Moonsorrow Talks: The Epic Heathen Podcast

Today we're looking back at the first 3 Moonsorrow demos: "Thorns of Ice", "Metsä" and "Promo" (and if you thought they had only two demos, you should go back to the music-only episode we released back in February and listen to the first 5 minutes — then you'll understand. Spotify deleted it but it's on the other podcast platforms). Lots of stories about their formative years, when their roles in...

All the links you need are here: https://linktr.ee/moonsorrow.podcast The book "Home of the Waves: Conversations with Moonsorrow" can now be preordered at Cult Never Dies. The building blocks are interviews conducted shortly after the release of their latest album, "Jumalten aika", and covering everything you can imagine. Band history, of course, but also lyrical and visual themes, composition pro...

A quick update about the newly launched fanzine (verisivut.info), the upcoming Moonsorrow book and a few notes on the podcast. Find all our links on https://linktr.ee/moonsorrow.podcast

Lots of rare music today! In this bonus episode, you will hear all the demos: the released and the rare, the raw and the refined, the famous and the infamous — all of them in full. For two of them, there are two different mixes, so even if you are a lucky vinyl box set owner, you may not be familiar with the (in my opinion superior) remixes. Listen and judge yourself! There's a brief introductory...

Today we're discussing "Tuleen ajettu maa", the second half of Hävitetty, an apocalyptic album which we couldn't agree if it's completely nihilistic or leaves space for hope, but Sasan described it best with the sentence: "it's like caressing the dog's head while you're putting it to sleep". You will discover lots of small details you never noticed before (it happened to all of us during the conve...

I'm sure at this point nobody is surprised by the title and the length of this episode. That's right, we talk only about the first of the two songs of Hävitetty, and yes, for over two hours. Although, in fairness, we also spent a sizable amount of time discussing the album as a whole, because it turned out to be very special for all of us... except for one! Did you know there's a book about Moonso...

The second part of Verisäkeet is finally out! Here we analyze Pimeä, Jotunheim and Kaiku in more detail than anyone ever needed. You'll find out which song disappointed Mitja — in his own words, you'll hear very different versions of Kaiku and Pimeä and you'll discover the relation between Pimeä and grunge! We continued learning about Finnish folk instruments that are present in the album (in the...

We are back with the album episodes, this time talking about Verisäkeet. As usual, the conversation turned out very long and we split it into two parts, so this is 2h20' talking about Karhunkynsi and Haaska only. You know you wouldn't like it any other way! Guest star: Shiva from California, team members: Sasan from California, Thomas from France, Mikkel from Denmark, Francesco from Italy (who had...

The Epic Heathen Podcast is back, this time with an unusually short episode about an unusual topic: Moonsorrow live. Taking the recent special concert in Helsinki, on May 26th, 2023 as the starting point, we discuss Moonsorrow's approach to playing live and the choices they make in the face of the technology and the possibilities they have at their disposal. Although — not gonna lie — we also devo...

THE LONGEST MOONSORROW INTERVIEW EVER MADE Today’s episode is an interview with Henri Sorvali, a 3-hour-long conversation about how he makes music, his beginnings doing home demos with Ville, how the process evolved, his most and least liked Moonsorrow albums and moments, his inspiration, his approach through the years, and we even have time to talk about video game music. It was done over two day...

The war in Ukraine had the side effect of delaying Kivenkantaja part 2, but it's finally here, and 50% longer than part 1! These songs certainly have a lot to be said about — and we didn't even say everything we wanted about Matkan Lopussa. On the other hand, we took a detour to try and define folk metal. Not sure we succeeded, but we had a jolly good time! Stay tuned for the next episode because...

The Kivenkantaja episode is finally here, even if only the first half. For the first time we have a guest, no other than Leo Aragón, director of the documentary “Home of the Wind: A History of Moonsorrow”. He brought lots of quotations from the documentary interviews with the band members. In other, not-so-happy news, French Alexis has left the team and only appears in the intro song, but I can as...

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We take a deep dive into Voimasta ja Kunniasta, probably their most warrior-battle-epic effort, or as we have labeled it, Dude On Horse Metal. Besides the regular song analysis, we try our best to make sense of the story it tells, we speak about Marko's qualities as a drummer, about Bathory copying Bathory, about Sankarihauta resembling Mega Man, etcetera. All spiced up with some audio clips with...

Today's episode about Suden Uni is great, really proud of the result! Some very interesting insights about lots of aspects, from song structures to lyrical content, and we discovered there is a story being told from the first song to the last. In our previous upload we discussed the album in general and the first two songs, now we talk about the rest of the songs, the artwork and the different edi...

Today’s episode is a discussion about Moonsorrow’s debut album Suden Uni, with our thoughts on the album as a whole and a close look at the first two songs. Due to family-related circumstances (happy ones!), the rest couldn’t be edited in time, but next month you will hear it! The speakers are Aleksi, Sasan, Alexis, Thomas, Mikkel, Francesco and myself. The intro music, recorded by Sasan, is the m...

In this short pilot episode you will get to know who we are and how we discovered Moonsorrow. Meet the team: Sasan, Aleksi, Mikkel, Thomas, Alexis, Francesco and Abel (aka Grilo do Demo). A little appetizer for what's to come. The opening music is a cover of "1065: Aika" recorded by Sasan (guitars), Francesco (flutes) and Alexis (synths).