tracklist:
01. Vindfärd / Människopesten
02. Eliytres
03. Fiskarens Fiende
04. Trollhammaren
05. Nattfödd
06. Ursvamp
07. Marknadsvisan
08. Det Iskalla Trollblod
09. Grottans Barn
10. Routas Vaggvisa

Line-up
Wilska – vocals
Skrymer - guitar
Routa – guitar
Tundra – bass
Dominator – drums
Trollhorn - keyboards


Under the file “Metal Eccentricities” Finntroll figures as a top contender, these Finns have managed the way to create playful yet aggressive music, using as a base a Finnish polka rhythm called Hummpa, the wide array of instruments these trolls use is quite amazing, to name a few I would have to say accordion, mouth harp, flutes, clarinets, herty gerties even a honky-tonk piano.

This over-the-top Finnish Folk Metal act has returned to give us their new effort after a while of silence, the result of the long hiatus is simply amazing, Finntroll has improved in every single aspect of their music.
Nattfцdd (meaning Nightborn), is an album which may carry the listener to distant woods, were trolls and evil creatures are drinking in a wooden table.
Why do I mention the drinking? Because many of the songs have those gang choruses, reminiscent of those Viking Metal “drinking ale in the name of Odin” chorus style.

Let’s take as an example “Eliytres” begins with this playful almost circus-like tune, but then the Black Metal vocals enters the arena, and together they create a unique song that flow seamlessly alongside the whole atmosphere these Finns manage to create.
“Grottans Barn” (Children Of The Cave) begins with the use of mouth harp, and when this mid-paced song reaches it’s peak is easy to understand why Finntroll, after few albums are such recognized act among the scene, this song also features cleaner singing than the rest of the album, which, fits the music perfectly.
Other great songs are the joyous “Fiskarens Fiende” and “Trolhammaren” song already featured in the Ep of the same name.

Definitively Finntroll will earn much more respect in the music scene with this excellent album, the good thing about this album is that you can sense these guys having fun while doing this, it really does, every melody, every passage or chant is truly enjoyable, makes you want to stand up and dance.

A must for any fan of Folk Metal, Finntroll created something really interesting here, for anyone interested in hearing some original music, and for anybody that have never listened to Finntroll, I strongly recommend starting with this one, what a nice surprise from the woods.

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Finntroll´s 3rd full-length album, NATTFÖDD, is a few steps further from the whole band toward a more varied, melodic, richer and more mature sound. I would say that all those familiar Finntroll –elements that you have heard on their previous albums, are still there and are easily to be tracked down on NATTFÖDD, but the way how the songs have been built musically when a great number of different instruments/effects (like accordion, banjo, mouth harp, choirs, Russian balalaika type of things, etc.) takes place in their songs, strengthens Finntroll´s already distinctive sound even more and only prove what a great, single force they have become and grown amongst the Finnish metal scene during these past few years. The band´s ´new´ headtroll Wilska does also a very convincing job on the vocal department, filling up enormous troll traces of band´s previous growler Katla amazingly well – even keeping Wilska´s physical size in our mind, heh! He isn´t any baby-troll, I can tell.

In my opinion Finntroll´s most creative juices and truest troll blood have run the best possible way in such songs on the album as “Eliytres”, “Trollhammaren”, Nattfödd” and “Grottanns Barn” where the guys´ brilliant sense and understanding for some truly catchy and mind-sticking melodies come out a splendid way whereas in “Marknadsvisan” all men of holy and Christians are about to face the true rage of these gruesome and malicious armies of Finntroll, like they wouldn´t have deserved it in the first place, ha! In “Marknadsvisan” Finntroll goes to Black Metal for a short moment, riding on the wings of inferno ´til the last dawn or something...

However, there´s still one thing I wanna whine about on NATTFÖDD. Well, the guys of Finntroll, as their band name already tells loud and clear, are Finnish (uh, now that´s a surprise, isn´t it, he!), so why on earth they have to use Swedish language in their song titles? I just don´t get it, sorry... They indeed sound like ´Swedetroll´ for my uncorrupted ears, but I guess I´m alone with my ´problem´. Oh well, I know that I must be complaining in vain because Finntroll have made an album which they don´t have to ashamed of at all. Another release can now be added to their roster...

завтра, надеюсь, раздача пойдет с двух источников....