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Ensiferum - Ensiferum



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Release date: 2001
Style: Extreme folk metal

Owners:

1624 have it
148 want it
1 trades it


01. Intro
02. Hero In A Dream
03. Token Of Time
04. Guardians Of Fate
05. Old Man (Väinämöinen)
06. Little Dreamer (Väinämöinen Part II)
07. Abandoned
08. Windrider
09. Treacherous Gods
10. Eternal Wait
11. Battle Song
12. Goblins' Dance

Top 20 albums of 2001: 3
Top 200 albums of all time: 37

Staff review by
fade
Rating:
9.5
2001 was just about to become history when I received this cd in the mail. It was three days before 2002 and I found myself on an airplane home to spend the New Year. The plane had just taxied off the runway as I placed Ensiferum's debut self-titled album in my cd player. I had not heard much about this young Finnish band before I had ordered the CD but was told, since I like Moonsorrow and Finntroll, I would eat this cd up for breakfast lunch and dinner. Well, I am still eating it and it sounds better every fucking time.

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published 06.02.2004 | Comments (9)

Staff review by
Pierre Tombale
Rating:
9.0
My first experience with growls started by chance when I was searching amazon for new metal and I discovered the genre of viking metal. This immediately caught my attention and I read several bands with special interest the reviews on Ensiferum, which obviously had some good debut album released in 2001. Then I searched other sources for this band because amazon did not have it available so I got me a copy via eBay. Of a three cd order this was the first one I listened to and I was shocked, because yet I had not come across growls that have a quite aggressive impact on the ear when you hear them for the first time, but the winds from the north a blowing fortunately strong, below I will tell you why:

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published 00.00.0000 | Comments (16)

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21.04.2010 - 21:27
Rating: 10
Got Mayhem?

I put off listening to this album for literally years. Until then the only Ensiferum I had heard was Lindroos era and It didn't do much for me. However, once I finally gave this a spin I was forced to admit this is a fantastic album. From start to finish it doesn't lose a beat. Essential, especially for the genre.
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05.04.2011 - 00:15
Baz Anderson

I didn't call it my album of the decade for nothing. I am listening to it now for the first time in a long time, and it's both great and sad... sad to compare it to what Ensiferum are now (which is still a great band... but just not this good...)
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09.04.2011 - 18:59
ErnilEnNaur
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Written by Baz Anderson on 05.04.2011 at 00:15

I didn't call it my album of the decade for nothing. I am listening to it now for the first time in a long time, and it's both great and sad... sad to compare it to what Ensiferum are now (which is still a great band... but just not this good...)


True. This is one hell of an album, that displays true inspiration and passion. The later albums and especially the last one have too much fluff and too little songwriting. Symphonic elements for the sake of sypmhonic elements aren't worth much. Well, at least we'll always have this timeless classic.
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15.05.2011 - 00:06
pauli2

I like this album a lot!
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01.06.2011 - 17:10
Rating: 10
neonxaos

A staggering album - ten years down the line, it still outruns the competition. On horseback, sword drawn for battle.
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09.06.2011 - 20:06
Beastofmetal456
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One word. Perfection.
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07.08.2011 - 20:59
Rating: 10
Kintu
Folk You!
Is one of the few albums that I can listen to it again and again and again, and still loving it like the first time.
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15.10.2011 - 22:59
Rating: 9
musicalkaratekid

This is a classic debut, beautiful and brilliant work by ensiferum\m/
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06.03.2012 - 12:03
Rating: 10
Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk
To Mega Therion
Lol, "professional opinion"
Porn actor?
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07.03.2012 - 01:07
Víctor

Written by Cock is Intruder on 06.03.2012 at 11:28

When you are sad and angry...you want to shout, sing it loud, want to immerse into your deepest sorrow, painful feelings left inside.....Suddenly ! Cheerful folk music cut in....ancient dressing men and women holding hands dancing, running and jumping happily around you....how would you react ? I will shout "can you shut the fuck up !" In my professional opinion, this album is highly OVERRATED ! Nearly stupid.


professional opinión?
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07.03.2012 - 03:42
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk on 06.03.2012 at 12:03

Lol, "professional opinion"
Porn actor?


He wished.

In his professional opinion as a troll (and a bad one at that)
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28.09.2012 - 01:57
Rating: 10
gopherhawk2@gmail.co

Best song is treacherous gods.
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09.12.2012 - 18:34
megadeath13
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Couldnt be more perfect! Every track is beautiful!
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22.01.2013 - 22:26
Rating: 10
Mario Montes

This album is catchy as hell!
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23.04.2013 - 19:55
Rhiannon
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Really good piece of epic folk metal.
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17.07.2013 - 02:15
Rating: 10
Mario Montes

I'm a really proud owner of this album. A must have for every metalhead.
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05.04.2014 - 20:47
Rating: 7
NorthernDickhead

For me Iron is better,but this isn't far of it.
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17.04.2014 - 19:47
telephonebear
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Never listened to this, im usually put off by bands in costume but im willing to try it. is it very much like power metal or does the fact its 'extreme' make a large difference?
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28.08.2015 - 22:09
Rating: 10
metalfan1999

Love it
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06.05.2016 - 02:49
Rating: 10
saucyawesomeness

Awesome Debut, still my favorite band to date.
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26.08.2016 - 16:52
HyperDrifter

This album really is timeless, I listened to it a long way back and even now it is just as awesome! Killer tracks all around, so many of my favourite Ensiferum songs are on this debut (Little Dreamer, Goblin's Dance, Token of Time, Windrider, Old Man, Hero In a Dream)
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21.01.2017 - 07:39
Rating: 8
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
Sounds identical to Wintersun's debut, just weaker.
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11.08.2017 - 05:12
Rating: 10
Rulatore

Written by LeKiwi on 21.01.2017 at 07:39

Sounds identical to Wintersun's debut, just weaker.

Bad bait
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09.10.2017 - 20:19
Rating: 8
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
Written by Rulatore on 11.08.2017 at 05:12

Bad album compared to Wintersun's debut, right?!

Totally!
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03.01.2019 - 14:31
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Tage Westerlund
A legend of long haired nordic warrior begins. Its 100% nordic, all about it, artwork is 1th what makes me check out albums. Byff Byfford sakd, as child I liked knights, stories about it Anglo Saxon warriors and so on... As child many of us likes fantasy, swords, warriors, old tales and stories, it stuck into us, and then you put it on on books or metal msuic, because people like we dont grow up as many does, if you do you lost all and your life are so boring, we dont have children. Anyway its great band, music and idea around band, artwork its 100% nordic.
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03.04.2020 - 22:28
Rating: 9
Redel

Written by Guest on 03.04.2020 at 20:24

This is a perfect and timeless album, one of my all-time favourites and very important to me! I struggle to find the words to convey how much I love this album.


Their only album I fully enjoy.
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27.09.2021 - 14:42
Rating: 10
nonZero

The more I listen to this album the more I love it. A masterpiece through-and-through.

9.6/10 for me - Tracks 3-6 and 9 are the standouts IMO. 2, 7 & 11 are all also great. 'Goblins' Dance' is easily the weakest song of the album but is kinda fun in a way.
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27.09.2021 - 17:48
Rating: 10
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Written by nonZero on 27.09.2021 at 14:42

The more I listen to this album the more I love it. A masterpiece through-and-through.

Very true, they don't make folk metal the like they used to.
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29.03.2022 - 08:53
Rating: 10
Gungniru

Brilliant, timeless, and surely one of my favorite albums of all time. I still hold out hope to hear something like this in this life or the next.
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05.11.2022 - 09:50
Rating: 10
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Over the years I've listened to this more than another album in metal, and still tremendously enjoy it just as much now as I did back then. There is not a single skippable moment on this for me, so for that I can only give this a deserving 10
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