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Post by vargaskinn on Apr 20, 2006 20:13:20 GMT 2
I was into rock and Led Zeppelin through late primary and high school.I discovered metal at the faculty,symphonic was the firs;Nightwish,Haggard,Therion...Korpiklaani was an accident.My sister downloaded a video,few months after we got a CD from a friend via trade and so it started.I listen to almost all genres but I've been mostly into folk/viking lately...
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Post by twilightheart on Apr 20, 2006 20:19:22 GMT 2
I think the first folk band I digged many years ago was Otyg (Swedish band, mixing folk with a bit of Metal), I still love that band today.
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Post by hk50cc on Apr 20, 2006 22:25:30 GMT 2
ano... once (it was a very beautiful day!!!) i get a zen café song ('herra heroiini') and i fell in love with finnish language ❤❤❤ then i was in a sanatorium... it was so boring there and after i heard all my cd x times, i borrow some from my room mates and there was a wuthering heights album... and i fell in love with folk metal ❤❤❤ so... ❤fall in love with finnish language❤ + ❤fall in love with folk metal❤ = ❤fall in love with korpiklaani❤
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Post by Tumi on Apr 21, 2006 11:09:19 GMT 2
hk50cc, I love your avatar!! ;D Anyway, Korpiklaani played at the Goudvishal in Arnhem (Holland) and I work there as a volunteer. Beacuse of that I can visit the concerts in the Goudvishal for free and I decided to go to Korpiklaani. I was really into Ensiferum at that time and expected somthing like that, but it was way different - and much better ;D So that's when I became a Korpiklaani-fan ;D
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Post by Mizuki on Apr 22, 2006 14:46:02 GMT 2
Well I knew the folk/viking metal, because a friend say me to listen a band called Korpiklaani... And well, today is my favorite genre and one of my favorites bands
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Post by Frekia on Apr 24, 2006 22:31:51 GMT 2
Weeeeell... I think it all started wenn I started at my scouts group. We sang folk songs from different countrys (although mostly German) and I loved the Irish and Scotish ones most. Some songs we sang were f.e. "Black And Tans", "Sea to Skye", "The Waggoners Lad" and stuff like that. (And I love them still ) At the same time I started to listen to my first metal band: Sentenced. Some years later I get to know Fiddler's Green. They don't play folk metal, but you could call it folk rock. Still I hadn't found an Irish or Scotish folk metal band. That changed when someone told me about Cruachan, and since I heard their music I was really interested in getting to know more bands of this genre. So when I was at Summerbreeze festival last year my friend told me about a finnish folk metal band, called Korpiklaani and that I should watch their show. It was great. but they really, really made me a fan when the played in Marburg. Hell, that was a long story.
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Post by hk50cc on Apr 24, 2006 22:55:07 GMT 2
Hell, that was a long story. but a nice one
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Post by Runenmeisterin on Apr 24, 2006 22:59:56 GMT 2
Let's see if my one is shorter but it fits so well because we have some corner points in common ...
I guess I always liked folk music but it only became interesting when I was 17/18-ish and discovered Amorphis, whose Tales ... album had just come out (yes, I am that old *g*). I think I started listening to metal when I was 12 (or 14 - depending on which bands you call metal or not). I liked the mix of music so much and these instruments just did it for me. That was pretty much the beginning and ever since I have been looking for the innovative mix of metal and folk or purer versions of both.
I stumbled across Korpiklaani by mere accident. I had already been into Amorphis, Finntroll, Turisas, Tenhi and many other bands. I was in the US for a year and basically lived with these crazy underground metal heads in Wisconsin. I brought them Turisas and they introduced Korpiklaani to me. When I came back to Germany I got the CDs right away, loved it even more, saw the band on Summer Breeze 2005, got infected ... saw them at the Ragnarök festival and in Marburg, AND NOW I AM LOST!
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Post by dragona on Apr 25, 2006 11:52:24 GMT 2
Georg from Turisas told me about Korpiklaani, and first folk metal band that i heard was Finntroll
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Post by greenhorn on Apr 30, 2006 16:45:35 GMT 2
Here it also began with Finntroll. But by the time there came more and more folk and then one day, On a nice session there i heard korpiklaani, and i liked it xD
Sounds like a real dream story ;D
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Post by Frekia on Apr 30, 2006 16:55:38 GMT 2
Hell, that was a long story. but a nice one Hehe, thanks.
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Post by chlamys on Oct 30, 2006 16:27:44 GMT 2
It's not much time that I know folk metal, but I used to listen to it occasionally until... This summer I was at a Festival where Korpiklaani played and I was hit very much by their show! obviously in a positive manner. They've been too involving!!! Great! And I was that nuisance-girl who, seeing them after the show among the public, asked them to take a picture with them (unfortunately it came out unfocused ) and, as if it wasn't enough, some minutes later disturbed them again with a cd of theirs to sign... I hope not to have bored them too much
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Post by wolferin on Oct 31, 2006 14:30:29 GMT 2
Well, I've been listening heavy metal and hard rock for many years. In the last years I got very much involved with Finnish groups, I like some of them very much. And in this connection I came to Korpiklaani !!!! . I like when there are songs in the native language, not only in English. I think in the native language the performer sounds richer and more sincere. English puts some limits - to the extent of one's skills in it or to the ability of writing lyrics in foreign language. I like folk-metal from different countries.
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Post by mutti on Nov 3, 2006 0:21:19 GMT 2
My favourite genres have always been metal, punk and folk. In the past 10/15 years or so here in the UK, there aren't many bands trying to mix and combine genres or introduce new elements and instruments into what they were doing, and I find that very stifling and uninspiring. So once I got online, in 1999 maybe, it was easier to explore music from other countries and cultures. I started listening to a lot of German music like In Extremo and Tanzwut and people I came into contact with on forums often mentioned other bands and I'd look them up - some were great, some not so. I was completely blown away when I heard Aldhissla for the first time - I quickly bought the first two Finntroll albums and started to look for similar, and discovered Shamen and Korpiklaani, so here I am! I think Korpiklaani is actually very different from Finntroll - almost more punky than metal - but love them just as much.
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Post by wailey on Nov 9, 2006 14:15:15 GMT 2
My first post on this forum so HELL'o everyone! How did I get envolved with folk/vikingmetal? Well... I was searching for a band about a year ago and I heard that a local folk/fantasymetal band Kivimetsän Druidi was looking for a drummer. At first, I wasn't very interested (for I tend to enjoy deathmetal) but I really wanted to blastbeat my drumset in a band! Well, I got chosen to be the new drummer and here I am My first Korpiklaani-encounter was in last spring when Kivimetsän Druidi was supporting Korpiklaani in Turku. Now'a'days I also listen to Turisas and stuff like that but I still find my peace listening to deathmetal ..
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