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"From Afar" will be released worldwide on week 37,
depending on the usual release date of your country.

The CD was produced by Tero Kinnunen (NIGHTWISH, AMORPHIS) and Janne Joutsenniemi ('Victory Songs' producer) and was mixed by Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, SENTENCED, AMORPHIS).

01. By The Dividing Stream
02. From Afar
03. Twilight Tavern
04. Heathen Throne
05. Elusive Reaches
06. Stone Cold Metal
07. Smoking Ruins
08. Tumman Virran Taa
09. The Longest Journey (Heathen Throne Part II)
10. *Vandraren (limited-edition bonus track; NORDMAN cover)

We have shot music video from the title song "From Afar"
and it will be release in the end of August.

Our live keyboard player since 2007, Emmi Silvennoinen, has been enthroned as official band member during the making of "From Afar" in which she also performs.

We made a special design for this occasion,
with three different packages available:

We are sad to inform that the Let's Open Air festival was cancelled this year in Istanbul, Turkey. We were looking forward to visit Turkey for the first time and we will do it during the From Afar-tours.

Our next North American tour will start in the beginning of November 2009 for app. 30 shows across the continent. We are happy to announce three excellent bands to join our raid; Hypocrisy, Ex-Deo and Blackguard. More details following soon!

ENSIFERUM reveals their album release tour! More shows will be added shortly, accompanied with tour name and detailed information. Support acts: Metsatoll (EST) & Tracedawn (FIN)

Yet unnamed album is hammered to hard-drives as we speak. Release date for the coming album is 9th of September 2009 in most territories. The band is posting video blog from the studio at their homepage and myspace/facebook sites.

Hi folks! We are sorry that we haven't updated our news in long time but we have been working with the new material 24/7.

As you might know Ensiferum started recording fourth album 13.4. Album is recorded/produced by Tero Kinnunen (Nightwish, Amorphis etc.) and Janne Joutsenniemi ("Victory songs"-producer). Album will be mixed by Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, Sentenced, Amorphis...).

As usual there will be lot of session folk musicians but there will also be some surprises. We will update track list later but we can reveal that there will be 7 songs plus intro and cover song featuring very special guest. Album will be released 9.9.09 and after that band will start tour which will reach lands near, far and beyond.

Petri Lindroos is not able to perform at our shows in Russia due to serious illness. We all hope for speedy recovery for him in coming weeks. Cancellation was not an option to us because we dont want to let you guys down and possible new dates would have been far in future. Luckily we were able to get ex-member Jukka-Pekka Miettinen to play guitar for these shows and vocals will be growled by Sami Hinkka. We are truly looking forward for these special shows and the evening will be a blast with you guys!!! See you in Moscow and St. Petersburg!!!

Unfortunately the first show with GWAR (22.10.08) is cancelled, because the travelling distance from the last gig of Amon Amarth tour is too great. But we are still doing rest of the GWAR shows as planned.

Ensiferum is preparing for their second North-American tour which will begin
at the first day of October of 2008. The headline band of the tour is Amon
Amarth. Detailed dates and locations can be found at the TOUR INFO
section.

Ensiferum might have some additional concerts in the USA after the tour with Amon Amarth. Those will be announced more accurately when they are confirmed.

Drakkar has released few weeks ago a strictly limited tour edition of
Victory Song. The double cd contains 6 bonus tracks.

Finally it's going to happen, long awaited tour diary can be found from HERE
We will try to post information daily and add some photos as well. Welcome to Paganfest 2008!

Each year, www.MetalStorm.ee, the European Metal Webzine (with more than 500 000 single visits and more than 20 000 000 hits each month) is proud to present the Metal Storm Awards.

(If they're not already a member of our community, they just have to register here http://www.metalstorm.ee/users/register.php and submit their votes! That's simple and of course totally free).

Ensiferum is very sorry for the cancellation of the Haxentanz gig in Illingen (GER). Our guitar player Markus had to go to a hospital on the previous day in Switzerland and he had to stay in the hospital for a few days. At this moment Markus is doing fine and future gigs will be played as planned.

We want to thank the incredible audience, crew and bands Chthonic andInsania for a great tour. Special thanks goes to the audience in Pratteln's Z7 club for understanding and to the staff for good work and great help. We salute you!

Ensiferum plays a gig on 4.2.2008 at Helsinki icehall where the headliner is the legendary Megadeth.

In spring 2008 Ensiferum will perform at “Paganfest” –tour in Europe and for the first time in the band's history in USA. Korpiklaani, Moonsorrow, Tyr and Eluveitie will join in at the European part of the tour. In USA the tour continues with Turisas, Tyr and Eluveitie. Gig dates and venues will be announced in “Tour info” as soon as possible.

Ensiferum has unfortunately suffered another member loss in the band as the band’s long-time keyboard player Meiju Enho decided to leave the band. The band expresses their regret for her decision to depart the band, but despite the break-up the band will victoriously go on!
You can read Meiju’s afterwords here

Emmi Silvennoinen from the band Exsecratus has been substituting Meiju from the beginning of this year (2007) and continues to act as the live/session keyboard player for Ensiferum until further notice.

Ensiferum is finally crossing over the Atlantic Ocean to Canada and will do a small Eastern Canadian tour in November 2007. The tour dates and locations can be found at the TOUR INFO section.

Additionally there will be an European tour “Tour Towards Victory”(Part II) in December 2007, which is a follow-up to the tour made last spring.

Ensiferum's new album "Victory Songs" hit position #37 on the official German album charts on its first week of release!

On their home territory Finland these folk-metallers CD reached #6 on official album charts, and their newest single "One More Magic Potion" went straight to number one!

Due to contractual obligations, promotional deadlines and manufacturing delays, we have been forced to move the release of "Victory Songs" to the 20th of April 2007!

This is very unfortunate, and we're very sorry about the delay, but there's not much that we or our record companies can do to make this album hit the stores any earlier. If we could, we certainly would because we know that all of you are eager to get a listen to the new songs!

Despite this time-taking trouble, it's going to be one killer of an album and we hope that you will have the patience to wait just a little longer!

During a month, our readers will be able to vote for their favourite albums! (If they're not already a member of our community, they just have to register here http://www.metalstorm.ee/users/register.php and submit their votes! That's simple and of course totally free).

This year, Ensiferum is nominated in "The Best EP/MCD" category http://www.metalstorm.ee/awards/categories.php?cat_id=26
The votes will be closed the 1st of March 2007. Good luck and remember that it's only the fans who will have the last word!

New Ensiferum webshop is now opened. The new album ”Victory Songs” is now on a pre-sale. Merchandise selection will be updated as soon as new products are available.

18.01.2007

The new album ”Victory Songs” is completed, except the finishing of the cover art. Here is the tracklist:

Ad Victoriam
Blood Is The Price Of Glory
Deathbringer From The Sky
Ahti
One More Magic Potion
Wanderer
Raised By The Sword
The New Dawn
Victory Song

The Limited Edition version includes a bonus track “Lady in Black” and a bonus-DVD.

The Ensiferum Merchandise shop renews! For this reason NO NEW ORDERS WILL NOT BE TAKEN UNTIL THE NEW SHOP OPENS.

The new shop will begin accepting their orders by THE END OF JANUARY and can be found at the website http://www.fanzone.fi/ensiferum (or by clicking the merchandise section on the Ensiferum website).

The renovation opens up new features and improvements, like increased paying methods with credit cards and others. There will also be new merchandise added in the shop soon after the renovation of the new shop.

For the last years Meiju Enho has been constantly balancing between the band, school and work and now we are granting her a little breather, so she can complete her schooling. That means that Ensiferum will be playing the next concerts with Emmi Silvennoinen, the synth player from the band “Exsecratus”

Ensiferum started the recording of the third full-lenght studioalbum in the first of November at Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki. The Name of the third album will be “Victory Songs” and the producer of the album is Janne Joutsenniemi.

The band has also started to collaborate with Welldone booking agency. Teemu Suominen of Welldone will be taking care of the concert booking in Finland. This will increase the concerts in Finland, which has been few-numbered in the past. The concert booking in abroad is still being handled by ICS Festival Service.

Ensiferum will begin their next year’s tour with a small Finnish tour
in January. More information of the gigs is found in the Tour Info –section.

Spinefarm Records has set a date for the release of the third full-length album. The date is 21.2.2007. The recording of the album will occur in the end of this year.

On it's debut week Ensiferum's "10th Anniversary Live" DVD climbed up the charts to the 2nd place of the Official Music-DVD chart in Finland.

The scheduled release date for Ensiferum's DVD "10th Anniversary Live" has been postponed by two weeks due to slow manufacturing process. The new release date is now 28.6.06. The DVD can be preordered from Levykauppa Ax (link below), or from the "Merchandise" section from the beginning of the release week.

The "10th Anniversary Live" concert held last new years eve will be released as a DVD on 14.6.2006. The recording of the third studio album will begin in November of this year and the release hopefully occurs in and around the early February of 2007.

The band apologises the failure to launch the Messageboard despite several attempts. There has been some server issues preventing the proper function of the Messageboard. At the moment the bands schedule is so overwhelming and tight, that the band has to focus on the writing of the new songs and in the upcoming concerts held this spring and summer rather than focus on the problem with the messageboard.

In addition many have asked "why the band's not coming to play there" and "why aren't any of the concerts held at this place" and the band wishes to remind that Ensiferum doesn't choose where they want to play. The fact is that the organisors / promoters of festivals and concerts give their concert offers to our booking agency who in turn forward them to us.

You can preorder the CD, but the delivery starts not earlier than Wednesday 15.2. The first edition will include a "Dragonheads" -sticker inside, which will not be included in the latter issues. In addition, when you order any item from the Merchandise section, you will sent a Dragonheads-sticker as an extra.

The offer lasts as long as there is stickers around. There are also some new additions (new merchandise) in the "Merchandise" section, so be sure to check them out.

Ensiferum thanks everyone who attended the 10th Anniversary Celebration concert. If everything goes according our plans, the DVD of that gig will be released at June or July 2006.

The recording of the third Studio Album begins next fall and the release of that album occurs at the end of this year, at the earliest

Ensiferum's new mini-CD "Dragonheads" is completed even down to it's mastering. The mini-CD was recorded and mixed last November at Sonic Pump Studios by Nino Laurenne and mastered by Mika Jussila from Finnvox.

1. Dragonheads
2. Warrior's Quest
3. Kalevala Melody
4. White Storm
5. Into Hiding (Amorphis Cover)
6. Finnish Medley:
- Karjalan Kunnailla - Myrskyluodon Maija - Metsamiehen Laulu

"X-Mass Tour 2" where Ensiferum were to perform is cancelled because the headlining band Morbid Angel cancelled their appearance in that paticular tour. So Ensiferum had no chance to influence the decision that the tour was entirely canceled. The preliminary schedule indicates that the next Ensiferum tour will begin in March of 2006.

As some of you may have already noticed, there's been a new man behind the drums at the live concerts during the past six months. Janne Parviainen has been substituting for Oliver Fokin and is now a steady member. The main reason for this change in the band was that there were too many differences of interests.

On a happier note, Metal Hammer magazine's website has included us to it's "Meet & Greet" section, which let's the readers and fans ask questions directly to the band via message board.

Look into it by visiting:
http://www.hammer-mag.de/ha_forum/viewforum.php?f=24

Ensiferum is proud to present its new booking agency for European concerts:
ICS Festival Service GmbH

There are few additions in the "Merchandise" section. Now you can find Ensiferum "beer" -theme T-Shirt, a "Logo" T-Shirt and Longsleeve, "Sword & Axe" -Sleeve Patch and "Sword & Axe" -Back Patch.

The earlier mentioned mini-cd will be recorded at Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki.

For our Spanish fans: Ensiferum has been looking for a way to somehow compensate the canceled concerts in Spain. However the band has very little control where the play, so the band asks for the fans to have patience.



	06.09.2009 New Ensiferum video, "From Afar", is now online: Click here 06.08.2009 "From Afar" will be released worldwide on week 37, depending on the usual release date of your country. The CD was produced by Tero Kinnunen (NIGHTWISH, AMORPHIS) and Janne Joutsenniemi ('Victory Songs' producer) and was mixed by Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, SENTENCED, AMORPHIS). The track listing for the CD is as follows: 01. By The Dividing Stream 02. From Afar 03. Twilight Tavern 04. Heathen Throne 05. Elusive Reaches 06. Stone Cold Metal 07. Smoking Ruins 08. Tumman Virran Taa 09. The Longest Journey (Heathen Throne Part II) 10. *Vandraren (limited-edition bonus track; NORDMAN cover) We have shot music video from the title song "From Afar" and it will be release in the end of August. Check our DOWNLOADS page for short clips of new songs! _____________________________________________ Our live keyboard player since 2007, Emmi Silvennoinen, has been enthroned as official band member during the making of "From Afar" in which she also performs. _____________________________________________ Pre-Order "From Afar" from our official webshop at http://www.fanzone.fi/ensiferum/ We made a special design for this occasion, with three different packages available: "From Afar" CD Digipak + Beer bag "From Afar" CD Digipak + T-Shirt "From Afar" CD Digipak + Ziphoodie CD Pre-Orders: Jewelcase Digipak 06.08.2009 We are sad to inform that the Let's Open Air festival was cancelled this year in Istanbul, Turkey. We were looking forward to visit Turkey for the first time and we will do it during the From Afar-tours. Our next North American tour will start in the beginning of November 2009 for app. 30 shows across the continent. We are happy to announce three excellent bands to join our raid; Hypocrisy, Ex-Deo and Blackguard. More details following soon! 26.07.2009 Three new presale packages in the Ensiferum webshop: http://www.fanzone.fi/ensiferum/alku.cfm?lang=fi 22.04.2009 ENSIFERUM reveals their album release tour! More shows will be added shortly, accompanied with tour name and detailed information. Support acts: Metsatoll (EST) & Tracedawn (FIN) Yet unnamed album is hammered to hard-drives as we speak. Release date for the coming album is 9th of September 2009 in most territories. The band is posting video blog from the studio at their homepage and myspace/facebook sites. 22.04.2009 Hi folks! We are sorry that we haven't updated our news in long time but we have been working with the new material 24/7. As you might know Ensiferum started recording fourth album 13.4. Album is recorded/produced by Tero Kinnunen (Nightwish, Amorphis etc.) and Janne Joutsenniemi ("Victory songs"-producer). Album will be mixed by Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, Sentenced, Amorphis...). As usual there will be lot of session folk musicians but there will also be some surprises. We will update track list later but we can reveal that there will be 7 songs plus intro and cover song featuring very special guest. Album will be released 9.9.09 and after that band will start tour which will reach lands near, far and beyond. Ensiferum 13.11.2008 Dear Russian fans, Petri Lindroos is not able to perform at our shows in Russia due to serious illness. We all hope for speedy recovery for him in coming weeks. Cancellation was not an option to us because we dont want to let you guys down and possible new dates would have been far in future. Luckily we were able to get ex-member Jukka-Pekka Miettinen to play guitar for these shows and vocals will be growled by Sami Hinkka. We are truly looking forward for these special shows and the evening will be a blast with you guys!!! See you in Moscow and St. Petersburg!!! With best regards, Ensiferum 19.10.2008 Unfortunately the first show with GWAR (22.10.08) is cancelled, because the travelling distance from the last gig of Amon Amarth tour is too great. But we are still doing rest of the GWAR shows as planned. 28.07.2008 Ensiferum is preparing for their second North-American tour which will begin at the first day of October of 2008. The headline band of the tour is Amon Amarth. Detailed dates and locations can be found at the TOUR INFO section. Ensiferum might have some additional concerts in the USA after the tour with Amon Amarth. Those will be announced more accurately when they are confirmed. (Presale tickets: https://tixx1.artistarena.com/amonamarth/ ) 09.04.2008 Drakkar has released few weeks ago a strictly limited tour edition of Victory Song. The double cd contains 6 bonus tracks. 06.04.2008 ENSIFERUM PAGANFEST DIARY Finally it's going to happen, long awaited tour diary can be found from HERE We will try to post information daily and add some photos as well. Welcome to Paganfest 2008! 04.02.2008 Please read this and vote! Each year, www.MetalStorm.ee, the European Metal Webzine (with more than 500 000 single visits and more than 20 000 000 hits each month) is proud to present the Metal Storm Awards. http://www.metalstorm.ee/awards/index.php During a month, our readers will be able to vote for their favorite albums! (If they're not already a member of our community, they just have to register here http://www.metalstorm.ee/users/register.php and submit their votes! That's simple and of course totally free). This year, Ensiferum is nominated in "Folk/Pagan/Viking Metal" category: http://www.metalstorm.ee/awards/categories.php?cat_id=7 and Ensiferum is nominated in "Best Cover Song" category: http://www.metalstorm.ee/awards/categories.php?cat_id=15 22.01.2008 Paganfest Europe and Paganfest USA tour dates added to Tour Info section. 26.12.2007 Ensiferum is very sorry for the cancellation of the Haxentanz gig in Illingen (GER). Our guitar player Markus had to go to a hospital on the previous day in Switzerland and he had to stay in the hospital for a few days. At this moment Markus is doing fine and future gigs will be played as planned. We want to thank the incredible audience, crew and bands Chthonic andInsania for a great tour. Special thanks goes to the audience in Pratteln's Z7 club for understanding and to the staff for good work and great help. We salute you! Ensiferum plays a gig on 4.2.2008 at Helsinki icehall where the headliner is the legendary Megadeth. In spring 2008 Ensiferum will perform at “Paganfest” –tour in Europe and for the first time in the band's history in USA. Korpiklaani, Moonsorrow, Tyr and Eluveitie will join in at the European part of the tour. In USA the tour continues with Turisas, Tyr and Eluveitie. Gig dates and venues will be announced in “Tour info” as soon as possible. 10.09.2007 Ensiferum has unfortunately suffered another member loss in the band as the band’s long-time keyboard player Meiju Enho decided to leave the band. The band expresses their regret for her decision to depart the band, but despite the break-up the band will victoriously go on! You can read Meiju’s afterwords here Emmi Silvennoinen from the band Exsecratus has been substituting Meiju from the beginning of this year (2007) and continues to act as the live/session keyboard player for Ensiferum until further notice. 03.09.2007 Ensiferum is finally crossing over the Atlantic Ocean to Canada and will do a small Eastern Canadian tour in November 2007. The tour dates and locations can be found at the TOUR INFO section. Additionally there will be an European tour “Tour Towards Victory”(Part II) in December 2007, which is a follow-up to the tour made last spring. 09.05.2007 Ensiferum's new album "Victory Songs" hit position #37 on the official German album charts on its first week of release! On their home territory Finland these folk-metallers CD reached #6 on official album charts, and their newest single "One More Magic Potion" went straight to number one! To celebrate the success of the Swordbearer, go to YouTube and check out their new music video "Ahti"! http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SpinefarmRecords 21.03.2007 Forum is finally on-line, click here. 12.02.2007 Dear fans! Due to contractual obligations, promotional deadlines and manufacturing delays, we have been forced to move the release of "Victory Songs" to the 20th of April 2007! This is very unfortunate, and we're very sorry about the delay, but there's not much that we or our record companies can do to make this album hit the stores any earlier. If we could, we certainly would because we know that all of you are eager to get a listen to the new songs! Despite this time-taking trouble, it's going to be one killer of an album and we hope that you will have the patience to wait just a little longer! Wishing you all the best, Ensiferum 12.02.2007 "Each year, www.MetalStorm.ee, the European Metal Webzine (with more than 800 000 single visits and more than 25 000 000 hits each month) is proud to present the Metal Storm awards. http://www.metalstorm.ee/awards/index.php During a month, our readers will be able to vote for their favourite albums! (If they're not already a member of our community, they just have to register here http://www.metalstorm.ee/users/register.php and submit their votes! That's simple and of course totally free). This year, Ensiferum is nominated in "The Best EP/MCD" category http://www.metalstorm.ee/awards/categories.php?cat_id=26 The votes will be closed the 1st of March 2007. Good luck and remember that it's only the fans who will have the last word! The Metal Storm staff," 22.01.2007 ”Victory Songs” on pre-sale in new Ensiferum webshop! New Ensiferum webshop is now opened. The new album ”Victory Songs” is now on a pre-sale. Merchandise selection will be updated as soon as new products are available. 18.01.2007 The new album ”Victory Songs” is completed, except the finishing of the cover art. Here is the tracklist: Ad Victoriam Blood Is The Price Of Glory Deathbringer From The Sky Ahti One More Magic Potion Wanderer Raised By The Sword The New Dawn Victory Song The Limited Edition version includes a bonus track “Lady in Black” and a bonus-DVD. The Ensiferum Merchandise shop renews! For this reason NO NEW ORDERS WILL NOT BE TAKEN UNTIL THE NEW SHOP OPENS. The new shop will begin accepting their orders by THE END OF JANUARY and can be found at the website http://www.fanzone.fi/ensiferum (or by clicking the merchandise section on the Ensiferum website). The renovation opens up new features and improvements, like increased paying methods with credit cards and others. There will also be new merchandise added in the shop soon after the renovation of the new shop. For the last years Meiju Enho has been constantly balancing between the band, school and work and now we are granting her a little breather, so she can complete her schooling. That means that Ensiferum will be playing the next concerts with Emmi Silvennoinen, the synth player from the band “Exsecratus” 10.11.2006 Ensiferum started the recording of the third full-lenght studioalbum in the first of November at Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki. The Name of the third album will be “Victory Songs” and the producer of the album is Janne Joutsenniemi. The band has also started to collaborate with Welldone booking agency. Teemu Suominen of Welldone will be taking care of the concert booking in Finland. This will increase the concerts in Finland, which has been few-numbered in the past. The concert booking in abroad is still being handled by ICS Festival Service. Ensiferum will begin their next year’s tour with a small Finnish tour in January. More information of the gigs is found in the Tour Info –section. 24.7.2006 Spinefarm Records has set a date for the release of the third full-length album. The date is 21.2.2007. The recording of the album will occur in the end of this year. 6.7.2006 On it's debut week Ensiferum's "10th Anniversary Live" DVD climbed up the charts to the 2nd place of the Official Music-DVD chart in Finland. 14.6.2006 The scheduled release date for Ensiferum's DVD "10th Anniversary Live" has been postponed by two weeks due to slow manufacturing process. The new release date is now 28.6.06. The DVD can be preordered from Levykauppa Ax (link below), or from the "Merchandise" section from the beginning of the release week. PREORDER 18.04.2006 The "10th Anniversary Live" concert held last new years eve will be released as a DVD on 14.6.2006. The recording of the third studio album will begin in November of this year and the release hopefully occurs in and around the early February of 2007. The band apologises the failure to launch the Messageboard despite several attempts. There has been some server issues preventing the proper function of the Messageboard. At the moment the bands schedule is so overwhelming and tight, that the band has to focus on the writing of the new songs and in the upcoming concerts held this spring and summer rather than focus on the problem with the messageboard. In addition many have asked "why the band's not coming to play there" and "why aren't any of the concerts held at this place" and the band wishes to remind that Ensiferum doesn't choose where they want to play. The fact is that the organisors / promoters of festivals and concerts give their concert offers to our booking agency who in turn forward them to us. 09.02.2006 The release date (15.2.2006) of the new mini-cd is getting closer. You can preorder the CD, but the delivery starts not earlier than Wednesday 15.2. The first edition will include a "Dragonheads" -sticker inside, which will not be included in the latter issues. In addition, when you order any item from the Merchandise section, you will sent a Dragonheads-sticker as an extra. The offer lasts as long as there is stickers around. There are also some new additions (new merchandise) in the "Merchandise" section, so be sure to check them out. 11.01.2006 Ensiferum thanks everyone who attended the 10th Anniversary Celebration concert. If everything goes according our plans, the DVD of that gig will be released at June or July 2006. The recording of the third Studio Album begins next fall and the release of that album occurs at the end of this year, at the earliest 15.12.2005 Ensiferum's new mini-CD "Dragonheads" is completed even down to it's mastering. The mini-CD was recorded and mixed last November at Sonic Pump Studios by Nino Laurenne and mastered by Mika Jussila from Finnvox. 1. Dragonheads 2. Warrior's Quest 3. Kalevala Melody 4. White Storm 5. Into Hiding (Amorphis Cover) 6. Finnish Medley: - Karjalan Kunnailla - Myrskyluodon Maija - Metsamiehen Laulu Spinefarm Records Announced release date of "Dragonheads" to be 15.2.2006 06.11.2005 "X-Mass Tour 2" where Ensiferum were to perform is cancelled because the headlining band Morbid Angel cancelled their appearance in that paticular tour. So Ensiferum had no chance to influence the decision that the tour was entirely canceled. The preliminary schedule indicates that the next Ensiferum tour will begin in March of 2006. 21.09.2005 As some of you may have already noticed, there's been a new man behind the drums at the live concerts during the past six months. Janne Parviainen has been substituting for Oliver Fokin and is now a steady member. The main reason for this change in the band was that there were too many differences of interests. On a happier note, Metal Hammer magazine's website has included us to it's "Meet & Greet" section, which let's the readers and fans ask questions directly to the band via message board. Look into it by visiting: http://www.hammer-mag.de/ha_forum/viewforum.php?f=24 31.08.2005 Ensiferum is proud to present its new booking agency for European concerts: ICS Festival Service GmbH There are few additions in the "Merchandise" section. Now you can find Ensiferum "beer" -theme T-Shirt, a "Logo" T-Shirt and Longsleeve, "Sword & Axe" -Sleeve Patch and "Sword & Axe" -Back Patch. The earlier mentioned mini-cd will be recorded at Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki. The third studio album is scheduled to be recorded in the summer of 2006. For our Spanish fans: Ensiferum has been looking for a way to somehow compensate the canceled concerts in Spain. However the band has very little control where the play, so the band asks for the fans to have patience.