Finlands stora folk metal band Korpiklaani släpper sitt åttonde album Manala den 3 augusti via Nuclear Blast Records.
Korpiklaani’s sångare och gitarrist Jonne Järvelä kommenterar:
”Manala is the realm of the dead — the underworld in Finnish mythology. Tuonela, Tuoni, Manala and Mana are used synonymously. This place is best known for its appearance in the Finnish national epic Kalevala, on which many of our new songs are based. In the 16th poem of Kalevala, Väinämöinen, a shamanistic hero travels to Manala to seek for knowledge about the dead. On the journey he meets the ferrywoman (similar to Charon), a girl, Tuonen tytti, or Tuonen piika (Death’s maid), who takes him across the river of Tuoni. However, on the isle of Tuoni he is not given the spells he was originally looking for and he barely manages to escape the place. After his return he curses anyone trying to enter the place alive.”
För er som inte förstår finska kommer det även följa med en bonus CD som innehåller hela albumet på engelska.
Här under kan du höra första singeln Metsälle från kommande albumet Manala.
