Korpiklaani - Kunnia

I'm back, internet!  You don't have to worry anymore.  Every summer I get one week on the beach and in the woods, and this past week was it.  Lovely as always, though I feel so behind in my music.  Good news?  I picked up 2 news albums while I was away.  One, Serj's Harakiri (featured song coming up later this week) and Korpiklaani's Manala.  Yes, I can find folk metal albums at a po-dunk mall.  I have my ways.  I've heard of these Finns, first getting my hands on the albums first track: "Kunnia."  Now the album is complete, but I'm still a biggest fan of the track that brought me here.

"Kunnia" does have an English counterpart known as "Honor," but I'm more partial to the track in its original Finnish.  This is simply fun folk metal, for all of you mongers far and wide.  Lead vocalist  Jonne Järvelä isn't much of a growler, but clean can be just as good as rough.  "Kunnia" is still a little gritty, a good contrast for the energetic guitars of the chorus.  This is solid folk metal, and I don't think I can say anything bad about it.



And for the hell of it, while we're in the vein of folk metal, during vacation I found the most metal town in southern Ontario.