The Industrial Twilight: Lumsk

Monday, June 29, 2020

Lumsk - "Troll" [2005]

Artist: Lumsk

Title: Troll

Genre: Folk Metal/Rock

Country: Norway
Year: 2005

Track List:

Nøkken
Dunker
Åsgårdsreia
Trolltind
Allvis
Perpålsa
Blæster
Byttingen
Nidvisa (bonus)

Nowadays, the word "troll" is associated mostly with internet trolling, so it's about time to remind that legends about trolls are an important part of Scandiavian folklore, where a great lot of metal bands took their inspiration from. Lumsk aren't an exception, and they play an interesting mix of folk/viking metal in the vein of Storm and progressive rock, with beautiful female vocals by Stine-Mari Langstrand.

According to metal-archives.com: "Early in 2005, the band won the most by:Larm (a Norwegian music festival) prize money ever awarded, worth 500.000 NOK (about 62.500 €). That made their plans for the 2005 album "Troll" possible, including a high-quality video for the song "Trolltind"". While it may be quite different from most Nordic folk metal you're used to, and most of the songs aren't that catchy, it's a quite interesting release worth checking out:

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I created this blog mostly because I wanted to practise my English skills, and to showcase the industrial, gothic, punk, metal, neofolk and progressive rock scene of Russia/ex-USSR and Eastern Europe (especially Hungary) in the meanwhile.

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