Last of the Ensilumi EP, Dragons of North is a more traditional melodic black metal song. This was used in an event in 2021 but never released here, now it is!

Ensilumi EP (2019-2021) is
1. Ensilumi (The First Snow)
2. March of Ice
3. Dragons of North
4. Unohdettu (Forgotten)

Thordir:
Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Mixing, Mastering

*Lyrics lost*

Ensilumi EP

Dragons of North

Ensiferum's Old Man (Väinämöinen), a track I have always wanted to cover. I learnt the song by ear.

Old Man (Ensiferum Cover)

Finnish melodic black metal band Hiems Gelida's new song Everwinter
A song of desolation, kaamos, passage of time and finding your lost passion again.

Created for a Community event in VRC, also filmed an accompanying lyric video for the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzpZAQL5meI

Thordir: Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Drum Programming, Synth Programming

Everwinter

A Cover of Finntroll's Solsagan to test new sounds!
I crafted myself a new fiercer guitar sound and a better drum set sound. I think the difference is pretty significant, let me know what you think of it.
I switched away from my electronic drum set because its sound quality wasn't up to my standards anymore.

Now that I have my new sound, I will start working on my second full length album.

- Thordir

Solsagan (Finntroll Cover)

After listening Moonsorrow's latest masterpiece, Jumalten Aika, I got really inspired. This is one of the outcomes of that inspiration. As with all covers, I tried something new with the sound, and I'm quite pleased with this one. The guitars and vocals were done with a new, harsher, mix.


But seriously, go listen to the original by Moonsorrow, too. Jumalten Aika is really a masterpiece!

Suden Tunti (Moonsorrow cover)

A Cover of my favorite song, Moonsorrow's Jumalten Aika, The Age of Gods. As I continue to work on my original songs and album, have a listen to this. 

All instruments: Thordir
Mixing, Mastering, Recording: Thordir
Composed by: Moonsorrow

Fimbulvetr 2017

Jumalten Aika [Moonsorrow Cover]

This is a rearrangement of one of my favorite Touhou tracks: The Sealed-Away Youkai ~ Lost Place, Yamame's theme, from Touhou 11: Subterranean Animism. 

I kept the original sound, feel and form of the song intact, but added symphonic black metal elements, like blast beats and soaring tremolo riffs. Please, hear the chaos of my version of the theme of this disease controlling spider youkai!

Thordir: Guitars, Basses, Drum programming, Synth programming and transcribing.

Cover art: るう (Ruu)

The Sealed-Away Youkai ~ Lost Place

As the first snow falls in my home city, it is time for the first reveal of the new Hiems Gelida! This is Ensilumi - The First Snow, a more melodic and folkish Hiems Gelida song. Stay tuned for more info on the new EP and eventually the new album in 2019!

Instruments and Vocals: Thordir
Arrangements, recording and mixing and mastering: Thordir

Lyrics:
1. Ensilumi

Talvea etsimässä tapasin toisen
Drífa nimeltään, etsimässä hänkin
Illat pimenivät mutta missä oli kylmä
Piti talvi jotenkin herättää

Kuljimme pitkään
Kuljimme kauas
Etsimme talvesta merkkejä
Yksinäinen susi
Ja vaeltajasielu
Yksinäinen susi ja vaeltajasielu

Illan tullen männyn alla
Ainoat jäljellä täällä
Nuotion lämmössä, lehtien varjossa
Vihdoin taivaalla tapahtui

Ja Ensilumi alkoi sataa
Ihmeissämme katsoimme
Onko tämä sen talven alku
Kylmä ja lumi, mut ei kokonaan

Ja Ensilumi vihdoin sataa
En päästäis vielä lähtemään
Pysythän vielä hetken
Ennenkuin mä nukahdan

kuusikossa kaksikko nukkui
Ensilumen sateessa vielä
Molemmat uneksivat talvesta
Ja saman unenkin näkivät

Viikinkipolvesta vaeltajat
Fimbulvetristä tiesivät
Vaan talvi onkin eri kuin tarinoissa
Sen näkevät nyt unissaan

Heräsin vielä sen männyn alla
Drífa nukkui lumen alla
Mietin Ensilumi, täytä toiveeni
Katsoin ylös, uusiin tähtiin

Ja Ensilumi alkoi sataa
Ihmeissämme katsoimme
Onko tämä sen talven alku
Kylmä ja lumi, mut ei kokonaan

Ja Ensilumi vihdoin sataa
En päästäis vielä lähtemään
Pysythän vielä hetken
Ennenkuin mä nukahdan

------- English lyrics -------

1. The First Snow

Searching winter I encountered someone
Named Drífa, also searching
Evenings ran shorter but where was coldness
Winter had to be revived somehow

We travelled long
We travelled far
Searching marks of winter
A lone wolf
and a traveler soul
A lone wolf and a traveler soul

Come night, under a pine tree
The only ones left here
In the warmth of the fire, under the shade of leaves
Finally something in the skies

And The First Snow starts to fall
We watched wondering
Is this the start of the great winter
Cold and snow but not yet complete

And The First Snow finally falls
I wouldn't want to let you leave
Please stay for a while
Before I fall asleep

Hidden in evertrees those two slept
As The First Snow fell
Both dreaming of the great winter
Both saw the same dream

Travelers of the viking ancestry
Knew stories of the Fimbulvetr
But the great winter isn't like in stories old
They now see it in their dreams

I woke up again under that pine tree
Drífa still asleep, now covered in snow
Thought, The First Snow, fulfill my wish
I looked up in the new stars

And The First Snow starts to fall
We watched wondering
Is this the start of the great winter
Cold and snow but not yet complete

And The First Snow finally falls
I wouldn't want to let you leave
Please stay for a while
Before I fall asleep

Ensilumi (The First Snow) (2019)

Ice keeps marching as Fimbulvetr raises its head on the first year of Ragnarök. Second song of the EP, another teaser of the album coming this year!

Instruments and Vocals: Thordir
Arrangements, recording and mixing and mastering: Thordir

Lyrics:
2. March of Ice
The wilderness sings	
A forgotten song
It's the song of Fimbulvetr
The winter of the ages

Immediate crawl
Through the land and lake
The conquest begin
Ice Age commence

Ever seen seas to ice
Earth's frozen cries
The slow march
Of glacial tide

The visions drift once again
closer to the colder times
My frozen heart awake again
drum away the March of Ice

From the first snow of the wintertime
This winter wasn't like the rest
Its violent winds and bitter days 
The North truly claims its own

(Brother fights his own
Blow mighty horns of war!
Hate breathes through the realm
Gleam of sun no more)

Entire continent into ice
Into snow, war and blood
Arctic layers drift
and push against the seasons

Glacial valleys so pure and clear
With vaporing breath I take you on
Through darkened terrain into storm
I meet the force of winter...

The wilderness sings	
A forgotten song
It's the song of Fimbulvetr
The winter of the ages

Entire continent cloaked on ice
The Winter has begun
The sun no longer rises
For centuries to come

The winterdark arises
Polar night reigns supreme
Shadow of winter devours
Walking endless moonsorrow

March of Ice (2019)

Final Song of the 3-song Ensilumi - EP, an epic almost 10 minutes long Unohdettu - Forgotten, the saddest and most melodic piece I've crafted. Best listened in those lonely walks in the woods...

Instruments and Vocals: Thordir
Arrangements, recording and mixing and mastering: Thordir

Lyrics:
3. Unohdettu
Tästä yöstä on valo kadonnut
Ei kuuta ei tähtiä näkyvissä
Kaikkialla tyhjyys hallitsee
Ympärillä ja erään hahmon sisällä

Yössä kulkee varjoinen hahmo
Lumeen ikuisesti hautautuen
Yksinäinen olento kuusen alla
Kohtaloaan murehtien

Tähän on tultu, viimeiseen yöhön
Etsii hahmo taivaalta viimeisiä tähtiä
Vaan ovat nekin vihdoin kuolleet
Ei hahmo lohtua itkusta saa, ja lopulta huutaa

Unohdettu.. Eristetty..
Yksin taas, mitä luulinkaan
Ei minusta ole enää mihinkään
Viimeinen.. Talvi on tää..
Entinen on haudattu
Kaikki tähän nyt täytyy lopettaa

Huomista ei odota
Kesää ei nähdä saa
Yksin vain vaeltaa
Kotiin ei palaakaan

Korppi istahti kuusen oksalle
Hahmoa kai jo pois hakemaan
"On aika lähteä, kaikki taakse jättää"
Alkoi sataa lunta, pakkanen kiristyi

Tästä yöstä on valo kadonnut
Ei kuuta ei tähtiä näkyvissä
Kaikkialla tyhjyys hallitsee
Metsässä kaikuu vain hiljaisuus

Yössä kulki varjoinen hahmo
Lumeen vihdoin hautautuen
Musta korppi kuusen oksalla
Revontulia katsellen

Unohdettu.. Eristetty..
Yksin taas, mitä luulinkaan
Ei minusta ole enää mihinkään
Viimeinen.. Talvi on tää..
Entinen on haudattu
Kaikki tähän nyt täytyy lopettaa

------- English lyrics -------

3. Forgotten

From this night light has disappeared
No moon, no stars in sight
Everywhere emptiness reigns
Around and inside a certain figure

A shadowy figure roams the night
Getting eternally buried in snow
Lonely figure under a spruce
Worrying its destiny

Here we have come, to the final night
The figure tries to find the last stars
Though even those have died
Crying is no consolation, so the figure screams

Forgotten.. Excluded..
Alone again, what did I think
I'm am no good for anything
This is the last winter
The past is buried
Everything needs to end here

Doesn't wait for tomorrow
Won't see the summer
Alone he roams
Won't return home

A Raven sat on a branch of a spruce
Probably claiming the figure
"It's time to go, leave everything behind"
It started to snow, the frost tightened

From this night light has disappeared
No moon, no stars in sight
Everything emptiness reigns
In the forest just silence echoes

A shadowy figure once roamed the night
Eternally burying in snow
Black Raven on a branch of a spruce
Watching the northern lights

Forgotten.. Excluded..
Alone again, what did I think
I'm am no good for anything
This is the last winter
The past is buried
Everything needs to end here

Unohdettu (Forgotten) (2019)

One man band from Helsinki, Finland with a focus on writing music with wintery themes. I blend Melodic Black Metal and Folk Metal together and surround it with orchestrations to form an unique, icy and finnish sound.
I approach albums as packages, so I try to release all original material all at once. I enjoy doing covers on the side, so I post covers during downtime of my original music.

I'm currently working on a demo (for PR purposes) and a second album. The production quality will be similar to the latest covers.

Members:
Thordir - All instruments, all recording, production and composing.

Releases:
Nordrljós - 2012
Ensilumi EP - 2023

March of Ice (2019)

Hiems Gelida

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