– January 14th, 2025 –
Paganfest MMXXV To Begin This Week
Watch/stream ENSIFERUM’s “The Howl” video HERE
Finnish folks steel icons ENSIFERUM as we speak unveil their official new video for “The Howl.” The observe is taken from the band’s Winter Storm full-length, out now on Steel Blade Data.
A lot of the brand new materials for Winter Storm emerged throughout the COVID lockdown, when ENSIFERUM‘s founding guitarist Markus Toivonen set himself the problem of discovering new methods to make music – finally composing each track besides the rousing and anthemic “Fatherland,” written by bassist Sami Hinkka. The addition of singer/organist Pekka Montin’s crystal-clear melodic excessive notes offered an incredible increase on 2020′s Thalassic. However on Winter Storm – a fantasy idea narrative penned by Hinkka – Montin’s super-strong voice finds its optimum place in ENSIFERUM‘s sound. Bringing to life such grandiose, heroic materials, the singer emerges as one of many biggest vocal discoveries of the last decade.
Photograph by Svetlana Goncharova
“The Howl” follows the band’s “Fatherland” video which instructed of a distant tribe who had been combating towards the Winter Storm Vigilantes.
“In ‘The Howl,’” Hinkka elaborates, “we leap forward a few years from the battle of ‘Fatherland.’ The younger boy grew up and have become a shaman. His persons are shedding the conflict and as his final deed he calls the Previous Spirits one final time. He sacrifices his mortal kind and turns into a spirit wolf and begins his journey to seek out The One to avenge for his folks’s destiny. This track may be very ENSIFERUM-ish to the core: catchy melodies, highly effective harsh vocals and singalong refrain. We’ve already performed it on a couple of gigs; it’s clearly an incredible dwell track!“
Watch ENSIFERUM‘s “The Howl” video HERE.
Watch ENSIFERUM‘s beforehand launched movies for “Winter Storm Vigilantes” HERE, “Lengthy Chilly Winter Of Sorrow And Strife” HERE, and “Fatherland” HERE.
ENSIFERUM‘s Winter Storm was produced by Janne Joutsenniemi, blended and mastered by Jens Bogren, and consists of visitor appearances by Lassi Logrén on Nyckelharpa and violin and Mikko Mustonen on orchestration in addition to Eleine’s Madeleine Liljestam who gives all vocals on “Scars In My Coronary heart.”
Preview and buy Winter Storm at: metalblade.com/ensiferum
Later this week, ENSIFERUM will start a month-long run of European dwell dates on this 12 months’s version of Paganfest alongside Alestorm, Týr, Heidevolk, and Elvenking. From there, the band will return to North America with their comrades in Korpiklaani for the Folkfest Of The North co-headlining tour. The trek begins on February twenty seventh in Boston, Massachusetts and runs via March thirtieth in Brooklyn, New York. Extra help shall be offered by Trollfest and Nini. Tickets for all exhibits are on sale now. See all confirmed dates under.
ENSIFERUM w/ Alestorm, Týr, Heidevolk, Elvenking:
1/08/2025 Grosse Freiheit – Hamburg, DE
1/09/2025 Oosterpoort – Groningen, NL
1/10/2025 Filharmonie – Stuttgart, DE
1/11/2025 Turbinenhalle – Oberhausen, DE
1/12/2025 Huxley’s – Berlin, DE
1/13/2025 Congress Centre – Roskilde, DK
1/14/2025 Aladin – Bremen, DE
1/16/2025 O2 Academy – Birmingham, UK
1/17/2025 O2 Academy – Edinburgh, UK
1/18/2025 O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester, UK
1/19/2025 O2 Academy Brixton – London, UK
1/20/2025 Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, BE
1/21/2025 Schlachthof – Wiesbaden, DE
1/22/2025 Zenith – Paris, FR
1/23/2025 Z7 Konzertfabrik – Pratteln, CH
1/24/2025 Eventzentrum – Geiselwind, DE
1/25/2025 Backstage – Munich, DE
1/26/2025 OM – Liege, BE
1/28/2025 Alcatraz – Milan, IT
1/29/2025 Transbordeur – Lyon, FR
1/30/2025 Salle Metropole – Lausanne, CH
1/31/2025 Halle Verrière – Meisenthal, FR
2/01/2025 Felsenkeller – Leipzig, DE
2/02/2025 013 Poppodium – Tilburg, NL
2/03/2025 Capitol – Hannover, DE
2/05/2025 Studio – Krakow, PL
2/06/2025 Progresja – Warsaw, PL
2/07/2025 Hala Datart – Zlín, CZ
2/08/2025 Barba Negra – Budapest, HU
2/09/2025 Tvornica – Zagreb, HU
w/ Korpiklaani, Trollfest, Nini:
2/27/2025 Brighton Music Corridor – Boston, MA
2/28/2025 Salle Montaigne – Quebec Metropolis, QC
3/01/2025 Beanfield – Montreal, QC
3/02/2025 Overflow – Ottawa, ON
3/03/2025 The Live performance Corridor – Toronto, ON
3/04/2025 King Of Golf equipment – Columbus, OH
3/05/2025 Crofoot – Pontiac, MI
3/06/2025 Outset – Chicago, IL
3/07/2025 Skyway Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
3/08/2025 Wooly’s – Des Moines, IA
3/09/2025 Gothic Theatre – Denver, CO
3/11/2025 Metro Music Corridor – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT
3/13/2025 Goldfield Roseville – Sacramento, CA
3/14/2025 Nice American Music Corridor – San Francisco, CA
3/15/2025 Regent Theater – Los Angeles, CA
3/16/2025 Home Of Blues – San Diego, CA
3/17/2025 Nile – Phoenix, AZ
3/18/2025 Sunshine – Albuquerque, NM
3/20/2025 Beer Metropolis Music Corridor – Oklahoma Metropolis, OK
3/21/2025 Granada – Dallas, TX
3/22/2025 Come And Take It Stay – Austin, TX
3/23/2025 Warehouse Stay – Houston, TX
3/25/2025 Orpheum – Tampa, FL
3/26/2025 Masquerade Heaven – Atlanta, GA
3/27/2025 Hangar 1819 – Greensboro, NC
3/28/2025 Baltimore Soundstage – Baltimore, MD
3/29/2025 Lovedraft’s – Mechanicsburg, PA
3/30/2025 Brooklyn Monarch – Brooklyn, NY
ENSIFERUM:
Petri Lindroos – vocals, guitars
Markus Toivonen – guitars, vocals
Sami Hinkka – bass, vocals
Janne Parviainen – drums
Pekka Montin – keyboards, vocals
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