Man, I love metal. Whenever I'm feeling down, metal reaches its leather spiked gauntlet adorned hand down and pulls me up, and then kicks me right in the chest. And I love it. In the past few days, I've been getting into the Finnish viking/folk/death metal scene. There are so many awesome amazing metal bands that come out of scandinavia in general, but most of the best bands I've been finding nowadays are out of Finland. Let's see...
It started with Children of Bodom, who is probably one of the most successful metal bands out of Finland. Then there's Norther, which was recommended to me because I liked Children of Bodom. They are also friends with Children of Bodom. Then, I found Ensiferum, which has a similar sound to Children of Bodom, but has much more flamboyant keyboards and a heavy "viking" theme to their music. They also dress up as vikings in their pictures and when they play live. Most Americans would laugh at that and call it stupid, but I think it's awesome. Then I found Kalmah, who are on the same label as Children of Bodom and Ensiferum, and are also totally awesome.
I recently discovered Korpiklaani, who are very... strange. I read somewhere that all of their songs are based off of traditional Finnish folk songs, and they are equipped with a violin player and an accordion player who drive the melodies in most of their songs. This led me on to find Finntroll, who have actually been around longer and said to influenced most of these bands up here. They are a very awesome band who blends metal with traditional Finnish polka (yeah, I know), and actually pulls it off to the point where it is awesome. I found a video (watch this) and I immediately loved them. They're like trolls IRL! Then, I somehow stumbled across Wintersun, who I loved immediately when I heard their first medley for download on their site. In one of their songs, I realized that they sound a LOT like Ensiferum. Then, I found out that they sound like Ensiferum because Wintersun was created and masterminded by the former lead singer of Ensiferum. He quit Ensiferum in 2004 and created Wintersun, and in the album they recorded, he plays every instrument except drums. He plays rhythm and lead guitar, bass guitar, and synths. And vocals, of course. I'm really impressed by this, after hearing how great the album sounds.
So yeah, I've been listening to a lot of stuff in a short amount of time, it's awesome. Like Erik said, metal is the one true form of music. No matter what musical trends come and go, metal will always be there, standing against the wall in the back of the room laughing at the silly scenesters.
Posted by Joe at January 19, 2006 04:00 PMWow, that's a lot of bands. Any of them have an electric harmonica player???? dang, i really need to teach myself, or be taught on that.
Posted by: JP at January 19, 2006 04:30 PMno electric harmonica players, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened sooner or later
Posted by: joe at January 19, 2006 06:18 PMYeah dude, Wintersun is great. I was listening to them at work today.
Gotta love that Finntroll video.
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