History Music / Moonsorrow

* SpiritualSuccessor: Germany's Finsterforst, particularly on ''...zum Tode hin'', sound roughly like you'd expect Moonsorrow to sound if they added a full-time accordion player. They've developed more in their own direction on later releases, though the Moonsorrow influence is still clearly there. (The band's recent EP ''#YØLØ'' is different, but WordOfGod says it was a one-off case of GenreAdultery and the band's future material will go back to their usual sound.)

* ProgressiveRock: According to WordOfGod (See interview [[http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4745 here]]), the band members made a conscious decision to begin incorporating influences from this genre starting with ''Kivenkantaja'', which is presumably one of the main reasons for the SerialEscalation in song length with their next few releases. The band members also cite their love for bands like Music/KingCrimson, Music/JethroTull, Music/{{Genesis|Band}}, and Music/{{Rush}} in this interview. Truthfully, though, progressive rock was an influence on them from the very beginning; ''Tämä ikuinen talvi'' opens with a three-movement, twelve-plus-minute song, and most of their other songs from around this period aren't that much shorter.

* EpicRocking: Always present from the band's first released material ("Hvergelmir / Elivagar (Pakanavedet)" from ''Metsä'' is nearly ten minutes long), but SerialEscalation has driven it UpToEleven in the band's recent material, with ''Viides luku: Hävitetty'' featuring two songs and running nearly an hour, and the title track of ''Tulimyrsky'' being nearly half an hour. ''...Kuolleiden maassa'' dials it back slightly, but if you disregard the interludes, the shortest song is still almost twelve minutes long. Similarly, ''Jumalten aika'' has three songs above fifteen minutes, one approaching thirteen, and the other above seven.

* ProgressiveRock: According to WordOfGod (See interview [[http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4745 here]]), the band members made a conscious decision to begin incorporating influences from this genre starting with ''Kivenkantaja'', which is presumably one of the main reasons for the SerialEscalation in song length with their next few releases. The band members also cite their love for bands like Music/KingCrimson, Music/JethroTull, Music/{{Genesis}}, and Music/{{Rush}} in this interview. Truthfully, though, progressive rock was an influence on them from the very beginning; ''Tämä ikuinen talvi'' opens with a three-movement, twelve-plus-minute song, and most of their other songs from around this period aren't that much shorter.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Germany's Finsterforst, particularly on ''...zum Tode hin'', sound roughly like you'd expect Moonsorrow to sound if they added a full-time accordion player. They've developed more in their own direction on later releases, though the Moonsorrow influence is still clearly there. (The band's recent EP ''#YØLØ'' is SomethingCompletelyDifferent, but WordOfGod says it was a one-off case of GenreAdultery and the band's future material will go back to their usual sound.)

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: In general, a solid 8, although like Music/{{Opeth}} and Music/{{Enslaved}}, their music really goes all over the scale and any given song may have moments that qualify as 1 and moments that qualify as 8. Some of their heavier moments (such as the heaviest parts of "Tulimyrsky" and some of the material on their demos) could probably be considered a 9, and some of their ambient songs are probably a 1.

* BookEnds: ''Voimasta ja kunniasta'' opens and closes with the same melody.

* RearrangeTheSong: An acoustic rendition of "Pakanajuhla" (alternately referred to as "Peikonijuhla", meaning "Bacon Feast" - the original song title means "Pagan Feast") closes off the ''Heritage'' box set. It was recorded during the ''Tulimyrsky'' sessions but for some reason left off the EP.

* SiameseTwinSongs: Frequently. For example, the transition from "Talvi" to "Luopion veri" on the CD version of ''Tämä ikuinen talvi'' is this, but this is averted on the LP version. "Ukkosenjumalan poika" -> "Koylionjarven jaalla" is another example, as is ''Raunioilla" -> "Unohduksen lapsi".

* SpiritualSuccessor: Germany's Finsterforst, particularly on ''...zum Tode hin'', sound roughly like you'd expect Moonsorrow to sound if they added a full-time accordion player. They've developed more in their own direction on later releases, though the Moonsorrow influence is still clearly there.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The band's early material adheres more directly to traditional BlackMetal tropes and a lot of the lyrics before ''Tämä ikuinen talvi'' are in English.

The band announced in 2012 that they had signed to Century Media and are working on a new album. They also announced in 2013 a fourteen-LP box set to be released via Blood Music, entitled ''Heritage 1995-2008: The Collected Works'', that has been marketed as the largest metal retrospective ever produced (although it will be outdone by the label's forthcoming Music/{{Emperor}} box, which will contain ''twenty-four'' LP's). It was released in October 2014.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: The box set.