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Finntroll | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 17, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Spinefarm
• ASIN: B00009QRCB
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #330,598 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Suohengen Sija

2. Asfågelns Död

3. Försvinn du Som Lyser

4. Veripuu

5. Under Varje Rot Och Sten

6. När Allt Blir Is

7. Den Sista Runans Dans

8. Rov

9. Madon Laulu

10. Svart Djup

11. Avgrunden Öppnas

Editorial Reviews

2003 album for the 'trollish metal' act. 11 tracks. Spikefarm.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Acoustic Folk Death Metal?, July 2, 2003

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Mark Allen Davis (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Visor Om Slutet (Audio CD)

Likely nobody expected what they got when they first encountered Finntroll, and you shouldn't be expecting what you get with this cd either (their third release). This is a 100% acoustic cd from what you might normally call a death metal band (has any other 'death metal' band done such a thing?).

Of course, if you're familiar with Finntroll, you'll realize that this is less of a stretch than with most metal acts, since they employ elements of humpa polka, folk music, Sammi joik vocals, and other odd folk bits into their normal metal assault. Still, it's not as if they're playing it safe here... many metal fans probably won't be interested in a strictly accoustic cd, but they aren't likely to attract a lot of folk music fans with their grunting "Trollish Hoedown" music. But if you like Finntroll as much as I do, you can easily envision this as being the sound of the trolls in a more mellow mood.

You get some nice accoustic tunes, some trollish grunting polka, more sammi-joik vocals, and just generally things that nobody was expecting. It's not as weirdly ear-popping as the folk death polka metal whatever-you-call-it that you normally get from them, but it's definitely weird.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soundtrack to Ingmar Bergman & Jim Henson's lost masterpiece, July 14, 2003

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Irony Value "Irony Value" (BAYOU) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Visor Om Slutet (Audio CD)

Not really quite sure what to say about this except that it's absolutely delightful-it's pretty critic-proof. If you ever find yourself walking home from a party through the woods completely messed up, this would be the thing to have in the discman. By turns sounding like Emmet Otter's Jugband and Mortiis, it offers a really delightful mix of dark soundscape and truly weird acoustic hoedown-almost as if it were the soundtrack to a documentary about the lives of trolls, with ethnographic samples of their folk music. Either that or it's the soundtrack to the lost collaboration between Ingmar Bergman and Jim Henson.

Either way, it's a truly creepy, but wondrous experience. My copy came with a patch and a sticker. A warning if this is your first exposure to this band: I am told their other material is much more metal and much more ...polka... than this release. But I bet it's a blast.

I especially enjoy the trolls eating on track 8. GREAT STUFF!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars really creepy..., July 1, 2003

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mr_moth (Mill Creek, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visor Om Slutet (Audio CD)

This is an excellent CD. Finntroll has moved on from death metal to more atmospheric stuff --- it's like those relaxation cds with nature sounds, only instead of being soothing it just freaks you out, like if it was recorded in woods, at night, and there were trolls about. It's awesome! Many different instruments are used in addition to the typical guitars, base, synthesizer and drums; including recorder, tin flute, kazoo, mouth harp, iron horn, bullroarer, minced meat, saw, triangle, pieces of steel, egg shakers, tambourine, bodhran, wooden djembe, iron djembe, beer crates, floor, handclaps, and sticks. Very unique sound. It is not metal, and doesn't sound much like their last CD, Jaktens Tid. However, it is a great CD, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to try something completely different from anything else out there. Come to think of it, this would be hilarious to start playing at night on a camping trip without telling anyone, when you're out in the middle of nowhere...