Ensiferum

History


Helsinki, Finland (1995 – present)
Ensiferum is a Viking / Folk Metal band from Helsinki, Finland.
Story of Ensiferum
1995Markus Toivonen played guitar with some friends in a band called ”Dark Reflections” which played mainly covers of certain heavy metal bands including Megadeth, Pantera and many others. Later on Markus felt that the band in which he was playing offered him very little inspiration and wanted to play something different. Markus was hugely inspired by folk music and also found himself fascinated about melodic death metal bands, like Amorphis and Dark Tranquillity. Then one day Markus asked the band’s drummer, Kimmo Miettinen, if he wanted to play heroic folk ’death’ metal with him. Kimmo agreed. Next Markus and Kimmo asked their friend Sauli Savolainen, if he wanted to come and play the bass. Fortunately he said yes. Now they had a band. Only trouble was that the band had no name at the time. One day Markus was visiting Sauli at his home, when he found a book. A Latin Dictionary. Markus casually opened the book. And from the first randomly picked page he glanced at a word. Ensiferum. Markus found the word fascinating and when he read the translation he got really excited of this word when it meant “sword-bearing”.

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Victory songs


Tracklist:

1 Ad Victoriam                download
2 Blood Is the Price of Glory download
3 Deathbringer from the Sky   download
4 Ahti                        download
5 One More Magic Potion       download
6 Wanderer                    download
7 Raised by the Sword         download
8 The New Dawn                download
9 Victory Song                download