Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder (Folk/Black Metal)

~Beasts of the Midnight~

[JimmyPughA]

Such a great Album! I’ve been listening to this band for 13+ years and I’ve yet to get bored of their unique style and approach to the trollish madness…but I especially have a deep and profound love for traditional tales of trolls specifically those from Nordic folklore and mythology. THIS BAND has a signature style of Scandinavian/Finnish Folk music I’ve been able to find NOWHERE ELSE. The idea of taking traditional folk music and writing it with minor key tonality along with using foreboding scales shapes makes for a darkened spin on tradition and has me hooked on something you can get nowhere else.

This leaves me with a thirst for a style of music I cannot find anywhere, nor write/compose myself, as I do not have the multi instrumentalist capabilities to that extent. It is my opinion as a musician of 25 years that Finntroll’s “Midnattens Widunder” (Midnight Wonder) Truly is a Wonder, and is quite possibly the birth of the most original and beloved musical creation of my time here on earth…the meshing of metal with obscure genres is easy to do and Bands that offer hybrid sounds are easily found but few are as skilled and talented in the creativity area to the point of giftedness. It’s skillful to blend any genres of music and make it sound good..however, it is MASTERFUL to brand your own sound and pioneer new territory whilst blazing a trail through Blacked Metal adding a thick vein of complexly unique and Troll influenced folk that’s blackened to match and yet still odd and quirky enough that you’d swear trolls from the hills and mountains of Sweden/Finland wrote and composed it? That is truly an astonishing accomplishment and such a monumental feat that very VERY few multi genre bands are able to do something of equivalence…and sadly, here in the States even fewer musicians can understand why it is so special. Hails to Finntroll, and those who understand how special this unique band, and it’s one-of-a-kind sound are. I would love a remastered release of Finntroll’s “Ur Jordens Djup” one of these days!

Skål!