Moonsorrow - live at Fibbers, York - 20 February 2015

Moonsorrow - live at Fibbers, York - 20 February 2015
Arranged by Asgard Events as part of the Jorvik Viking Festival
0:00:12 - 1065: Aika
0:12:17 - Pimeä
0:24:52 - Raunioilla
0:35:50 - Köyliönjärven Jäällä (Pakanavedet II)
0:42:23 - Kivenkantaja
0:50:29 - Jotunheim
1:05:01 - Huuto
1:20:13 - Sankaritarina
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"This is a Viking festival, right? Are you people true Vikings? No, you're not... true Vikings died centuries and centuries ago. However! I will advise you to respect the nature of the event - Vikings didn't have cell phones. Please concentrate on watching us playing for you guys, unless you want to miss the whole show, watch it at home in a very, very low quality without the feeling and the atmosphere of the people surrounding you."
I wasn't entirely sure why Ville said that, as so far that night there hadn't been too many people standing there trying to record everything on their phones - I've seen far worse in my time. Even so, that's why I have a proper video camera and a tripod that I can set up once and leave running, so I can enjoy the show to its maximum extent... which I did. And while Ville says the atmosphere may be missing and any video might be low quality... you can at least recreate some of my experience due to the camera's more than occasional dreadful bouts of myopia. I thought it was better to headbang like a lunatic (even before Ville went off on his rant) and had to take my glasses off, otherwise they'd have been flung onto a hard, unforgiving floor so I'd not have been able to see properly afterwards. And we can't be having that, can we?
Anyway, missing atmosphere aside, you can all get an idea of what an hour and a half or aural perfections sounds like now. Huuto aside, this could easily have been a set from ten years ago; who said time travel wasn't possible?
Incidentally, for those of you wondering, that outro tape (1:30:43) is Wolves (A Sculpture Of Snow) from the Thorns Of Ice demo... unreleased between 1996 and 2014 until it was finally unleashed in that wonderful box set that Blood Music brought to us. And as I am a proud owner of that box set (the Die Hard version, no less), that's how I know what it sounds like. Now you do as well.