Turisas - Turisas (2013)

Turisas - Turisas

Folk Metal
mp3 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
01. For Your Own Good (4:32)
02. Ten More Miles (4:16)
03. Piece by Piece (5:39)
04. Into The Free (3:50)
05. Run Bhang - Eater, Run! (4:41)
06. Greek Fire (4:51)
07. The Days Passed (4:34)
08. No Good Story Ever Starts With Drinking Tea (2:51)
09. We Ride Together (6:33)

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Turisas - Stand Up and Fight (2011)

Turisas - Stand Up and Fight

Few bands have ever generated the kind of excitement that Turisas generated among my friends in 2004 when we first got wind of Battle Metal, the debut record from this Finnish viking metal group. Stylistically it really was like nothing we had ever heard. Over the top orchestrations ruled the disc with nary a guitar solo in sight. Instead, the music was largely good for beer swilling and chanting at our drunken parties (which were usually followed up by everyone putting their hair in a certain type of ponytail and running around screaming “Riders of Rohan!”). Hard hitting tracks like “Battle Metal” and “The Land of Hope and Glory” excited us to no end. This band was something unique and special.
For me, however, Battle Metal has always paled in comparison with the follow up record The Varangian Way which was released in 2007. While the first record was a collection of fantastic tracks, The Varangian Way was a flow-blown concept record of the best kind. Orchestrated to perfection and written with the kind of flow that few records I own have (see: The Wall by Pink Floyd, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden and V: The New Mythology Suite by Symphony X to understand what I mean), The Varangian Way blew my mind. It was more progressive than the earlier record and while criticized as ‘trying too hard’ by some people with poor taste and small minds, those changes sat well with me.
So in some ways, then, it should be no surprise that Stand Up and Fight, the third record from Turisas, is again a progression away from the fairly straight forward (if bombastic) roots that the band came from. However, how does a band ever follow up a record that is easily in my top 20 records of the 2000s (and almost made my Top 15)? Is it even possible to get anywhere near the kind of narrative flow and balance between Battle Metal style aggression and The Varangian Way style progressiveness and orchestrations?
The unfortunate answer is no. Stand Up and Fight is definitely an inferior record when comparing it to The Varangian Way in narrative style and feel and maybe compositionally as well, and I’ll throw that out there from the beginning. While there is technically a narrative flow, it’s not nearly as consistent and excellent as its forerunner and it’s often interrupted by a sort of ‘modern’ aspect to the lyrics. As a listener these ‘modern’ interrupts stand out like skips on a record and make the flow somewhat less convincing and ensnaring. Neither does Stand Up and Fight capture the aggression of Battle Metal, having abandoned extreme metal vocals almost completely. Instead the record is far more in the orchestral and ‘power metal’ side of the spectrum, with its 1980s stadium rock influenced tracks like “Stand Up and Fight” and “Take the Day!”
What we’re left with, then, is a progressive, orchestral album that gallops out the door in a bit of a confusing way. In fact, I think what turned me off about this record at first was that the first four tracks of the album, “The March of the Varangian Guard,” “Take the Day!,” “Hunting Pirates,” and “βένετοι! – πράσινοι!” (pronounced: Venetoi! – Prasinoi!) make for strange bedfellows. While the opening track is reminiscent The Varangian Way and indicates a continuation of the narration from the previous album, “Take the Day!” is an 80s rock inspired track which is followed up by an odd progressive pirate metal track and finally “βένετοι! – πράσινοι!” is a crazy ass orchestral track that sounds a bit like a revolution being orchestrated.
However, once you get past these tracks the record sort of smooths out in style, while still keeping the progressive voice that was established previously. The melodies and the orchestrations shine and the songs, while having some questionable lyrical content (“What is this? And take a look at all these fish!”) and grammatical structures (“How can this they allow?”), are still fun as hell. Of the latter tracks I think that “End of an Empire” and “The Bosphorous Freezes Over” are definitely the two best tracks and they end the record with a feeling of having still experienced an amazing musical journey that only Turisas could provide in this style. That is to say, you come away with a sense that Stand Up and Fight, while a little bit awkward at first, is still the excellent record that you are expecting from Turisas.
Turisas - 2011I do have to throw in a special comment about the amazing orchestrations and the beautiful production on this album. Firstly, the record is incredibly well-produced, particularly if you consider that this is a real choir and orchestra that the band is performing with at times, so a hat tip to Jens Bogren for the tremendous work he did on this record. It sounds huge and mighty, like a Turisas record should sound. Secondly, it is the orchestrations and the real horns and strings that make certain parts of this album undeniably mighty. The writing has a bit of that Finnish melancholy in it, again particularly on the “The Bosphorous Freezes Over,” the french horn is just tremendously powerful.
So I guess what I’m trying to say through all of this is: Stand Up and Fight is still an excellent album, and thus far it’s still one of the best that I’ve heard in 2011, but it took me a long damn time to get into it. I’m writing this almost 2 months after I received the album and I am now really starting to really appreciate it. Growers are hard to review and I’m just glad I had time to give this record the time it really deserved, because Stand Up and Fight is a much more worthy successor to The Varangian Way than I had originally believed. And if there’s one thing that I’ve learned about growers, it’s that they stick with you longer than others do. I hope that Stand Up and Fight is one such record.

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Tracklist:
1.     The March of the Varangian Guard    
2.     Take the Day!
3.     Hunting Pirates
4.     βένετοι! - πράσινοι!
5.     Stand Up and Fight
6.     The Great Escape
7.     Fear the Fear
8.     End of an Empire
9.     The Bosphorus Freezes Over

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Turisas - Battle Metal (Re-issued) 2009

Turisas - Battle Metal

Turisas is a six-piece band from Hämeenlinna, Finland. They've been around since 1997, putting out one demo and an EP, before releasing their debut album "Battle Metal" in 2004. The band call their music Battle Metal, as their debut is called, which includes a song also called Battle Metal. And the album does start with an epic intro preparing you to battle, I've had a hard time figuring out what battle I am put into, it could pretty much be a medieval battle, a battle in a desert or some vikings running around in a forest, but one thing is for sure, there is definitely a battle going on.
After the introduction you are thrown right into the battle in "As Torches", a thick atmosphere of blood and hatching surrounds you with Warlord Nygårds harsh vocals kicking in. In this song, fiddle is also being used, which gives the album a touch of folk already. Warlord Nygårds vocals throughout the album are harsh and aggressive, but also mighty cleaner vocals are being used along with choirs. Also female vocals are being used in this album, for instance in the song "Midnight Sunrise". The female vocals could in my opinion be better, but Warlord Nygårds harsh vocals sums up for that, fitting the battle of this album perfectly.
But this album is, besides being folky and battle-like, a bit chaotic. More genres are present in this album, such as in "The Land of Hope and Glory" where suddenly elevator like music kicks in, personally I think that's rather cool, but a bit misplaced for the regular listener of this kind of music. The track also includes fiddle parts and choirs here, but this battle could be fought in an elevator.
What also makes this album a bit chaotic is the drastic tempo and music change, such as in "One More", going from a cheerful folk melodi, with Nygård along the choirs singing, but then suddenly go down in tempo, without any fiddle here, but just choir singing "lai lai lai lai" along some boring slow riffing. Then the fiddle comes back from nowhere, and the vocals are gone, after a short fiddle passage, it goes away again, and Nygård sings calmly, before going back to the rather decent (in my opinion) chorus "One More". This kinda shows that the band is still in an early stage of their career.
Besides fiddle, also accordion is used, unfortunately not as much as I would have wished, but it's still here, and that's better than no accordion at all! It's used in "Midnight Sunrise" for instance, which is also a varied experience, swtiching tempos a few times during a song, once again, it's a bit messy this album. The accordion can also be heard along the fiddle during one of my favorites "Sahti-Waari", which is a rather short song consisting of flute and fiddle also. It's pretty cheerful and only choir vocals are used here. The atmosphere here is really just awesome, and no weird tempo-genre-whatever switching either!
The production of the album is good, though due to some of the chaotic songs it can be hard knowing what the hell is going on in your speakers/headset, the guitar is not something I've payed much attention to, since the atmosphere here with synths and traditional instruments along Nygårds vocals and choir draws the most attention. Nygårds vocals are pretty clear and you actually have an oppurtunity to hear what he is singing. The bas is audible at times but nothing special, really. The drumming is decent, going along the music nicely, though you do not really notice them that much.
So in conclusion, this album was a different battle, I've only heard this release by Turisas, but I've heard that the other two albums should be pretty good, and I am to check them out also, because I believe these guys can do it better, more mature and less chaotic than this. If you are looking for a bit different approach to the folk/viking metal genre, this release could be something for you, however I think there are better releases out there.

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Tracklist:
1.     Victoriae & Triumphi Dominus     01:27    
2.     As Torches Rise     04:51    
3.     Battle Metal     04:23    
4.     The Land of Hope and Glory     06:22    
5.     The Messenger     04:42    
6.     One More     06:50    
7.     Midnight Sunrise     08:15
8.     Among Ancestors     05:16
9.     Sahti-Waari     02:28
10.     Prologue for R. R. R.     03:09
11.     Rexi Regi Rebellis     07:10      
12.     Katuman Kaiku     02:22

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