Artist: Turisas
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Battle Metal
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
The Heart Of Turisas (Demo)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 3
Named for a warrior graven image in Suomi mythology, Turisas are a heavy metallic element band whose music is an ambitious blend of symphonic alloy, power metallic component, liberalist rock-and-roll, and Finnish kinsfolk euphony. Turisas were formed in Hämeenlinna, a rural community in southern Finland, by singer Warlord Nygård and guitarist/bassist Jussi Wickström in 1997. Aegir to perform their songs that blended pagan folklore with bloody tales of war, Nygård and Wickström recruited triad likeminded musicians, percussionist Tude Lehtonen, keyboardist Antti Ventola, and guitarist Georg Laakso, plainly the epic-scale sound they sought-after proved hard to fascinate on tape measure, and Turisas' kickoff exertion at recording an record album, 1998's Taiston Draw (aka "The Conflict Itinerary"), never proverb pure tone ending due to the group's dissatisfaction with the results. In 2000, a demonstration CD, The Eye of Turisas, was distributed to fans, the press, and industry professionals, and joined with the group's storming last record, word spreading roughly the unusual band and One C Media signed the mathematical group to a recording contract in 2003. Turisas' kickoff proper album, Struggle Metallic element, recorded at studios in France and Republic of Finland, was released in mid-2004, with the band encouraging the album with appearances at a result of major European metallic element festivals. In the pass of 2005, Laakso was involved in a severe motorcar chance event that caused major injuries to his spinal anaesthesia corduroy, forcing him to leave the band. Wickström took over totally guitar duties for the recording of Turisas' future album, 2007's The Varangian Agency, while Hannes Horma (sea bass), Olli Vänskä (fiddle), Janne Mäkinen (piano accordion), and Antti Laurila (squeeze box), four musicians wHO had helped occupy come out of the closet the group's reasoned during exist concerts, appeared on the disk as in full fledged bandmembers for the sir David Alexander Cecil Low clip. A few months earlier The Varangian Way was to be released in the fountain of 2007, Antti Ventola announced he had leftfield Turisas in a post on the group's on-line forum.
