic music, Russian bands playing medieval German music, etc. For me I've always been more or less irritated when ie. many dozen new Finnish folk metal bands are trying be so goddamned Viking as they just can be. Viking culture is for Swedes, Norvegians, Danes, Islandic, Faeroese... In Finland we have our own culture and runo-singing heritage, which is almost very "virgin" as a stuff in many cases, since people seem to fall more and more doing some Celtic or Viking stuff. But of course for Korpiklaani that's a good thing, because there will then be more and more Finnish/Finno-Ugric mythology to be used as there isn't too many bands using the same mytholgy, heh.. Of course one can have influences from other cultures too. Ie. with my own band Poropetra we have Tuvinian throat-singing, blues etc. foreign and definitely non-Finnish stuff in our music, but the main core has and will always be in Finnish/Finno-Ugric mythology, kantele and Finnic runo-singing tradition - in our own culture so to say. And all the songs are in our native language, self-evidently.
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