''Drakkars in the Mist'' is the third album by the musical project

Folkearth Folkearth is an international music project created in 2003 by musicians playing folk and viking metal. The name (folk + earth) symbolizes musicians from all over the world playing folk music. So far, a total of twelve full-length albums have bee ...

Track listing

# "Before Battle I Embrace" – 3:57 # "Hoplites Awaiting Command" – 3:38 # "Hugin & Munin" – 4:29 # "Griminsmol (The Ballad of Grimnir)" – 3:55 # "Högtid" – 2:17 # "Sworn to the Raven" – 4:56 # "Great God Pan" – 4:21 # "Drakkars in the Mist" – 4:38 # "Midgard Farewell" – 4:00 # "De Tause Fjell" – 3:50 # "If I Should Fall" – 2:25 # "When Long Ships Arrive" – 4:21 # "On Wings Divine" – 4:51 # "Thunders of War" – 2:56

Bonus tracks

"The Bane of Giants" – 4:30
"Kingdom of the Shades" – 3:58
"The Riding of the Queen Boudiccea" – 4:35

Personnel

Instruments

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*Marios "Prince Imrahil" Koutsoukos (Dol Amroth) - spoken

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, scream vocal, choir vocal, keyboard *Stefanos Koutsoukos (Dol Amroth) -

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acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

*Nikos Nezeritis (Dol Amroth) -

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*Polydeykis (Zion) - 6 and 12-string acoustic guitar, keyboard,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

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accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

, lead and backing choir, male vocal,

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, Thracian

bagpipes Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...

*Thanasis Karapanos - lead and backing male vocal,

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drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

, keyboard *Hildr Valkyrie (Hildr Valkyrie) - lead and backing female vocal, spoken vocal,

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, keyboard *Faethon - bass, choir vocal

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*Ruslanas - tin whistle

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*Magnus Wohlfart (Nae'blis) - guitar, vocal, keyboard, drums *William Ekeberg (Broken Dagger) - vocal *Simon Frodeberg - bass, vocal

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*Morten Basse (Thulr)

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*Dreogan (Peordh) - electric guitar, bass *Mark Riddick (

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, sopranino recorder, soprano recorder, tenor recorder

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*Axel ( Death Army) - electric guitar, bass, drums *Raven -

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, backing vocal *Ulven (Draugen) - acoustic guitar

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*Roman Samonin (Morituri) *Ralf Goossens (Morituri)

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*Vojan Koceic (Koziak)

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

*Haavard Tveito (Vetter) - electric guitar, bass, vocal

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*Orey (Pagan Reign) - guitar,

domra The ''domra'' (Cyrillic: до́мра, ) is a long-necked Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian folk string instrument of the lute family with a round body and three or four metal strings. History The first known mention of domra is in ''Admonit ...

*Vetrodar (Pagan Reign) -

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, guitar, naylon guitar

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*Autumn (

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) - vocals, guitar, drum programming *Winter (

) - guitar, bass, drum programming *Antonio Mansilla (Last Deception) - chorus *Jesus Sierra (Last Deception) - drums *Jose Luis Frias - flute, pipes *GG Karman - chorus *A. Pangin - flute

Writing and production

*lyrics by: Marios "Prince Imrahil" Koutsoukos, Polydeykis, Haavard Tveito and Autumn *music by: Marios "Prince Imrahil" Koutsoukos, Polydeykis, Ulven, Raven, Haavard Tveito, Orey, Vetrodar, Autumn, Winter, Magnus Wohlfart and Dreogan *

orchestration Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orc ...

by: Polydeykis and Thanasis Karapanos *sound technicians: Antonio Mansilla and GG Karman

Track listing

Bonus tracks

Personnel

Instruments

Writing and production

See also