Moonsorrow Nearly Finished Writing Material

Finnish Viking metallers Moonsorrow are nearly completed with the writing process for their third album, titled Kivenkantaja (or Stonebearer in English).

Kivenkantaja is expected to be completed at Tico Tico Studios, where Moonsorrow will record from November 18th to December 6th. The band will maintain a diary of time spent at the studio and will publish it on their official website, www.moonsorrow.cjb.net.

"The epic will contain 6 tracks, which are all yet untitled, and the total duration will probably top 50 minutes," explains bassist/vocalist Ville Seponpoika Sorvali. "Most of the material is on a final pre-arrangement stage, and we now may reveal that the Moonsorrow-sound will be carried quite a little further with this release."

"The new material seems very promising. This is going to be the most epic and progressive Moonsorrow album by this far," continued Sorvali." Henri [Urponpoika Sorvali; guitars] has freaked out with many analog synthezizers such as moogs, mellotron and of course, hammond organ. The sound is going to be a mix between the cold basic sound of Moonsorrow and the warmth of the analog equipment. Accordion is of course present as always."

Fans of Moonsorrow can expect to see Kivenkantaja sometime in Februry or March 2003 on Spikefarm Records.

Source: Digitalmetal