Year : 2014
Style : Epic Folk Metal
Country : Finland
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 111 mb
Bio:
Ensiferum (Latin ēnsiferum, n adj., meaning "sword bearing") is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "melodic folk metal."Metal and folk melodies are played on lead guitar or keyboard, overlaying heavier heavy metal backing rhythms such as the classic gallop. The band also include fairly frequent use of acoustic guitars, usually at the beginnings of songs. The lyrical themes of their music most often relate to fantastical, archaic, or historic stories that can most often be grouped in with Nordic concepts, usually with heroic sentiment.Ensiferum was founded in 1995 by Markus Toivonen (guitar), Sauli Savolainen (bass) and Kimmo Miettinen (drums). For the band's name, they took the Latin neuter gender adjective ensiferum, which means "sword bearer". In the next year, Jari Mäenpää was taken into the band as singer and second guitar-player. In 1997, the first demo was released, containing three songs.The highly stylized logo of Ensiferum has appeared on all of their releases.In 1998, Sauli and Kimmo left the band and were replaced by Jukka-Pekka Miettinen (Kimmo's little brother, then 14 years old) and Oliver Fokin. In January 1999, a second demo was recorded, which although it did not produce a recording deal, boosted the band's confidence. In November 1999 a third demo, "Hero in a Dream", was recorded, which was successful in obtaining a record deal with Spinefarm Records. The logo that appears on all the bands releases was designed for the third demo by Tuomas Tahvanainen, who also designed the logos for the earlier demos.In 2000, the band went into the studio to work on their first album, Ensiferum, which was released in August 2001. In the same year, Meiju Enho joined them as a keyboard-player.
Album:
The EP opens with the extreme Warmetal, song of Finns Barathrum on your hard Infernal 1997. It is a piece pulled and aggressive, dark and full of double bass that will hopefully have awakened in the Finnish band a little 'passion for the sounds more violent. Second track is the famous Wratchild Iron Maiden, bonus track of the Japanese version of Unsung Heroes and previously in single Burning Leaves: very similar to the original, slightly accelerated with keyboards that play a fundamental role to customize as much as possible, a brick history of heavy metal. From a classic of the metal in a classic 70's hard rock: Lady In Black Uriah Heep is a beautiful song where text and music go hand in hand as it rarely happens. The version of Ensiferum, inserted into the tracklist of Victory Songs, pays homage to the original with the right amount of distorted guitars without distorting it. Last track is Breaking The Law Judas Priest, available in single Stone Cold Metal (2010). The sound dirty little tricks "epic" and the voice rough enrage the classic duo Tipton / Downling, a little pleasure to listen despite his age now important.Only real question that raises such work relates to the production of the first track, definitely recorded during the session of One Man Army: if the sixth album of Ensiferum will have the same power and no shortage of bass could really be a problem.
Line Up:
Petri Lindroos - Vocals (harsh), Guitars (2004-present) - See also: ex-Norther
Markus Toivonen - Guitars, Vocals (backing) (1995-present), Vocals (clean) (2004-present) - See also: ex-Soulstream, Speden Timantit
Sami Hinkka - Bass, Vocals (2004-present) - See also: October Falls, ex-Rapture
Janne Parviainen - Drums (2005-present) - See also: ex-Zwanziger, ex-Valvet, ex-Barathrum, ex-Waltari, ex-Sinergy
Emmi Silvennoinen - Keyboards, Vocals (backing) (2009-present) - See also: ex-Exsecratus
Tracklist:
01. Warmetal (Barathrum cover) 02:56
02. Wrathchild (Iron Maiden cover) 03:15
03. Lady in Black (Uriah Heep cover) 04:32
04. Breaking the Law (Judas Priest cover) 02:26
+ Video "In My Sword I Trust" (Official Video)
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