Hello, fellow Linnalapset! Sorry I haven’t updated in a long time, but lots of things have been going over here!

First off, I wanted to address September 12, 2012’s Korpiklaani concert at the Whiskey a Go Go in Los Angeles. Even though it featured some of my least favorite folk metallers, Korpiklaani played absolutely wonderfully. They were having a good time, we were having a good time. It was really, great fun (even though they didn’t STILL didn’t play “Metsämies”, jerks). After the show I handed out forty-two CDs of Linnalapsi for free to anyone I could find. I gave out all of them, and in the month since the concert, virtually no one has visited either this site or the bandcamp site (which were written on the front cover). That’s totally fine. At least it’s OUT THERE, in the hands of my target audience. This foxy girl said that she liked my cover artwork, that it had a “good energy”. That was pretty cool, I guess. In addition to getting kudos on my artwork, I met Melkor Mortis of The Mordor Horde, who website can be found here. Support them and download their demo!

So yes, not many people checking out “Mennesiyyden Laulut” via bandcamp, but that’s alright. I was snooping around the interwebs and found “Menneisyyden Laulut” on some Estonian and Russian sites, and on one site, found that it had at least been downloaded eighteen times. That’s a lot (sorta). So, I guess it’s being downloaded a lot more than I was expecting, which is good. Getting out there slowly…excellent.

While “Menneisyyden Laulut” slowly circulates the most unpopulated corners of the Internet, album 3 is slowly starting to form, and what I mean by that is, I don’t work on it every day, or even every week. Some songs have been done for a year, others are in a creative limbo, and others are just starrting to sprout, which is cool. Just as I promised the second album would be better than the first, this one will be better than the second. Well, I’m not promising ANYTHING, but what I can say is that I dig some of the new songs. One of them, actually, sounds like A REAL SONG, which is pretty gratifying.

One thing I’ve argued with myself about is a musical direction. All bands have one, y’know? Finntroll is the scary, carnival-esque, goofy, jazzy type band. Enisferum is more epic and guitar-lead-and-rythm based. Korpiklaani is total folk, violins and accordions going nuts in every song. Turisas is fit with epic brass, movie-score fanfare. When looking at Linnalapsi 3, I see songs that are scary, troll-y, dreary, and then songs that are epic, and then some that are melancholic and pretty. What the hell?

So an idea has been circulating in my brain that this would be a concept album of sorts. Not so much in the way that it’s all about one thing, but simply that all the dark songs come first and the softer, more epic ones come later. For some reason, I am seeing a dark forest for the first half, and a coastline for the last half. Could a weary group of soldiers get lost in a scary forest, to finally to escape and join their comrades for some battles and melancholic contemplation on the beach? While I don’t like the idea of following a narrative, this would be a good way to separate the conflicting styles. I could, y’know, just do ONE type of folk metal, but whatever. Gordon Ramsay says a good restaurant does one type of food excellently. A shitty restaurant does a whole bunch shittily. Does it apply to folk metal bands and musical directions, too? Oh well, whatever.

Oh yea, and my computer, the one on which the previous two Linnalapsi albums were made, is in a state of, well, not working. I wouldn’t call it dead, per se, just…not really turning on. Which means that the recording of the third LInnalapsi album might have to be on another computer. This isn’t bad, neccesarily, but my old comp had all my recording programs all ready to go. Now I have to mess with all this new shit. Not to mention that the laptop I am currently using has a different sound card than my old one, so all my songs fit with creepy, forboding strings and sythn effects sound, with a new sound card, like the Star Wars Cantina. Might have to do some retooling of instruments, but oh well, whatever!

So yea, that’s what happening over here in terms of Linnalapsi. New songs, all placed randomly on the musical-direction-ph-scale, being prepared for a computer that is (almost) dead. Sounds ideal! Other than that, nothing going on, really. Just enjoy “Menneisyyden Laulut” for a couple more years until Linnalapsi 3 comes out. I’m suspecting it will, like the gap between the first two albums, take two years to come out, which would place it in the Fall of 2014. I’m just guessing, of course, but it’s still fun to make dates and make things like this:

Anyway, that’s all for now. Now I’m going to dance to one of the new, groovy songs. Until next time!

Kippis,

Casey of Linnalapsi