Visor om slutet is an all-acoustic folk metal

Folk metal

Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music...

 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 band Finntroll

Finntroll

Finntroll is a folk metal band from Helsinki, Finland. They combine elements of black metal and folk metal. Finntroll's lyrics are mostly in Swedish, the only exception being the song "Madon Laulu" on Visor Om Slutet...

. It was released in 2003 by Spinefarm. It was the first album to feature Tapio Wilska

Tapio Wilska

Tapio Wilska is the main vocalist of the heavy metal band Sethian. He is also the ex-lead vocalist for the band Finntroll...

 on vocals.

Visor om slutet was released after a number of misfortunes befell several band members, including the death of guitarist Teemu Raimoranta, to whom the album is dedicated. It was recorded in a cabin off in the woods near Helsinki

Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

, coined as an "acoustic experiment," and features the use of traditionally non-metal instruments such as the kazoo

Kazoo

The kazoo is a wind instrument which adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it. The kazoo is a type of mirliton, which is a membranophone, a device which modifies the sound of a person's voice by way of a vibrating membrane."Kazoo" was the name given by...

. Though quite different in its sound to the viking metal

Viking metal

Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its galloping pace, keyboard-rich anthemic sound, bleakness and dramatic emphasis on lyrical themes of Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age...

-inspired Jaktens tid

Jaktens Tid

Jaktens tid is a folk metal album by the Finnish band Finntroll. It was released in 2001 by Spinefarm Records.-Track listing:There is a bonus song on the final outro track: after approximately half a minute of silence, a drunken-sounding polka-type song begins...

, the album was a relative success.

Track listing

1. "Suohengen sija" (The Place of the Swamp Spirit) – 2:59
2. "Asfågelns död" (Death of the Carrion Bird) – 3:46
3. "Försvinn du som lyser" (Begone, You Who Shine) – 2:39
4. "Veripuu" (Blood Tree) – 1:16
5. "Under varje rot och sten" (Under Every Root and Stone) – 3:18
6. "När allt blir is" (When Everything Turns to Ice) – 2:36
7. "Den sista runans dans" (The Dance of the Last Rune) – 3:45
8. "Rov" (Prey) – 2:05
9. "Madon laulu" (The Worm's Song) – 4:01
10. "Svart djup" (Black Depth) – 3:58
11. "Avgrunden öppnas" (The Abyss Opens) – 2:20

Personnel

• Sami "Tundra" Uusitalo
  Sami Uusitalo
  Sami "Tundra" Uusitalo is a bass guitarist best known from the folk metal band Finntroll and the funeral doom band Shape of Despair. He also plays in the folk/doom metal group The Mist and the Morning Dew. Despite sharing the same name with a member of Funebre, he is not the same person.-...
  
  
• Henri "Trollhorn" Sorvali
  Henri Sorvali
  Henri "Trollhorn" Sorvali, born October 19, 1978, in Finland, is the guitarist and keyboardist of the pagan metal band Moonsorrow, and keyboardist for Finntroll, and also plays for The Wicked....
  
  
• Jan "Katla" Jämsen
• Tapio Wilska
  Tapio Wilska
  Tapio Wilska is the main vocalist of the heavy metal band Sethian. He is also the ex-lead vocalist for the band Finntroll...
  
  
• Samu "Beast Dominator" Ruotsalainen
• Samuli "Skrymer" Ponsimaa
  Samuli Ponsimaa
  Samuli Ponsimaa is the guitarist in Folk Metal band Finntroll. He joined the band in 1998 following the demo Rivfader and has stayed with the band ever since. He is also an artist and has designed all of the artwork for Finntroll, such as Cover and Booklets, Stage Scenery and Outfits, Merchandise...
  
  
• Teemu "Somnium" Raimoranta