Finnish Swedish-singing advanced trollish ...

[Ärväthyyll]

... black and joik metal band (sorry, the whole title wouldn't fit into the Subject) - this is the first description I ever got about Finntroll. And that was on July 13th 2001. So today is my personal 10 years anniversary, and I decided to spam the board with it

What happened was I came to Finland to meet a penpal of mine and she invited me to Tuska, at that point slightly smaller festival than it is today. Then, on the 1st day of Tuska, said friend actually came home from work early so we could go there early enough to catch the first band playing – Finntroll. At that time everybody wanted to see Finntroll, I got the feeling it was a huge thing over there, this was slightly before Jaktens Tid came out.

As that was the first time I heard of Finntroll, I have no idea what songs they played, but I do remember that I was amused by the band wearing animal skins instead of the usual »metal attire«. Actually, when looking at this old picture now, only Katla was wearing animal skin and Tundra is wearing something furry, so I guess my memory betrayed me. I was also introduced to humppa, dunno if it was through Finntroll or Eläkeläiset, but I got that wrong too, thinking the term has something to do with sex (to hump?). Don't ask, I don't know.

That was the era of my old analog camera, no zoom, so I didn't take any pictures of bands playing. This is the only picture I can find online from that day, dunno who took it:



This is the cover of that year's Tuska magazine. Cyclops are Trollish enough to be published:



Tuska magazine, at that point only in Finnish, had this written about Finntroll (topic’s title is taken from here):



OK; that's all from a nostalgic me. I'm counting on the band to give me an excuse 10 years from now to write another post like this



Soooo ... What’s your story behind getting to know Finntroll?

Around 10ish years ago for me too. I actually listened to some other bands featuring Trollhorn first(First Ensiferum CD he played keyboards on and Moonsorrow) and basically just was looking for other bands he was playing in, since I liked the other ones. I had heard the name before, never was that interested though( I once missed a Jaktens Tid-era show with Jonne yoiking etc at Ilosaarirock after party, have been kicking myself for years after that... I was there but I was so drunk and never had heard FT before that, this was like a month before I "discovered the band...) until I heard Midnattens Widunder and that was that.

Around the same time crawled out of my dungeon for this place here, and also Finntroll's unofficial IRC channel that has been long gone and dead by now. I think I've seen like 5 iterations of the forum too, and I am pretty sure outside of a few of the bandmembers, I'm the "oldest" forum user, with around 7 years of administrative duty under my belt.

And like Ärväthyyll said, hopefully we'll have another 10 great years.

First heard of Finntroll in 2004 from an interview in Terrorizer, about the time of the release of Nattfodd. I was intrigued by the imagery of the band and their name, and the description of the bands music.

The date that I actually got to hear the bands music was the 21th October 2009 that album being Ur Jordens Djup.
And it has been a GREAT musical discovery!

My next thing is to see Finntroll live!

I also started listening to them in 2001, though I don't know the exact month and date like you do. I heard them on the radio, Slaget vid Blodsälv to be exact, and was very curious about that strange combination in metal. Bought Jaktens Tid and absolutely loved it, then got Midnattens after. I listened to Jaktens Tid so much that the CD doesn't work anymore.

My first encounter was reading stupid, false articles about the band. Then they replaced my computer with an other one at my workplace. It wasn't a brand new one, there were tons of files on it, mostly music files. I deleted the most of them and I very nearly deleted Finntroll's Jaktens Tid and Nattfödd as well. I changed my mind because I found the name "Finntroll" interesting. By the way finn means Finnish in Hungarian and troll is troll but there also is a Swabian surname "Troll" over here, it means clumsy man. I guessed that troll was troll in the band's name and it didn't mean "Finnish Clumsy Man". Later I read about the legend of Finntroll.
So I decided to listen to Jaktens Tid and Nattfödd and I found them pretty awesome and funny. I noticed that they didn't sing in Finnish but in some Germanic language, it confused me a bit. Later it all got through to me.
And since that time I'm a Finntroll fan.

In 2001 some guy from German class that I used to hang out with on recess told me he had found a Finnish metal band singing in Swedish, so I went on and downloaded that from KaZaA. Pre- Finntroll I thought that growl was just noise and I stuck with more traditional metal, but Finntroll was so accessible that I begun liking the growls after being pulled in by all the crazy melody going on.
Then I branched out into Moonsorrow, Ensiferum and other related bands, followed by "True Norwegian Black Metal" once 13 year old me got incredibly fascinated by the band that put their singer's brains on a cover.

I'm over folk metal by now (I actually used to listen to Korpiklaani and liked it can you believe it), but a few bands like Finntroll and Moonsorrow still hold me under their spell by keeping it fresh.

2005 was the year I got introduced to finntroll, dont remember the song exacly but I do remember that I was drunk, Pretty appropriate right?

I only heard Finntroll's music a few weeks ago,and i have to say it's not very good.

i've been posting here for 5-6 years because i thought this was a flycasting site-misinterpreted troll as trawl,who's to say,i thought it was all about freshwater flycasting in Finland.Was wondering when we would get down to lures already,i guess that's not going to happen...

[Aldhissla]

Started listening to Finntroll in 2001 as well; story quite unspectacular, I guess. I read an article about them in the german issue of Metal Hammer, borrowed Jaktens Tid, listened to it, and that was that.

Mine's pretty boring. Being late to the metal party (wanna say about 2007 I started listening), I was also 'late' to Finntroll. In 2008 I heard my first Korpiklaani song, introducing me to folk metal. That led to Eluveitie, went to their forum for awhile, and met and became internet buddies with a couple people that liked Finntroll. One of them was kinda pushy about it, so I went to Youtube and I believe Nedgång was the first one that popped up. Listened to it, and that was that.