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New Video from Finntroll!
Jan. 17th, 2010 12:10 pmSo Ladies, Gents, and all else,
Finntroll, the band who made Pagan Metal as popular as it is today, released a video for their new single Solsagan, included below.
Solsagan comes off their forthcoming album Nifelvind, the first in their new record deal with Century Media Records (Included in their ranks are Lacuna Coil, Dark Tranquility and many others)
As anyone who has heard me advocate for Steampunk Metal knows that the closest we've come so far is European Pagan Metal (With a heeping helping of occasional industrial metal as well). I'll have more on the roots of "Pagan Metal," and why one would consider it or various elements of it Steampunk later, but for now I will say that Finntroll first made this genre popular introducing Accordians and a Polka-vibe to death/black metal that main-stream listeners weren't prepared for.
As far as the song and video are concerned, Finntroll had moved only slightly further from their death metal roots on later albums like Nattfödd to find that sweet-spot between Finnish Folksy Polka and Death Metal but this song brings their sound right back to perspective. They've definitely taken what they've learned from experimenting and applied it to a more frenzied sound I missed from Jakten's Tid.
The video itself is simple, stunning, not terribly steampunk-oriented but a very folk style scene from a zombie movie.
I'm looking forward to the album, which comes out in Europe Feb. 22nd and in the US March 9th.
Visit their official site: www.finntroll.net/
Visit their myspace at: www.myspace.com/officialfinntroll
Finntroll, the band who made Pagan Metal as popular as it is today, released a video for their new single Solsagan, included below.
Solsagan comes off their forthcoming album Nifelvind, the first in their new record deal with Century Media Records (Included in their ranks are Lacuna Coil, Dark Tranquility and many others)
As anyone who has heard me advocate for Steampunk Metal knows that the closest we've come so far is European Pagan Metal (With a heeping helping of occasional industrial metal as well). I'll have more on the roots of "Pagan Metal," and why one would consider it or various elements of it Steampunk later, but for now I will say that Finntroll first made this genre popular introducing Accordians and a Polka-vibe to death/black metal that main-stream listeners weren't prepared for.
As far as the song and video are concerned, Finntroll had moved only slightly further from their death metal roots on later albums like Nattfödd to find that sweet-spot between Finnish Folksy Polka and Death Metal but this song brings their sound right back to perspective. They've definitely taken what they've learned from experimenting and applied it to a more frenzied sound I missed from Jakten's Tid.
The video itself is simple, stunning, not terribly steampunk-oriented but a very folk style scene from a zombie movie.
I'm looking forward to the album, which comes out in Europe Feb. 22nd and in the US March 9th.
Visit their official site: www.finntroll.net/
Visit their myspace at: www.myspace.com/officialfinntroll
