[ATTENDED: November 25, 2018] Korpiklaani
I’m not even sure now what inspired me to go see Korpiklaani. I know I’d never heard of them before this month. But I somehow saw their name and t heir genre and heard that their shows were just inspired lunacy. The fact that they were from Finland made it even more interesting and exotic. I watched a video or two and decided I’d like to see them. And then, lo and behold they were playing in Philly in like two weeks.
So I rearranged my schedule and got a ticket.
The crowd at TLA was relatively small, but it was incredibly intense. Nearly everyone there knew the band really well. Some were in kilts, there were lots of beards. And that small crowd even got a raging mosh pit going.
Some people feel that they are not really heavy metal, and I can see that. Even singer Jonne Järvelä, said “Korpiklaani’s music would be seen as “old people’s music with heavy metal guitars” in Finland.
I really had no idea what to expect, so I was delighted when the band came out as a kind of Nordic Folk Village People. (more…)
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