Poropetra

芬兰民谣乐队Poropetra成立于2002年，《Sinihirwi》是首张唱片。这是一张非常原始、非常真实的民谣作品。寒冷的北欧，人们基本无法耕种，大家常常围在一起吟唱自然和神灵的赞歌。Poropetra力求将古时北欧最原本的民谣小调展现出来，让现代人可以重新进入那段未可知的时代。这样的Folk Metal乐队已经不多见了，虽然歌曲的旋律基本上是重复很多遍，但这也许就是真正的远古民谣。将本民族的传统文化和音乐融入金属乐是Folk、Pagan、Viking类乐团常用的伎俩。Finntroll融入的是Humppa（芬兰民间音乐波尔卡的分支），而Poropetra则弱化了金属质感，用一把6弦康特勒琴（Kantele，芬兰古代民族乐器）演绎了芬兰远古的民间牧歌（Runo），久远的气息令人陶醉，男女深情对唱好象芬兰人的“唱山歌”，滋味很是特别。
Poropetra was founded in 2002 by Juha Jyrkäs. The first demo "Poropetra" -MCD was published in 2004. It represented modern Finnish folk music. In 2007 the band published their first album, "Sinihirwi", which mixed together the elements of Finno-Ugrian music traditions, Tuvan throat-singing, world music, psychedelic rock and traditional heavy rock. Thus the style changed into ethnic rock music. In the autumn 2007 guitar player Markus Ylikoski joined in Poropetra. The new sound started to change more and more guitar-driven stuff and much more versatile than before; new elements, new instruments and new soundscapes will be expected. The band has written new material for their next album, expected to be published somewhere in the future. In the spring 2008 some line-up changes also happened: kantele-player Kuuraparta and drummer Aapo Hopeakoski left the band and new drummer Lari Hammarberg and regular bass-player Leo Herranen joined the band. Now the sound is stronger than ever before and the music style is more rock-oriented, melting fascinating elements of heavy rock, psychedelic rock, Tuvan throat-singing, world music, blues, punk, progressive music and Finno-Ugrian myths together into a rich package of good ethnic rock music! Unfortunately Lari Hammarberg left the band at spring 2009, thus the session drummer shall be heard at the next album. The band will start to record the album at the summer 2009.