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Korpiklaani - Announce New Album


Folk metal superstars Korpiklaani have just announced that they have inked a new deal with Nuclear Blast for the release of their upcoming new album entitled Noita, which is set for a release in May 2015. The follow-up to Manala has been recorded at Petrax Studio with Aksu Hanttu handling production, recording and mixing again. It will also be the first album to feature new accordion player Sami Perttula, who has been playing a very active role in the folk arrangements along with fiddler Tuomas Rounakari. However, you will still have to wait a little more to listen to it.

Bassist Jarkko Aaltonen talked a little bit about the album title: "Noita in the traditional Finnish meaning is different than what people associate it with nowadays. 'Noita' is a person with wider knowledge and understanding of the nature and who also was believed to possess paranormal or unnatural abilities. These people were often also referred to as 'Tietäjä', that exactly means someone with wider knowledge and understanding of pretty much everything. Native American medicine man is pretty much the same thing or actually all the different types of Shamans of the primitive peoples are the same thing. 'Noita' is someone that you turn to when you need help of some kind. Finnish 'Noita' had the ability to heal, just like their North American counterparts. They were very respected members of the society. Only later Christianity changed the word to mean something negative since those people were considered rivals by the church. Even in Finland this turned into a Witchhunt (=noitavaino) every now and then. Anyway, most people using Google Translate or similar will find the word 'Witch' and will probably get a bit wrong idea of the meaning, since most will probably connect it with the black sabbaths, devil marks and such, when a way more correct translation would probably be medicine man or Shaman."



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New accordionist Sami Pertulla comments: "Previously the KorpiklaaniI albums were played with a piano-accordion and now I play with a traditional button-accordion which was more widely used in Finland anyways. In the arrangements you can hear more tonal harmonies and folky accompaniments combined to the power-chords than before. It actually boosts up the uplifting feel of our music."

Violinist Toumas Rounakari also comments: "This album has more violin solos than ever before. Violin is more in the role of a lead-guitar now just as Jonne had originally intended it to be."

And vocalist Jonne Järvelä concludes: "We have finally managed to create the balance between folk and metal in the way I've always dreamt it to be. Thanks to Sami's arrangements and Tuomas's crazy shredding of the violin."

Source: nuclearblast.de
Band profile: Korpiklaani
Posted: 30.01.2015 by BloodTears


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30.01.2015 - 20:14
Gothmog_Motsham

Since Noita means medicine man I expect their mascot to be dressed like a nurse in the cover art. Can't wait!
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30.01.2015 - 22:08
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Ruído Sonoro
So they finally took some time instead of releasing a album every year. Let's hope it's worth it!
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30.01.2015 - 22:08
Dark Forever
Ruído Sonoro
So they finally took some time instead of releasing a album every year. Let's hope it's worth it!
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Taste the DARK...
... and you'll live FOREVER!
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31.01.2015 - 06:22
Lehctim

I was hoping for a lot more jokes in the comments
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31.01.2015 - 07:53
ThunderAxe1989
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I am stoked.
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01.02.2015 - 22:53
qlacs
"The Quaker"
Sounds really good. That little background on the title was really good to read, I was searching for an article on this a long time ago and good to finally discover that I'm not the only one with this idea
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