I'm quite looking forward to seeing the band "Turisas" when they come to my city next month on tour - they're a really silly bunch of chaps from Finland ("Turisas" is a Finnish god of war) who dress up like vikings and sing songs about pillaging etc.

It should be a great gig, with lots of energy since the venue they're going to play at is seriously tiny - I don't think they'll all fit on stage, so there should be some good crown interaction. Plus the support band is a Pirate Battle Metal band (Alestorm) - in the words of my friend Martin "It couldn't appeal to me more if you put a Krispy Kreme dohnut on stage -
I'm there!"

Anyone here seen these guys live?

No but I love seeing viking metal bands live it has such a good atmosphere.

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i saw a live performance by them on rockworld tv once, lol

I wouldn't mind being raped and pilidged by one of these guys

I saw them at Download and thought they were ace. I'll probably go and see them for shits'n'giggles when they play in a couple of weeks.

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I'm seeing them on Wednesday in Liverpool.

vikings are ghey.

I am going to the land of the vikings in 11 days.

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yUck. hAve fun w/ viking aidzz.

Oh cool - whereabouts are you going? I've always wanted to go to the chillier parts of Europe; I'm trying to find a conference that all my research group can go to together somewhere like Finland or Norway (I'd LOVE it if we could find one in Iceland, but there doesn't seem to be much demand for biomedical conferences there!)

I love pagan metal bands, and have seen most, but I havent seen turisas. I used to like finntroll back in the day, when they were normal ppl instead of assholes. And I love Storm, bathory, otyg, Isengard etc...

I've been to Norway twice and it is so beautiful, especially in the mountains. You can really believe in fairytails when you are there. Its breath taking.

This was in the summer




this was in the winter


viking ship

I'm going to Oslo, Tromsø, Lakselv and Vadsø in Norway. Taking a drive into Lappland from there. Possibly going for a few days to Denmark but I may not have enough time. Going to Inferno Festival in Oslo for 4 days. Ummm then I am going to Amsterdam and Groningen in the Netherlands

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That sounds awesome, so much to see and do....have a great holiday I personally wanted to go to Melloboat festival Sweden but that'll always be the dream (god that line up is sweet, Leafhound, bo hansson, Anekdoten, Katatonia ect.)

Fuck me dead me too but I miss it by a few days I will eventually kill myself if I never see Katatonia.

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In my opinion, you lose your right to use cool descriptions like "Viking Battle Metal" when you start covering Boney M songs.

Sorry Turisas.

what about daddy cool?

Wow sounds great! I've been to Aarhus - they have really fantastic clothes over there, (the over-abundance of fur bothered me at first, but my husband pointed out that they actually get bloody cold over there so I shouldn't be too quick to judge) so if shopping's your thing, I recommend it.

ha ha ha!

They're sodding well sold out! I'm totally gutted; I was really looking forward to seeing them. Pah!

I gots me on the guestlist! My husband emailed the support band Alestorm, and managed to get our names on the guestlist - hoorah! My costume kicks ass - I'm a pirate captain and my husband is my first mate. Yarrr!