''Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa'' (''"As Shadows We Walk in the Land of the Dead"'') is the sixth full-length

album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records co ...

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

pagan metal Pagan metal is a genre of heavy metal music which fuses extreme metal with " the pre-Christian traditions of a specific culture or region" through thematic concept, rustic melodies, unusual instruments or archaic languages, Wiederhorn 2009, p. 6 ...

band

Moonsorrow Moonsorrow is a Finnish pagan metal band formed in Helsinki in 1995. Musically, the band incorporates elements of black metal and folk metal in their sound. The band call their sound "epic heathen metal" and try to distance themselves from th ...

. It was released on 21 February 2011 through

Spinefarm Records Spinefarm Records is a Finnish independent record label focusing mainly on heavy metal artists. It is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. History Spinefarm Records was originally founded in 1990 by Riku Pääkkönen as a mail-order distrib ...

Track listing

Personnel

Ville Sorvali Ville Sorvali (born 13 April 1980 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish musician and music journalist. He is the vocalist, bass guitarist and lyricist for the Finnish pagan metal band Moonsorrow. His cousin Henri "Trollhorn" Sorvali is the guitarist ...

- vocals, bass, fretless bass *

Henri Sorvali Henri "Trollhorn" Sorvali, born 19 October 1978 in Finland, is the guitarist and keyboardist of the pagan metal band Moonsorrow, and keyboardist for Finntroll. He also played keyboards on a few occasional gigs with The Rasmus in the late 1990s. ...

- keyboards, guitars, mouth harp, accordion, vocals, choir, mandolin,

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* Marko Tarvonen - drums, percussion, guitars, vocals (backing), choir * Mitja Harvilahti -

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, choir, guitars, vocals (backing), autoharp *

Markus Eurén Markus Eurén (born 19 April 1978) is a keyboard musician, currently playing in the Finnish pagan metal band Moonsorrow. He is also featured in their grindcore side project, Lakupaavi. Markus plays using Korg Triton Extreme and N364 keyboards ...

- keyboards, vocals (backing), choir

Guest musicians

* Jukka Varmo - backing vocals * Knut Sorvali - backing vocals * Jules Näveri - backing vocals * Olli Vänskä -

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, choirs * Jakke Viitala - choirs * Riku Katainen - backing vocals * Mathias Lillmåns - backing vocals * Janne Perttilä - choirs

Production

* Jukka Varmo - engineering * Henri Urponpoika Sorvali - mixing * Ahti Kortelainen - mixing * Mika Jussila - mastering * Jules Näveri - producer (vocals) * Juha Helminen - photography * Mikko Virtanen - layout

References

External links

NoCleanSinging Review

Encyclopaedia Metallum
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