My experience with Moonsorrow in the past 15 years or so has been as follows. I might go without Moonsorrow for long periods of time. Listening to everything else, I'm like "oh wow, this and this is so good". Then I go back to Moonsorrow and realize that NOTHING compares. Nothing quite invokes the kind of feelings and images like this. Jumalten aika is among my all time favorite albums along with Verisäkeet. Closely followed by Hävitetty. And Tulimyrsky as a song is up there. This band is in a league of it's own.
I agree wholeheartedly. Moonsorrow is so far above the competition in terms of composition that they don't even deserve to be called pagan metal. For me, this also includes Akercocke, Agalloch and old Opeth.
Yes! They have been with me since 2005 ish and what a journey it has been. Through think and thin they have been there for me in spirit. Moonsorrow has been there in the hardest days and the best, to that I owe them my loyalty. Seeing them live was an epic experience, then on the 70.000 tons cruise. Moonsorrow never let me down! Until the next show! I'll be there, in the pit 🤟🏻🤟🏻
I knew this band and album from earlier in my life, tho the day before yesterday i accidentally listen to it, and dawm...This is the most fucking epic think i have ever heard, probably one of the best albums i have ever heard. Hail moonsorrow 🤟🇫🇮♥️🇬🇷
Have you tried the rest of their catalogue? These guys are masters in their own genre. Even their cover of For Whom The Bell Tolls is incredibly epic. Cheers from France! 🍻
@@DarthWinterMadnessI remember their first album (demo, its on youtube). That is also crazy shit man, but SO Fucking Epic! I LOVE You Jumalten aika!!!!!!!!!! \m/
This must be my favorite band since year 2008! And I keep returning to Moonsorrow again and again... all these years I have not found better than that. Hail Moonsorrow! \m/
@@derrohrspatz5225 I guess it's kinda tricky, because their overall sound is much more inspired by blackmetal than death metal. So I would describe it as pagan folk black metal. But who cares really, right?
@@Mulukkis They describe themselves as Epic Heathen Metal, so I guess that's one of the "accurate" ways to put it. But I'd say Prog Metal also qualifies because of the long epics, odd time signatures and other elements. As you said, in the end who cares? It's Moonsorrow and that name is quite enough to paint the picture. Cheers from France! 🍻
@@derrohrspatz5225 There nothing death metal about them. And Pagan Metal is black metal or folk metal dealing with paganism. Moonsorrow is on between black metal and folk metal..
