Victory Songs
Victory Songs is the third full-length album by the Finnish folk metal band Ensiferum. It was released on April 20, 2007 by Spinefarm. It would be the first full-length Ensiferum album to feature the new members
Petri Lindroos, Sami Hinkka and Janne Parviainen, and the last to feature Meiju Enho.
Track listing
| 1. |
"Ad Victoriam" | | M. Enho, S. Hinkka, M. Toivonen |
3:10 |
| 2. |
"Blood Is the Price of Glory" | S. Hinkka | M. Toivonen, J.P. Miettinen |
5:17 |
| 3. |
"Deathbringer from the Sky" | S. Hinkka | S. Hinkka, M. Toivonen |
5:10 |
| 4. |
"Ahti" | S. Hinkka | M. Toivonen |
3:55 |
| 5. |
"One More Magic Potion" | S. Hinkka | M. Toivonen |
5:21 |
| 6. |
"Wanderer" | S. Hinkka | M. Toivonen |
6:32 |
| 7. |
"Raised by the Sword" | M. Enho | M. Enho, M. Toivonen |
6:11 |
| 8. |
"The New Dawn" | P. Lindroos | P. Lindroos, M. Toivonen |
3:42 |
| 9. |
"Victory Song" | S. Hinkka | M. Toivonen, S. Hinkka, J.P. Miettinen |
10:42 |
Total length: |
50:00 |
| 10. |
"Lady in Black" (Uriah Heep cover. The actual song length is 5 minutes; afterwards, there is a few minutes of silence followed by acapella parts of the songs, "Wanderer" and "Victory Song".) | K. Hensley | K. Hensley |
10:00 |
Total length: |
60:00 |
| 0. |
"Ensiferum photoshoot featurette & The Iron tour featurette" |
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Personnel
Band members
- Petri Lindroos – harsh vocals, guitars, banjo
- Markus Toivonen – guitars, clean vocals, acoustic & 12-string guitars, banjo, shaman drum, backing vocals
- Meiju Enho – keyboards
- Sami Hinkka – bass, clean vocals, harsh vocals on "Ahti"
- Janne Parviainen – drums, bodhran
Session/guest musicians
- Johanna Vakkuri - flute
- Euge Valovirta - acoustic guitars
- Petri Prauda - bagpipes
- Vesa Vigman - mandolin, bouzouki, saxophone
- Kaisa Saari - tin whistle, recorder
- Aleksi Parviainen - additional lead vocals (on Deathbringer From the Sky), backing vocals
- Lassi Logren - nyckelharpa
- Timo Väänänen - kantele
- D.P. - backing harsh vocals
References
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