Poropetra

芬蘭民謠樂隊(duì)Poropetra成立于2002年，《Sinihirwi》是首張唱片。這是一張非常原始、非常真實(shí)的民謠作品。寒冷的北歐，人們基本無法耕種，大家常常圍在一起吟唱自然和神靈的贊歌。Poropetra力求將古時(shí)北歐最原本的民謠小調(diào)展現(xiàn)出來，讓現(xiàn)代人可以重新進(jìn)入那段未可知的時(shí)代。這樣的Folk Metal樂隊(duì)已經(jīng)不多見了，雖然歌曲的旋律基本上是重復(fù)很多遍，但這也許就是真正的遠(yuǎn)古民謠。將本民族的傳統(tǒng)文化和音樂融入金屬樂是Folk、Pagan、Viking類樂團(tuán)常用的伎倆。Finntroll融入的是Humppa（芬蘭民間音樂波爾卡的分支），而Poropetra則弱化了金屬質(zhì)感，用一把6弦康特勒琴（Kantele，芬蘭古代民族樂器）演繹了芬蘭遠(yuǎn)古的民間牧歌（Runo），久遠(yuǎn)的氣息令人陶醉，男女深情對(duì)唱好象芬蘭人的“唱山歌”，滋味很是特別。
Poropetra was founded in 2002 by Juha Jyrk?s. The first demo "Poropetra" -MCD was published in 2004. It represented modern Finnish folk music. In 2007 the band published their first album, "Sinihirwi", which mixed together the elements of Finno-Ugrian music traditions, Tuvan throat-singing, world music, psychedelic rock and traditional heavy rock. Thus the style changed into ethnic rock music. In the autumn 2007 guitar player Markus Ylikoski joined in Poropetra. The new sound started to change more and more guitar-driven stuff and much more versatile than before; new elements, new instruments and new soundscapes will be expected. The band has written new material for their next album, expected to be published somewhere in the future. In the spring 2008 some line-up changes also happened: kantele-player Kuuraparta and drummer Aapo Hopeakoski left the band and new drummer Lari Hammarberg and regular bass-player Leo Herranen joined the band. Now the sound is stronger than ever before and the music style is more rock-oriented, melting fascinating elements of heavy rock, psychedelic rock, Tuvan throat-singing, world music, blues, punk, progressive music and Finno-Ugrian myths together into a rich package of good ethnic rock music! Unfortunately Lari Hammarberg left the band at spring 2009, thus the session drummer shall be heard at the next album. The band will start to record the album at the summer 2009.