@Thalassic

Haha I kinda lost interest in this band from the third album on tbh

this band still going??

I don't think I've heard anything from them since Victory Songs, but one of these days I'm gonna have to take a peek at From Afar.

Ensiferum debut new song 'noun noun noun'

This is better than it has any right to be.

from afar is their best album joint with s/t

this is fucking awful like everything unsung heroes onwards

but then i find pretty much all pagan party folk metal pretty cringe these days so i'm really not their target audience

even Moonsorrow? :[

moonsorrow aren't pagan party folk metal

I don't know Noc, they're definitely pagan, have plenty of folk elements, and there's a party in my pants whenever I listen to them…

Who is the audience for this stuff?

dumbasses who wear thor's hammer pendants and think drinking red stripe out of a fake horn and listening to bad melodeath is paying tribute to the norse gods

Why must you call out my people

These guys haven't been good since Victory Songs.

nahhh from afar was actually very good

I keep reading In Defense of the Shampoo

sounds like they're trying to break into that Korpiklaani demographic instead of doing what they were originally good at. I saw them back in December and idek if they played any newer songs, mostly just first four albums stuff.

Gross. First 4 albs are all i need.

lol damn noctus that was extremely on point. only korplklaani fan i've ever met told me about their love for that band while taking sips of coors light from an 'authentic' viking horn

Did they have a leather holster for their horn?

while they were dressed almost entirely in leather, no, they lacked a holster

Funny I never actually met a Korpiklaani fan yet they seem to do quite well and attract plenty of crowd

Not great but better than I expected. At least it has some energy - sounds more like Bodom meets Alestorm. Which... eh... but at least fun.

Steady slow decline from S/T to From Afar, and everything after that until now has been boring as fuck.

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