Finnish folk metallers Korpiklaani have posted a lengthy band update and year recap on their website. You can read the whole message here. In what appears to be the band's New Year's resolution, Korpiklaani have announced the shocking news they will enter the studio again somewhere this year to record - surprise surprise - yet another album.

"We are looking forward to 2010... Our second USA/Canada Paganfest Tour will start soon, just a couple of days before we take the plane again, and move to the USA and Canada for a couple of weeks, and play daily gigs. And... we can pack our suitcases again soon after this for the South America Tour, which is rescheduled for March. In the meantime we will play some gigs in our beloved homeland. As always, a lot of expectations, a lot of questions, and a lot of (hopefully good) surprises ahead. Also in 2010 we plan to go to the studio again to record a new album, which title is still a secret... also to us. And of course we hope, and guess, that we will meet many of our old and new fans. That really keeps us going! A happy new year to you all, and see you in 2010!"

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Source:	korpiklaani.com
Band profile:	Korpiklaani

Original news, posted on 01.11.2009

Finnish Folk metallers Korpiklaani have issued the following update:

"Sadly, Korpiklaani need to postpone their tour to South America due to complications with work permits which resulted in cancelled flights for the band. Korpiklaani did everything possible to make this happen and apologize to all their fans for this, which was not the fault of the band. We promise to make up for this with new dates to be scheduled soon and want to thank all of our fans for your patience. We also want to thank Ariel from Argentina and Carlos from Mexico for helping us try to solve this situation, which was unfortunately not possible."

UPDATE (thanks to 21365)

Korpiklaani have announced the re-scheduled dates for their cancelled South American tour. There will also be a Mexican date on the tour.

2010-03-06 - Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico

Korpiklaani: Vodka Revolution South American Tour

2010-03-09 - Antofagasta, Chile
2010-03-11 - Talca, Chile
2010-03-12 - Concepcion, Chile
2010-03-13 - Puerto Montt, Chile
2010-03-14 - Santiago, Chile
2010-03-18 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010-03-19 - Campinas, Brazil
2010-03-20 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2010-03-21 - Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
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Event:	Korpiklaani: Vodka Revolution Tour [POSTPONED]

Korpiklaani are proud to announce the Karkelo World Tour continues: "Behold, Americans and Canadians. In January we will set sail to the States and Canada again, together with our mateys from Swashbuckle, our Viking friends from Týr and the guys from White Wizzard."

Dates are as follows:

Jan 08 - Worcester, MA @ Palladium
Jan 09 - Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
Jan 10 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House
Jan 11 - Detroit, MI @ Blondie's
Jan 12 - Chicago, IL @ Jaguar Club
Jan 13 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
Jan 14 - New York, NY @ Gramercy Theater
Jan 15 - Allentown, PA @ The Sterling Hotel
Jan 16 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
Jan 17 - Raleigh, NC @ Volume 11
Jan 18 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Jan 19 - Tampa, FL @ Czar
Jan 21 - Austin, TX @ Emo's
Jan 22 - Ft. Worth, TX @ Ridglea Theatre
Jan 23 - Tulsa, OK @ The Flytrap Music Hall
Jan 24 - Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
Jan 25 - Tempe, AZ @ TBA
Jan 26 - Hollywood, CA @ Key Club
Jan 27 - Ramona, CA @ Ramona Main Stage
Jan 28 - San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge
Jan 29 - Portland, OR @ Satyricon
Jan 30 - Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
Jan 31 - Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Korpiklaani
Event:	Korpiklaani: Karkelo N. American Tour

News front the Finnish Folk metal camp Korpiklaani:

"The new video from Finnish folk metallers Korpiklaani, "Vodka", will make its online debut on Thursday, June 11, 2009 via the bands MySpace page. The track is currently is available for streaming at this location.

Korpiklaani will release its sixth album, Karkelo (English translation: "Pleasure" or "Party"), on June 26, 2009 (Europe) and August 25, 2009 (North America) via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was recorded at Petrax studio in Hollola, Finland."

Track List:
01. Vodka
02. Eramaan Arjyt
03. Isku Pitkasta Ilosta
04. Mettanpeiton Valtiaalle
05. Juodaan Viinaa
06. Uniaika
07. Kultanainen
08. Bring Us Pints Of Beer
09. Huppiaan Aarre
10. Konnin Kuokkamies
11. Vesaisen Sota
12. Sulasilma
13. Kohmelo

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Korpiklaani

While in North America on the Paganfest II Tour, Jarkko Aaltonen of Korpiklaani and Alan Averill of Primordial stopped by a New Hampshire radio station for an interview, available here:

http://bnm.podomatic.com/entry/2009-05-18T10_07_48-07_00

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Source:	bnm.podomatic.com
Band profile:	Korpiklaani

Finnish metallers Korpiklaani have posted online a new song, "Vodka", on their MySpace page.

"Vodka" comes off the band's forthcoming album, "Karkelo", which will be released on June 26 via Nuclear Blast Records.

More details about "Karkelo" were previously reported at this location.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Korpiklaani

Original news, posted on 24.01.2009

Finnish Pelimanni-Metallers Korpiklaani have issued the following update: "In 2008 we have been quite busy. We have had two successful tours: the Paganfest Tour and the Finnish Fire Tour. We recorded and released our fifth album "Korven Kuningas". In the whole we played over 80 gigs, that means about one gig in every four days. We had a lot of fun, met many old friends and made new ones. So, this has been a pretty good year for us. 2009 promises to become even better; a long cherished dream of us becomes fulfilled: we will tour the USA and Canada in Paganfest 2! We are invited for Wacken Open Air on their 20th anniversary festival, and many more gigs are in the works. In February we will enter the studio again, to record a brand new album. These last days of 2008, we will make a small tour with In Extremo in Germany, and end the year in Nosturi, Helsinki, on a new year's celebration concert with our friends from Moonsorrow and Kiuas. We wish you all a happy new year and hope to see you around somewhere."

The new Korpiklaani album is due early summer this year and it will be entitled "Karkelo" ("Party" in English).

Furthermore, some of the band's songs appear in the new Bam Margera movie. You can see a few clips here (Reindeer cock and reindeer's eye ball eating), and more here and here ("Viima" starting 4:50min).

UPDATED, on 10.04.2009 (thanks to 32451)

You can view the cover artwork for the new Korpiklaani album "Karkelo" (release date June 26th) at this location. The "Karkelo" cover art was designed by Jan "Örkki" Yrlund again.

UPDATE (thanks to 27456 and 33399)

As stated by the band: "Time to reveal the tracklist of our upcoming album "Karkelo" (release date June 26th)! But before we do, we have some other hot news for you. On May 25th we will release a single titled "Vodka", on which will be two songs that will absolutely boost every party: "Vodka" and "Juodaan Viinaa"! And even better, this single will also appear as picture vinyl. "Karkelo" will appear as audio cd, as digipack and as picture vinyl."

01. Vodka
02. Erämaan Ärjyt
03. Isku Pitkästä Ilosta
04. Mettänpeiton Valtiaalle
05. Juodaan Viinaa
06. Uniaika
07. Kultanainen
08. Bring Us Pints Of Beer
09. Huppiaan Aarre
10. Könnin Kuokkamies
11. Vesaisen Sota
12. Sulasilmä

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Korpiklaani

The Japanese bonus track from the latest album "Korven Kuningas" called "Kipakka" is now available for streaming online over at the official Korpiklaani MySpace.

A comment from the band reads as follows: "We got several requests to put our instrumental "Kipakka" on our MySpace, since this bonustrack only appears on our Japanese albums. Finally the message came through the misty haze caused by all beers, and here it is! And in the process we got the right mood and also replaced "Northern Fall" by "Metsämies". There we stopped to take another beer, and well, the mood was so cool that we forgot about replacing the rest."

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Korpiklaani

A brand new trailer/EPK of the new Korpiklaani album "Korven Kuningas" is online now. Check it out under the following location! The album will be released on March 21st.

Two video clips have also been shot for it - one for the song "Keep On Galloping", the other one for the track "Metsämies" video link]. The first edition of the new album is coming out limited with bonus tracks and on white coloured vinyl - also, there will be a strictly limited digipak version together with a drinking-horn on a wall holder. Limited and numbered to 500 copies!

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Korpiklaani

Nuclear Blast Records have launced a Meet And Greet competition with Korpiklaani at the European leg of the upcoming Paganfest tour.

"April 2008 will face a pagan invasion like it's never been seen before! Korpiklaani will team up with their label mates Eluveitie and some more bands of the genre for the Pagan Fest Tour to conquer Europe! Therefore we are giving away an exclusive MEET N GREET event for you and one additional person on a date of your choice! You can also win signed posters - so take your chance and answer the question at this location."

1st price: 1x Meet & Greet for you and one additional person on a tourdate of your choice.
2nd - 5th price: 1x signed poster.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Korpiklaani
Event:	Paganfest Europe Tour

Argentinian folk metal act Skiltron have announced very special guests to play on their upcoming album ''Beheading The Liars'', set to be released in May 2008. The guests include Kevin Ridley, Steve Ramsey and Georgine Biddle of Skyclad, Jonne Järvelä of Korpiklaani and Patrice Roques and Patrick Lafforgue of Stille Volk.

The tracklist with the guests musicians reads as follows:

01. Skiltron
02. The Beheading
03. I'm What You've Done
04. Praying Is Nothing (featuring Jonne Järvelä)
05. Calling Out
06. The Vision Of Blind Harry
07. Hate Dance
08. Signs, Symbols And The Marks Of Man (featuring Kevin Ridley, Steve Ramsey and Georgina Biddle)
09. Let The Spirit Be
10. Fast And Wild
11. Crides (featuring Patrice Roques and Patrick Lafforgue)

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Source:	skiltron.net
Band profile:	Skiltron

Finnish folk metallers Korpiklaani have posted an audio preview of their new album, "Korven Kuningas", on their MySpace page at this location.

"Korven Kuningas" is scheduled for release on March 21, 2008 via Nuclear Blast Records.
A new single, "Keep On Galloping", will precede the full-length effort on February 14, 2008 in both CD and 7" picture vinyl formats.

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Source:	korpiklaani.com
Band profile:	Korpiklaani

Korpiklaani's next album entitled Korven Kuningas will be released 21 March 2008.

And on 14 February 2008 a CD single as well as a 7" picture vinyl will be released. The title for the single will be "Keep On Galloping" and it will contain the two songs "Keep On Galloping" and "Paljon On Koskessa Kiviä".

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Source:	korpiklaani.com
Band profile:	Korpiklaani

On their MySpace blog, the Finnish Folk Metal band posted the following message:

"We have been in the studio again every now and then since last spring, and we have more material ready than is needed for an entire album. It is already mixed and ready.
The album became quite long, but we just could not drop any of the 14 songs. It was already hard to decide which songs would become bonus tracks.
So, we offer to you 14 new songs plus 2 bonus tracks on our upcoming album "Korven Kuningas", which means 'King of the Woods'
This time the album cover will be painted, not photoshopped. The old man "Vaari" will be figuring on the cover again, so it will look familiar and faithful to everyone, even though a different technique is used."

The album will be released by Nuclear Blast early in 2008.

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Korpiklaani

The following news has been posted on Nuclear Blast site:

The Finnish Folk-Metal tribe of Korpiklaani are the latest addition to the Nuclear Blast familiy! The guys have signed a worldwide contract and we are all looking forward to the upcoming releases of this outstanding band. The six guys coming directly from the woods have issued the following statement about this joyful occasion:

"Once upon a time were the merry men of Korpiklaani on a tour somewhere in Europe, drinking beer in the bus on the road from here to there. Between the beers there was also some talk about our future. On the small bus table, half hidden under the dog-eared deck of cards, coins and empty bottles, there was a Blast! magazine. This catalogue of Nuclear Blast had seen better days. It had already served as a beermat, ashtray and toilet entertainment, even though the language was totally incomprehensible to us.

Our highly intelligent conversation moved to record companies and we started to wonder which one of them would be the best for us. Jonne happened to set his bleary eyes on the scruffy magazine and asked if anyone knew any band that had left Nuclear Blast. There was a silence.
No one knew and we saw that it was good. That's when we first got the idea that Nuclear Blast would actually be a great company for us as well. It must be a good home for bands because no one ever leaves. The idea of us and them still felt distant and unrealistic.

As the time passed, our small and ugly Folk Metal band gained more success, slowly but steadily, and played more and more concerts. And behold, one day we got a word from our own chargé d'affaires, Matte, that one of the best is interested in us, Nuclear Blast.

Our first meeting was in Germany, the land of... eh... well, Germans. We were prepared to meet bald, fat businessmen in their black three-piece suits with briefcases full of contract papers. We couldn't find any. Instead of that there some smiling folkmetal loving fellows with pints in their hands. And then we heard the magic words: "You guys want some beer?"

Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Korpiklaani