WHY ARE THEY CALLED MOONSORROW WHEN THEY MAKE ME SO HAPPY?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 12:15pm by Axl RosenbergI know I’m probably not supposed to say this, given that we co-sponsored the tour and all, but Moonsorrow blew every other band off the stage at this year’s Paganfest. And they had the best merch. Did anyone else get one of those shirts with the viking ship sailing away from a burning Statue of Liberty? One day I will wear that shirt around Corpus Christi, Texas. Fuck yes.
Metal Injection, with whom we frequently spoon, have done what they always do, which is captured some sick video footage of the band in question raping and pillaging at Paganfest earlier this year. I’ve posted one clip below; you can check out another here.
Also worth checking out: Metal Injection Israeli Station Chief Noa’s interview with Moonsorrow’s Ville Sorvali, where he does, in fact, answer the question set forth in my headline.
-AR
Moonsorrow are great. An all around epic band.
That is great footage, and also proof that you don’t have to be enslavingly loud and distorted to be heavy. I’m officially going to steal that chord progression.
They were great, but I have to disagree. Primordial clearly owned the tour. Their passion is unmatched.
Moonsorrow was a close second. Certainly better than the goofy fat guys in pirate suits. And the joke of a band called Korpiklaani. I get it, you use an accordian. It was interesting for 2 songs. After that, it was a novely act.
No, I did not get that t-shirt, and I so should have.
And here I thought Korpiklaani owned the tour! At Jaxx in VA they did, anyways, at least in terms of crowd response.
Moonsorrow are great, even if I prefer Henri’s Sorvali’s other band, Finntroll.
I also like Primordial better than Moonsorrow, I think they have an outstanding intensity when they play live.
moonsorrow wins. 5 points.
oh my god this shit is horrible…boring…too much keyboards…keyboards and metal eeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh dont really mesh so well. these guys suck.