V: Hävitetty is the fifth full-length album

Album

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 by Finnish

Finland

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 pagan metal

Pagan metal

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 band Moonsorrow

Moonsorrow

Moonsorrow is a pagan metal band formed in Helsinki, Finland, in 1995. Musically, the band incorporates elements of black metal and folk metal in their sound...

. It was released on January 10, 2007 through Spinefarm Records

Spinefarm Records

Spinefarm Records is a Finland-based record label focusing mainly on heavy metal artists. In 1999, a sub-label titled Spikefarm Records was started by Sami Tenetz from Thy Serpent...

. As a joke by the band, the name "Homosika" (gay pig) was released as the working title for "Viides Luku - Hävitetty".

Hävitetty follows up on the sound established on Moonsorrow's previous studio album, Verisäkeet

Verisäkeet

Verisäkeet is the fourth full-length album by Finnish metal band Moonsorrow. It was released on February 23, 2005 through Spinefarm Records. The songs are long and epic and are supposed to be listened to all at once, as the tracks are more parts of an individual composition than individual songs...

. The album consists of only two songs, each exceeding 25 minutes in length, and act as organic compositions with recurring musical themes which are gradually built upon up to climaxes

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. While the folk

Folk music

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 instruments and choirs of prior albums are still present, Hävitetty has a more prominent black metal

Black metal

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 influence; for example it features tremolo picking

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 and blast beats. In the New York Times, the album was called "an engrossing hourlong album," and "engrossing, enveloping music."

Track listing

1. "Jäästä syntynyt/Varjojen virta" ("Born of Ice/Stream of Shadows") (Henri Sorvali, Marko Tervonen, Ville Sorvali) – 30:10
2. "Tuleen ajettu maa" ("A Land Driven Into the Fire") (Henri Sorvali, Marko Tervonen, Thomas Vaananen, Ville Sorvali) – 26:19

Personnel

• Henri Sorvali
  Henri Sorvali
  Henri "Trollhorn" Sorvali, born October 19, 1978, in Finland, is the guitarist and keyboardist of the pagan metal band Moonsorrow, and keyboardist for Finntroll, and also plays for The Wicked....
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , clean
  Singing
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   and backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
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• Mitja Harvilahti – guitar, vocals
• Markus Euren
  Markus Eurén
  Markus Eurén is a keyboard musician. He currently plays keyboard in the Finnish pagan metal band Moonsorrow. He is also in their grindcore side project called Lakupaavi....
  
   – keyboards
• Ville Sorvali
  Ville Sorvali
  Ville Sorvali is a Finnish musician and music journalist. He is the vocalist, bass guitarist and lyricist for the Finnish pagan metal band Moonsorrow. His cousin Henri "Trollhorn" Sorvali is the rhythm guitarist and main songwriter.He speaks fluent Finnish and English, and personally admits to...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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  , lead
  Lead vocalist
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   and backing vocals
• Marko Tervonen – drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
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  , backing vocals

• Travis Smith
  Travis Smith (artist)
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  - artwork