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Ensiferum - Team Up With Spotify To Bring New Album In Its Entirety


The Finnish folk metallers Ensiferum have partnered up with Spotify to bring fans their new album One Man Army in its entirety. In celebration of their upcoming release, now less than two weeks away, the band has teamed up with Spotfiy for a stream of the record. Each day, Spotify will add an additional One Man Army track to their player leading up to the record's final descent. The first two cuts, "March Of War," and "Axe Of Judgement" are currently punishing internet airwaves. You can check them out along with the two songs previously unveiled at this location. Enjoy!

Are you satisfied with what you have heard so far?

One Man Army Spotify Schedule:

01. March Of War - 2/13/2015
02. Axe Of Judgement - 2/13/2015
03. Heathen Horde - 2/14/2015
04. One Man Army - 2/13/2015
05. Burden Of The Fallen - 2/15/2015
06. Warrior Without A War - 2/15/2015
07. Cry For The Earth Bounds - 2/16/2015
08. Two Of Spades - 2/17/2015
09. My Ancestors' Blood - 2/18/2015
10. Descendants, Defiance, Domination - 2/19/2015
11. Neito Pohjolan - 2/20/2015





The album will be available worldwide on February 24th, 2015, on February 20th in Austria, Switzerland and Germany, and February 23rd in the rest of Europe via Metal Blade Records.

Source: facebook.com
Band profile: Ensiferum
Posted: 14.02.2015 by FreddeSwede


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14.02.2015 - 13:23
Windrider
Raureif
What a bullshit. Why can't they just release a CD like normal people?
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14.02.2015 - 15:47
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Negative to me its only 6 songs
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Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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14.02.2015 - 17:06
Lionthrone
Leave it to the internet to turn news like this into a negative. Some people are NEVER happy.
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14.02.2015 - 17:07
Dark Forever
Ruído Sonoro
Written by Bad English on 14.02.2015 at 15:47

Negative to me its only 6 songs

Did you read the news?
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14.02.2015 - 17:12
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Dark Forever on 14.02.2015 at 17:07

Written by Bad English on 14.02.2015 at 15:47

Negative to me its only 6 songs

Did you read the news?

yes each day will add new song but second part of my post was (what seems I forgot to post) works only 1 atm
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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14.02.2015 - 19:23
LordFezzington
Lost To Apathy
Written by Windrider on 14.02.2015 at 13:23

What a bullshit. Why can't they just release a CD like normal people?

Uh, they are...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Man-Army-Ensiferum/dp/B00S773JLK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423934531&sr=8-1&keywords=ensiferum
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14.02.2015 - 19:54
The Evergreen
I, for one, am extremely pleased thus far!
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14.02.2015 - 21:48
moe5512
Nightwish gets pissed off when one track is leaked while Ensiferum freely share their tracks..
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14.02.2015 - 23:46
skydancer
This made my day! may the heathen gods bless Spotify and Ensiferum!

Edit: I just got my face split by the Axe of Judgement.
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15.02.2015 - 00:02
FreddeSwede
Keep in mind guys. Spotify isn't "free" in the sense that you mean. The artist gets money from the number of streams for each song that gets played. Meaning, if you want to support the band you stream their music on Spotify. Just wanted to inform you.
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15.02.2015 - 01:42
HeavyWork
Spotify is my favorite music service. Plentiful in Black Metal. Wish Ensiferum would just put the whole discography up.
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15.02.2015 - 02:16
moe5512
Warrior without a war is a really catchy track!
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15.02.2015 - 02:16
marshalldml
Axe of Judgement is AWESOME!
Hope it gets better and better!They must be pretty confident of their work to do something like this.
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15.02.2015 - 12:23
BloodTears
ANA-thema
Elite
Written by FreddeSwede on 15.02.2015 at 00:02

Keep in mind guys. Spotify isn't "free" in the sense that you mean. The artist gets money from the number of streams for each song that gets played. Meaning, if you want to support the band you stream their music on Spotify. Just wanted to inform you.

Yes, but I also read somewhere that what the artists get from this is minimal. It should be more substantial.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29

Like you could kiss my ass.

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16.02.2015 - 15:26
raveneffect
So they're putting the entire album on spotify... like thousands of bands already do...I fail to see what's new and exciting about this.
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16.02.2015 - 20:35
HyperDrifter
Written by raveneffect on 16.02.2015 at 15:26

So they're putting the entire album on spotify... like thousands of bands already do...I fail to see what's new and exciting about this.

Because we get to hear it before release?
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17.02.2015 - 02:16
raveneffect
Written by HyperDrifter on 16.02.2015 at 20:35

Written by raveneffect on 16.02.2015 at 15:26

So they're putting the entire album on spotify... like thousands of bands already do...I fail to see what's new and exciting about this.

Because we get to hear it before release?

so It's a pre-release stream? how is that new?
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17.02.2015 - 02:34
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by raveneffect on 17.02.2015 at 02:16

so It's a pre-release stream? how is that new?

Nothing, but we post news about bands streaming material on x or y platform, why wouldn't this be deserving of being published?
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17.02.2015 - 04:21
raveneffect
Nothing against it but the title sugests its something different than it actually is
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17.02.2015 - 09:41
moe5512
This will be an epic album! I lolled when Frederik made his guest apperance in Two of Spades, he is this finnish disco/schlager singer

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17.02.2015 - 11:53
FreddeSwede
Written by BloodTears on 15.02.2015 at 12:23

Written by FreddeSwede on 15.02.2015 at 00:02

Keep in mind guys. Spotify isn't "free" in the sense that you mean. The artist gets money from the number of streams for each song that gets played. Meaning, if you want to support the band you stream their music on Spotify. Just wanted to inform you.

Yes, but I also read somewhere that what the artists get from this is minimal. It should be more substantial.

Yes you're absolutely right. They do make more from record sales of course. I'm just saying, that using Spotify as your sourse of metal is not always a worse thing than buying records. Especially if you're into a variety of bands and styles in metal. Many bands release records, but in very limited copies which makes them hard to get. With that in mind, Spotify is a great way of supporting your bands compared to illegal downloads.
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17.02.2015 - 11:55
FreddeSwede
Written by HeavyWork on 15.02.2015 at 01:42

Spotify is my favorite music service. Plentiful in Black Metal. Wish Ensiferum would just put the whole discography up.

They're all up in Sweden. Might be a difference between countries.
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17.02.2015 - 11:59
FreddeSwede
Written by raveneffect on 17.02.2015 at 04:21

Nothing against it but the title sugests its something different than it actually is

It's different in the sense that a metalband made an agreement with Spotify to pre-release songs one day at the time. And it's the first time that Ensiferum does it obviously. Also it's a high profiled band, which makes their actions interesting.
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17.02.2015 - 15:18
MotherF@#!. Spotify is currently not available in your country
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17.02.2015 - 16:42
raveneffect
Written by FreddeSwede on 17.02.2015 at 11:59

Written by raveneffect on 17.02.2015 at 04:21

Nothing against it but the title sugests its something different than it actually is

It's different in the sense that a metalband made an agreement with Spotify to pre-release songs one day at the time. And it's the first time that Ensiferum does it obviously. Also it's a high profiled band, which makes their actions interesting.

and how is that different? Metal bands oftenly full stream the full album entirely before the release and, no ofense, we're talking about bands way bigger than Ensiferum. They just don't do it in Spotify...which is a big letdown if you ask me because a) It's not available worldwide. b) The free version has a limited time. c) It has fucking annoying pub.
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17.02.2015 - 19:11
FreddeSwede
Written by raveneffect on 17.02.2015 at 16:42

Written by FreddeSwede on 17.02.2015 at 11:59

Written by raveneffect on 17.02.2015 at 04:21

Nothing against it but the title sugests its something different than it actually is

It's different in the sense that a metalband made an agreement with Spotify to pre-release songs one day at the time. And it's the first time that Ensiferum does it obviously. Also it's a high profiled band, which makes their actions interesting.

and how is that different? Metal bands oftenly full stream the full album entirely before the release and, no ofense, we're talking about bands way bigger than Ensiferum. They just don't do it in Spotify...which is a big letdown if you ask me because a) It's not available worldwide. b) The free version has a limited time. c) It has fucking annoying pub.

Good thing about this is that the band gets money from streaming songs. Hence why Spotify isn't free in the sense that you mean. I pay 10 euros / month for premium. Pretty fucking cheap considering the amount of music you get for that money. BUT, if you expect to get things for free, you're never gonna be happy.
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17.02.2015 - 19:35
raveneffect
Bandcamp and soundcloud do exactly the same thing as spotify, no ads, no monthly trafic and, surprisingly, for free.
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19.02.2015 - 13:12
FreddeSwede
Written by raveneffect on 17.02.2015 at 19:35

Bandcamp and soundcloud do exactly the same thing as spotify, no ads, no monthly trafic and, surprisingly, for free.

It's free for you! That doesn't mean it's beneficial for the artist. There's 2 sides to a quarter.
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19.02.2015 - 15:34
raveneffect
It actually is benefitial to the artists, they receive a certain ammount after it hits X listens. I'm not sure it's more than Spotify but I would assume it is since there's way more underground on BC. Overall it's a better platform.

But that's not the subject here, The whole point of my post is this being "sold" as a new thing when it's just a band showcasing their album on a Streaming platform...quite common.
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19.02.2015 - 17:51
moe5512
Written by raveneffect on 19.02.2015 at 15:34

But that's not the subject here, The whole point of my post is this being "sold" as a new thing when it's just a band showcasing their album on a Streaming platform...quite common.

What do you think the purpose of this update is? To show off how cool spotify is OR to let the fans know that Ensiferum's new tracks are streamed via spotify?
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