Artist description Metsatöll is a raw and wicked heavy metal band. They come from the woods where their brothers, wolves, live. Metsatöll's roots trace back to pre-teutonic free and savage land of Estonia, where people were carried on through constant misery by the strength of a woodwrath and shaman spells. 20th century music technology helps to cast their wrath and bitterness, inherited from ancient ones, into metallic fury, which is being influenced by epic dreams and heroic power. Strike the iron, until its hot!

Music Style Epic folk metal

Musical Influences From Death to Led Zeppelin, from Fear Factory to Enya, from Meshuggah to Manowar. We set no limits to the music we listen to.

Similar Artists Sepultura, Finntroll, Moonsorrow, Bathory (some)

Artist History Already in their early youth Markus and Factor gave an oath never to fall in love and make nothing but heavy metal. The first part of that promise they broke a few years later but the the second part we haven’t broken and probably will never do. We have stayed loyal to Heavy Metal! We are here to stay, and we are Metsatöll. The starting point of the band is 14th of October, 1987. On that day Factor and Markus, pretty much by chance, discovered that the tin trashcan and father’s half-broken acoustic guitar are suitable instruments for starting making music in that particularly brutal style as heavy metal. There was no progress in 1988. In the year 1989 there was a strong breaking point! Markus's acoustic guitar got a wire plugged in and was amplified through an old grammophone. The good old “The Beatles” sound was achieved. In the end of 1989 we finally got a decent drumkit. Yeeeaah! In 1991 Factor decided to take a break from the band and rest. The reason he took off was his disagreenment with Markus that the songs were all about death and he is tired of it. He dedicated his time to education and family, or in other words, he ate much bread, drank too much coffee and was practicing martial arts. In 1993 Factor returned and we started making music again.In 1996 the band met Andrus. In 1999 we stopped messing around and started regular rehearseals and the new and rigid path was taken: to play true Heavy Metal again. We added Estonian folklore influences to it, and the band was renamed to METSATÖLL, which means “wolf” in old Estonian language. In due time, Varulven, a traditional instruments fan and a general multi-instrumentalist joined the band and we set ourselves ready to create even more epic folklore metal.

Group Members Markus - lead vocal maestro, guitars; KuriRaivo - bass virtuoso, wolf howls; Varulven - 2nd guitar, traditional instruments; Factor - drum propeller and ancient rhythms

Instruments Guitars, bass, drums and percussions, various traditional instruments such as bagpipes, flutes, shaman drums, etc.

Albums 1999 CD

Press Reviews The subject portrayed by Metsatöll is an arbitrary reincarnation of the ancient estonian. The pre-Teutonic were-human, to whom wolves were relatives, the body boiling with wolfrage and woodwrath, whom the civilized neighbours feared and considered savage. The trio has managed to create something peculiar in local metal music scene. The shamanic vocal style and ancient lyrics filled with primordial pathos raise a new milestone to the ugric-rock once cultivated by Ultima Thule (a most excellent band who never made it big because of the Soviet Union). Less pasttime and much more mystic, although childish in some people's minds. But in what way is Tolkien's mythology less infantile? You'll get scared a bit when listening to it, as well. Does the future of estonian metal hide in Metsatöll?

Location Tallinn, Harju mk - Estonia

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