''Thalassic'' is the eighth studio album by Finnish
folk metal
Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterised by the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles (for exampl ...
band
Ensiferum
Ensiferum (Latin: , n adj., meaning "sword bearing") is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "melodic folk metal."
History Formation, demos and ''Ensiferum'' (1995−2002)
''Ensiferum'' was founde ...
. It was released on 10 July 2020 through
Metal Blade Records
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. It is the first Ensiferum album to feature new keyboardist and clean vocalist Pekka Montin, who joined the band in February 2020.
The album's title "" (which is derived from both
French
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and
Ancient Greek
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) means "of or relating to seas", which pertains to the theme of the album's lyrics.
Track listing
Personnel
Band members
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Petri Lindroos
Petri Lindroos (born 10 January 1980 in Espoo, Finland) is a melodic death/folk metal guitarist and vocalist. He is currently the lead vocalist in Ensiferum. Previously, he was a founding member and lead vocalist for Norther.
Biography
At 14 yea ...
– harsh vocals, guitars
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Markus Toivonen
Markus Toivonen (born 1979 in Helsinki) is the founding member of the Finnish folk/death metal band Ensiferum. Markus founded the band in 1995 and is the sole original member to have lasted the distance to Ensiferum's present incarnation. His ...
– guitars, acoustic guitars, backing vocals
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Sami Hinkka
Sami Hinkka (born 27 April 1978 in Finland) is a heavy metal bass player, presently with Ensiferum. He joined his current band in 2004 as a replacement for Jukka-Pekka Miettinen after playing for some years in the melodic death/doom metal band R ...
– bass, vocals, acoustic guitars, bouzouki
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Janne Parviainen
Janne Parviainen, born 1973 in Finland, is a heavy metal drummer, who plays in the bands Sinergy, Barathrum and Ensiferum. He is a former member of Waltari and Zwanziger.
Janne joined Barathrum in 2000, and Sinergy and Ensiferum more recently. ...
– drums, percussion
*Pekka Montin – clean vocals, keyboards (except tracks 4–12 on bonus CD)
Guest members
*Mikko P. Mustonen – orchestrations, whistles, guitars (additional acoustic), vocals (additional), programming
*Lassi Logrén – nyckelharpa, violin
*Janne Joutsenniemi – guitars (additional), vocals (backing)
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Emmi Silvennoinen
Emmi Silvennoinen (born 9 April 1988) is a Finnish keyboardist who is the former keyboardist for the folk metal band Ensiferum. She filled the role following the departure of Meiju Enho
Meiju Enho, born in 1981 in Finland, is the former keybo ...
– keyboards, hammond organ, grand piano, clean vocals (only tracks 4–12 on bonus CD)
Production
*Janne Joutsenniemi – producer
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Jens Bogren
Jens Peter Daniel Bogren (born 13 November 1979) is a Swedish record producer, mixer and recording engineer specializing in heavy metal music. He has worked on albums by Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Sepultura, Arch Enemy, At the Gates, Katatonia, Babym ...
– mixing, mastering
*Tero Kinnunen – additional recording
*Gyula Havancsák – artwork
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Vesa Ranta
Vesa Ranta (born 20 July 1973) is a Finnish drummer. He was one of the original members of the metal bands Sentenced and The Man-Eating Tree. He is also a fine art photographer and was owner of the Nuclear Nightclub live music club and bar in do ...
– photography
Charts
References
2020 albums
Ensiferum albums
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