September 9th, 2009

ENSIFERUM: NEW STUDIO ALBUM ‘FROM AFAR’ NOW AVAILABLE AND LIMITED EDITION VERSION UP FOR PRE-ORDER

WITH INTEREST in the ‘Battle Metal’ scene continuing to grow, this is the perfect time for Ensiferum to be announcing the release of a new studio album – the band’s fourth since first coming together back in 1995.

Titled ‘From Afar’ and produced by Tero Kinnunen (Nightwish/Amorphis) and Janne Joutsenniemi (who has worked with the Helsinki band before), this latest outing – the follow-up to ‘Victory Songs’ (2007) – features a number of folk musicians, and has been mixed by the highly respected Hiili Hiilesmaa, whose previous clients include both Apocalyptica & HIM.

The full tracklisting of the album – for which the artwork will once again be provided by Kristian Wahlin – is as follows:-

1. By the Dividing Stream
2. From Afar
3. Twilight Tavern
4. Heathen Throne
5. Elusive Reaches
6. Stone Cold Metal
7. Smoking Ruins
8. Tumman Virran Taa
9. The Longest Journey (Heathen Throne part II)
10. Vandraren (Bonus track available only on limited hard book edition)

Order the standard version here.

Pre-order the limited hard book edition version here.

A video for title track “From Afar” is currently streaming on the Spinefarm Records UK YouTube page (http://www.youtube.com/spinefarmrecordsuk). Ensiferum tour the UK in October. The dates are as follows:-

6th October @ Scala (London, UK)
7th October @ Rescue Rooms (Nottingham, UK)
8th October @ Cathouse (Glasgow, UK)
9th October @ JB’s (Dudley, UK)