This gig is a rare occasion of Henri Sorvali performing with Moonsorrow after 2006, as he chose to not tour anymore and Janne Perttilä was recruited as a live guitarist, while Henri works in the studio. Personally, I don’t want to shit on Janne, but Trollhorn’s presence gives the performance an extraordinarily fantastic and whole vibe.
The band gives their all and Ville is in an extremely good mood, talking shit with the audience every now and then during and between the songs.
I think this show might be very well the best ever vocal performance of Ville Sorvali, in stark contrast to the disaster at Heathen Crusade 2006, where he’s wheezing and groaning through all songs. He sings most of Kylän Päässä rather conservatively, but then appears to gain a huge boost of confidence, as he occasionally oversings most of the songs (much of the high notes are similar to Axl Rose in his prime) and pulls off a semi-clean Verisäkeet tone in spots through the whole show.
Before the third song, he talks about Viides Luku - Hävitetty being released and the band launches into a relatively short (18 minutes) performance of Tuleen Ajettu Maa.
Marko Tarvonen is also doing an unusually fantastic job behind the drum kit. At 43:05, he briefly changes his drumming pattern during Pakanajuhla.
Though I can understand and speak almost no Finnish, I figured out that Ville dedicates Sankaritarina to the audience and wishes them to sing along.
Before the second-to-last song, after the last notes of Tyven from tape, Marko does four cymbal hits and Ville screams from the top of his lungs “SANKARIHAUTA!!!”, making it one of the best introductions to a song. It’s fairly unusual to see the combination of those two tracks in the encore (it happened during Verisäkeet Alive 2020 tour as well) instead of the usual opener spot.
It’s probably the only time before 2013 where Ville lets out the hoarse screams (like in the studio version) during the first 2 minutes of Sankarihauta.
Markus Euren isn’t being left out either, as he does stuff with his keyboards that are eargasmic and goosebump-inducing at the absolute worst - Kivenkantaja and the encores are the prime examples.
In my opinion it’s one of their best shows due to fantastic atmosphere, the band doing an out of the ordinary job and excellent setlist. The only downside of the show is the omission of Raunioilla. Trollhorn was a very rare sight even then, so he could have a moment of being in the centre of attention with his co-lead vocals.
It's an audience recording in a great quality and so far, it's the only recording where I have heard any attendees singing along. And thankfully it appears to be complete.
Track listing:
01:26 Kylän Päässä
08:54 Köyliönjärven Jäällä
14:49 Tuleen Ajettu Maa
33:10 Jumalten Kaupunki
41:41 Pakanajuhla
46:33 Pimeä
59:30 Kivenkantaja
1:07:02 Sankaritarina
ENCORE:
1:15:53 Tyven (tape intro, fades in)
1:17:33 Sankarihauta
1:25:06 Unohduksen Lapsi
Audio Quality: A
Also, big thanks to Grilo Do Demo for providing the recording on his blog.
Enjoy!