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Finntroll

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 17, 2003)
• Original Release Date: May 30, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Spinefarm
• ASIN: B00009QRCB
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #126,596 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

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

By	Irony Value "Irony Value" (BAYOU) - See all my reviews

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!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Mark Allen Davis (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHAT'S THAT SOUND ?, July 29, 2004

By	Mr. Graves - See all my reviews

TRUELY TROLLISH I BELIEVE THAT CENTURY MEDIA THAT'S A RECORD LABLE HAS GOT THIS CD FOR A THIRD OF THE PRICE SORRY AMAZON. IT'S ONLY A HALF AN HOUR LONG. 30$ IS TOO MUCH.