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Ensiferum - Ensiferum



9 | 1332 votes |
Release date: 9 July 2001
Style: Extreme folk metal

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01. Intro
02. Hero In A Dream
03. Token Of Time
04. Guardians Of Fate
05. Old Man (Väinämöinen)
06. Little Dreamer (Väinämöinen Part II)
07. Abandoned
08. Windrider
09. Treacherous Gods
10. Eternal Wait
11. Battle Song
12. Goblins' Dance

Top 20 albums of 2001: 3
Top 200 albums of all time: 37

Staff review by
fade
Rating:
9.5
2001 was just about to become history when I received this cd in the mail. It was three days before 2002 and I found myself on an airplane home to spend the New Year. The plane had just taxied off the runway as I placed Ensiferum's debut self-titled album in my cd player. I had not heard much about this young Finnish band before I had ordered the CD but was told, since I like Moonsorrow and Finntroll, I would eat this cd up for breakfast lunch and dinner. Well, I am still eating it and it sounds better every fucking time.

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published 06.02.2004 | Comments (9)

Staff review by
Pierre Tombale
Rating:
9.0
My first experience with growls started by chance when I was searching amazon for new metal and I discovered the genre of viking metal. This immediately caught my attention and I read several bands with special interest the reviews on Ensiferum, which obviously had some good debut album released in 2001. Then I searched other sources for this band because amazon did not have it available so I got me a copy via eBay. Of a three cd order this was the first one I listened to and I was shocked, because yet I had not come across growls that have a quite aggressive impact on the ear when you hear them for the first time, but the winds from the north a blowing fortunately strong, below I will tell you why:

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15.06.2024 - 14:46
Rating: 10
Majesty1911
The first half of this album sounds like the greatest hits compilation and the second one is just very good. The quality of songwriting here is just ridiculously high! "Token Of Time", "Guardians Of Fate", "Old Man", "Treacherous Gods", "Hero In A Dream" - all these songs are 10/10 super memorable and energetic battle anthems! Truly outstanding work.
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03.09.2024 - 15:37
Rating: 10
nonZero
Fantasy Metal Project is worth listening to for fans of the first 2 Ensiferum albums. Demos recorded around the same time I believe:

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17.11.2024 - 16:29
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Hi. i invented a brand new genre for this type of "music", called SantaClaus, because the only thing they do is just bang on some random instruments in random order and then also yell "ho-ho" on top of it
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