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The title track ends at about 5:20. The remainder of the track is somber, droning timpanis.

Track listing

* The Japanese edition replaces track 9 with "Kipakka" (4:17)

Chart positions

Personnel

Jonne Järvelä Jonne Järvelä (born 3 June 1974 in Vesilahti) is the vocalist/guitarist of the Finnish band Korpiklaani. He is known in the folk metal scene for his yoiking and contributed the yoik on the Finntroll album, ''Jaktens Tid ''Jaktens tid'' ( en, ...

- vocals, guitars,

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* Matti Johansson - drums * Jarkko Aaltonen - bass * Cane - guitars *

Juho Kauppinen Juho Kauppinen (born 4 August 1986) is the former accordionist of the Finnish band Korpiklaani. He has also been in Falchion, which was a Finnish Death Metal band, in which he was the vocalist and lead guitarist. Falchion Falchion was founded i ...

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 ...

, guitars * Hittavainen -

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, viola,

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Production

* Jan "Örkki" Yrlund - cover art * Mika Jussila - mastering * Jonne Järvelä - producer * Samu Oittinen - producer, recording, mixing * Harri Hinkka - photography

References

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