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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
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!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Acoustic Folk Death Metal?, July 2, 2003
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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finntroll does it again, July 28, 2005
before i got this, i had already purchased jakten's tid, midnatten's widunder and nattfodd, i loved them all, they are among my favorite albums of all time (jaktens tid my personal favorite). and now finally i purchased this one....
it truly is one of the weirdest albums ever, but also one of the greatest!! a mix of ambient and accoustic music (with a some celtic instruments thrown in) is truly a great recipe for a kick ass album, if you are a fan of accoustic/ambient music, or just finntroll music, i highly reccomend you picking this up!
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