Victory Songs
Victory Songs is the third full-length album by the Finnish folk metal band Ensiferum. It was released on April 20, 2007 by Spinefarm. It would be the first full-length Ensiferum album to feature the new members
Petri Lindroos, Sami Hinkka and Janne Parviainen, and the last to feature Meiju Enho.
Track listing
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| 1. | "Ad Victoriam" | | M. Enho, S. Hinkka, M. Toivonen | 3:10 |
| 2. | "Blood Is the Price of Glory" | S. Hinkka | M. Toivonen, J.P. Miettinen | 5:17 |
| 3. | "Deathbringer from the Sky" | S. Hinkka | S. Hinkka, M. Toivonen | 5:10 |
| 4. | "Ahti" | S. Hinkka | M. Toivonen | 3:55 |
| 5. | "One More Magic Potion" | S. Hinkka | M. Toivonen | 5:21 |
| 6. | "Wanderer" | S. Hinkka | M. Toivonen | 6:32 |
| 7. | "Raised by the Sword" | M. Enho | M. Enho, M. Toivonen | 6:11 |
| 8. | "The New Dawn" | P. Lindroos | P. Lindroos, M. Toivonen | 3:42 |
| 9. | "Victory Song" | S. Hinkka | M. Toivonen, S. Hinkka, J.P. Miettinen | 10:42 |
| Total length: | 50:00 |
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| 10. | "Lady in Black" (Uriah Heep cover. The actual song length is 5 minutes; afterwards, there is a few minutes of silence followed by acapella parts of the songs, "Wanderer" and "Victory Song".) | K. Hensley | K. Hensley | 10:00 |
| Total length: | 60:00 |
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| 0. | "Ensiferum photoshoot featurette & The Iron tour featurette" | |
Personnel
Band members
- Petri Lindroos – harsh vocals, guitars, banjo
- Markus Toivonen – guitars, clean vocals, acoustic & 12-string guitars, banjo, shaman drum, backing vocals
- Meiju Enho – keyboards
- Sami Hinkka – bass, clean vocals, harsh vocals on "Ahti"
- Janne Parviainen – drums, bodhran
Session/guest musicians
- Johanna Vakkuri - flute
- Euge Valovirta - acoustic guitars
- Petri Prauda - bagpipes
- Vesa Vigman - mandolin, bouzouki, saxophone
- Kaisa Saari - tin whistle, recorder
- Aleksi Parviainen - additional lead vocals (on Deathbringer From the Sky), backing vocals
- Lassi Logren - nyckelharpa
- Timo Väänänen - kantele
- D.P. - backing harsh vocals
References
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