Hey everyone and happy new year 2024! Did you notice we released new music with Korpiklaani? The new song ‘Saunaan’ is now out on YouTube, Spotify and other streaming services.

Listen or watch the ‘Saunaan’ video here: https://korpiklaani.bfan.link/saunaan 

‘Saunaan’ is fast, folky song about the favorite Finnish pastime, sauna. The title of ‘Saunaan’ literally means “to the sauna”!

Olli Vänskä wrote the music for ‘Saunaan’ song. Olli also wrote the songs ‘Kotomaa’ and ‘Aita’ from the new Korpiklaani album ‘Rankarumpu’ (release: April 2024).

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Vänskä comments:

“I actually composed ‘Saunaan’ already months before I even knew I would be playing for Korpiklaani. I was working on an uptempo folk metal song and less surprisingly Korpiklaani – the true Kings of Folk Metal – was definitely one of the influences.

Then, one thought led to another and suddenly I found myself actually playing for Korpiklaani and we were talking about material for an upcoming album. One night during a festival van ride I played a couple of demo tracks for the guys and Jonne was immediately giving me thumbs up. We worked with the arrangement a little bit and the end result is a pretty pretty good song!”

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Korpiklaani has also published the release date of their new album ‘Rankarumpu’, which is now available for pre-order and will be released on April 5th, 2024. 

Pre-save or pre-order Rankarumpu here: https://korpiklaani.bfan.link/rankarumpu

Korpiklaani’s twelfth studio album, Rankarumpu, is once again full of tasty folk metal and its different flavors, but it also offers new spices. One of the most wonderful features of Rankarumpu is related to the folk instruments. This time new permanent member Olli Vänskä’s violin and Sami Perttula’s accordion may surprise even die-hard fans.