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Post by ShamanRunedancer on Jan 26, 2005 14:06:10 GMT 2
I want to know how you discovered the Folk/Viking/Pagan-Metal genre.Did you listen to bands from other genres before or was it your introduction into metal? And how did you come to know Korpiklaani?
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TomS
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Post by TomS on Jan 26, 2005 15:45:47 GMT 2
Great topic. I've known Korpiklaani (Shaman) for a few years now. I think for ... 4 years or so? I got in touch with Jonne through e-mail and have followed Shaman/Korpiklaani since. Jonne also gave me a rare demo-cd, from the pre-Korpiklaani age. It has "Wooden Pints" in a very cool, primitive version About the whole genre, that's an other story I'll tell some other time.
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Post by Helran on Jan 26, 2005 16:50:17 GMT 2
For Korpiklaani : I listened to webmetalradio! And I listened the last 15 seconds about "Wooden Pints". I had juste the time to write the name of group, and I download all of the "Spirit of the forest" (I know, Downloading is bad), but 3 hours after, I go buy the Album. Thus I discovered the Folk/Vinking/Pagan metal. And I listen to Finntroll, Ensefirum, Otyg.... And I want to discover another group
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Post by Turre on Jan 26, 2005 17:30:35 GMT 2
Thanks to Nordi !!! He made a topic in Einherjer forums or that is what I think, I'm not sure but anyway... The Wooden pints mp3 was able to download, I liked it, then I downloaded the album from the net and after that ordered it... Downloading albums is IMO very handy tool to first listen the band, after I've make up my mind I destroy those downloads...
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Post by Blackmoon on Jan 26, 2005 17:39:14 GMT 2
Well, my first touch to viking metal was when YLE broadcasted Tuska 2003 on TV. On the program Moonsorrow played Raunioilla and I liked it, so later on I bought Kivenkantaja. Back then it wasn't a huge "this is great music" -enlightement, I liked the album, but didn't think it was anything special. Half a year later I spotted on advertisement on music magazine Soundi about Korpiklaani's Spirit of the Forest. I decided to buy it. I loved the album and basicly that's what started it
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Post by illumina on Jan 26, 2005 19:21:16 GMT 2
Already loved metal, particularly the Finnish brand, and I like folk music too so it seemed the perfect combination. I saw Finntroll live in 2003, so when I found out about Spirit I bought it straight away.
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Post by Hittavainen on Jan 26, 2005 19:43:53 GMT 2
Half a year later I spotted on advertisement on music magazine Soundi about Korpiklaani's Spirit of the Forest. I decided to buy it. So, those advertisements aren't for nothing. I usually don't even see them, my brains just completely skip everything that says "buy me". Any Radio City listeners? "Näistä metsistä. Näistä juurista. Korpiklaani." ;D ;D
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Post by Blackmoon on Jan 26, 2005 20:02:02 GMT 2
So, those advertisements aren't for nothing. I usually don't even see them, my brains just completely skip everything that says "buy me". ;D I'm a slave of commercialism ;D
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Post by twilightheart on Jan 26, 2005 20:03:08 GMT 2
I've always been into folk metal bands, especially Thyrfing in those old times. (Don`t know how I "discovered" the genre... doesn`t it come naturally to love a certain kind of music!?). And into Korpiklaani I got because Zsuzsa (one of those girls being friends with Finntroll and Moonsorrow), she brought me to them and their music.
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Post by Scalawag on Jan 26, 2005 21:15:47 GMT 2
folk-metal: through metal mags and their CDs
Korpiklaani: the info in the NR catalogue seemed promising ;D and it was!
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Post by Hiding on Jan 27, 2005 0:36:40 GMT 2
I don't listen to others folk-metal bands, though I like metal in a whole. I love only Korpiklaani and I don't know why, but I just don't like other bands. First I heard Korpi last May, when my friend had given me Spirit Of The Forest-CD
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Post by Humppaporo on Jan 27, 2005 1:05:28 GMT 2
well, I got interested in metal throug Nightwish at first,, but a friend introduced me to Finntroll, and I thought that was great, still think so!! The same friend got 'spirit of the forest' from another friend and lend it to me. I loved it, especially the wooden pints song. Still listen to this album often, even today!
I agree with others who stated that Korpiklaani has it's own style, it is really recognizable. I like the yoik songs, and the fast ones the most.
Later we also bought Shamaniác and Idja, cannot get enough of this.
I'm very interested in viking/folk metal and have a rather big collection. But Korpiklaani, Finntroll, Moonsorrow and some others are favourite.
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Post by cranium on Jan 27, 2005 10:26:44 GMT 2
The story how I found Korpiklaani is quite funny A friend from slovenia just sent me one of their songs, and I thought "Hell! This is great!" and went to buy their CD. It's funny that a foreign friend introduces to me a finnish band.
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Post by Nordis on Jan 27, 2005 12:56:24 GMT 2
Thanks to Nordi !!! He made a topic in Einherjer forums or that is what I think, I'm not sure but anyway... Awww I think it was Turisas' interview at Imperiumi.net. Their name sounded pretty funny for a metal band and their costumes were cool, so I went to their pages and downloaded the samples, which ruled big time. In the interview they also mentioned Finntroll, but I didn't get into them until I heard some song from Jaktens Tid at radio. Then in some Jaktens tid review the reviewer called Finntroll "a Thyrfing parody band", and from there I found Thyrfing then. And so the story goes... Korpiklaani (Shaman) had a music video at Imperiumi back then, which I downloaded because the screenshots looked cool. That rocked a lot too np. Kikka - Huone 105
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Post by HerraHirwi on Jan 27, 2005 17:12:58 GMT 2
It started somewhat 6 years ago. I was playing in a thrash-metal band (we played Slayer/Sepultura like music in Finnish) with my schoolmates. And already in that time I listened different kind of music, so that I wouldn't stuck only in some music genre. I already had listened Hedningarna and Pohjannaula and Myllärit, but they didn't influence me in that time so much. I was young and angry kid. Then I found Shamaani Duo's (predecessor of Shaman) Hunka Lunkan album from Hämeenlinnas records-for-half price-happening. It caught me straight in to the ancient world and atmosphere. I've always written fantasy/mystical stories, which are based in my own world, and that CD gave me so much inspiration. I've interested from Finno-Ugric peoples from 10-years old, so the world was already familiar to me. Now it got deeper. Well, lot's of things happened. We quit with our thrash-metal band and I found myself studying in Orivesi Folk University. There I bumped to Shaman's website and right, when I had heard Odda Mailbmi, I ordered Idja -CD. Shaman's music influenced me so much, that I wanted to create same kind of music. Then Shamániac album came out and I ordered it immediately. I listened every folk/battle/viking/pagan - stuff I found, but I liked the Shaman the most. I introduced myself to Hittavainen and Frostheim, and we had same thoughts about founding a band, which would play folk-based music. We found a band called Sahtiwaari. But Sahtiwaari changed to beer-humour-Rölli troll wanck's - kind of music.. (you DON'T wanna know more) Then I moved to Estonia. I found a Poropetra (Poropetra's name in that time was Põder, which means elk in Estonian), and I started to make my own music. I got fascinated from Metsatöll's music and Skyforger's music, and I learned myself to play kantele. Metsatöll's Varulven, a friend of mine, learned me the basics of kantele playing and throat-singing. And in that time I got ready my first Poropetra - songs. Then I got back to Finland and now my favourite music has gone so far away from viking/battle/pagan/folk - metal music. I listen traditional Finnish, Estonian, and Karelian folk music. If metal, I listen 80's or 70's metal. (Iron Maiden, Manowar, Accept, Slayer, Sepultura, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple..) Why I don't like anymore folk-metal style music? It's because it more metal than folk. And some accordion here and there doesn't make the music to be more folk. And the language question has the same thing too. You learn to run with those feet you learned to walk. You sing the language, you learned the talk. When searching inspiration, I listen traditional folk music. When I get drunk and I wan't to have a good time with my friends, I listen metal. Anyways - as a full abstraction what I recently said - Poropetra's full album "Sinihirwi" we're working on, has gone very proggressive, and it has LOTS more metallic sounds and aggression, and yet more it's even more traditional than our first -MCD. The world changes and Holtiton with it too. And I liked fuckin' much the "Voice of the Wilderness" album. I'll go to write about the album in the other topic.. EDIT: I can list here my favourite albums from folk/pagan/viking metal - scene, from which I still truly like the most: METSATÖLL: HIIEKODA (that's the best album EVER for me.. Listen it!!), Moonsorrow: Kivenkantaja, Shaman: Idja (I nowadays like more Idja than Shamániac, few years ago it was opposite), Skyforger: Zobena Dziesma, Shaman: Shamániac, Metsatoll: Terast mis hangund meie hinge, Zalvarinis: Ugnelakis su Kulgrinda, Tharaphita: Raev, Skyforger: Kauja pie Saules, Skyforger: Latviesu strelnieki, Skyforger: Perkonkalve, Thyrfing: Vansinnesvisor, Korpiklaani: Voice of the Wilderness.
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