8. Ensiferum - From Afar
These Finnish boys (and girl) once again give us something that is a bit of a rarity these days. A folk metal record that stays fresh from start to finish, (no pun intended). If you’re looking for a new outlandish instrument to take up you will be sorely disappointed. Ensiferum prefer to keep a very back-to-basics sound to their music - guitars, bass, drums, and keyboards. And where some bands in the genre have begun to grow stale with uninspired and over the top songs, Ensiferum’s Kalevala-inspired lyrics and soaring chorus’s stand out as being a notch above the rest, not to mention an epic banjo solo. With this record the band has cemented themselves as the reigning kings of folk metal.
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