Moonsorrow

   
Artist: Moonsorrow

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:


   
 Verisaekeet (Promo)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 5


   
 Veriaskeet

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 5


   
 Suden Uni

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8


   
 Kivenkantaja

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 6


   
 Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 6


   
 Tama Ikuinen Talvi

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 5


   
 Metsa

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 3

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Formed in 1995 by cousins Henri (guitar/keyboards/vocals) and Ville Sorvali (bass/vocals), Finland's Moonsorrow traced a route similar to that blazed by their countrymen Amorphis by combining dying and black metal with heavy doses of air and Finnish family traditions; but theirs was arguably an fifty-fifty more challenging and epical coming. A numeral of demos, including 1996's "Thorns of Ice," 1997's "Metsä" (meaning "Woodland"), and 1999's "Tämä Ikuinen Talvi" ("This Eternal Winter") laid the groundwork for their first-class honours degree album, Suden Uni ("A Wolf's Dream"), which also featured drummer Marko Tarvonen. New members Mitja Harvilahti (guitar) and Lord Eurén (live keyboards) were shortly added to the card, and, after reissuing their endorsement demo, Tämä Ikuinen Talvi, on CD in 2001, Moonsorrow capped cancelled the year with some other full-length entitled Voimasta Ja Kunniasta ("Of Strength and Honour") -- their first for new label Spikefarm. Their best cause yet, the album coagulated the group's standing as upside purveyors of Scandinavian fantasy metal and put the stage for another highly regarded piece in the configuration of 2003's acclaimed Kivenkantaja ("Stonebearer"), as well as Spikefarm's reprint of their Suden Uni debut. Of note, since 1999 Henri Sorvali has also doubled as the keyboard histrion for lad Finnish phantasy freaks (try out saying that real fast) Finntroll.