Jaktens tid is a folk metal

Folk metal

Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music...

 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 band Finntroll

Finntroll

Finntroll is a folk metal band from Helsinki, Finland. They combine elements of black metal and folk metal. Finntroll's lyrics are mostly in Swedish, the only exception being the song "Madon Laulu" on Visor Om Slutet...

. It was released in 2001 by 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...

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Track listing

There is a bonus song on the final outro track: after approximately half a minute of silence, a drunken-sounding polka-type song begins. It features acoustic guitars, keyboards, indiscernible yelled vocals, and a number of other unidentifiable instruments and sound effects. It is a demo of "Försvinn Du Som Lyser" that appears on Visor om slutet

Visor om Slutet

Visor om slutet is an all-acoustic folk metal album by the Finnish band Finntroll. It was released in 2003 by Spinefarm. It was the first album to feature Tapio Wilska on vocals....

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Personnel

• Samuli "Skrymer" Ponsimaa
  Samuli Ponsimaa
  Samuli Ponsimaa is the guitarist in Folk Metal band Finntroll. He joined the band in 1998 following the demo Rivfader and has stayed with the band ever since. He is also an artist and has designed all of the artwork for Finntroll, such as Cover and Booklets, Stage Scenery and Outfits, Merchandise...
  
   – rhythm guitars
• Sami "Tundra" Uusitalo
  Sami Uusitalo
  Sami "Tundra" Uusitalo is a bass guitarist best known from the folk metal band Finntroll and the funeral doom band Shape of Despair. He also plays in the folk/doom metal group The Mist and the Morning Dew. Despite sharing the same name with a member of Funebre, he is not the same person.-...
  
   – drums, percussions and choirs
• Jan "Katla" Jämsen – vocals
• Sami "Tundra" Uusitalo
  Sami Uusitalo
  Sami "Tundra" Uusitalo is a bass guitarist best known from the folk metal band Finntroll and the funeral doom band Shape of Despair. He also plays in the folk/doom metal group The Mist and the Morning Dew. Despite sharing the same name with a member of Funebre, he is not the same person.-...
  
   – bass and choirs
• Henri "Trollhorn" 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....
  
   – keyboards
• Teemu "Somnium" Raimoranta – lead, rhythm & acoustic guitars and choirs

Additional Personnel

• Jonne Järvelä
  Jonne Järvelä
  Jonne Järvelä is the vocalist/guitarist of the Finnish band Korpiklaani and of former project Shaman. He is known in the Verga folk metal scene for his yoiking and contributed the yoik on the Finntroll album, Jaktens Tid. He once was a member of the Sami music group Angelin tytöt.- See also...
  
   – joik-singing and choirs
• Hanky Bannister – banjo
• Vicar Tapio Wilska
  Tapio Wilska
  Tapio Wilska is the main vocalist of the heavy metal band Sethian. He is also the ex-lead vocalist for the band Finntroll...
  
  – Latin mumblings